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Yeh, RBR arent looking great at the moment. But i have no doubt they can get the job done. Much of the staff fromn the Jaguar days are still there. Since Webbers leaving the team has been added to by ppl with strong technical back grounds and from teams liek McLaren and Renault.

Then they are well funded, have two capable drivers, and good engines and Newey headign a good design team. I dont doubt that they will be doing a BMW soon enough racing for good strong top 5 finishes. But thats not winning races...and i dont think they will be beating the likes of McLaren/Ferrari for a while.

So its not great for Webber, but its not as bad as some are making out

Snow joke for Ferrari's 'James Hunt'

Kimi Raikkonen has risked Ferrari's wrath by entering a snowmobile event in his native Finland just one week before the start of the new F1 season.

Displaying his famed racer's instinct, if not the discipline of a future of World Champion, Raikkonen won Sunday's 24k Enduro Sprint at the Kopparberg King in his 58 Lunx MaMo. For reasons which are not immediately clear, Raikkonen entered the race under the name of 'James Hunt', although the use of the pseudonym is bound to reinforce the impression that Raikkonen is intent on mimicking Hunt's notorious hard-drinking, hard-partying lifestyle.

For the record, Kimi won the event with a time of 19 minutes and 38.25 seconds, finishing approximately twenty seconds ahead of runner-up Pasi Hietalo.

LOLLL what a champion

and that why i love him... even tho he's moved to the Scuderia

Australian Grand Prix, Free practice session 1 results

1. ALONSO Mclaren 1m29.214s

2. MASSA Ferrari 1m30.707s

3. VETTEL BMW 1m30.857s

4. HAMILTON McLaren 1m30.878s

5. BUTTON Honda 1m31.162s

6. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m31.401s

7. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m31.528s

8. KOVALAINEN Renault 1m31.571s

9. WEBBER Red Bull 1m31.661s

10. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m31.737s

11. SATO Super Aguri 1m31.782s

12. FISICHELLA Renault 1m32.011s

13. WURZ Williams 1m32.194s

14. SUTIL Spyker 1m34.043s

15. LIUZZI Toro Rosso 1m34.627s

16. ALBERS Spyker 1m35.055s

17. HEIDFELD BMW 1m37.249s

18. DAVIDSON Super Aguri 1m39.221s

19. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m39.242s

20. R SCHUMACHER Toyota 1m39.550s

21. SPEED Toro Rosso 1m41.763s

22. TRULLI Toyota 1m44.130s

They picked up the pace in the 2nd session;

1 5 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:27.353

2 6 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:27.750

3 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:27.829

4 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:27.941

5 9 Nick Heidfeld BMW 1:27.970

6 17 Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 1:27.981

7 1 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:28.040

8 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:28.055

9 10 Robert Kubica BMW 1:28.281

10 14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:28.495

11 23 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:28.727

12 12 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:28.921

13 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:29.009

14 7 Jenson Button Honda 1:29.066

15 8 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:29.542

16 11 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:29.574

17 15 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:29.801

18 4 Heikki Kovalainen Renault 1:30.097

19 19 Scott Speed STR-Ferrari 1:30.383

20 20 Christijan Albers Spyker-Ferrari 1:31.108

21 21 Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 1:31.175

22 18 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Ferrari 1:31.693

>_< cheers >_<

For anyone that missed todays coverage of the practice sessions on Ch10 they showed the new RBR Promo video, you can view it HERE

Too much time spent in makeup and not enough spent in the wind tunnel :wave:

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the speed comparison is a classic....F1 car, V8 supercar, some BMW road car....

the F1 car lapped 1:40ish on a flying lap ( some 19 year old driving a BMW Sauber test car I believe ) so, slow by F1 standards....then the V8 supercar lapped a 2:10 ish i think, and the BMW a 2:40 maybe.... then they put em on the track together with handicaps, and the F1 car punishes them over the 5km lap to cross the line first

The documentary that is being shown this afternoon (McLaren - Chasing The Dream) is certainly worth watching, I watched it last night.

It goes for an hour and gives good background info on Lews Hamilton, Alonso moving to McLaren and the launch of the new cars earlier this year.

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