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Crazy amount of money being spent to be 18th with the hope of better

You have to start somewhere. Look at Force India. They were at the back of the grid not so long ago, and now they are often top 10 in qualy or race. I think its good to see a new team investing so heavily.

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Oh I agree. But my god the spend in the sport is stoooooopidly high just to get your name on the dance card. I am a BIG Caterham fan and out of all the new teams I love how Fernandes has approached building the team. Gascoyne is a clever guy at pulling things together and getting teams operating on small budgets but the team needs more engineering grunt. Its a shame they didnt get Kay and it seems Symonds is going to Marussia upon completion of his ban

It's funny how they brought out all these new rules to cut costs, and it seems like there spending more money then ever trying to bend the rules. It also doesnt help when they change there minds every few years, just when they have the V8's figured out and reliable, they decide they want to change the engines again

It's a bit strange.

As long as they dont bring out that ugly roll bar thats gonna go over the front of the cockpit. Saw the photos of it and it looked horrible :(

Michael Schumacher has been hit with a fine of €2500 for not using the pit-entry road correctly during Friday afternoon practice at Spa.

The stewards, which includes ex-March, ATS and Ensign grand prix driver Eliseo Salazar found that Schumacher "did not stay to the right of the bollard on the left in the pit entry" when he drove into the pits with 28 minutes of the session remaining.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102101

Mark Webber will have a five-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix because of a gearbox change.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102106

Spa is one of the tracks where it probably wont hurt (As much) to get a grid penalty.

So if theres any consilation for Webber, its that there are worse places to get a grid penalty.

Having said that though, the Red Bull's lack of straight line speed in comparison to other cars wont help this.... so maybe my point I just made is useless lol

Was looking forward to Lotus DDRS, shame there not going to run it but understandable.

p3 Times

01 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:48.542 18 laps

02 Kimi Raikkonen Lotus 1:48.683 0.141 21 laps

03 Sergio Perez Sauber 1:48.850 0.308 23 laps

04 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber 1:48.863 0.321 20 laps

05 Jenson Button McLaren 1:49.091 0.549 18 laps

06 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:49.092 0.550 16 laps

07 Mark Webber Red Bull 1:49.164 0.622 21 laps

08 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1:49.266 0.724 23 laps

09 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:49.292 0.750 23 laps

10 Paul di Resta Force India 1:49.382 0.840 22 laps

11 Pastor Maldonado Williams 1:49.561 1.019 23 laps

12 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:49.615 1.073 19 laps

13 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:49.621 1.079 26 laps

14 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1:49.674 1.132 23 laps

15 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 1:49.710 1.168 21 laps

16 Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 1:49.776 1.234 22 laps

17 Bruno Senna Williams 1:50.027 1.485 20 laps

18 Heikki Kovalainen Caterham 1:52.339 3.797 21 laps

19 Charles Pic Marussia 1:52.566 4.024 20 laps

20 Timo Glock Marussia 1:52.630 4.088 18 laps

21 Vitaly Petrov Caterham 1:52.809 4.267 22 laps

22 Pedro de la Rosa HRT 1:53.383 4.841 22 laps

23 Narain Karthikeyan HRT 1:53.562 5.020 23 laps

24 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:58.113 9.571 5 laps

Perez hit the front before Alonso, back on the medium tyres, went quickest with a 1:48.542. Raikkonen went second quickest after setting a fastest middle sector time with Perez

dropping to third. Button finished fifth behind Kobayashi and ahead of Massa and Webber.

http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/8040603/Alonso-Shines-In-A-Dry-Final-Practice

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