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Bahrain Predictions

gridwalk — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:49:22 +0000

See if I can do better than last week!

1 – Timo Glock
2 – Jenson Button
3 – Lewis Hamilton
4 – Sebastien Vettel
5 – Fernando Alonso
6 – Felipe Massa

Oooh everyone loves a gamble!

Bahrain Weights

gridwalk — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:47:42 +0000

1. Jarno Trulli, Toyota, 648.5 kg 2. Timo Glock, Toyota, 643 3. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 659 4. Jenson Button, Brawn GP, 652.5 5. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, 652.5 6. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, 649 7. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 650.5 8. Felipe Massa, Ferrari, 664.5 9. Nico Rosberg, Williams, 670.5 10. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 671.5 11. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren, 678.5 12. Kazuki Nakajima, Williams, 680.9 13. Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber, 698.6 14. Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber, 696.3 15. Nelson Piquet, Renault, 677.6 16. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso, 678.5 17. Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India, 652 18. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 656 19. Adrian Sutil, Force India, 679 20. Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso, 667.5

Reject 001: Larrousse

gridwalk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:28:30 +0000

LARROUSSE

NAT: FRA
BEST FIN: 3RD (1990 Japanese Grand Prix; Aguri Suzuki)
POINTS: 23
BEST CHAMP FIN: 6TH (1990)
DEBUT: 1987 San Marino
FINAL: 1994 Australian Grand Prix
TOTAL RACES: 127

Drivers included;

Aguri Suzuki

Philippe Alliot

What a LOLA Rubbish!

gridwalk — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:07:54 +0000

BBC F1 are reporting that British race car manufacturer LOLA are planning to come back to f1. On the face of it this seems like a good thing… Only thing is Grid:Walk remembers the last attempt!

The Mastercard LOLA F1 team planned to enter F1 for the 1997 season and they made it all the way to the grid in Melbourne, well ok, not to the grid. Both drivers Ricardo Rosset and Vincenzo Sospiri (where are they now eh?) failed to qualify in what was an absolute dog of a car.

We never saw them again. The team said that sponsors Mastercard failed to pay and they couldn’t afford the trip to round 2.

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns01037.html

That gets me thinking, cue an F1 reject teams series…

Predictions? FAIL

gridwalk — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:01:46 +0000

China Predictions

gridwalk — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:44:59 +0000

1 – Rubens Barrichello
2 – Sebastien Vettel
3 – Jenson Button
4 - Kimi Raikkonen
5 – Lewis Hamilton
6 – Mark Webber

Weighing in at…

gridwalk — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:41:13 +0000

The post qualifying car weights…

Fernando Alonso Renault 637.0kg (2nd)
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 644.0kg (1st)
Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 646.5kg (3rd)
Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 648.0kg (18th)
Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 650.5kg (7th)
Timo Glock Toyota 652.0kg (19th)
Jenson Button Brawn GP-Mercedes 659.0kg (5th)
Robert Kubica BMW-Sauber 659.0kg (17th)
Rubens Barrichello Brawn GP-Mercedes 661.0kg (4th)
Jarno Trulli Toyota 664.5kg (6th)
Sébastien Buemi Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari 673.0kg (10th)
Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 673.5kg (8th)
Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 679.0kg (9th)
Nick Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 679.0kg (11th)
Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 679.5kg (20th)
Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 682.7kg (14th)
Felipe Massa Ferrari 690.0kg (13th)
Sébastien Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari 690.0kg (15th)
Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 697.0kg (12th)
Nelsinho Piquet Renault 697.9kg (16th)

Best Yet?

gridwalk — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:36:25 +0000

Saturday’s fantastic qualifying has left us with a superb grid and the chance to see what could be one of the best F1 races of all time!

Vettel’s pole was not a shock (as the BBC have been calling it all day) but a realisation that Red Bull are real contenders for race wins this year. Add that to the real shock of the day, Fernando Alonso’s 2nd place, then sprinkle a bit of heavier Brawns 4th and 5th and garnish with forecasted rain showers… what do you have? PURE EXCITEMENT.

In years, many years, I have NEVER been so excited about an F1 race. Roll on 7am!

THIS IS F1!

Beeb good… but Beeb bad!

gridwalk — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:07:17 +0000

Great, Live practice…
Great, Replayed practice all day!…
Great, Loads of programmes…

Baaad, so many things.

Here’s one for starters, watching Inside F1 this evening, a race preview show I got annoyed.

Of course the talk was about diffusers. Presenter (name escapes me) turns to John Watson and says ‘Now I didn’t even know what a diffuser was 2 weeks ago’.

Excuse me? Didn’t know what a diffuser was? WHY ARE YOU PRESENTING A SHOW ABOUT F1 THEN!!!!!!

Alot of fans didn’t know what one was, fine, but when you are PAID licence fee money to present a show about F1, either learn about it properly, OR just don’t admit that you haven’t got a clue!

Annoying.

Grid:Walk Campaign; Croft for TV

gridwalk — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:57:14 +0000

Grid:Walk have nothing against Jonathan Legard, BBC’s F1 commentator, BUT we believe BBC Radio 5Live’s David Croft would do a much better job!

Join our campaign to do the swap!

Above video has David Croft audio, below, Mr Legard… You Decide!