The [FGS] Clan

New season has started, tommorrow is first race. Anybody likes F1? I have been watching since 2004 and I love F1 races.
Here are the results of qualifying: http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/864/

I've seen almost every single race the last 4 years. The two exceptions were last year, when I was in Russia. Looks like I won't be watching this next race live. I'm going to a party this night and probably won't be home until at least 3 o clock. 4 hours of sleep is a bit on the low side, so I think I'll just tape it.
The Ferraris are really fucked tomorrow. Damn. I knew they weren't doing well in pre-season testing, but this is pretty terrible.

Majestic wrote:Looks like I won't be watching this next race live. I'm going to a party this night and probably won't be home until at least 3 o clock. 4 hours of sleep is a bit on the low side, so I think I'll just tape it.

I will be celebrating my birthday today, but I am sure I will be watching race. :P I just must watch every race!

Majestic wrote:The Ferraris are really fucked tomorrow. Damn. I knew they weren't doing well in pre-season testing, but this is pretty terrible.

Alonso could be in top 10, but Massa is really terrible. Anyway, I like the most Williams and McLaren, which has 1st and 2nd position. ^^

Majster wrote:

Majestic wrote:Looks like I won't be watching this next race live. I'm going to a party this night and probably won't be home until at least 3 o clock. 4 hours of sleep is a bit on the low side, so I think I'll just tape it.

I will be celebrating my birthday today, but I am sure I will be watching race. :P I just must watch every race!

Happy birthday dude! Have a great one!

Majster wrote:

Majestic wrote:The Ferraris are really fucked tomorrow. Damn. I knew they weren't doing well in pre-season testing, but this is pretty terrible.

Alonso could be in top 10, but Massa is really terrible. Anyway, I like the most Williams and McLaren, which has 1st and 2nd position. ^^

Yeah, Massa is pretty mediocre. I'm gonna be rooting for Button and Kobayashi again this year.

I'm gonna watch the 3rd practice session later then the qualifying then the race, at least that's the plan! But before than there's some boxing to watch, so it's gonna be a sport packed night tonight for me.

It's gone from "must watch" to interesting. They're not the fastest vehicles on the planet, it's a bit like Warhammer, it's stagnant in its own little universe as a spectator sport around regular tracks, rather than pushing the boundaries of human endeavour, but it's still exciting definitely. Its universe is quite interesting too... http://racing-queens.blogspot.co.uk/ . It's quite interesting also how drivers are groomed literally from birth, to go-kart racing then bigger stuff by their families.

I've never been to F1, but I've been to a place called Prescott and rode in a 1930's Bugatti racing car at speed when I was a kid. Noisy!

Majestic wrote:Happy birthday dude! Have a great one!

Thanks man!

Majestic wrote:Yeah, Massa is pretty mediocre. I'm gonna be rooting for Button and Kobayashi again this year.

I wish Button will be world champion again. McLaren is proably the fastest car now, but Red Bull is fast too. This season should be interesting, because Mercedes, Lotus and Ferrari is close also.

I did watch the practice 3 session and qualifying on the repeat which was followed by the actual live race, but I was too tired and watched the race re-run the following afternoon instead. It's the first time I've ever watched any practice sessions and I watched them all just to see who had pace, I noticed Red Bull wasn't fast in sessions one and two so I was expecting them to show their hand in session 3 but they had nothing to show, the Mercedes and McLaren were far faster in qualifying. Ferrari had a nightmare qualifying session and perhaps Masa will definitely be gone come the end of the season.

The race was obviously going to be great and I wasn't let down, I'm always cheering for Button mainly, I'm not sure I like Hamilton so much, he has that petulant attitude, although because of that he is very exciting to watch and borders on the reckless side no doubt. The Red Bull's were much faster in race compared to qualifying and the Mercedes had an awful race as they were expecting great things from their winter and testing and qualifying.

At one stage I thought Hamilton was going to win the race but Button just seemed to be one step ahead and could re-establish his lead when called upon, looking forward to next week's race.

This season may be very attractive, in every race won another driver and team. I wish McLaren will be faster in next races, but Lotus, Red Bull and Mercedes are very strong too. Also Ferrari may do big progress.

Yeah Lotus are doing really well, I must admit I was a little disappointed that Redbull seemed to have bridged the gap in performance over McLaren/Mercedes already! I've been playing F1 2010 on the playstation 3, it's epic!