Spanish GP: Friday, Saturday FP sessions thread

[medeni73]

Now let us see where we're standing...I dont think that we can beat RBs time though...

[Ste]

yeah, with more upgrades etc.. btw, Mercedes GP Fans is me on Twitter

Good for you!

[Rishu]

He splits RB's

[Ste]

Man, JB has to be disheartened by that! Hamilton 7 tenths quicker than him.

[Rishu]

Now Alonso

[Forzi]

I'm getting the feeling that we gonna strugle with the hards. We did so at the start of the season, when the tires were quite more softer, and now when the tires were made way more harder we're rather slippery. Just look at Felipe. Hope those updates are something...

[DJTaurus]

Alonso out on options...

[Ant Raikkonen]

Good for you!

[Sempre_Ferrari]

Now let us see where we're standing...I dont think that we can beat RBs time though...

I would actually prefer that we don't beat them today. If we indeed do have the speed it would be much better to keep it in the bag till end of FP3

[Rishu]

4 tenths lost in S2

[Ste]

Car is understeering quite a lot.

Got held up by the Renault though, 1s down.

[medeni73]

Alonso 1sec off, too much time lost in S2 nad S3...

[Ste]

What?

[Sempre_Ferrari]

64 min: Alonso is forced to clear Heidfeld's Renault on his first flying lap, clocking a 1m23.568s after losing time in the middle sector.

[Rishu]

Damn Heidfeld

[tifoso SF]

massa isn't any closer though....

[Hornet]

Shame Heidfield came in the way

[medeni73]

We seem better than Mercs but Maccas and RBs are still way out there...Guess we should hope again that race pace would make the difference smaller...

[luicchi]

we are in high fuel....

[medeni73]

hmmm I dont think so...

[FerrariF60]

we are in high fuel....

i don't think so; we're just way SLOWER then the BULLS, even Macca
it's gonna be a long and hard weekend for Fernando's home GP

[Sempre_Ferrari]

Alonso keeps doing 23.1 in sec1 not sure we that heavy on fuel

[luicchi]

how many laps did Alonso did since left the pits???

[Ste]

Fernando took fuel for about 6 or 7 laps on the soft compound and was on his PB until he got held up by Alguersuari. So really, the half a second or so we lost behind Heidfeld puts us half a second down on Webber, and minus the fuel load, we'd be right up there.

[Hornet]

i don't think so; we're just way SLOWER then the BULLS, even Macca
it's gonna be a long and hard weekend for Fernando's home GP

Didn't Alonso got held up during his 1 lap sprint?

While I expect RB to lock down the front row again, I think we may have a chance at Maccas

[Rishu]

Hamilton was only 0.04 down Webber, they look better

[stefa]

Let's face it. Unfortunately our car is just slower than Red Bull and McLaren. That's it... I saw on formula1.com that weather forecast for Sunday is rain... Maybe that will help...

[FerrariF60]

Hamilton was only 0.04 down Webber, they look better

exactly my thoughts...i can see a tough weekend for us, unless Alonso pulls some magic

[Lithium]

ALO P5, again!

Fernando took fuel for about 6 or 7 laps on the soft compound and was on his PB until he got held up by Alguersuari. So really, the half a second or so we lost behind Heidfeld puts us half a second down on Webber, and minus the fuel load, we'd be right up there.

True.
Although Felipe seems to be struggling even more. Hopefully they will fix what needs to be fixed for tomorrow.

[Sempre_Ferrari]

71 min: Alonso pits after becoming frustrated with traffic in the form of Alguersuari's Toro Rosso.

Spaniard vs Spaniard, these two are forever banging heads..lol