Malaysian GP 2014 Friday and Saturday practice thread

[Hornet]

With such a gap, Mercedes is going to lock down the front row easily, unless it rains.

Oh well, I hope it rains

Edit: Of course they could still wipe the floor with everyone else in the rain, but hopefully the PU is not as big of a factor in the rain.

[Rishu]

Early days but currently Ferrari looks the best of the rest. Kimi looks like having more comfort in the car, I like it so far. Hopefully we maintain this for Q & the Race

[fronaldo]

Mercedes clearly far ahead of everybody..and Kimi seem better than Alonso

[Katu]

i did not expect Fernando to be faster than Kimi all the time, that's why i'm not even slightly amazed that Kimi was better in FP's

[Majki2111]

But Fernando was half a second slower than his best time yesterday.

[fronaldo]

Not many team seem improved their time compare to yesterday bar Mercedes..And heard that McLaren might not be able to run qualifying..

[radosav]

Was it dry fp 3?

[Katu]

yep, but apparently it's raining

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It's raining. BIG style!

[djmorin27]

maybe thats why were alittle slow to day and we were trying a wet setup we are not a second down on them maybe .4 and dont forget the merc were eating up there tires pretty fast yesterday so they can have pole all day long tomorrow is what counts

[tifosi1993]

[fratelliferrari]

Nice weather

[Senna4Ever]

i did not expect Fernando to be faster than Kimi all the time, that's why i'm not even slightly amazed that Kimi was better in FP's

me too, but a half a second ...
which can mean a lot if the others behind Merc are that close ...
and if we take the result of FP3 Alo would stuck again behind Hulk, Ric ... not easy to overtake ...

General: yesterday I was surprised about the small gap between the teams ... today Merc seemed to pull out the hammer ... but there is one thing: On sky broadcast I've seen that Merc start working on the car of Rosberg (suspension etc.). Car was nearly naked on the front ... Which is a bit surprising as they been quickest by far ... so why start changeing something as the car looked easy to drive ... so maybe most of the teams already prepared for a wet qualifying while Merc just started to rework the setup.

P.S. I nearly forgot: Horner and Marko can just dig their whining about engine performance. As long TR with Renault can keep up with high speed like Merc engines it isn't an issue of Renault. It seems Newey again found a way to compensate the loose of blown diffuser but suffer on straights ...

[windwaves]

There are a ton of streaming sites out there, here's the one I most often use.

http://www.vipboxus.co/


Someone always posts a link in the race thread here before the race.

thanks !!!!