The 2007 Bahrain Grand Prix

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:52 pm

Poor old Kimi cant take a trick. Gets flogged by the critics for driving a car too hard and breaking it.......now he's vanilla for wringing the best out of a pig, and finishing in the points

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:24 pm

Snowy wrote:Congratulations to Felipe, bravo Lewis (Joint championship leader) Oh Kimi (work to do), great drive from Nick (overtook a 2 time WC ) Dear dear Fernando (work to do) Special mention for David - stonking drive, deserved some reward

Wow thought you had disappeared off the face of the planet. LH doing well and no "told you so" from you.

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:30 pm

Driver of the day for me had to be Massa. Kept his cool and deserved the win. Coultard was great too but no cigar.
None of this is helping my tips at all but it is nice to see it so close.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:55 am

Just keep smilin,

F1greyhound · Post by **F1greyhound** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:07 am

Just 3 thoughts:

1) MICHAEL would not have been beaten by his teammate in the way KIMI and FERNANDO did in Bahrain. And I dont think this would have been down to team orders.

2) FELIPE will prove the main title contender for 2007 with brilliant things to come. I said this before the season, just like to repeat it now he is only 4th in the WDC.

3)LEWIS will possibly finish an even more successfull rookie than JAQUES did in 1996(when he had a supreme car, which LEWIS probably wont have).

jacfan · Post by **jacfan** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:34 am

F1greyhound wrote:Just 3 thoughts:

1) MICHAEL would not have been beaten by his teammate in the way KIMI and FERNANDO did in Bahrain. And I dont think this would have been down to team orders.

2) FELIPE will prove the main title contender for 2007 with brilliant things to come. I said this before the season, just like to repeat it now he is only 4th in the WDC.

3)LEWIS will possibly finish an even more successfull rookie than JAQUES did in 1996(when he had a supreme car, which LEWIS probably wont have).

Southernman · Post by **Southernman** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:46 pm

Massa gets my driver of the day vote. It's good to see that this year is a competitive year of racing.

I wish the commentators could talk about what we see on screen. At one stage TV was showing a battle down the field and all they could talk about was Hamilton making fraction of seconds on Massa. While Hamilton is a good driver, he isn't the only driver racing.

F1greyhound · Post by **F1greyhound** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:16 pm

...always wondered why sports commentators are so poor(generally)

But anyone not having to listen to the German RTL broadcasting has to be a lucky man...

Its always the same, even if the gap between 2 drivers was 20 seconds before a round of pit stops they would still speculate if there will be a change of position. At the same time, somewhere in the race, something interesting might happen and you will never know. Aaahh

RE30B#16 · Post by **RE30B#16** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:53 am

jacfan wrote:
F1greyhound wrote:Just 3 thoughts:

1) MICHAEL would not have been beaten by his teammate in the way KIMI and FERNANDO did in Bahrain. And I dont think this would have been down to team orders.

2) FELIPE will prove the main title contender for 2007 with brilliant things to come. I said this before the season, just like to repeat it now he is only 4th in the WDC.

3)LEWIS will possibly finish an even more successfull rookie than JAQUES did in 1996(when he had a supreme car, which LEWIS probably wont have).

RE30B#16 · Post by **RE30B#16** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:01 am

I did not get to see this race as I was at the CCWS Long Beach GP this weekend.

Seems like a processional from the results with no appreciable attrition. Jarno Trulli is proving me right by adding surprises. One pass in the top 8 made by Heidfeld on the WDC! Interesting!.

I fully expect Lewis Hamilton to win a race this year possibly within the next three events. I still don't see Massa being a major championship contender with Raikkonen and Alonso in the same field,

Driver of the day: [a three way tie] Massa, Heidfeld and Trulli.

F1greyhound · Post by **F1greyhound** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:23 pm

Sounds fair.

Actually Im pretty surprised about RALFs struggle. JARNO certainly delivers more for the moment..

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:26 pm

F1greyhound wrote:Sounds fair.

Actually Im pretty surprised about RALFs struggle. JARNO certainly delivers more for the moment..

As I would expect.

F1greyhound · Post by **F1greyhound** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:36 pm

I know

However taking in account the last 2 seasons this was not necessarily to be expected...

DAVID seems to match MARK for race pace - did you expect that?

Cheers Julian

cmlean · Post by **cmlean** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:17 pm

My drive of the day had to be Massa.
He did enough to keep Hamilton at bay in the first stint. Created a reasonable buffer in the second stint and then waited for the field to try and catch him before the flag. No major errors, just catch me if you can.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:13 am

F1greyhound wrote:I know

However taking in account the last 2 seasons this was not necessarily to be expected...

DAVID seems to match MARK for race pace - did you expect that?

Cheers Julian

Yes.(But 1 swallow does not a summer, make)
DC has a 14 mnth start on MW......they have only just found a seat that fits MW......DC has been shaken out of his complacency by MW's Qual efforts.
Either we will see the best ever by DC, and he will continue to match MW for the next three races.......or the inexorably widening gap will commence in Spain

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