The Official Singapore GP 2011 Thread***SPOILERS***

[Life Saab Itch]

Back to the fly-away races.

This race, if dry, nearly takes up the full 2 hours so be prepared for a long one.

It's a hot race with a lot of low speed corners, McLaren have looked strong here for the past two years but I expect there will be a high rate of attrition so it could be anyones.


I'll be looking forward to the sparks and flames on the over-run.

[davepoth]

Life Saab Itch said:

Back to the fly-away races.

This race, if dry, nearly takes up the full 2 hours so be prepared for a long one.

It's a hot race with a lot of low speed corners, McLaren have looked strong here for the past two years but I expect there will be a high rate of attrition so it could be anyones.


I'll be looking forward to the sparks and flames on the over-run.

I can't wait to see what the Renault exhaust looks like.

[10 Pence Short]

davepoth said:

I can't wait to see what the Renault exhaust looks like.

Depends if it's taking the 'normal' apex of the corners this year, or the 'Pique' line.

[davepoth]

10 Pence Short said:

Depends if it's taking the 'normal' apex of the corners this year, or the 'Pique' line.

Surely that won't happen. Alonso's driving elsewhere, and Flav will be whispering unintelligible sweet nothings into the ear of one of his granddaughter's friends.

[weyland yutani]

Valencia, Oriental style

[A911DOM]

Call me Captain Conspiracy and all that, but I reckon we'll see a sudden sharing of race winners for the last few.

The FIA will have a friendly word in Red Bull's ear and tell them that if they make it look too easy they wont have the benefit of their 'overlooking' any minor 'infringements' / 'recommendations' next year.

Mclaren and Ferrari will fight out for second place in the constructors whilst Red Bull start on development of next years grid crusher in the comfort of their ridiculous points lead.

Or...

Everyone will trip over themselves in the first corner whilst Seb disappears into the distance with more than a pitstops worth of gap by lap 10...

Ahhhh, the old 'cynic valve's' still working well

[Melvin Udall]

Well, the championship is Vettels, however, the race for second is the interesting one. The Alonso, Webber, Button, Hamilton fight is going to be very interesting. I don't mind the circuit, to be honest, and the drivers can make it as exciting as it needs to be. Can't wait again! Still hoping for a button win!

[MG CHRIS]

I can see only 1 thing happening a vettle win with everybody else battling with each other and slowing them self up but am hoping for a different winner. However vettle desrves his champonship this year so consitant and not a single dnf welcome to the new schumacher and if he were british i bet there wouldn't be a bad word against him.

[Melvin Udall]

You cannot argue with his record. The guy is whooping all comers. The car may be good, but it takes a top driver to get such consistency.

[Aydogflipper]

I am expecting a vettel win once again unfortunately

Hamilton, button and webber scrapping for the best of the rest.

[Melvin Udall]

Yup... Gonna go

Vettel
Button
Webber

[anonymous-user]

^ agree

Vettel for a strong finish with Button and Webber, in either order, for second and third.

Lewis

[Bing o]

weyland yutani said:

Valencia, Oriental style

I quite like having an F1 track 5 minutes walk from my office.

[skinny]

i like singapore - at least the organisers seem to actually enjoy racing and they keep trying to alter the track to make it better unlike valencia who seem happy to keep the reputation of constant disappointment. hopefully this year they get rid of that pointless left-right-left chicane plonked in the middle of what could be a really nice fast left hander.

[DanDC5]

Completely different world to Valencia, at least the races at Singapore have been entertaining. there's some good overtaking places but overtaking isn't going to be too easy. Hopefully Singapore will be on the calender for a very long time.

[Flying Toilet]

I can see Vettel settling for a podium here.

I expect Button to win, Webber to fight him and Hamilton over driving the car chasing them down.

[Life Saab Itch]

Flying Toilet said:

I can see Vettel settling for a podium here.

I agree, but I think he's taken that approach for the last couple of races.

[DanDC5]

As a GP to go and watch this pretty much tops my list in all honesty. Hmmmm wonder what prices are for next year?

[skinny]

bloody expensive to stay there on GP week, just behind monaco. think my hotel last year was nearly 2 grand (tues to monday) - plus the same again for flights. luckily, work paid

[Sam.F]

skinny said:

i like singapore - at least the organisers seem to actually enjoy racing and they keep trying to alter the track to make it better unlike valencia who seem happy to keep the reputation of constant disappointment. hopefully this year they get rid of that pointless left-right-left chicane plonked in the middle of what could be a really nice fast left hander.

I'm sure they justify it by saying the chicane is there to slow the cars before that narrow bridge section, but agree it's completely OTT and actually doesn't serve as an overtaking spot despite the decent straight before because it's so narrow that "one at a time" is the only option.