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There is a 0% chance Maldonado will finish the race tomorrow.

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I shagged a couple of loose balls for her in warmups.

Maldonaldo P2
I'd be a bit worried if I was Lewis, with Maldonaldo starting next to him.

Well there is one happy pole sitter...

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I shagged a couple of loose balls for her in warmups.

Do you know why the FOM displays Hard/Medium tires for this race in the qualifying screen results ?

Lewis has already had turn, it's time for Vettel or Button.

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You and me both..I litteraly said the exact same thing.

The wheel doesn't care.

Maldonado doesn't care, the wheel just provides options

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No a chance Maldonado finishes tomorrow. Vettel and Button will be quicker in the race and he'll find away to screw it up fighting a losing/lost battle. Great lap though.

Mclaren is a rocketship. Lead will be down to 27 or less points before next week.

The wheel's a part of Maldonado's mind

Crucial part will be whether Vettel gets Maldonado early on. Hamilton and Vettel seem to be much quicker, they can put some points on Alonso tomorrow.

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Yeah but there's a cog missing somewhere

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Honestly, what a stupid strategy by Ferrari on holding Alonso in the pits till the last 2 minutes left on Q3, stupidity at its best.

He could have improved through Q3 If trying on succession of flying laps...Is it impossible to beat McLarens and Red Bulls? NO, it isn't, in this track specially, it's so tricky, it's far from being impossible. Do you see Maldonado? How did he do that? Alonso could have done at least a 2nd place....sh*t, it's a Championship being lost in small details. F*ck Ferrari!!!

So it's permanently aimed at certain drivers

Maldonado did manage a clean race in Monza, it's possible he might have learnt something from all the crashes this season. I'm not optimistic but it'd be good to see Maldonado getting some points tomorrow

Fill the car up to do multiple hot laps = Car going slower on initial hot lap.
Tyres are good for 1 good hot lap at best before dropping off significantly on the next two or three, the grip just goes.
Multiple laps done on the tyres = Compromise performance at beginning of race on tyres that are already predicted to last less than 10 laps.
Alonso seems to have made an error in S1 as well which lost him a further 2 tenths or so, which would have made no difference to his position. The car simply wasn't quick enough this weekend and hasn't been in qualifying all year long.

Alonso has one top three dry qualifying position all year long [obviously tempered by the fact a potential pole in Monza was lost due to the ARB failure]. The car is mediocre in qualifying unless it's Wet.

Given how long, difficult and safety car prone the race is there is still a shot at a podium for him. Or P17 and a retirement.

Maldonado's clean races this season are...

- Spain
- Canada
- Germany
- Monza

Alonso will be hoping Pastor causes issues with his title challengers tomorrow. Williams will be hoping Pastor can help score big points tomorrow.

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Had a look at Maldonado's qualifying performances and found out that if you gave people qualifying points, Pastor would have 90 'Saturday' points. So he's damn quick, but Sunday needs work...

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Its so frustrating that Senna keeps screwing up in qualifying because he's always got very good pace in the race. If he was able to sort out qualifying & start further up he'd almost certainly be ahead of Maldonado in points by now rather than 4 behind.

8 out of 14 races, Pastor has made it into Q3
1 out of 14 races, Bruno has made it into Q3

2 out of 13 races, Pastor has scored points
7 out 13 races, Bruno has scored points

What hurts Bruno is that Bottas is contracted to use his car in almost every P1 session. Quali is always going to be an issue if Bruno doesn't get the same amount of track time. Although this weekend I could easily be proved wrong with that opinion.

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