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Hakkinen always kept true to his helmet design (well, from the F3000 days onwards anyway).
I always thought it was a shame that Schumacher went to the all read helmet. I liked the helmet he used up to Monaco 2000.

Heikki Kulta (Finnish journalist) says that Newey is impressed by the E20

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

Agreed.

Some of the newer drivers helmets are terrible though - di Resta, Maldonado, STR guys. Now Perez has a new helmet which sucks.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

You gotta be kidding me?? He will at least have 15 other versions trough the season

Really looking forward to see Caterham in their first race. With all the new toys they got from RedBull it could get interesting.

Agreed.

Agreed.
There was a time when I recognized a driver by his helmet. Now I have not the slightest idea what the helmets of Maldonado or Di Resta look like. I know the helmets of Tuero and Nakano better than the current ones

I don't really care. People like Raikkonen always keep something from their style in their helmet.
Only thing I don't like is Vettel who changes his lid every win.

Well, Barrichello still uses the same...oh wait.

Kobayashi's stopped, drop in hydraulic pressure. Red flag.

Final day results:

1    Alonso   Ferrari    1m18.877s   39
2    Vergne   Toro Rosso    1m19.597s  +0.720   80
3    Vettel   Red Bull    1m19.606s  +0.729   50
4    Hamilton   McLaren    1m19.640s  +0.763   86
5    Grosjean   Lotus    1m19.729s  +0.852   95
6    Kobayashi   Sauber    1m19.834s  +0.957   76
7    Hulkenberg   Force India    1m19.977s  +1.100   90
8    Senna   Williams    1m20.132s  +1.255   125
9    Trulli   Caterham    1m22.198s  +3.321   117

No doubt that's a glory lap from Alonso to try and hide the problems. Not many laps done today isn't great. They'll get it sorted but it isn't ideal preparations.

Jarno Trulli is happy with power steering, thank god
http://www.f1zone.net/news/trulli-pleas ... t01/12219/

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

Hey guys, I did the final ranking of the 4-days lap times, with the day wich driver has set its fastest lap and the total number of laps, here it is...


01 - Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1:17.613 (Thu) - 174 laps
02 - Romain Grosjean - Lotus - 1:18.419 (Thu) - 212 laps
03 - Michael Schumacher - Mercedes - 1:18.561 (Wed) - 174 laps
04 - Fernando Alonso - Ferrari - 1:18.877 (Fri) - 106 laps
05 - Mark Webber - Red Bull - 1:19.184 (Wed) - 151 laps
06 - Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull - 1:19.297 (Thu) - 146 laps
07 - Lewis Hamilton - McLaren - 1:19.464 (Thu) - 166 laps
08 - Daniel Ricciardo - Toro Rosso - 1:19.587 (Wed) - 157 laps
09 - Jean-Eric Vergne - Toro Rosso - 1:19.597 (Fri) - 159 laps
10 - Kimi Raikkonen - Lotus - 1:19.670 (Tue) - 191 laps
11 - Sergio Perez - Sauber - 1:19.770 (Thu) - 116 laps
12 - Paul Di Resta - Force India - 1:19.772 (Tue) - 170 laps
13 - Kamui Kobayashi - Sauber - 1:19.834 (Fri) - 182 laps
14 - Nico Hulkenberg - Force India - 1:19.977 (Fri) - 90 laps
15 - Bruno Senna - Williams - 1:20.132 (Fri) - 250 laps
16 - Jules Bianchi - Force India - 1:20.221 (Wed) - 46 laps
17 - Felipe Massa - Ferrari - 1:20.454 (Wed) - 164 laps
18 - Jenson Button - McLaren - 1:20.688 (Wed) - 146 laps
19 - Pastor Maldonado - Williams - 1:21.197 (Wed) - 122 laps
20 - Heikki Kovalainen - Caterham - 1:21.518 (Wed) - 167 laps
21 - Pedro De la Rosa - HRT - 1:22.128 (Wed) - 108 laps
22 - Jarno Trulli - Caterham - 1:22.198 (Fri) - 117 laps
23 - Giedo van der Garde - Caterham - 1:23.324 (Thu) - 74 laps

That's very helpful, thank you very much

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

I'm glad it helped

By the way, this STR fight will be great during the whole year, its one of the duels I wait the most during this season.

Interesting to see Bruno doing more than the double of the laps Maldonado has done, it seems Williams is giving him a grea chance to get used to the team and the car, let's see what will happen in Barcelona next week.

I think Pastor had car trouble, although it is very good for Williams and for Bruno that they did get a race simulation completed today.

Apparently the drop-off was very even and overall not too bad, which bodes well.

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Bruno Senna & Ted Kravitz discuss the week:

oh oh time for Trulli train

Trulli was doing really long stints today and comparing them with Bruno and especially STR, I think Catheram might actually be in the mix now and surely this year they can challenge Q3.

You are right about all of the examples but Ferrari in 09. It was not expected for them to have a dog or anything close to that. I actually remember that once Massa said that they(Ferrari) expected to be the best team after Brawn. In that particular case, the reality was even worse than the expectation.

So, somebody from finnish media is saying to his public that, according to the greatest engineer of all time in F1, the car their beloved finnish driver will be driving, is "good/or even better than that"

For the record, back in November/December I remember that some journalist(IIRC, a finnish one) wrote that Newey said RB8 would be very different, radical....... Some time after that, Newey denied to have said such thing and it turned out that RB8 is VERY similar to RB7.

According to everybody who were at Jerez, Caterham doesn't seem as bad as last year but still every car was much earlier on throttle, out of the corners, than Heikke.