Hey the pre-race show has started and there's talk of weather...time to get a new thread started instead of piggybacking off the practice and quali thread, methinks.

EJ very nearly got run over there.

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/159

Autosport weather forecast thread. Looks like rain during the race is more likely than thought last night.

The track is certainly dry right now but it looks like maybe 50-50 chance of rain about an hour in?

Whoa did a piece of Vettel's bargeboard fall off during the warm up?

LOL I'm stateside so I'm stuck with Peter Windsor's pit walk...though he did just snag Kimi.

They think it was just a bag of dry ice that flew out

Not sure what it was. Didnt look like a piece of bargeboard. DC thought it might be something to do with the drinks system.

I for one am I happy at not having to drag myself out of bed at 6am like I usually do. Although now that I've said that, I can see Abu Dhabi starting at 3am my time..

I think Tanya's just a little pissed off with Martin Brundle (again)...............................

MB showing no mercy to any other reporters.

Cool. I'm getting excited, tape is in the VCR this should be a goody.

Oh did I mention it's 0445 here?

Enjoy the race folks whatever happens.

Vettel's thing is that they left a mesh bag full of dry ice in the right sidepod for his recon lap. That's the black, smoking thing that fell out.

On it's way out it did a lot of damage to the carbon fiber inside of the sidepod opening.

This is from SPEED's coverage, excellent analysis.

Tape! Do people still use those.

..........and it's always 'the lovely Tanya'. Brundle is certainly pretty ruthless on his gridwalk.

vettel penalty after 1 round - unsafe release

Hey, that electric guitar has it's own backing singer.......

Next time I expect to see her elbow in his race.

Yep and they still do the job too. No HDD recorders for me.

I've never seen MB's gridwalks ever.

That's what being in the Southern Hemisphere is like.

Off to the lounge and the telly!

No loss of pic quality and no waiting for the tape to rewind is more than enough to make HDD the tool of choice for me. The video was consigned to the loft several years ago. I'm hoping if I keep it long enough it will become a collectors item.

The qualifying was at 1 PM EST (USA) yesterday but the race is at 12 PM EST today even though the local times for the race and qualifying are the same. Must be something to do with Daylight saving time in Brazil. I almost missed this one

Fingers crossed that we get a bit of a boat race at some point today.

Kimi gambleing on the super softs.

IMHO those running heavy are nuts

DAMN people just slamming Raik into the wal, WTF!

Bloody hell, it's like 'Wacky Races'.

where did kimi lose that front wing..collision with webber?

Woah. What a first lap!

what a clusterfuckk.

Weber ran him off the track

I think Trulli might be a tad upset.

Cat fight!!

Sutil being an a**hole, almost taking Raikkonen out, and then doing in Trulli.

BAN McClaren, dumbasses

Kova ....

Kova spraying Kimi.

Kovalainen does a Massa.



More like HANDBAGS at dawn.

Drama much? Holy christ, fire.

That was scary.

Yeah, he might get a drive through for that................

What the hell is going on with this race!?

Looking much better for Button now.

webber doing a schumacher...

Now I remember why I don't read RC very often!

Kimi does a Montoya (Brazil 2002)

Button up to 9th? Where is the justice?

Holy crap.


Trulli needs to stfu.

If anything, Trulli should be apologising to Sutil for that.

Webber penalty very naughty..

Trulli had only himself to blame.

Button will end up in the points if it keeps going like this His official nickname is lucky button