2012 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix

F1 2011 and 2010 has literally destroyed youtube with their shitty onboard videos of a shitty game.
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Mclaren has done good here, i expect Hamilton on Pole once again, possibly edged my Schumacher but i think he will either get front row or second row.
I also hope he banks this one, there´s two races where things haven´t went well for him so i hope he can lead this one from start/finish.

I think Red Bull will be slightly closer in this qual as well.

my least favorite track to even drivea car in....no grip whatsoever

by the way....why the wait .... it should of been this weekend

Sad news for Hulk.

Link: http://www.nicohulkenberg.net/en/news/no-visa-hulk-must-not-fly-china

Don't know if that's an April fools joke, but doesn't China know the Force India driver they're supposed to keep out is Adrian Sutil?

It´s most definitely a joke. It has to be.

Dear China, I'm warning you. Don't get The Hulk angry. You won't like him when he's angry.

http://www.nicohulkenberg.net/en/news/april-fool-0

First good April's fool joke I've seen today

Have you seen youtubes april's fool joke? (I found it very clever )
Link: http://www.youtube.com/theyoutubecollection

(sorry for off-topic but I just had to mention it)

Full lap


That T1 is endless

Wow he's back!!!!! Hey Dmitry

I hate that T1-2 combo... At the start of lap, your tires are getting very hot and then the car looses grip on the rest of it... "We want it to be just like Malesia but longer..." And the fact that the whole track is modelled after a chinese letter, what a crappy circuit. "The track layout was inspired from the Chinese character shang (上) the first character in the name of the city Shanghai, meaning "above" or "ascend"."



EDIT Hmm, i thought that it's T1-2 but it seems to be for some strange reason T1-3... The only place where it gets even remotely interesting is T8.. And their website is in Chinese only.. That's just awful..

EDIT2: lol, just hear the description of a lap:
- very long right-hander
- sharp left-hander
- short right-hander straight... up to 7th gear
- hairpin
- long, fast left-hander
- long, fast right-hander.
- two fairly sharp, medium speed left handers
- short straight.
- sharp, slow left-hander
- long, fast right-hander which is classified as two turns by the designer, Hermann Tilke.
- very long back straight, the longest in Formula One, at 1170m.
- hairpin.
- fast left-hander to finish

It´s a technical track i give you that.

For me i like the T1-3 complex with the super fast entry downshifting and braking while turning harder and harder only to take a wide entry into T3 and power out.

T5-T6 uneventful but out of T6 is where the fun starts, really fast T7 and part T8.
Then T12-T13 which is banked is pretty cool i have to say.

Apart from that there´s nothing really driver pleasure in it. 100% a technical track, which usually provides some good racing because of that.

Nice track to drive, and with DRS provides good racing.

However, without DRS, it might just be the most boring of them all.

Is the DRS zone already set? Same as last year? Because personally I'd prefer it on the pit straight, it's just too strong on the back straight and on the pit straight it would provide more overtaking maneuvers like Hamilton vs Button...

That's why they'll have it only in the last half of the back straight, like last year.

I still go for getting rid of DRS.

I think they should have a single-detection before the back straight, then activation zones in the second half of the straight then again on the pit straight.