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20 Jun 2003, 09:37 (Ref:637390)
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FRenault test at the "Rock"
1st test session
1st Hamilton 1.33.708 2nd Jimenez 1.34.041 3rd Conway 1.34.313 4th Lloyd 1.34.408 5th Rossiter 1.34.620 6th Sisley 1.34.891 |
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20 Jun 2003, 11:09 (Ref:637470)
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2nd test session:
1) Sergio Jimenez 1:33.761 2) Lewis Hamilton 1:33.882 3) Stefan Soderberg 1:33.953 4) Mike Conway 1:34.326 5) James Rossiter 1:34.378 6) Alex Lloyd 1:34.506 7) Tom Sisley 1:34.597 8) Mattheo Menghello 1:34.660 9) Matthew Wilson 1:34.796 10) Susie Stoddart 1:34.810 Manor Motorsport seem to be doing pretty well. Last edited by Paul Rayner; 20 Jun 2003 at 11:10. |
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20 Jun 2003, 11:26 (Ref:637486)
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Stoderberg has found 2sec's in the DFR (impressed)
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20 Jun 2003, 12:16 (Ref:637535)
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Hamilton had new tyres after the second red flag of the first session. Not brand new, but scrubbed in. I believe Jimenez had the same. Soderberg ran new rubber in the second session so I am not impressed yet. Most of the field will run new tyres in this last session. Let's see how it all shakes out after that.
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20 Jun 2003, 13:00 (Ref:637579)
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Good one Freddie,
looks like the weather is going to stay the same over the weekend so it is shaping up to be a good race, maybe 6th race 6th different winner. |
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20 Jun 2003, 13:17 (Ref:637590)
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I too believe Hamilton had new or nearly new tyres in the first session. Lloyd, irritatingly, has car problems again, so the set-up work they were planning for the 2nd session was wasted. If they can fix it by the last session, it should be a bit more representative. However, I'm not convinced that any of the Motaworld drivers have found a set-up that is right for this track.
Fortec, as always, have their 2 cars right up there (the other 2 cars never quite there) and they seem to have their set-ups pretty well bang on straight out of the box wherever they go. Got to hand it to them (the swines  )However, I'm impressed with Manor. Their set-up seems really good here, with reports saying it allows Hamilton to pull more revs than others and thus change up far earlier (not so much that it could be different gear ratios). Presumably the same for Jiminez. But it puzzles me that, if they have such a good set-up, and Hamilton and Jiminez put in the same times, why doesn't Jiminez (a 2002 FRenault champion) perform like this on all the other circuits? He and Hamilton were all but identical in testing here last time. I really don't quite understand. Do they not use the same set-ups as each other at other tracks? As always, in testing, the tyre situation isn't known yet (if at all) and, as Freddie says, most if not all drivers will be saving new tyres for the one remaining session. |
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20 Jun 2003, 13:24 (Ref:637598)
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It's Mediums (gears) I believe at Rockingham so if Hamilton was running Shorts he would run out of revs on the straight. As you know, you can only squeeze so much out of that engine so I would suggest it is set-up. The last session will be interesting. |
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20 Jun 2003, 13:48 (Ref:637631)
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Mr Jinxx, when is Alex's website going to be live?
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20 Jun 2003, 15:25 (Ref:637733)
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Session 3
1st Hamilton 1.33.007 2nd Conway 1.33.593 3rd Jimenez 1.33.790 4th Spencer 1.33.849 5th Rossiter 1.33.899 6th Lloyd 1.33.941 7th DiResta 1.33.997 8th Sisley 1.34.207 9th Soderberg 1.34.337 10th Storckenfeldt 1.34.474 |
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20 Jun 2003, 15:31 (Ref:637739)
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11th Coulthard
12th Scott 13th Stoddart 14th Menghello 15th Murphy 16th Wilson 17th Hollings 18th Kershaw 19th Tahinci 20th Gornall 21st Reeves 22nd Welch 23rd Epton 24th Calasan 25th O'Mahoney 26th Massi 27th Clark 28th Thomas |
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20 Jun 2003, 15:55 (Ref:637750)
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Where did Hamiltom find that time?
Surprised to see Lloyd and Rossiter behind Spencer and Jimenez! |
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20 Jun 2003, 20:12 (Ref:637952)
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didn't lewis clatter the bottom of his car on the kerbs? he came back in before the last red flag of the session after i heard and saw the sound of something rather important breaking...
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20 Jun 2003, 20:48 (Ref:637992)
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I know one thing he made the rest look pretty average today bella
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20 Jun 2003, 20:52 (Ref:637997)
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Where was Glew today isnt he sticking around for the rest of the championship???
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20 Jun 2003, 22:58 (Ref:638081)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Freddie
[B]Where did Hamiltom find that time? trick parts or just damm good driving who knows, maybe he is just **** off about what he reads here and decided to show us all what he can do. |
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21 Jun 2003, 00:07 (Ref:638115)
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105 reminded me, team jva were only running 2 cars today, charlie hollings and vas calasan, so they've lost the peruvian guy too. any ideas why or do i have to put my investigating hat on?
to be honest, from where i was sat (which is exactly the same place as everyone else will be come the weekend, since the views at rockingham are so great), lewis didn't look like he was on it any more than everyone else. maybe he was a bit less hit and miss than everyone else, i don't know. you could tell who was lifting at the chicane in the clios (wusses in that series, you know who you are, as do the raving loonies who just lob the car at the kerbs and save the resulting accident), but i kind of forgot to listen for the formula renaults. |
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21 Jun 2003, 00:21 (Ref:638122)
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Get your hat on Bella, you know most other things, whats wrong with you.
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21 Jun 2003, 01:10 (Ref:638134)
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23 Jun 2003, 19:36 (Ref:640625)
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It may bear repetition, but at the chicane, split times showed no-one with any advantage there. Hamilton Lloyd Conway Rossiter all within a couple of thousandths of each other. Seems the entry is more important to lap time, the exit to your opportunity to overtake at the follwing left-hander. Didn't matter whether you took it in 5th or 6th either because there was hardly any braking there. That wasn't where the time differences emanated.
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23 Jun 2003, 19:38 (Ref:640627)
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Did anyone know why Glew wasn't there, by the way? And did Charlie have his car then?
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23 Jun 2003, 19:45 (Ref:640642)
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is the Peruvian Juan Polar?
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23 Jun 2003, 19:51 (Ref:640653)
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Yep, that's him
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23 Jun 2003, 19:56 (Ref:640658)
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I remember Paddington Bear from his Skip Barber days.
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23 Jun 2003, 20:25 (Ref:640691)
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I'm old enough to remember Skip Barber from his Paddington Bear days
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23 Jun 2003, 20:47 (Ref:640713)
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The way they run the company these days you'd assume it was based in deepest darkest Peru
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