Brawn GP F1 Italia

Hi BGP fans apologies for my lack of posting yesterday one of our vans snapped its cambelt 150 miles away so I had to go and rescue it. Another great job done by the team however it does seem that the field is starting to equalise and for the 1st time this season a KERS car is in a place to make a threat. Qualifying and Weight positions are as follows

1 Jarno Trulli 648.5 - 12 Laps
2 Timo Glock 643 - 10 Laps
3 Sebastian Vettel 659 - 15 Laps
4 Jenson Button 652.5 - 13 Laps
5 Lewis Hamilton 652.5 - 13 Laps - KERS
6 Rubens Barrichello 649 - 12 Laps
7 Fernando Alonso 650.5 - 12 Laps KERS
8 Felipe Massa 664.5 - 17 Laps KERS
9 Nico Rosberg 670.5 - 19 Laps
10 Kimi Raikkonen 671.5 - 20 Laps KERS
11 Heikki Kovalainen 678.5 - 22 Laps KERS
12 Kazuki Nakajima 680.9 - 23 Laps
13 Robert Kubica 698.6 - 29 Laps KERS
14 Nick Heidfeld 696.3 - 28 Laps KERS
15 Nelson Piquet Jnr 677.6 - 22 Laps
16 Sebastien Buemi 678.5 - 22 Laps
17 Giancarlo Fisichella 652 - 13 Laps
18 Mark Webber 656 - 14 Laps
19 Adrian Sutil 679 - 22 Laps
20 Sebastien Bourdais 667.5 - 18 Laps

The obvious immediate threats are Hamilton and Alonso but looking further down the field you would be wrong to write off Kubica and Heidfeld both of which are going 10 laps further, have KERS and can manage their tyres quite well. A great race in prospect.

Yet another tight practice session with the times reflecting this, only a 1.4 margin between top and bottom driver


Rosberg 1:33.339
Alonso 1:33.530
Trulli 1:33.616
Vettel 1:33.661
Webber 1:33.676
Button 1:33.694
Sutil 1:33.763
Glock 1:33.764
Barrichello 1:33.885
Nakajima 1:33.899
Hamilton 1:33.994
Fisichella 1:34.025
Buemi 1:34.127
Bourdais 1:34.366
Piquet 1:34.411
Massa 1:34.564
Kubica 1:34.605
Räikkönen 1:34.670
Kovalainen 1:34.764
Heidfeld 1:34.790

Well the F1 circus has arrived in Sakhir and at least we can say that we won't have a rainstorm, however we may get a sandstorm. It seems some teams have come to Sakhir with some interim updates before the teams converge back in Europe. Free Practice 1 was business as usual with times all over the show and not really giving an indication of any real true pace.

Times are as follows:

Hamilton 1:33.647
Heidfeld 1:33.907
Kubica 1:33.938
Rosberg 1:34.227
Button 1:34.434
Kovalainen 1:34.502
Barrichello 1:34.531
Massa 1:34.589
Webber 1:34.827
Raikkonen 1:34.827
Nakajima 1:34.880
Vettel 1:34.938
Piquet 1:34.974
Sutil 1:35.021
Trulli 1:35.036
Fisichella 1:35.042
Glock 1:35.333
Alonso 1:35.348
Bourdais 1:35.353
Buemi 1:35.369

It just goes to show how close the teams are lining up at the minute with only 1.722 seperating the top driver to the last. It would appear from the footage that turns 9 and 10 are where most drivers are having trouble dialling in and I would suggest that cross winds here at Sakhir are playing havoc with setting up the cars.

BGP have fielded some livery on the car for Virgin which in all honesty should have stayed as it was. This new livery has no definition and you can't make it out when they are out on circuit. I'll try to grab some pics of it.