March 15, 2007
Short version, SuperAguri's 2006 Honda-clone was 11th (Ant) and 13th (Suicide), beating both factory 2007 Hondas quite handily, which can't be going over well.
Ferrari was 1-2 (Massa and Kimi), Hamilton's McLaren was 3rd, Alonso was 7th, Fisichella was 4th before he broke his car.
American Scott Speed was 19th, just ahead of the two Spykers and his own teammate who brought up the rear.
If SA's success carries over to quals, expect the protests to be filed before the race.
BMW showed it's going to have grunt under the 'hood' from day 1 this season, and Man-Mountain Wurz brought his Williams to 6th quickest on the day, which has got to be making a lot of people sigh with relief.
Of course, the thing to remember is that F1 practices are only rough guides to how the teams will do in quals or the races... or, for that matter, how fast the cars really are. Particularly this early, the teams could easily be just shaking down the car. Each team also has their own particular agenda: one might be working on fuel numbers, another on tires, a third on handling, and so forth. Since they're not all doing the same thing, you can't judge them equally, and we don't KNOW what they're doing. So take these results with a big lick of salt...
...but boy, it's good to have F1 back!
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Posted by: Vaucanson's duck at March 16, 2007 05:58 AM (oplPK)
The team who was going to bring the challenge is Williams. In fact, I'm surprised they haven't already, because they threatened an injunction. They still have time. Spyker was also vocal, but they probably have not as much energy (or money) to spend on real lawers. They will belt out a few faxes to FIA though, we may be sure of that.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at March 16, 2007 06:08 AM (9imyF)
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