F1 fans - Heads up 7 July 2012 21:30 AEST Silverstone Qualifying ONE HD

[gary]

Coverage of the Qualifying Sessions for Silverstone begins on ONE HD
tonight at 21:30 AEST.

Practice 3 is currrently underway.
Alonso has set the fastest time at 1:32.167 on softs
Grosjean has set a 1:32.471 on the harder compound
Hamilton a 1:32.728
Button a 1:32.851
Perez a 1:32.940

Conditions are currently dry but it was very wet during Practice 2 and
some teams decided to save tyres and stay in the garrage.
Rain is expected during the race on Sunday.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Q1, it's raining and they are on inters and possibly wets.

[gary]

Less traction than an ice skating rink!

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by gary

Less traction than an ice skating rink!

Don't see qualifying red flagged often.

[goober (Doug)]

I'm glad it was red flagged. I spotted my Faces For Charity photo on Seb Vettel's car!

[gary]

Alonso P1
Webber P2
Schumacher P3
Vettel P4
Massa P5

[goober (Doug)]

Here I am...

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Great race and even better result.

[gary]

Wow! I wonder how many of us woke up the neighbours?

Watching the live timing on those last few laps we were on the edge
of our seats.

What an overtake! Plus he made it stick.

[MikeyB (Michael)]

Originally Posted by goober

Here I am...

That's downright amazing to be able to spot yourself amongst the thousands of others!

[MrB (Simon)]

Originally Posted by gary

Wow! I wonder how many of us woke up the neighbours?

Watching the live timing on those last few laps we were on the edge
of our seats.

What an overtake! Plus he made it stick.

Haha, I was out of my seat and jumping around!

[goober (Doug)]

Originally Posted by MikeyB

That's downright amazing to be able to spot yourself amongst the thousands of others!

Total fluke... just paused it during the Q2 red flag when they were zoomed in on Seb's head, and there I was.

Great win from Mark... those tyres are really messing it up this season, but we'll take this one.

[gary]

Originally Posted by goober

Total fluke... just paused it during the Q2 red flag when they were zoomed in on Seb's head, and there I was.

Hi Doug,

That's amazing. I had figured that when you submitted the image that they must
have sent you back a graphic depicting where the picture would go on the car.

But to spot it in a freeze frame puts a new spin on Andy Warhol's prediction that
in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes ... with world population
as it is now, maybe it works out more like 40 milliseconds.

Anyway, sounds like a spotting skill that could translate well to the eyepiece.

[goober (Doug)]

Nah, I could have been anywhere on the car. I had no idea I'd be whispering in Seb's left ear "Mark is faster than you... you are the number 2 driver...."

Here's the original I submitted (I cropped a head and shoulders out to submit it for the charity)... walking the circuit at Monaco in '05, down on the Grand Hotel hairpin.