YUZ, YUZ, YUUUUZZ!!! =)

Michael Schumacher has made it into the top 3 of a qualifying for the first time since the 2006 Japanese Grand Prix!! Man, I'm proud... =D

On a quick side note: the Mercedes rear wing with embedded F-duct has been officially approved by the F.I.A., so they are in the clear with that too! So we'll probably see those modifications being made to the other cars in the field real soon I bet... Only person consitingly growling about it is Christian Horner of Red Bull, who refuses to let the matter rest... pathetic behaviour! He was the one angry about others complaining about his car last year and now he does it too! LOL =P

(The recently -F.I.A. approoved- new Mercedes rear wing with embedded F-duct system...)

Back to the qually... a great job from both McLarens once again! But same as with last race, I predict Button will do good tomorrow and Hamilton will drop a few places. As for Schumi... oh, how I wish he could be battling for the leading position once again! That would be aweseom! =)
Raikonnen did well again, with the idea of the Lotus being close to the top cars on the grid, Idon't think it was a mere incidental result from Australia, but we'll see... ;)
Webber kept the Red Bull flag resonably high, but both his and Vettel's performance were not that well, compared to their dominance last year... again, we'll see! ;)

Alonso and Massa from Ferrari are still struggling, but they slowly seem to be recovering from their bad performance during last race weekend... the Ferrari management stated that Massa has done significantly better, even though his qually doesn't show the results from that yet. I don't know yet though... =/

I'm really exited for tomorrow's Grand Prix! I've got my fingers crossed, hoping for an exciting race and hopefully Schumi winning will be the cherry on top! =)

Well... Schumacher hasn't been forced to retire yet, but position # 13 is not a good one as for now. =/

Forgive me for being a bit cranky, but the fact that I arranged everything in such a way to be able to watch the race and then go to work, has been washed down the drain, simply because some weather god decided the crops looked a little pale... AAARRGGHHH!!! (@.@)

Nothing ill said about Grosjean, he's a rookie and is forgiven for his first and only slip-up, but WHY did it have to be Schumacher again? WHY?!?! It seems like he is not given the right to step back up to the plate again? Sure... practice all you want, in fact, here's a new uniform! What is that? You want to race? Ahm... well, we'll see what it gives, ok? *blegh* =/

Off to work now, hoping I won't be dissapointed with another safetycar and fail to record the whole race! =)

What a race! I didn't even see most of it, go figure... LOL

I'll be watching it tonight, but already know the results, which is pretty rare for me... I normally wait it out untill I saw the whole thing, but yeah... =)

The whole grid is scrambled, which makes for a promissing season this year, so it seems!! MAJOR congratz to Perez for his 2nd position finish! He even threatened Alonso a while there, shame he didn't make it in the end, but Alonso deserves the win just the same though. He had a bad start of the season and a car that looks like a sub-top player, but manages to win Malaysia? Excellent stuff! Just goes to show that Massa is out of Alonso's league there, shame, shame, shame... =/

Schumacher is still promissing, allthough the car seems to lack a little race speed there... we'll see further on during the season whether the Mercedes makes it to play with the McLarens again! ;)

Raikonnen is a real surprise! He's able to make a second good position finish already and seems to be the 'best of the rest' at the moment! Looking forward to some more Finnish action! =D

Senna, Di Resta, Vergne and Hulkenberg did a superb job finishing in the points, but we have to wait for a few races more to see whether the sub-top teams are all that close together, or whether this was the result of a rainy Grand Prix in all honesty... still, looks promissing again! =)

Results for the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix :

-Pos  -Driver     -Team     -Time
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1.  Fernando Alonso Ferrari 2:44:51.812
2.  Sergio Perez Sauber +2.263
3.  Lewis Hamilton McLaren +14.591
4.  Mark Webber Red Bull +17.688
5.  Kimi Raikkonen Lotus +29.456
6.  Bruno Senna Williams +37.667
7.  Paul di Resta Force India +44.412
8.  Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso +46.985
9.  Nico Hulkenberg Force India +47.892
10.  Michael Schumacher Mercedes +49.996
11.  Sebastian Vettel Red Bull +1:15.527
12.  Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso +1:16.828
13.  Nico Rosberg Mercedes +1:18.593
14.  Jenson Button McLaren +1:19.719
15.  Felipe Massa Ferrari +1:37.319
16.  Vitaly Petrov Caterham +1 Ronde
17.  Timo Glock Marussia +1 Ronde
18.  Heikki Kovalainen Caterham +1 Ronde
19.  Pastor Maldonado Williams +2 Ronden
20.  Charles Pic Marussia +2 Ronden
21.  Narain Karthikeyan HRT +2 Ronden
22.  Pedro de la Rosa HRT +2 Ronden
Not finished
23.  Kamui Kobayashi Sauber +10 Ronden
24.  Romain Grosjean Lotus +53 Ronden
(All results pending official F.I.A. approval...)

MAN?! (o.O)

Just read the news that Red Bull and Lotus kept on whining about the rear wing of the Mercedes car and now the F.I.A. is looking into it a second time around...

I HATE those political games always being played in the paddock! This really ruins the whole sport! =(

Another qualifying has passed and... Schumacher is in the top 3 again!!
And what's even more amazing... his teammate Rosberg has the pole!!!
Now, who would have thought... (o.O)

But "the bullsh** stops when the flag drops", so we will have to wait for the race to be over and see what they both are able to do with that starting position... =/
Can't wait till tomorrow!!! =D

Some more news in starting positions and F-1 in general:

# Hamilton has second position in qually, but will be dropping 5 positions due to a gear box change.

# Vettel out of the top 10?! What a blunder! How can this happen to the former 2-time world champion F-1?! Seems a little dissapointing to see how he can't get the car running again... were his previous years just lucky then? I wonder... =/

# Dutch driver Guido van der Garde was able to test a Caterham car in the first practice session on Shanghai and made a nice 19th time, only a little behind Kovalainen! Even though there is a Dutch guy in F-1 right now, I still don't see him racing any time soon! But hey... it's F-1, so never say never! ;)

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I'll be looking forward to the race with Kobayashi and Raikonnen in the front lines again! This should be good! And especially because the whole top 10 of this Grand Prix has only 4 cars out of the top teams from last year in it! Imagine... 6 cars from other teams now rule the top 10? That's great! A good day for racing I say! =)