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2017 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIA GRAND PRIX

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2017 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIA GRAND PRIX


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Sepang International Circuit
Lap data
Lap length 5.543km (3.444 miles)
Race laps 56
Race distance 310.408km (192.879 miles)
Pole position Right-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’34.223 (Juan Pablo Montoya, 2004)
Fastest lap 1’32.582 (Fernando Alonso, 2005, qualifying one)
Maximum speed 329kph (204.431 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and final straight
Distance from grid to turn one 683m
Full throttle 45%
Longest flat-out section 1029m
Downforce level High
Gear changes per lap 40

UK Times
Friday 29th September 2017
Malaysian Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 11:00-12:30 (UK time: 4:00-5:30)
Malaysian Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 15:00-16:30 (UK time: 8:00-9:30)
Saturday 30th September 2017
Malaysian Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 14:00-15:00 (UK time: 7:00-8:00)
Malaysian Grand Prix Qualifying: 17:00 (UK time: 10:00)
Sunday 1st October 2017
Malaysian Grand Prix: 15:00 (UK time: 8:00)

Previous Winners
2016 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-TAG Heuer
2015 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2011 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2010 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2009 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes
2008 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
2007 Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes
2006 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Renault
2005 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
2004 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2003 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes
2002 Germany Ralf Schumacher Williams-BMW
2001 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2000 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari

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Alonso 2016 start onboard


Facts from the previous race

The championship situation changed dramatically in Singapore as Lewis Hamilton claimed a maximum 25 points but his principal rival left with none.

Hamilton now leads Sebastian Vettel by 28 points in the drivers’ championship. That’s the biggest lead any driver has enjoyed all season. Vettel’s lead peaked at 25 points after the Monaco Grand Prix, since when Hamilton has enjoyed a net 53-point swing in his favour.

It was Hamilton’s third consecutive win, following a period at the beginning of the season in which no driver had won two in a row. It was also his third victory in Singapore: Vettel still holds the record with four.

Hamilton now has 60 career wins yet remarkably this is only the second time he’s won having started outside of the first two rows. He won the 2014 British Grand Prix from sixth place. His other wins have come from pole position (38), second (15), third (three) and fourth (two).

Vettel’s 200th participation in a world championship race weekend was not a successful one. His retirement from the race means Hamilton is now the only driver to have scored points in every race this year. Hamilton and Esteban Ocon are the only drivers to have been classified in every race so far.

With Kimi Raikkonen going out in the same first-lap incident, this was the first time since the 2015 Mexican Grand Prix that Ferrari failed to get either car home.

Not since the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix have two Ferraris failed to get either beyond the first lap, and that was in quite different circumstances. Gilles Villeneuve was killed in a crash during qualifying and Didier Pironi’s car was withdrawn as a mark of respect. This was the first time Ferrari have entered two cars in a race have and both retired on the first lap.

Vettel at least took his fourth Singapore Grand Prix pole, the most of any driver, and the 49th of his career. It was also the 213th pole position for a Ferrari-powered car. That equals the record number of pole positions for an engine brand, held by Renault.

However it gets more complicated if we include the pole positions for Renault engines branded as TAG Heuer (Daniel Ricciardo, 2016 Monaco Grand Prix) and Playlife (Giancarlo Fisichella, 1998 Austrian Grand Prix), by which count Ferrari are still two behind.

Ricciardo continued his streak of podiums in Singapore. He’s never failed to finish on the rostrum at this track since he joined Red Bull but nor has he been able to win the race. This was his third consecutive second-placed finish. Remarkably, he’s been in second place for 174 of the last 180 laps raced at this track.

However he took his seventh podium finish of the year while team mate Max Verstappen posted his seventh retirement. Four of these have been due to technical failures and three have been caused by first-lap crashes. While Hamilton has completed all 834 laps raced so far this year, Verstappen has only managed 457 (54.8%). Verstappen has only completed 45 more laps than Hamilton has spent in the lead in 2017.

Valtteri Bottas came home third for Mercedes which means Singapore’s record of never seeing a one-two finish by a team has continued for a tenth year. His tenth podium finish of the year means he is now tied with Vettel for the most so far.

One widely-expected statistical landmark was passed by Nico Hulkenberg. His retirement means he has surpassed Adrian Sutil as the driver who has started the most races without ever finishing on the podium:
Rank Driver Starts Active years Teams Best
1 Nico Hulkenberg 129 2010-present Williams, Force India, Sauber, Renault 4th (3)
2 Adrian Sutil 128 2007-14 Spyker, Force India, Sauber 4th
3 Pierluigi Martini 118 1985-95 Minardi, Scuderia Italia 4th (2)
4 Philippe Alliot 109 1984-94 RAM, Ligier, Lola, Larrousse, McLaren 5th
5 Pedro Diniz 98 1995-2000 Forti, Ligier, Arrows, Sauber 5th (2)
6 Ukyo Katayama 95 1992-97 Larrousse, Tyrrell, Minardi 5th (2)
7 Jonathan Palmer 83 1983-89 Williams, RAM, Zakspeed, Tyrrell 4th
8 Marc Surer 81 1979-86 Ensign, ATS, Theodore, Arrows, Brabham 4th (2)
9 Vitantonio Liuzzi 80 2005-11 Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Force India, HRT 6th (2)
10 Piercarlo Ghinzani 76 1981-89 Osella, Toleman, Ligier, Zakspeed 5th


During the race it briefly looked as though Hulkenberg was going to stop this from happening. He completed lap one in third place and stayed there until he pitted on lap 11. As late as lap 38 he was running fourth, close behind Bottas, when a power unit problem ended his race. But surely the ever-improving Renault will allow him to eventually reach the rostrum and hand this unwanted record back to Sutil?

With Hulkenberg and Vettel failing to score, for the first time in 176 races there were no German drivers among the points-scorers. That streak dates back to the 2008 French Grand Prix, when points were only awarded to the top eight. There were five German drivers in that round and all finished but none in the points. They were Timo Glock (11th), Vettel (12th), Nick Heidfeld (13th), Nico Rosberg (16th) and Sutil (19th).

The absence of several big names missing from the sharp end of the field three drivers took the opportunity to score their best career finishes to date. They were Carlos Sainz Jnr (fourth), Jolyon Palmer (sixth) and Stoffel Vandoorne (seventh).

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A full race on the F1 youtube! Great stuff
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I do like how Liberty put together the people in the main incident of the previous race in the press conferences. Session 1 should be interesting :)

Thursday, September 28, 1500 hours local time (0800 GMT)
Part 1: Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari), Max Verstappen (Red Bull), Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari)
Part 2: Marcus Ericsson (Sauber), Pierre Gasly (Toro Rosso), Carlos Sainz (Toro Rosso)

Friday, September 29, 1700 hours local time (1000 GMT)
Part 1: Christian Horner (Red Bull), Otmar Szafnauer (Force India), Frédéric Vasseur (Sauber)
Part 2: Mario Isola (Pirelli), Guenther Steiner (Haas), Toto Wolff (Mercedes)
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Big Kev wrote:I do like how Liberty put together the people in the main incident of the previous race in the press conferences. Session 1 should be interesting :)
I think its like flogging a dead horse.

The drivers get grilled by the media straight after the incident on the Sunday, which is the best chance to get off the cuff comments from them as they are still in the heat of the moment. Then all the web sites bang on about it for 1-2 weeks, we get to the next round and they still want to milk it. The drivers dont add fuel to the the fire they are trying to stoke so it becomes a bit of a non event.
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Oh they didn't did they?! :yikes:

I'd get this blokes input, which has been done before but I'd keep using him
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Same color as his jet.

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Surly that is not the whiny little twat riding it is it??
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hutchy wrote:Surly that is not the whiny little twat riding it is it??
I wonder that too, surely his Merc contract wouldn't allow it.
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His twitter wants us to believe it...
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new- ... -hamilton/
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Might be too much hijacking of this thread... Maybe we should have a dedicated Lewis Love area (I know I've already got one, got the blueprints off Duke :vibes: )
How about Vettel's run of luck in southeast Asia!
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Speaking of Hamilton, he's said he's thinking of taking a knee at Austin during the national anthem. That and his recent vegan lifestyle would make Norbs a happy chappy :D
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He's a feckin Brit.. Jesus Christ, words fail...

Only knee in his future should be flying and too the head.
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Oh FFS! This is shit and F1 needs to change. Kimi wheeled off the grid :bang:
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Fuck what a shit month for Ferrari! Vettel's car totalled on the cool down lap :yikes:
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Not sure what is going on with Foxtel, but this race still can't be found in the on demand library.

I couldn't watch it live because of other commitments and because I'm using the streaming service to save cash, I was expecting it to be online by now. But it's not. *sigh*

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Fekkin Foxtel!!

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(by the way, hope you got to watch it!!)
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StanDaam wrote:Fekkin Foxtel!!

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(by the way, hope you got to watch it!!)
Not yet, still waiting. Hopefully it's ready tonight. :nod:
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Stan, make it happen! You work for them. :smackbum:
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Just a tic... ring ring... Hello, no I don't wanna chat with you Lachie, put Ruppy on... hello, Murds me ole mate, yeah it's about the functionality of the puck again...

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AstrO wrote:
StanDaam wrote:Fekkin Foxtel!!

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(by the way, hope you got to watch it!!)
Not yet, still waiting. Hopefully it's ready tonight. :nod:

It's there right now.
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Stan gets results!

But isn't Lachie still the lunch boy there and you put kick me signs on his back ect..?
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Thanks Stan, just finished watching it. :D

Great race, shame about Kimi at the start. :(
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Looks like Vettel was wrong yet again about someone turning in to him. New footage of the onboard from Stroll shows he didn't swerve out to get marbles. He was on a constant turn. I think they just had converging arcs. One of those things.

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