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26 comments on Malaysian Grand Prix practice in pictures

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   John H said on 2nd April 2010, 11:19

   That Lotus shark fin looks great, but the Malaysian flag on it doesn’t quite work does it! No matter, hopefully it will come off in China (no offense Malaysians… perhaps you can change your flag to yellow and green stripes?)

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     MigueLP said on 2nd April 2010, 17:10

     really? the shark thin looks awfwul they should have done a more evolved design but i do agree with the malaysian flag but what can u do they have the money the have the flag

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       MEmo said on 3rd April 2010, 2:00

       I read somewhere that the flag will stay for all this season… sorry!

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     Ling said on 20th April 2010, 17:20

     i don’t see anything wrong with that Malaysian flag… it makes the car looks fantastic!

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   Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 2nd April 2010, 11:32

   Is that a McLaren-style snorkel on Kubica’s Renault? http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2010/04/02/malaysian-grand-prix-practice-in-pictures/malaysian-grand-prix-f12010-kuala-lampur-02042010-4/

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     Sandman said on 2nd April 2010, 11:47

     If by “snorkel” you mean the fduct air-in device, then its probably not this. They had such thing before and it was supposed to help cooling the driver, just like the whole ferrari has on tip of their nose.

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       Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 2nd April 2010, 12:01

       Ah, OK – hadn’t noticed it before.

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         polishboy808 said on 2nd April 2010, 15:56

         Actually i think that is a test snorkel, Petrov doesn’t have one, and if it was as trivial as cockpit cooling both would have run them, or just Petrov, but if it is a snorkel, then they would rather run a man with more experiance, and a man who can give better feed back, in which case, Kubi would be the obvious choice.

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           Sandman said on 2nd April 2010, 17:52

           Agreed Petrov has none. Its really confusing.

           Though, take a look at this picture: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/webb_kubi_melb_20101.jpg . Kubica seems to have similar snorkel. And its centric, while the other teams usually place it on a side. Any clarification on that, as the official Renault page is useless as usual?
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           polishboy808 said on 2nd April 2010, 23:40

           Your right sandman, Kubica does appear to be running a snorkel in Australia. But then if it’s been race tested, why is Kubica the only one running it now in Malaysia? And if it’s been run in a race, then the idea of it being cockpit cooling is gone, because then Petrov would run it too for sure. And of course, like Sandman said, the Renault website is useless…..
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   bob said on 2nd April 2010, 11:35

   cloudy, but not rainy. Looks like the same will be in FP3

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     Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 2nd April 2010, 12:03

     Dry practice followed by wet qualifying and race? Doesn’t get much tougher than that!

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       bob said on 2nd April 2010, 12:36

       I dont understand u. u wanna say that its possible or impossible?

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         Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 2nd April 2010, 14:16

         Neither, I’m saying it would be hard for the drivers and teams to call the set-up correctly.

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           bob said on 2nd April 2010, 16:16

           Yeah, so these are the most unvaluable tests this year :)
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   Karan said on 2nd April 2010, 12:42

   Props to Lotus for making a lot of ground in terms of pace. Really outstanding work. A second behind the Williams in practice…

   If quali is wet, that would seriously change up the grid, and my lap time prediction would be horrible..

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   Fer no.65 said on 2nd April 2010, 13:32

   haha @ Gascoyne on twitter…! :D

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     dj said on 2nd April 2010, 21:22

     ya ,he said “mirrors” – no way we are moving them

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   Calum said on 2nd April 2010, 14:46

   That would have been an unbeleivable day for fauzy! First time in an f1 car during a race weekend and he drives in Malaysia for a Malayan team and of course being a Malayan himself.

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     bob said on 2nd April 2010, 14:52

     like in a local championship :D

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       Calum said on 2nd April 2010, 18:04

       Well, you know what I mean, sure he’s driven competatively in Malaysia before but there will be something special about this drive, and his whole family in Malaysia would be able to get there and see him!

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   polishboy808 said on 2nd April 2010, 15:03

   What is lotus running on their rear wing? It seems to be protruding from the middle towards the shark fin…. I have not seen it before.

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   MEmo said on 3rd April 2010, 2:05

   That thing was already on the car in Melbourne. It´s not new. I think it helps with the downforce, but obviously I´m no expert…

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   MEmo said on 3rd April 2010, 2:06

   As always, Keith, wonderful selection of pics. Thanks for the ones of the T127s.

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    GeorgeK said on 3rd April 2010, 18:28

    I have a similar shot of Kovy driving the car at Melbourne on Saturday prac as my screen saver. Nice car!
    Don’t know where you source your photos, they’re almost as good as Autosports.

    Thanks!

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    Chaz said on 7th April 2010, 16:20

    Thanks to the photographer…

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