Spanish Grand Prix – Practice
Practice 1 and 2 was fairly uneventful; MW was fastest in both sessions (1:25.142 in P1 and 1:22.470 in P2) followed by SV, NR, FA & SP in P1 and by LH, SV, JB, FA & NR in P2. There are complaints that the hard (prime) tyre compound does provide much grip, and some suggest the soft (option) is 2sec/lap faster – that’s a big difference!
In final practice, SV (1:21.707) beat his Red Bull teammate, followed by MS, LH, JB, NR, KK & VP. About 30mins in to P3 NH’s Renault had a oil leak(?) and he pulled off as it caught fire; VP aborts his lap and heads to the pits so the team can check his car.
(source: BBC)
AS has admitted to being distracted by the imminent court case after he allegedly used a glass to slash the neck of Renault F1 executive Eric Lux in a nightclub after the Chinese Grand Prix.
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In case you haven’t already seen this via Twitter, Facebook, or a direct invitation, I’m taking part in a one-night-only exhibition – my first time showing any of my work IRL! It’s at the Gladstone Hotel (2nd floor) on Monday (May 16) 7pm-11pm. [My photos]
Photo updates, April 2011
Since March I’ve been out with Toronto Photo Walks a few times, Ontario Walks twice and had a long weekend (including 3 day concert) in Montreal! However May is starting off at a hectic pace, hence this “monthly” update being a bit late – I still have quite a few photos from April that I haven’t had a chance to post yet.
- TOPW: Church Street and Cabbagetown
- Montreal trip
- Marillion Weekend, Montreal, 2011
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
- TOPW: Roncesvalles
- Ontario Walks – 2011 Season Launch Walk – Guildwood Park – Scarborough Bluffs
- Good Friday, good walk with some of the TOPW people
- Brewery tour (Wellington, F&M and Trafalgar)
- TOPW: Henry’s downtown walk (I finally posted them!)
Don’t forget to check out what Flickr calls my “most interesting” photos and my other albums, as well as my monthly round up posts.
If you’ve only got time to look at one or two photos, check out my “best of” photoblog @ PaulHenmanPhotography.com – I only post one picture per week (sometimes less!), so I try to pick a recent shot that I really like.
And if you’re interested in exploring Toronto with your camera, check out TorontoPhotoWalks.ca (we’re on Flickr and Facebook too!).
Turkish Grand Prix – Race
It’s really fun to see the BBC’s pre-show programme with interesting discussions and the grid walk – it’s a real shame TSN doesn’t carry it.
I posted my notes on Qualifying earlier; the provisional grid was: SV, MW, NR, LH, FA, JB, VP, MS, NH, FM, RB, AS, PD, PM, SP, SB, JA, HK, JT, VL, TG, NK, JD, KK.
No penalty for MS for blocking LH in Q1, or for Red Bull for covering up SV’s car while they repaired it in the Practice sessions.
BBC report TG has a gearbox problem with the Virgin car; looks unlikely he’ll manage to start the race.
It’s dry but windy at track level.
Lots of talk of how the even-numbered grid spots side of the track is quite slippery.
SV leads everyone (except TG, who’s still in the garage) away on the formation lap
Smoke from JB’s McLaren – hopefully that’s just an oil over-fill
Long pause for the cars to line up at the back of the grid
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Turkish Grand Prix – Qualifying
Fortunately it’ll be a dry qualifying session after the rain in practice caused to so many cars aquaplaning.
(We were away in Halifax, NS, and our PVR failed to record anything over the weekend, but fortunately there’s always the bit torrents … and even better than that, it’s the full BBC coverage with plenty of pre-show!)
Qualifying session 1 (Q1)
KK is first on track
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