2015 Malaysian GP Drivers Press Conference

2015 Malaysian GP Preview

We have seen the first race of the season and now it's time for the second GP-preview!

Sepang has become a very legendary track over the years.

Remember when Mika Häkkinen chased the Ferraris of Eddie Irvine and Michael Schumacher in the first race back in 1999? The Ferraris were dominating the race and Häkkinen was just barely behind them. After the race Häkkinen sat down on the podium because he was about to pass out. He said that it felt impossible to win them.

Later they found out that Ferrari was using illegal wings on the cars. The FIA said that they can't use them anymore but didn't give Ferrari a penalty. Maybe because that would have decided the championship as well? Häkkinen would have won Irvine in the championship with over 10 points before the last race.

In 2003 Renault showed their claws for the first time since the 80's by taking 1st and 2nd in the qualifying (Fernando Alonso and Jarno Trulli). It was also Alonso's first pole position.
Unfortunately for Alonso's sake he didn't finish first in the race. He took the third place which was his first ever podium in F1.

The hero of the very wet Malaysian Grand Prix in 2003 was in fact not Alonso but Kimi Räikkönen. He took his first ever victory and smiled more than he did when he won the championship in 2007.




I would also like to mention the shortest Malaysian Grand Prix in history: The 2009 Malaysian GP that lasted for 55 minutes. It was stopped with red flags because of the weather and it never continued. Jenson Button won that race with Brawn GP (now Mercedes GP).




Then I must mention the race from 2013...

Remember MULTI -21?



Mark Webber decided to leave Red Bull and Formula One because of this race and Sebastian Vettel got even more haters than he already had. He ignored the team orders and put himself above the team.

So who has been most successful in Malaysia of the current drivers?

Podiums:

1. Fernando Alonso - 5 (1st x 3, 2nd x 1, 3rd x 1)
2. Sebastian Vettel - 4 (1st x 3, 3rd x 1)
3. Jenson Button - 4 (1st x 1, 2nd x 1, 3rd x 2)
3. Lewis Hamilton - 4 (1st x 1, 2nd x 1, 3rd x 2)
5. Kimi Räikkönen - 3 (1st x 2, 3rd x 1)
6. Nico Rosberg - 2 (2nd x 2)
7. Sergio Perez - 1 (2nd x 1)


Let's also keep in mind that Button has been in F1 since the year 2000, Alonso and Räikkönen since 2001 (Alonso didn't compete in 2002 and Kimi didn't compete in 2010-2011), Rosberg since 2006, Hamilton and Vettel since 2007 and Perez since 2011.

Let's see my predictions!

Pole Position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

The race:

1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
2. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes
3. Valtteri Bottas, Williams

Fastest lap: Kimi Räikkönen, Ferrari

First to pit: Daniil Kvyat, Red Bull

Surprise: Carlos Sainz Jr. is going to show us some more of his speed.

POINTS: 1st - 3
2nd - 5
3rd - 10

+ possible bonus points

HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. For example if you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick!

THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MW & MH. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway.

Top 10's - Best drivers of all time

Alain Prost (Williams) and Ayrton Senna (McLaren)

In my first official "Top 10's" I will list the best drivers of all time in my opinion. You may disagree because this is just how I feel and of course I respect everybody's opinion.

Here we go!

1. Ayrton Senna
2. Jim Clark
3. Juan Manuel Fangio
4. Jackie Stewart
5. Niki Lauda
6. Alain Prost
7. Michael Schumacher
8. Jack Brabham
9. Mika Häkkinen
10. Fernando Alonso

Who would you list as the best of all time? Care to make your own Top 10 -list on the Facebook page for example? Go right ahead! I will read them all because I really want to know your own opinions as well.

I am starting a new series called "The top 10's"

How you doing guys! So basically the headline already explained almost everything but I will write a few words to be more specific.

Every now and then I can't come up with anything to write and I do post stuff on this blog every single day! It's easy to post news, videos etc. (and most of you really like the documentaries and old races) but I would rather write more "original stuff" so please send me some ideas what you would like me to write about. Post them here, message me on the F1 4 LIFE Facebook page or send me an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com

In the mean time I will start this series where I will list anything from F1 in a TOP-10 list. Let me give you an example...

Here are my top 10 favorite tracks from this year's calendar:

1. Spa, Belgium
2. Red Bull Ring, Austria
3. Monte Carlo, Monaco
4. Hungaroring, Hungary
5. Suzuka, Japan
6. Silverstone, Britain
7. Sepang, Malaysia
8. Sao Paolo, Brazil
9. Montreal, Canada
10. Marina Bay, Singapore

I would have included Germany also but it's not in the calendar anymore unfortunately. This was actually pretty difficult because I left out some very good tracks! These were the ones that I enjoy watching the most.

You may also send me requests regarding these top 10's. Let me know what kind of top 10's you would be interested of seeing in the future.

A nice looking F1 video!

I have seen this video once before but forgot all about it. Now one of my admins on the F1-4-LIFE Facebook page posted this video on the wall and I was still very amazed of it.

Take a look at this masterpiece:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=920390164647906&fref=nf

Have a nice day! ;)

2015 Australia Race (FULL)

Here's the race from Melbourne last weekend. The picture quality is a bit strange but it is the only way that YouTube won't erase the video. Don't ask me why but it's true.



Oh so now YouTube has erased the video anyways...

F1 2015 Australian GP: Drivers Press Conference (video)

I got a request to find another video of this press conference because the previous upload was deleted from YouTube for some reason. So here it is once again. Enjoy!