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.getting all pumped to see Webber up the pointy end again.

thats as long as Red Bull get to race

Red Bull will supply Malaysian race stewards with a detailed technical report after David Coulthard’s accident during Friday morning’s practice session at Sepang. Coulthard’s RB4 sustained what the team described as ‘substantial peripheral damage’ after the car suffered a track rod failure.

The team decided not to run the Scot in the afternoon session whilst they investigated the cause of the accident, and were subsequently requested to meet with race stewards to discuss the crash.

During the meeting, attended by Red Bull’s team principal Christian Horner and a technical representative, the squad were asked to provide a report "verifying that the integrity of the suspension is such that the car should not be deemed 'of dangerous constructions' under Article 2.3 of the 2008 Formula One Technical Regulations."

Stewards have the power to exclude Red Bull if they decide the car does not meet requirements, but the team hope that Coulthard will be back in action on Saturday morning for the final practice session ahead of qualifying for Malaysian Grand Prix.

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That's the ITV UK feed that is a free stream to UK residents only however someone has obviously set it up to stream via a proxy so that anyone can access it.

Be better if it was about 25% better quality/bitrate but yes it certainly beats waiting until 2am tonight to watch ch10's cutdown version.

Thats pretty bloody good news for Webbo then isnt it?! :rofl::D

actuall no it isnt,....He'll still manage to have someone harpoon the sidepod into turn one...probably a crazed Gonzo trying to do what the Renault obviously cant and that is win a race...

Thats pretty bloody good news for Webbo then isnt it?! :rofl::D

actuall no it isnt,....He'll still manage to have someone harpoon the sidepod into turn one...probably a crazed Gonzo trying to do what the Renault obviously cant and that is win a race...

Be interesting to see how Louise goes in trafiic. He has been good to watch as he is almost wreckless the way he commits the car to the inside, outside...and sometimes dirt to get past cars. Surely sooner or later ppl are not going to stand for it and it will end badly. Always interesting to see ppl race from teh back, Kimi does it well. MS was great at it, Massa sux at it....so far Lewis has been all over the place but never got into the points from mid field or back of grid

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