2013 Indian Grand Prix

[Tazio]

One has to wonder what Rogro could have done if his quali hadn't been screwed!

[gm99]

nice donuts seb

In light of Webber's penalty is Singapore, I wonder though if Seb will be punished for not bringing his car into parc fermé?

[N4D13]

I doubt it. Even the FIA isn't dumb enough to punish drivers for this kind of thing. The Webber-Alonso thing in Singapore was both stupid and dangerous - but I'd say Seb's was neither.

[Warriwa]

DoughNuts! should be mandatory

[Parabolica]

Raikkonen.

Please don't be like that next year.

[F1boat]

Not a great race, but a great emotion in the end

[jarrambide]

Pérez pass of the race

I think I could have passed Kimi and Hamilton considering how old their tyres are! Seriously though it was a good pass. Two cars in one move is always pleasing for a driver.

The Ice Man had very old tires, but didn't Hamilton and Perez had their last pit stop very close to each other?

[AndyL]

The Ice Man had very old tires, but didn't Hamilton and Perez had their last pit stop very close to each other?

Hamilton stopped 3 laps before Perez. If either of them still had a new set to put on that could have made the difference effectively more or less of course.

[henners88]

Pérez pass of the race

I think I could have passed Kimi and Hamilton considering how old their tyres are! Seriously though it was a good pass. Two cars in one move is always pleasing for a driver.

The Ice Man had very old tires, but didn't Hamilton and Perez had their last pit stop very close to each other?

Hamilton stopped a few laps before and was radioing the team the lap before he was overtaken saying his tyres were off. He held Perez off for a number of laps but it got to the point where it wasn't worth defending and losing more positions than needed. Not taking anything away from Sergio, he overtook Lewis regardless of the circumstances.

[jarrambide]

Hamilton stopped a few laps before and was radioing the team the lap before he was overtaken saying his tyres were off. He held Perez off for a number of laps but it got to the point where it wasn't worth defending and losing more positions than needed. Not taking anything away from Sergio, he overtook Lewis regardless of the circumstances.

Someone else said 3 laps, I asked because 3 laps should not make a real difference unless they had the soft tires, which they didn't.
If 3 more laps make that big of a difference, it makes me think that either:
a) One of the drivers destroyed his tires quicker than the other drivers.
or
b) The other driver was able to take better care of his tires and still keep pushing.

Edit: My original comment says that 3 laps should not make a big difference, unless both set of tires had a very different number of laps already on them before that last pit stop.