Spanish GP thread

[akv89]

That second place has now put Hamilton in the lead for the championship at 30 pts. Alonso is 2nd at 28. Massa 3rd at 27. And Raikkonen drops to 4th, still at 22.

[akv89]

A fantastic race for Massa and Hamilton, this has really boosted their championship hopes.
Kubica did a great job picking up points for BMW with Nick out of the race. Coulthard, Rosberg, Kovaleinen, and SATO!!! all did a great job.
The race itself was pretty boring though.

[F1boat]

Massa continues to surprise me. He drove a flawless race and his car was much quicker than I expected after practice and qualifying. Forza Ferrari!

[ioan]

Alonso doesn't look happy on the podium, he expected to win today I think.

He should get a bit more realistic.
Given how well Lewis did in the flyaway races I was expecting him to be even faster in Europe, where he knows the tracks.

[ioan]

So, how many overtaking moves at the new chicane?
I can't remember any, but I might have missed them while TF1 was presenting their 5 commercial brakes!

[jens]

Räikkönen, Webber, Trulli - all "famous car breakers" (at least this is the image of them) fell into trouble once again. On the contrary McLaren is running problemfree. This automatically raises an interesting question - coincidence?

I'd say some bold words about Toyota - the car is unacceptably unreliable!
And a shame for BMW's pit crew. Heidfeld could have challenged even for podium today as he was running heavier than Kubica during the first stint and was quite close to the Pole.

Quite many incidents at Spanish Grand Prix this time - seems like that one-month-long brake hasn't had a positive effect on some teams. :

[ioan]

I'd say some bold words about Toyota - the car is unacceptably unreliable!

But faster than before, that's the way to go in F1, first you need speed than reliability.

[blakebeatty]

The race itself was pretty boring though.

Terrible! The race to the first corner was the whole race!

[aryan]

He should get a bit more realistic.
Given how well Lewis did in the flyaway races I was expecting him to be even faster in Europe, where he knows the tracks.

I have heard that peoople graduating to F1 say that what they learn is lower formulae regarding circuits is of little, if any use in F1 as F1 cars behave so diffently to anything else and all the braking point, acceleration point, etc. are different.

There was a good comment from one of the ITV guys on Saturday, mentioning that Hamilton hasn't done 3 things yet:

1. Get a pole
2. Win a race
4. Make a mistake

I wonder which one he does first.

[F1boat]

Next race is Monaco. All of these three is possible.