A bit boring at the front after Fernando and Nico dropped back, but the many hard fought battles made for an interesting race. Very entertaining.
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A bit boring at the front after Fernando and Nico dropped back, but the many hard fought battles made for an interesting race. Very entertaining.
well done Lotus
shame about Alo - no DRS and an extra stop -> 28sec behind P2
Some great battles throughout the race, shame about Alonso though.
it was much worseQuote:
Originally Posted by Ranger
team of the race... Lotus. This is how you win a WCC, watch closely Merc, McLaren, Ferrari, et al...
Nice the Vettel fake scream - STFU
Time for Flavio to take the reins at Ferrari. Great job by the drug runner. Time for Webber to go to Aussie V8 series. Pretty good race all and all.
Rollo, this race is all the proof anyone needs how much better f1 is now than it was before pirelli/kers/drs and the new aero regs. A few years ago sakhir was boring as hell. Now we have some great wheel to wheel racing all race long. Hamilton vs Webber: fantastic.
Pretty much everyone vs everyone was fantastic.
so annoying to see vettel on the podium
He is celebrating like he did something special today
He basically ran away from the start after his main competitor Alonso ran into trouble
from there it was cruise control until the end.
Webber had an up and down race. At times, showing incredible pace, at other times suffering from tire deg.
DiResta and Grosjean had a brave fight
Perez silenced his doubters,and seems to be getting something out of Mclaren in this race
also, the mclaren looks much improved
Hamilton did very well to pass webber and salvage probably the maximum points he could from this race. I do think the fact they pitted him one lap too late at the 3 rd stop meant he dropped to p15 while he would have come out closer to grosjean and probably had a go at DiResta.
Alonso performed miracles with no DRS and essentaily, 1 extra pitstop, especially in close succession, which is almost like a drive through. That Ferrari has some raw pace.
Meanwhile massa was nowhere on the preferred strategy. Look at what DiResta & Co did with a long first stint on those mediums. Ok after that poor first stint, he then suffered 2 tire punctures, and I wonder how much of that was being too aggressive on the kerbs, running into the back of another car or some setup problem. But overall. a race to forget for him.
Lotus where excellent today
Rosberg, not so much. what the heck happened, in looking out how things panned out if hamilton did not have that 5 grid penalty where would he be. BTW it's 4-0 hamilton. He made his tires work. Nico didn't.
I think that Nico would have been better served letting Vettel and alonso go by early then managing his race from there, instead of swerving around trying to defend then losing out and wrecking his tires.
Defending p1 on lap 2/3 is not that important to an overall race strategy imo.
Sutil's season is turning into MSC's 2012 season. that Force India is fast. Good Job DiResta. Sad for Sutil
There was some terrific wheel to wheel dogfights. At least the drivers weren't told how to race because of 'tyre management'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
The only crap race I recall is 2010.Quote:
Originally Posted by webberf1