in looking back, Perez is also lucky to get away with running Alonso off the track. Although that was a little less obvious, it was still out of bounds IMO.
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in looking back, Perez is also lucky to get away with running Alonso off the track. Although that was a little less obvious, it was still out of bounds IMO.
the mistake was made before the start of the season. They let Hamilton go, kept Button, and brought in Perez. Now, you have a situation where Sergio is more faster than Jensen, in every way (does this situation look familiar?... RBR, to be exact), and the driver that would've been a better fit passed him for a higher spot in the race today; his former teammate, no-less.
I will say that I did see an awful lot of what I thought was double movement when blocking in the race, which I imagine will get addressed at some point this season. If a driver is on a straight starts veering to the right, and then changes his trajectory by turning further to the right, that is surely blocking twice. Unless the stewards simply interpret the rule as being unable to swerve from left to right.
+1.Quote:
Originally Posted by dj_bytedisaster
ferrari had the best car today, but vettel was already putting time on alonso after making that gutsy move on him. pressured alonso into a slight area then punished him dearly.
no, the ferrari had the best race pace today.Quote:
Originally Posted by gm99
Nothing made sense in this race result.
Alonso had 2 unnecessary stops, no DRS and finishes 8th. Brilliant.
Rosberg qualifies on pole and receives a boat anchor for the race. Whatever happened to his car in Parc Ferme should be investigated - Make his car pee into a bottle.
Lotus barely get one car into Q3 and finish 2nd and 3rd because their PS3 was able to simulate the tyres better than anyone elses PS3?
The race for 5th consisted of cars trying not run out of fuel trying not to be caught by other cars trying not to run out of fuel. :crazy:
Commentators were saying tyres, tyres, tyres when they probably should've been saying fuel, fuel, fuel! Aren't the commentators told that the cars have to run on 4 cylinders for most of the race?
This race was a nonsense and Vettel made the rest of the grid look very, very ordinary.
:)
LOL at alonso already claiming he's been very very unlucky twice. malaysia was his fault for hitting vettel then his fault for not coming in despite the team waiting with the wing. bad luck in bahrain but he chose to use the DRS a second time.
did he even have a mechanical problem or botched pit stop last year??? only bad luck he had was getting taken out at spa. perez gifted him malaysia 2012, vettel and hamilton scored 0 at valencia while he scored 25.
vettel broke down with the lead at valencia.
hamilton broke down while dominating a race twice, plus all the pit stop screw ups, fuel screw up in spain, etc.
"Nothing made sense in this race result.
Alonso had 2 unnecessary stops, no DRS and finishes 8th. Brilliant."
alonso finishing 8th makes sense when you have the strongest car in the field. vettel didn't use drs for most of the day. kimi was in open space not using drs for most of the day (except traffic of course).
then why bother watching :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Whyzars
it was an exciting race
and the tires played less of a factor today
thankfully
I was out all day and have just finished watching the race.
That was a decent one for sure.
Vettels first 2 laps were brilliant and then he used Red Bulls pace well and got a dominant win.
The tyres were more under control today, but DRS on these long straights almost looked dangerous at times. The speed at which cars caught rivals meant people defending were defending against someone flying at them 20KPH faster or whatever.
There was some great battling in midfield and some silly incidents.
Some great racing outside the DRS zones too so it was a good race all round.