China: Pastor donkey of the race

[Mia 01]

All fair points. I think expectations are high for Kimi, and I don't think he had a strong race, but I also don't think that qualifies him as a donkey. He finished one place behind Bottas, and ahead of Perez and I wouldn't call either donkeys, but that is just my opinion.

Agreed Tazio! After the race Kimi admitted that he had problems to get heat in his tires and he was a bit down, hard on himself, he wants so very much. If we consider who much of the preseason testing he missed and his numerous problem on fridays and Fernandos two day test last week, I´m not suprised Alonso is moore contempt with the car. Kimi will be back.

[N4D13]

Now that we know that Massa's botched pitstop was caused by the team trying to fit the right wheel on the left and vice versa, IMO it's not hard to figure out who gets the prize for this race.

[truefan72]

small donkey to the chequere flag guy
big donkey to the FIA for what they did in response
ridiculous

https://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/chi...41175--f1.html

[steveaki13]

They take away Kobayashi's pass on Bianchi then.

Understandable rule in a way to stop any danger of people slow early and others racing on, but seems a bit bizzare that the race was only 54 laps.

This seems to have gone quite unnoticed. Cheers Truefan.

[Tazio]

small donkey to the chequere flag guy
big donkey to the FIA for what they did in response
ridiculous.

Yup, but I guess that is the rule.

[N. Jones]

Pastor again. All he does is complain. One day someone is going to tell him to take him millions and get stuffed.

[airshifter]

The Williams pit crew. Felipe made a rocket start, and they took him all the way to the back of the pack with that circus.

Honorable mention to the early checkered flag wave. Lewis commented on his radio that he thought he just saw the checkered flag.

[Storm]

Felipe could well have been the donkey if the bump with Alonso had actually taken both of them out. really quick start but too much weaving ( a bit like auto-rickshaws here!)

Williams botched it up completely though so have to be the donkey here though.

^Hamilton said something - I thought he said where is the flag? - or maybe it was the commentary team who do like to keep shouting over everything.

[D28]

small donkey to the chequere flag guy
big donkey to the FIA for what they did in response
ridiculous

https://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/chi...41175--f1.html

Lest we assume it is incompetence of inexperienced race stewards, a similar thing happened at the 1985 British Grand Prix.
That race scheduled for 66 laps ended on 65 when the chequered flag was shown. In this case it made a huge difference as Jacques Lafitte ran out of fuel on 66th lap meaning Piquet would have placed 3rd rather than 4th. and so on.

It remains an acute embarrassment for F1, with all the electronic control and timing to 1000th sec that they cannot count the laps correctly.

[COD]

I don't see how the bump was Massa's fault? Hel was blocked by a red bullshit on the right, went to the only gap there was and there was a bit of contact.

If anywas was donkey for bumping,mit was Rosbergs bump on Bottas. Totally unnecesaary.

Still my vote goes to Williams pit crew. Honorary mention to the checkerd flad dude