Donkey of the Race - Russia

[kfzmeister]

Clearly Rosberg. To mention him as Driver of the race is nonsense. He pitted from P2 and was eventually gonna end up in the position anyway, so why driver of the race??

He did 52 laps on the harder compound? So what? Massa did 39 on the softer.

ROS=Donkey of the Year

[steveaki13]

The on-board cameras show he was fiddling with car settings, keeping his hands off the wheel.. basically not taking the track seriously.

This is an issue with these easy run off filled tracks, drivers need not worry about going off or paying full attention.

At Spa before the run off areas, you would not be fiddling with the steering wheel on lap 1. Maybe although they have lots of switches these cars are to easy to drive.

I mean teenagers are making it into F1 from 3rd tier motorsport, drivers make so few mistakes (while driving standards have improved, they can't be as perfect as it appears these days) and easy circuits that do not punish errors.

Leading to a sanitised F1 maybe?

[schmenke]

...See what happens now? How many grand stands are there here. Two? Three?
Bahrain is the same.. there are like three grandstands, ....

Even with only two or three grandstands, they're rarely full these days anyways

[N. Jones]

I know....although they were pretty full in Japan!