2012 Spanish Grand Prix Thread

[aryan]

Congratulations to Williams and Maldonado. What a popular win this is. Seriously, for many a years, I thought I had seen Williams' last win in 2004 with JPM. How glad to be proven wrong. FW badly deserved this.

Again, I feel the Lotus team is not the best when it comes to strategy. This is again another race that Kimi could have won if they hadn't given him the wrong tyre at the first pit stop. He finished just 3.4 seconds off the pace, and had he been driving on primes in the second stint, he surely would have been over that much quicker.

Brilliant drive agian by Alonso. I think Williams outsmarted them on strategy when they called PM in, but nevertheless, solid result for Ferrari. Who could believe that after 5 races, Alonso, in a car that started in Melbourne about 1 sec off the pace, is co-leading the championship.

[darwin553]

Yes congratulations to Maldonado and Williams. Whilst he benefited hugely from the strategy of Williams deciding to pit him first in the second round of pit stops you can't say his pace wasn't worthy of winning the race. And I was always confident counter to what the commentators and Ferrari were saying that because they had pitted earlier on the second and third pit-stops that they were suffering more from tyre degradation issues than Ferrari as so far this year you have to give the edge on that front to Williams anyway, so even as Maldanado was giving Alonso 2 laps fresher tyre advantage I always thought he had it in the bag.

Good drive from Kimi too...he was my pick and if the race went 2-3 laps longer he would have got it.

Shout out to KK as well

[zako85]

I hope the critics of "pay drivers", whatever that means, have been silenced for a long time.

[F1boat]

In this season I wouldn't count on Williams not winning again. I could see almost anyone winning bar the 3 back teams.

I think that Williams will be very competitive in Monaco as well.

[ArrowsFA1]

It's a nice coincidence that Pastor won for Williams-Renault 22yrs to the day that Riccardo Patrese did the same at the San Marino GP to end his own 7yr winless drought

[Tazio]

I guess this means McLaren will become the Toro Rosso of England.







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[Wasted Talent]

So Red Bull is now the third fastest Renault-powered team!

Amazing

WT

[SGWilko]

I couldn't work uot who Pastor reminds me of. Now I've got it - Rob Brydon!

[steveaki13]

I think that Williams will be very competitive in Monaco as well.

Yes Maldonado went well there last year of course until his move on Hamilton.

[jens]

Yes Maldonado went well there last year of course until his move on Hamilton.

Or Hamilton's move on him, depending on the interpretation. :