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Sebastian Vettel secured another top spot on the podium today at the Malaysian GP at Sepang. Just like in Australia he had a great start and pushed to the end to keep rivals at distance. Jenson Button drove consistently to second while Nick Heidfeld secured a second podium for Lotus Renault.
Did you see how close they were at the end of the race?andrew wrote:Massa was around 10 seconds ahead and having a ding-dong with Webber when Alonso re-entered the race.
The old switcheroo would not have worked at all (thankfully), so any talk of it is out of place today.
On race pace, they were only a little bit behind Mclaren. Alonso should have got a podium today which would have been a good result.ecapox wrote:IM happy, despite Fred's blunder, that the Ferrari is competitive. Could have been 3rd today. Not bad.
But it was an option. Alonso was right behind Massa at the end. If he was simply Alonso's number 2 (as some people suggested in another thread), then Massa would have been ordered to let him through.andrew wrote:Yes but that was more likely Massas tyres going off. As I said, the switcheroo wasn't an option today so it is irrelevant.
I like the suspence and all but yeah anyways...Nice to see close battles but on the other hand its kind of annoying to see drivers struggling...Not really, the only times Alonso was faster than Hamilton was when Hamilton was on a clearly dodgy set of tyres. And the only reason Alonso was ever ahead of webber was because of the disasterous start.Gerhard Berger wrote:On race pace, they were only a little bit behind Mclaren. Alonso should have got a podium today which would have been a good result.ecapox wrote:IM happy, despite Fred's blunder, that the Ferrari is competitive. Could have been 3rd today. Not bad.
So you would rather see 2 hours processions?Poleman wrote:Those Pirelli's are really effing up things hard...
Can you not read? did i say they were faster than Mclaren or Red Bull?beelsebob wrote:Not really, the only times Alonso was faster than Hamilton was when Hamilton was on a clearly dodgy set of tyres. And the only reason Alonso was ever ahead of webber was because of the disasterous start.Gerhard Berger wrote:On race pace, they were only a little bit behind Mclaren. Alonso should have got a podium today which would have been a good result.ecapox wrote:IM happy, despite Fred's blunder, that the Ferrari is competitive. Could have been 3rd today. Not bad.
The Priellis are a joke. Having tyres drop off that much is not right. DRS and tyres that do not last are creating false overtaking an if anything devalue the racing element of F1.Rikhart wrote:So you would rather see 2 hours processions?Poleman wrote:Those Pirelli's are really effing up things hard...
These tires are fantastic, looking forward to a whole season of great races!
Amen... [-o<andrew wrote:The Priellis are a joke. Having tyres drop off that much is not right. DRS and tyres that do not last are creating false overtaking an if anything devalue the racing element of F1.
Overtaking is meant to be hard, not a mere formality.