Singapore GP 2011 - Marina Bay Street Circuit

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It's theoretically possible for Vettel to clinch the title here. Will he?

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The degradation of those tyres was insane....drivers were losing more than 6 seconds in some sectors alone! That track is unbelievably punishing on tyre wear....

The closing stages of the race IMO Vettel was having tyre problems....the close up shots at the podium showed the tyres where really not in good shape....but then again he could have been playing it safe and not pushing harder than he really needed to....
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Why it is always LH who makes those small misjudgements, mistakes, etc. whatever you call them. Remember, all these guys drive on the limit their car allows them, but it is a fact that LH is most often involved in accidents..
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I too was very impressed by the speed of Vettel right after the safety car. He pulled a gap to Trulli in just 4 corners, it was just unbelievable. It was kind of like, goodbye, see you guys after the race!

Really a walk in the park for Vettel. Horner btw said they turned down Vettel's engine towards the end. I can't really believe how McLaren believed they had a chance at any moment in that race.

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wesley123 wrote:
Traction wrote:He got the drive through because his actions resulted in Massa losing position. If the contact had not resulted in Massasoit puncture he probably wouldn't have received the punishment.
Seemed the only logical explaination to me, but I remembered something similair happening before with Di Resta and someone else, and that wasnt a penalty if im correct. The Stewards really need to be more clear on why the penalty is given
Not sure about that specific incident but if anyone lost position in it and never got a penalty then I agree the stewards have seriously screwed up....inconsistency is terrible but with different stewards every race the chances of it happening is high....
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Tomba wrote:I too was very impressed by the speed of Vettel right after the safety car. He pulled a gap to Trulli in just 4 corners, it was just unbelievable. It was kind of like, goodbye, see you guys after the race!

Really a walk in the park for Vettel. Horner btw said they turned down Vettel's engine towards the end. I can't really believe how McLaren believed they had a chance at any moment in that race.
Aaaaaaaah! 8)
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vall wrote:[...]

Why it is always LH who makes those small misjudgements, mistakes, etc. whatever you call them. Remember, all these guys drive on the limit their car allows them, but it is a fact that LH is most often involved in accidents..
no personal comment to forum fellows :shock:

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vall wrote:[...]

Why it is always LH who makes those small misjudgements, mistakes, etc. whatever you call them. Remember, all these guys drive on the limit their car allows them, but it is a fact that LH is most often involved in accidents..
It is because your mind says so. Until recently Webber wasnt very clean either and in my eyes well known to be driving destruction derby. Schumacher has a lot of these moments too as well as the whole midfield doing the same thing. This can barely stated as really Hamiltons fault, from inside the car the front wing invisible, so guessing where it is is only done by magic. We have seen it multiple times over the past 3 yearsd that drivers dont know where the front wing is. The high nose is the problem of cars taking off according to the FIA, yet Schumacher proved otherwise and same did Heidfeld in Canada. And now i'm kind of off the whole story
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vall wrote:
vall wrote:[...]

Why it is always LH who makes those small misjudgements, mistakes, etc. whatever you call them. Remember, all these guys drive on the limit their car allows them, but it is a fact that LH is most often involved in accidents..
no personal comment to forum fellows :shock:
No mate, anti-fan comments and using fanboy as a way to lure people into overheated discussion is a no-go. I'm here, so no point in trying again (and I'm not doing this in PM to let everybody else know as well).

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I have a preposition: for next year FIA should remove the DRS and introduce a rule saying that if you close to 1 sec, the driver ahead is given a blue flag :lol: After all the DRS does exactly this.... I hate this thing. It makes it so easy...

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vall wrote:I have a preposition: for next year FIA should remove the DRS and introduce a rule saying that if you close to 1 sec, the driver ahead is given a blue flag :lol: After all the DRS does exactly this.... I hate this thing. It makes it so easy...
It's only easy if you know where your front wing is..... :lol:
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@vall: That was indeed why I wrote up my anger against DRS earlier on this season in an article. By now I believe it helps, but as can be seen in Singapore again, the DRS was a little too powerful. It would suffice to let it kick in a few tens of meters later after turn 6.

@Traction: Next year's front wings will be narrower, so that's perhaps another issue solved ;)

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Tomba wrote:@vall: That was indeed why I wrote up my anger against DRS earlier on this season in an article. By now I believe it helps, but as can be seen in Singapore again, the DRS was a little too powerful. It would suffice to let it kick in a few tens of meters later after turn 6.

@Traction: Next year's front wings will be narrower, so that's perhaps another issue solved ;)
thats probably because the gap between the pecking order is just too wide. especially when the top teams have already given up on 2011

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Too bad Schu was so aggressive there today. He was tons quicker than Nico making up some 8-9 seconds in the span of just a few laps. Nico was definitely all over the place in W02 today. No excuse for being behind a FI and nearly passed at the end there

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vall wrote:[...]

Why it is always LH who makes those small misjudgements, mistakes, etc. whatever you call them. Remember, all these guys drive on the limit their car allows them, but it is a fact that LH is most often involved in accidents..
It isn't. Lots of other drivers made small mistakes this race. The key difference is that the haters pick up on it when LH does ;).