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Sebastian Vettel took the lead on lap one of the Korean GP and never gave away again. Pole sitter Lewis Hamilton finished second after a race long defence against third placed man Mark Webber. Red Bull has hereby also secured their second consecutive constructors' championship.
Agreed, and I think the same happened between Hamilton and Vettel in the first half of the race. The timing showed somewhere in the first half of the race that Hamilton closed within half a sec. of Vettel (can't remember whether it was before or after the sc though, I think it was after). Come S3 the RB 7 was clearly faster and the Maccas couldn't get in DRS range.beelsebob wrote: Button was often only 0.6 behind after S1 and S2... but could not quite keep that gap through S3.
Maybe McLaren found rear DF and don't have enough front DF to cope with itmyurr wrote:McLaren just had the wrong setup. Both cars had massive understeer despite cranking on the front wing, something we haven't seen them have so far this year.n smikle wrote:Macca got smashed on race pace, especially on the softs. I was sweating profusely when Webber was catching up.. only by the gift of KERS and a bit of luck with the track layout were Mclaren able to hold on.They say mclaren is close now, but I am still not really comforatable for 2012, redbull still got that bit extra - they control the race a bit too much nowadays.
RedBull are quite clever nowadauys. They had us all fooled Sacrificong qualifying pace for race pace - it was almost a giveaway when they ran the supersofts in Q2. but Alas, dry running was limited throughout the weekend so it was hard to set up the cars.
I don't think they had any issue with speed, at all, just purely and simply, their car was not set up to deal with the primes because they got too little running on them.raymondu999 wrote:Kind of raises the question how they got pole yesterday with so many technical infield bits
They made it using the fresh supersoft front tires which supplied the lack of front df, alongside the fact that with low fuel you need less front dfraymondu999 wrote:Kind of raises the question how they got pole yesterday with so many technical infield bits
Fine! Fair pointJavert wrote:They made it using the fresh supersoft front tires which supplied the lack of front df, alongside the fact that with low fuel you need less front dfraymondu999 wrote:Kind of raises the question how they got pole yesterday with so many technical infield bits
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of them gearing up for better rear so that they could have better stability and DRS through Turns 7 and 8Perhaps with aggressive driving that couldn't be maintained due to tyre wear.raymondu999 wrote:Kind of raises the question how they got pole yesterday with so many technical infield bits
Track temperature was 10 degrees higher yesterday as well which likely altered the way the car handled.finishline wrote:Perhaps with aggressive driving that couldn't be maintained due to tyre wear.raymondu999 wrote:Kind of raises the question how they got pole yesterday with so many technical infield bits
They've had a stronger front end than Red Bull all year though, with plenty of grip. I'm convinced it was just a setup issue.Javert wrote:Maybe McLaren found rear DF and don't have enough front DF to cope with it