Caterham had a double DNF on their first race, but despite the actual result, it was not all bad for the team. Both drivers had shown promising pace in the first half of the race, but for both drivers the reliability of their cars was not at the same level.
NathanOlder wrote:Great job Jenson, Mclaren is the class of the field. The safety car seriously helped out the other teams. I feel the race was won into turn 1 today. whichever Mclaren driver made it there first had the choice of the pitstops so was always easily in control. And today the DRS (like last year) was not very effective. So once Jenso got into the leas it was game over. Pitting 1 lap earlier meant Lewis had no answer.
Hamilton was actually pulling away from Vettel on mediums while Vettel was chasing him down on softs. He was making and maintaining a two second lead on slower tyres.myurr wrote:To be fair Lewis was having to protect his rear tyres constantly so couldn't push as he would have wanted to.NathanOlder wrote:Great job Jenson, Mclaren is the class of the field. The safety car seriously helped out the other teams. I feel the race was won into turn 1 today. whichever Mclaren driver made it there first had the choice of the pitstops so was always easily in control. And today the DRS (like last year) was not very effective. So once Jenso got into the leas it was game over. Pitting 1 lap earlier meant Lewis had no answer.
McLaren stayed out a lap or two too long on the first stint which brought Vettel back into it a bit and then were very unlucky with the safety car. Lewis lost about 4 - 6 seconds to Vettel in that first round of pit stops by being kept out two laps too long. Without those two things then Vettel would have been a solid third but not in touch with Hamilton.
I think the next race will be a bit different. The long straights will play towards McLaren's hands with their slippery car, but there are some faster corners where they'll have an advantage over the Mercedes and Lotus. The grippier surface should help Lewis with his rear tyres as well, plus they'll have a bit more setup knowledge to help manage that.
Red Bull will probably suffer again in qualifying but should have a good race. They'll have to battle through a few cars though to get close to the McLarens.
Mercedes are harder to read though. Very fast over one lap but then were nowhere at all in the race. Rosberg went backwards and whilst Schumacher seemed to be holding on a little better I have no doubt his tyres would still have gone off faster than the cars around him.
prince wrote:So, where are those who kept denying W03 paceHad Rosberg not committed a mistake, it would have been very clear that, RB is behind Merc. Unbelievable progress.
Oh yeah, now people say, this is one off circuit, we need to wait until fly away races are over... blah... blah.... blah.
Yeah he's having a great time right now eh?lillschumi wrote:Aldo Costa must have a good time right now. Nice revenge.
high-on-octane wrote:As much as people hugely rate Alonso's driving talent, it takes someone special to make sure he's in the right team at the right time, and in my opinion Alonso made the wrong decision to go with Ferrari. So you can blame the car all you like, but it was his choice to sit in that seat. You have to ask yourself how he'd be performing had he stayed with Renault/Lotus. Kimi may have trumped him this season. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out.
In other news. That's the best race we've had in a long time! I'm super excited for Malaysia!
get over it, ALO s off in qualifying was of the same kind.zoro_f1 wrote:here is the crash of maldonado. wait to see his words after the race...
And he was only one tactical error in the last race away from a world championship win with Ferrari in 2010. He couldn't go to Red Bull or McLaren and he couldn't stay at Renault - what was he supposed to do?Lorenzo_Bandini wrote:high-on-octane wrote:As much as people hugely rate Alonso's driving talent, it takes someone special to make sure he's in the right team at the right time, and in my opinion Alonso made the wrong decision to go with Ferrari. So you can blame the car all you like, but it was his choice to sit in that seat. You have to ask yourself how he'd be performing had he stayed with Renault/Lotus. Kimi may have trumped him this season. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out.
In other news. That's the best race we've had in a long time! I'm super excited for Malaysia!
Easy to speak after. Ferrari was way better than Renault during 2009, 2010 and 2011.
FrukostScones wrote: get over it, ALO s off in qualifying was of the same kind.
Maldonado shone today. Fullstop.
