Lewis Hamilton has won the inaugural United States GP at Austin after passing Sebastian Vettel at two thirds of the race distance. The German finished second while Fernando Alonso is third at more than 40 seconds of the leading duo, keeping his championship hopes alive.
+1WhiteBlue wrote:It looks like the thread is ready for closure. Nothing but fanboy yinyang.
zeph wrote:Claiming the McLaren was the fastest car today doesn't hold, IMO. Vettel set the fastest lap and after Hamilton's pass he stayed within 1.5s for the remainder of the race. He finished just 0.6s behind him.
Vettel drove a flawless race, but Hamilton was unstoppable. I think it's fair to say that he made the difference today.
Hamilton said he was just managing the tyres and keeping the gap and 1,2-1,5s. he backed of on the last lap, hence 0,6s final difference.zeph wrote:Claiming the McLaren was the fastest car today doesn't hold, IMO. Vettel set the fastest lap and after Hamilton's pass he stayed within 1.5s for the remainder of the race. He finished just 0.6s behind him.
Vettel drove a flawless race, but Hamilton was unstoppable. I think it's fair to say that he made the difference today.
Yeah, I think they are saying no other team have won 3 successive WCC in row, with the first of the 3 being their first ever WCCraymondu999 wrote:I don't know what SKY/AMuS are saying, but Red Bull have won their FIRST three WCCs in a row. That's the first time it happened. Others HAVE won 3 in a row - but not the FIRST three.
The race was aided by the lack of grip - it was almost like a wet race from that point of view, where mistakes were made and drivers could really make a difference. If we could have that for every race then we'd be good with long life tyres. At most races though this wouldn't be the case, and we'd end up with a processional race.Intego wrote:Thank you Ramondu, well said.
Two points:
This time Pirelli was conservative in tyre choice and we saw a race comparable to the Bridgestone times (almost all teams on a one stopper).
If we ignore the problems of getting temperature, was not that bad, was it?
Agreed. I think Tilke got it right with CotA, because there's more than one racing line around crucial parts of the track, and that's precisely what a track needs for cars with more or less similar performance.raymondu999 wrote:I don't know what the majority view on it is, but my personal view is that it's fantastic. I love the return to push-push racing.
Heh, to be honest, I don't remember a more epic dual... close to ever. The battle raged for near enough 40 laps!Shrieker wrote:I still do think that they should put transponders on the cars, and when a DRS enabled attacker comes fully alongside the defender should also be allowed to open his DRS flap. Vettel in this instance had no chance to defend once Hamilton was close enough to make a pass with DRS. It wasn't an epic duel, Hamilton dully zipped passed him - but could very well have been one.
, Kudos to Massa ! and Fred as usal 