Sebastian Vettel has won his home Grand Prix at the Nurburgring despite close challenges from both Lotus cars throughout the second half of the race. Kimi Raikkonen finished a close second with Romain Grosjean ending third, just ahead of Alonso.
Formula One's fundamental ethos is about success coming to those with the most ingenious engineering and best ..............................organization, not to those with the biggest budget. (Dave Richards)
Formula One's fundamental ethos is about success coming to those with the most ingenious engineering and best ..............................organization, not to those with the biggest budget. (Dave Richards)
Formula One's fundamental ethos is about success coming to those with the most ingenious engineering and best ..............................organization, not to those with the biggest budget. (Dave Richards)
Formula One's fundamental ethos is about success coming to those with the most ingenious engineering and best ..............................organization, not to those with the biggest budget. (Dave Richards)
Lotus continue to be a joke with their shooting in the foot approach. Grosjean lost a lot of time behind Raikkonen on softs and should have been in front of Vettel before the safety car - in free air, controlling the pace. Why the hell did they pit him so early? Instead of keeping him as long as possible on mediums and switching to softs? Then of course he was stuck behind Vettel again.
This time:
- lack of team order on one end - at least several seconds lost on softs, not to mention being in front and setting the pace
- safety car - 10 s
- horrible strategy for one driver and better for the other, they put Raikkonen just behind with better tyres
- regular team orders, going for record fifth (Hungary if you have any doubts were too) time in 1,5 season, Raikkonen king of team orders
Lotus basically threw away chance for the win.
It was simply a sabotage, no amount of team orders and carrying by the team will help their inept lead driver. Any doubts now that they haven't touched car's potential this season? I had to watch it on Sky and their tools appropriately missed most of that and were surprised with the outcome, probably too busy inventing Vergne to Lotus rumour instead (again fittingly ridiculous for this joke of a team).
What a race...brilliant race by Vettel...what a champion...jumped and held off Hamilton...absorbed all the pressure the rest could throw his way and managed the tyres brilliantly...yes yes and yes again!!! =D>
Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
Sebastian Vettel
