2014 Bahrain Grand Prix

[dren]

One hell of a race. Excellent racing by most, exciting until the end. I couldn't have asked for more. Overtaking with and without DRS. Great for this new F1.

[ringo]

As i was saying before th lock. ( boy things are getting heated in here )

Perez and Hulk: good race from both. both had an equally good race. Perez overtake made the difference. It was just a matter of positioning between the two.

Alonso and Kimi were ok given the circumstances. Something tells me that the tyres and night conditions were to blame, as no ferrari car did anything significant in the race today. Sauber failed big time. I didn't expect them to drop back so far this year.
I must say Kimi is nowhere this year. Alonso's determination is even more outstanding now that Massa is gone.
In fact we cant even say Massa and Kimi were doing a bad job. It's the lousy cars that ferrari has been making these past years. They can be quick and easy on tyres but they aren't very drivable.

Williams are frustrating to watch, the car is very quick but it doesn't seem to have that balance.. And the strategy is not being tailored to take advantage of their PU. A car like this needs to do less pitstops. They need to race like force india.
Use clean air and engine power to move around the others with less pitstops.

I'll not fuel the Daniel and Seb argument, but Dan is doing well. and It's good that the team is not favouring vettel. He's had is 4WDC so his time is up. They let Dan through as soon as Dan realized Seb was going slow. Dan doesn't have the refined driving skills as seb as yet, but he has shown that he is quick, if not quicker on raw speed, and the torro rosso years have battle hardened him. Seb just needs to get out of the comfort zone and get little more serious, or else he will lose to Dan this year.

As for Mercedes, Lauda is a bit rude. He called prost and Idiot and said Prost was talking bullshit about this years racing.

Oh and finally Maldonado needs a 3 race ban. He just doesn't get it. The rookies are doing a better job than him.

[Unc1eM0nty]

Just listened to Lewis interviewed by Sky, he said he thought Nico was faster all weekend, that he'd have to do an ever better job next time.

Nico did look quick, if he had gotten a better start I think he'd have disappeared into the distance and taken the win, his problem was that he never got clean air to do this, apart from that middle stint when he was on the slower tyre.

Lewis must have been gutted when he saw the safety car, a 10.5 sec gap gone in an instant, I didn't think he could hang on but fair play to him, he make it work by sheer force of will, and a very wide car.

[ChrisM40]

Lauda tells it like it is and he beat Prost so can say what he likes!

[turbof1]

As i was saying before th lock. ( boy things are getting heated in here )

Perez and Hulk: good race from both. both had an equally good race. Perez overtake made the difference. It was just a matter of positioning between the two.

Alonso and Kimi were ok given the circumstances. Something tells me that the tyres and night conditions were to blame, as no ferrari car did anything significant in the race today. Sauber failed big time. I didn't expect them to drop back so far this year.
I must say Kimi is nowhere this year. Alonso's determination is even more outstanding now that Massa is gone.
In fact we cant even say Massa and Kimi were doing a bad job. It's the lousy cars that ferrari has been making these past years. They can be quick and easy on tyres but they aren't very drivable.

Williams are frustrating to watch, the car is very quick but it doesn't seem to have that balance.. And the strategy is not being tailored to take advantage of their PU. A car like this needs to do less pitstops. They need to race like force india.
Use clean air and engine power to move around the others with less pitstops.

I'll not fuel the Daniel and Seb argument, but Dan is doing well. and It's good that the team is not favouring vettel. He's had is 4WDC so his time is up. They let Dan through as soon as Dan realized Seb was going slow. Dan doesn't have the refined driving skills as seb as yet, but he has shown that he is quick, if not quicker on raw speed, and the torro rosso years have battle hardened him. Seb just needs to get out of the comfort zone and get little more serious, or else he will lose to Dan this year.

As for Mercedes, Lauda is a bit rude. He called prost and Idiot and said Prost was talking bullshit about this years racing.

Oh and finally Maldonado needs a 3 race ban. He just doesn't get it. The rookies are doing a better job than him.

Yeah sorry about the abrupt lock. I should have left a small note it was only for a couple of minutes to take action.

I enjoyed the race too. Some very nice battles between drivers of the same teams throughout the race!

When the safety car had to come out, I really thought Rosberg had it in the bag. Hamilton made an epic effort. It really reminds me of the Hamilton back in 2007-2008.

[ChrisM40]

For me Maldonado and Perez are cut from the same cloth (apart from the inherently dangerous nature of Maldonado). They are both pay drivers, but both can show moments of quality. Thats in contrast to say, Chilton, who is just sh**. Unfortunately they cant be relied upon.

[Unc1eM0nty]

The safety car seemed to work very well for RedBull and very badly for Williams, I'm a bit gutted for them to be honest - I though they deserved more out of today.

What was Buttons problem, he had no pace after the re-start (even a Ferrari overtook him), commentator was saying he's med tires were too slow to warm up but i knew it was something else

[Arterius]

Overall this was the best dry race we have seen in a very long time. There was a lot of action up and down the field.

Though, in my opinion, I think that Hamilton's defense was dirty and disrespectful to his team mate. He showed a lot more sense and respect to Button in his Mclaren days.
The chopping across Nico was extremely stupid and he could have destroyed a certain 1-2 finish for the team by taking Nico's front wing off and puncturing his rear tire leaving them both an entire lap to limp home to replace the wing and tire on the respective cars.

[ChrisM40]

Overall this was the best dry race we have seen in a very long time. There was a lot of action up and down the field.

Though, in my opinion, I think that Hamilton's defense was dirty and disrespectful to his team mate. He showed a lot more sense and respect to Button in his Mclaren days.
The chopping across Nico was extremely stupid and he could have destroyed a certain 1-2 finish for the team by taking Nico's front wing off and puncturing his rear tire leaving them both an entire lap to limp home to replace the wing and tire on the respective cars.

The difference between stupid and genius is whether it works or not..

[mikeerfol]

What was Buttons problem, he had no pace after the re-start (even a Ferrari overtook him), commentator was saying he's med tires were too slow to warm up but i knew it was something else

Clutch problem for both cars.

[Maelstrom]

Overall this was the best dry race we have seen in a very long time. There was a lot of action up and down the field.

Though, in my opinion, I think that Hamilton's defense was dirty and disrespectful to his team mate. He showed a lot more sense and respect to Button in his Mclaren days.
The chopping across Nico was extremely stupid and he could have destroyed a certain 1-2 finish for the team by taking Nico's front wing off and puncturing his rear tire leaving them both an entire lap to limp home to replace the wing and tire on the respective cars.

I don't think Nico had any problem with it seeing how they greeted each other after the race... there didn't seem to be any hard feelings. Also I doubt Nico wanted Hamilton to go easy on him... that would probably upset him more. The last ten laps were two drivers at the peak of their careers, in equally good cars, going at it hammer and tongs. I would have rather seen them both crash out than not see that quality of racing.

[MBilcke]

Shame on Pastor, but in my view the real cause for the extreme tumbling was the low nose.
I'd like to read some opinions on this, because I think it's a true snow shovel.

Why did Alonso go from 7 to 10 when the safetycar came in?

[Juzh]

Why did Alonso go from 7 to 10 when the safetycar came in?

He had to pit for hard tires. some people in front didn't need to and stuck to a 2 stopper instead of 3.

[MBilcke]

Why did Alonso go from 7 to 10 when the safetycar came in?

He had to pit for hard tires. some people in front didn't need to and stuck to a 2 stopper instead of 3.

Aha, 'some people' being the RB's I suppose

[ringo]

He is handling that Merc better than Nico at the moment... something that may not last. Nico already showed he is a huge threat by grabbing pole.

The funny thing is.. i don't think that's the case. Rosberg had the better car this weekend. And if Lewis wants to avoid having those barnstomer battles he needs to get on top of what Rosberg did this weekened.
Hamilton won on grit, intelligence, and raw skills this weekend. He didn't win on pace. And on the other side of the coin Nico should be worried as well. Because if you are faster than you teammate over a weekend car wise, and even tyre wise for the last stint, what the heck do you do when he gets everything right? How do you fight back for what 17 races?!!