Nico Rosberg has won the German Grand Prix of 2014 in dominant fashion. He lead the race from start to finish, celebrating on the podium with Williams' Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton in the second Silver Arrows.
I'm not quite sure what's so funny. The Ferrari PU is garbage. The Renault probably is better. I mean... look at Sauber. They didn't just forget how to build a car.Juzh wrote:iotar__ wrote:Ferrari engine (at this stage of the race?) looked worse than Renault. Not to mention traction.
Why is Riccardo missing from the list? His drive to recover from adversity was stellar with some truly great battles along the way!Kiril Varbanov wrote:Cast your vote for the driver of the day here - http://www.f1technical.net/poll/index.php?dispid=280
But look, HAM didn't dnf on purpose. So yes, should be ahead rosberg right now to be honest.Redragon wrote:So basically I have to assume on my own reality, as you call it, that Hamilton is the winer already. Yes, Rosberg is DNF less but I don't look DNF as drivers mistakes, I look at them as unlucky circunstances.MercedesAMGSpy wrote:It will be heroic, quess what he is 14 points behind Rosberg with two DNF's and one DNF in Q compared to Rosberg's one DNF in Britain. Maybe you can ignore these facts too in your own reality.Redragon wrote:Firstly Rosberg stop in purporse on Monaco, sky and hamilton play that game, telemetry prove them wrong.
Secondly Hamilton pit stops are slower, today was the contrary. Hamilton had better pit stops but still every one is speculating that Merc does in purpose because it is a german team.
Thirdly, now the FIA didn't deploy SC because FIA doesn't want Hamilton wins championship.
Let's see what it is next.
From my point of view it is the british media making Hamilton a victim, so if he wins at the end of the year, it will be heroic. But by doing that they take merit to Rosberg who is, by surprise of many here, doing a great job and driving really well.
Yes, SC would have been deploy, but wouldn't be change much at the end of the race. But also Ham should have been investigated for causing a collision.
Overall, and from my point of view, sorry to permit myself to have one, Rosberg have been driving with more professionalism and a great level. He has earned himself to be 14 points in front of Hamilton.
Added Dan.djos wrote:Why is Riccardo missing from the list? His drive to recover from adversity was stellar with some truly great battles along the way!Kiril Varbanov wrote:Cast your vote for the driver of the day here - http://www.f1technical.net/poll/index.php?dispid=280
Ferrari engine down on power or what? You have seen how Alonso came next to Vettel when Vettel was in the slipstream of Raikkonen? Rather obvious which engine is down on power...lkm9719 wrote:ferrari engine is still down , may be near renault but not good as it, and downforce is also ferrari weak point as alison had mention therefore tire use up very bad
Good point.raymondu999 wrote:Regarding all the conspiracy theories - maybe Rosberg joined the Illuminati in Monaco?
Alonso's car is always garbage and Alonso is mastering it. This is a rule, you do not have to mention it.Pierce89 wrote:I'm not quite sure what's so funny. The Ferrari PU is garbage. The Renault probably is better. I mean... look at Sauber. They didn't just forget how to build a car.Juzh wrote:iotar__ wrote:Ferrari engine (at this stage of the race?) looked worse than Renault. Not to mention traction.
Hamilton was very lucky in this race. Massa's line was wider than Bottas' before him and JM was able to hit the brakes and not ram into him. Probably not wide enough (his part) but what was Magnussen trying to accomplish apart from setting a record for first lap incidents?foxmulder_ms wrote:Hamilton cannot catch a break! Unlucky guy (relatively of course, he is still an F1 driver, right?).
It was a nice race, though. I really liked it. By the way, Massa should have been penalized. Not seeing cannot be an excuse. He drive into Mclaren.
What he was trying to accomplish? Simply put trying to get around the corner. Magnussen was completely on the inside of the corner, any more to the right and he would have been off-track.Massa's line was wider than Bottas' before him and JM was able to hit the brakes and not ram into him. Probably not wide enough (his part) but what was Magnussen trying to accomplish apart from setting a record for first lap incidents?
+1 and that's exactly the same comment Sky team was also making. It was a hard earned place for Kevin that he lost because Massa, who was only watching Bottas, turned into him.turbof1 wrote:What he was trying to accomplish? Simply put trying to get around the corner. Magnussen was completely on the inside of the corner, any more to the right and he would have been off-track.Massa's line was wider than Bottas' before him and JM was able to hit the brakes and not ram into him. Probably not wide enough (his part) but what was Magnussen trying to accomplish apart from setting a record for first lap incidents?
Why should he have given up the position to Massa by braking? By all means Magnussen had the inside of the corner.
Inside line is not enough, to be clear I'm not putting the whole blame on KM, as stated before Massa could have gone wider, it was response to penalise Massa (IMO out of question).turbof1 wrote:What he was trying to accomplish? Simply put trying to get around the corner. Magnussen was completely on the inside of the corner, any more to the right and he would have been off-track.Massa's line was wider than Bottas' before him and JM was able to hit the brakes and not ram into him. Probably not wide enough (his part) but what was Magnussen trying to accomplish apart from setting a record for first lap incidents?
Why should he have given up the position to Massa by braking? By all means Magnussen had the inside of the corner.
Well, there is a rule about leaving space...iotar__ wrote:Inside line is not enoughturbof1 wrote:What he was trying to accomplish? Simply put trying to get around the corner. Magnussen was completely on the inside of the corner, any more to the right and he would have been off-track.Massa's line was wider than Bottas' before him and JM was able to hit the brakes and not ram into him. Probably not wide enough (his part) but what was Magnussen trying to accomplish apart from setting a record for first lap incidents?
Why should he have given up the position to Massa by braking? By all means Magnussen had the inside of the corner.
Not that fast? Rewatching the lines...Magnussen was as fast as Massa. Massa should have seen him as he was alongside, this was a classical "Maldonado". One should really expect more from Massa as being a nearly-WC.iotar__ wrote: Re-watch all drivers' wide lines into first corner and how Vettel cut into the kerb to avoid collision with D.R., some other driver behind even more. So yes it was possible to approach corner differently especially when you're not that fast and on the inside.
It was not top speed. Hamilton lost too much in turn 1 and 2 due to his damaged front wing. With the gap he always had after turn 3 he would have had problems to overtake even a Redbull.iotar__ wrote: Interesting how not overtaking Bottas was brushed aside as difficult after it was certain according to Ham's engineer few laps before, same with resigned Williams bloke. Top speed as an explanation is not enough, I thought Bottas was pulling away out of the corners as well.
