2015 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka

[Shrieker]

Sky showed Hamilton's on board at the start and he was ruthless against Rosberg in the second corner. It's not the first time tho either of them has been extremely hard against the other in a race start. Had Nico held his ground, they would've surely crashed.

[GPR-A duplicate2]

The more we are watching, the more Bottas is losing the stocks. He doesn't seem to have anything special that takes him to a top team.
Max showing once again, he is better of the two in TR. Sainz doing a lot of school boy errors.
Kvyat, really overrated and quite lucky to have gotten into the RB team. So many mistakes throughout the weekend.
I see Max moving into RB at the expense of Kvyat next year, to off set Ferrari's plan of poaching him as they have Kimi as the stop gap until 2017.

I think Lewis's chopping of Nico looked a bit dangerous but that is because Nico couldn't really push Lewis at the first turn and as Lewis got so much space at turn 1, it was easy to push to turn 2 and close the door on Nico. Nico need to learn to seize these moments (not the Spa way) if he really wants to get ahead of Lewis.

Ferrari's pace on Mediums was awful as Nico closed down on Vettel in the second stint on hards. Although the pace looked like equal on hards between Nico and Vettel, but when you compare the quicker Merc and quicker Ferrari, the gap was quite large on a circuit is not the biggest on the calendar.

[Shrieker]

Yeah I thought Sainz shot himself in the foot as well. What an idiotic way to throw a good race...

[Kiril Varbanov]

All right, poll updated. Let me know in PM if you want someone else added - this is your instrument.
Also, I added to the list of eternal quotes Alonso saying:

“I am getting passed down the straight like a GP2. This is embarrassing, very embarrassing.”

[Steven]

Nice one Kiril.

I voted for Alonso. Didn't seem to have put a foot wrong while going against what is politically right. People like honest people, and so do I.

[MercedesAMGSpy]

Bottas is overrated, that Williams car powered by the best engine of the field is one of the better cars in the field, especially his defending against cars behind him is absolutely shocking.

[FrukostScones]

Nice one Kiril.

I voted for Alonso. Didn't seem to have put a foot wrong while going against what is politically right. People like honest people, and so do I.

People like honest people? really?
ALO honest?

[AnthonyG]

Rosberg should have held ground and crashed Hamilton.

Held what ground?
He wasnt on the racing line at all. Rosberg had no right to do anything. His poor start killed his chances at keeping P1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAD9F6hcjgg


I'm not saying you're a fanboy, but if you are, you're not trying hard to hide it.

[gray41]

Lewis was tough in the 2nd corner, but if you look through every GP of the season I bet we can find a moment where every driver has done something similar given the same opportunity.

It might not be right but thats how racing works.

[Jordan44]

Lewis was tough in the 2nd corner, but if you look through every GP of the season I bet we can find a moment where every driver has done something similar given the same opportunity.

It might not be right but thats how racing works.

Here's a perfect example:



Didn't see anyone complaining about that one.

[AnthonyG]

Lewis was tough in the 2nd corner, but if you look through every GP of the season I bet we can find a moment where every driver has done something similar given the same opportunity.

It might not be right but thats how racing works.

I stated that imo Rosberg shouldn't have yielded. I know it's not nice from Hamilton and I don't "hate" him, but saying like Ringo that he had every right to do it and Rosberg should have jumped out of the way like he did that's the world upside down.

I must admit, from teammates you'd expect them to show more respect from eachother.
But on the other hand, a team just wants that they don't crash, they don't care who yields, just as long as someone does. We've seen in the past this played out in favor of Hamilton, it's grown historically to this point.

[Kiril Varbanov]

Nice one Kiril.

I voted for Alonso. Didn't seem to have put a foot wrong while going against what is politically right. People like honest people, and so do I.

People like honest people? really?
ALO honest?

I'm with Steven here. Truth is, if one does not like Alonso, he'll always find irritation with him.
In my opinion Alonso pushed hard, as much as he could, I quote: "You take the corner perfectly, recover time, and the drivers behind you make mistakes, brake late, lock tires, but on the straight they pass you like you have GP2 engine".
So, yes, he is honest. Some may say he should have kept his mouth closed, but this is a move to push Honda out of their comfort zone. This is how you win. The rest is just cruising around.

[Spoutnik]

Really painful race for McLaren-Honda. But Alonso again, did his best.
Bottas seems overated as some people said above.
Again a really good performance from Hulkenberg & Grosjean. They deserves more imo
About the Merc. Firstly, the Rosberg lap's in other car worth a 13th place. And we seen again on race pace. Rosberg totally outperformed.
Finally I want to say well done to Vettel. Even if I dont really like him.

[Paul]

Alonso's real gem was the phrase about "poor guys" who were in so much trouble they were racing him. =D>

[basti313]

Sky showed Hamilton's on board at the start and he was ruthless against Rosberg in the second corner. It's not the first time tho either of them has been extremely hard against the other in a race start. Had Nico held his ground, they would've surely crashed.

Well...was it now good or wrong to avoid the contact? Talking about the championship...with going wide he definitely lost the championship. With staying on the curb and contact caused by Hamilton...maybe 50% chance of a DNF from Ham and unhappy crew for him.

Bottas seems overated as some people said above.

You judge this with a faultless race in which the car just did not have the pace for P4? The car was overtaken on mediums by Merc doing a later stop...even magic Ham or Alo would have lost ground with that car.

About the Merc. Firstly, the Rosberg lap's in other car worth a 13th place. And we seen again on race pace. Rosberg totally outperformed.

From who? If I saw it correctly Ros was the fastest car in the end of the first stint and the beginning of the last stint. The rest of the race the car was turned down because there was nothing to win with going faster.