2016 Russian Grand Prix - Sochi, Apr. 29 - May 01

[Gothrek]

Maldonado reincarnated.... Thank you Kvyat for destorying the race for a few people...

How can you hit Vettel 2 (I think possibly 3) times in 300 meters?

[simieski]

Is it not usual for the stewards to be quite lenient with regards to track limits on the first lap/ first few corners ?

[GrayGreat]

A few cars gained some places by running wide at turn 2 on the first lap while others were busy waiting for traffic. I wonder why there is no action on that front.

Precisely but the answer is simple - Hamilton - now cry me a river about bad luck. In a normal world Whiting would be in jail for fraud. How can they investigate Sainz and ignore Hamilton pushing Rosberg in USA '15? Same thing.

Why Kvyat wasn't disqualified is beyond me, that wasn't even GP3 racing, it was friday night karting after a few beers.

Normal first lap incident but it's important who you hit. Ricciardo took out a dozen of drivers at starts like that - one or two investigations - no penalties, Bottas - Grosjean USA, Massa Alonso USA '15, Raikkonen - Maldonado (driver into wall) Australia '15 nothing and so on. Let's see if they will give 10s SG every time it happens. Didn't Alonso get only a drive through for much worse in AD '14 and nothing for Australia?

Yeah. Hamilton was the one who gained most places there, I noticed.

[SectorOne]

Another day, another gift.

[GrayGreat]

Traffic made the race to look alive a bit but now Rosberg has gained 3 seconds in about 3 laps.

[RZS10]

Lewis' car has issues, he has to nurse it home ... though water pressure is stable now that he drives 1s+ per lap slower

[WaikeCU]

Lewis has water pressure issues from what we have heard on the team radio. That's why the gap has increased again. They are trying to bring the car home. Again issues for Lewis... Remarkable...

[GrayGreat]

Water pressure is not such a big issue to loose more than 1 second per lap. The main reason gap came down was traffic. And it went up again when Lewis ran into the same traffic. And now that the pressure is okay again, Nico is still pulling the gap so you cannot blame it all on water pressure.

[Phil]

Rosberg also has fresher tyres as a result of clean air and stopping much later. It was never goingto happen (a battle for the win).

[basti313]

... Again issues for Lewis... Remarkable...

Not really. Rather the result of putting the car together during the night.

[Sniffit]

Why Kvyat wasn't disqualified is beyond me, that wasn't even GP3 racing, it was friday night karting after a few beers.

Normal first lap incident but it's important who you hit. Ricciardo took out a dozen of drivers at starts like that - one or two investigations - no penalties

Is ramming an opponent from behind twice in a row a normal racing incident?
No it's retardedness and I doubt you will find proof that anyone much less Ricciardo having done that a dozen times.

[GrayGreat]

Rosberg on his way to his first Grand Slam. Unless someone smashes the fastest lap by dipping under 1.39.00.

EDIT: Lap record a full second faster than last year.

[WaikeCU]

Water pressure is not such a big issue to loose more than 1 second per lap. The main reason gap came down was traffic. And it went up again when Lewis ran into the same traffic. And now that the pressure is okay again, Nico is still pulling the gap so you cannot blame it all on water pressure.

Dunno... I recall the gap being around 7 sec when the radio message came in.

[Pierce89]

Congratulations to Mclaren. I still believe the chassis is pretty handy, but they still got smoked on the straights a couple of times.

[simieski]

... Again issues for Lewis... Remarkable...

Not really. Rather the result of putting the car together during the night.

At this level they really should not be having huiman factors issues like this.