2013 Italian GP - Monza

[mikeerfol]

Does anyone got an explanation for Alonso pit stop strategy? I actually thought its Ferrari's way of reminding Alonso who is the boss.

They said that they were just running to target, it was Vettel who had stopped too early because of a flat-spot after he locked the front-right at Turn 1.

[CHT]

Does anyone got an explanation for Alonso pit stop strategy? I actually thought its Ferrari's way of reminding Alonso who is the boss.

They said that they were just running to target, it was Vettel who had stopped too early because of a flat-spot after he locked the front-right at Turn 1.

Alonso was never in position to touch Vettel today. It was Webber and Massa that really gain from the late pit stop.

[Reca]

It's raining right now...

[raymondu999]

I actually can't think of an exception other than silverstone, where there's fairly obvious force majore.

China? Spain?

[gray41]

How do people think Lewis would have faired had he stayed out instead of pitting again?

[prince]

As far as 2013 championships are concerned, now it's absolutely safe to say....



Can someone start 2014 prediction thread please...?

[munudeges]

Agreed, this was purely two stop strategy playing out, it was a no brainer that they would be storming through the field at the end.

Yer. What Hamilton and Raikkonen did was easy......

[henra]

As far as 2013 championships are concerned, now it's absolutely safe to say....

Can someone start 2014 prediction thread please...?

Indeed. That is a pretty safe bet by now.
On average Vettel scored 18,5 points over the last 12 races.
With 7 remaining if he contunues like that he will end up with 352 Points.
For Alonso it would take 184 Points to overtake him in the ranking.
Out of 175 left.

That's gonna be a tough one....

Edit: If you extrapolate the last seven races chances look even more dim:
In that case he would end up with 355 Points while even having one DNF out of those seven.

[mx_tifoso]

It was kind of a boring race, too bad we didn't have some rain. And I've been watching a tape delayed version without commercials in Spanish and it's very good, I think kinda better than NBC. But unfortunately these guys are a little chaotic and they all talk at once and talk too much, but it's not too bad.

But watching a race like this just proves why MotoGP and other series are much more appealing at the moment.

It's raining right now...

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Reca, benvenuto! E un piacere averti qui di nuovo.

Ed hai andato a la gara di oggi? Non eri tu qui aveva la bandiera di "Freedom for Lombardia"?

[iotar__]

Reprimand for what Di Resta did? They should tell that to Gutierrez(grid penalty for exactly the same) and Maldonado (late breaking and contact - drive through). BTW if anyone is interested how pushing off in the breaking zone is sometimes OK should watch Hulkenberg-Vergne from Spa. Stewarding in F1 is simply a joke with no consistency.

[oT v1]

What did they give Grosjean for his shunt in Monaco on RIC?

[Guisson]

Post by oT v1 » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:44 pm

What did they give Grosjean for his shunt in Monaco on RIC?

A 10 place grid drop
What's the point with all of those marijuana flags x)

[Traction]

Racists? Come on... I think everyone with some brain knows they are simply Ferrari fanatics. And that's OK.

It's not that far fetched, coming from a nation where people threw bananas at the first black minister....

[mx_tifoso]

Racism? Please move on guys since it's history and has nothing to do with this years GP.

[Reca]

It's raining right now...

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Reca, benvenuto! E un piacere averti qui di nuovo.

Ed hai andato a la gara di oggi? Non eri tu qui aveva la bandiera di "Freedom for Lombardia"?

Grazie, come sai scrivo poco per mancanza di tempo ma cerco di leggere spesso.

I didn't go to the race, rarely do, I did my traditional Thursday + Friday routine. Still more than enough to see the Bulls were untouchable this year, I really have an hard time remembering having ever seen a car more impressive at Ascari than the RB9 I saw in FP2, the way it changes direction... my God that is blindly quick, others looked like in slow motion...
And thinking that the morning at first chicane and then at Roggia I wasn't particularly impressed by its behaviour on kerbs and acceleration, it looked rather normal, I recall thinking something like "Well, the RB is not scary, maybe it's doable...", then I moved to Ascari and... ouch... kudos to them, they made (again) an impressive machine.

As for the flags... you can rest assured you'll not see me carrying one of those (or the Padania's ones, the green "wheel-like" symbol)... I was born and raised in Monza, parents grandparents and few generations back always from this area, but I like to think I've enough brain to not consider by default as enemies we should get rid of those who happen to have different origins (be it from other areas of my country or from outside)... in fact you've no idea how it annoys me every year reading about booing on the podium and so on.
I know that the almost totality of people aren't like that, but it's always the most idiotic minority that gets all the attention (see last post...) and it's quite annoying.