Jenson Button has masterfully driven to his first win of the year, his first for McLaren. In the early stages he switched tyres at the right time while he succesfully nursed his option tyres to the end of the race. Robert Kubica is a happy second for Renault, followed by Felipe Massa.
I must have watched a different race. Alonso was very average todayvall wrote:somebody remember in which lap Alonso caught LH? It was too early, I was sleepy and don't remember. But it recovered from last quite fast.
I would say excellent drive from Alonso. Had he managed to pass The Bulk, he would finish 2nd.
Dude he went from p18 to fourth! Give him a little credit for christ sake.dave34m wrote:I must have watched a different race. Alonso was very average todayvall wrote:somebody remember in which lap Alonso caught LH? It was too early, I was sleepy and don't remember. But it recovered from last quite fast.
I would say excellent drive from Alonso. Had he managed to pass The Bulk, he would finish 2nd.
Are you talking about the last race of 2009, or the 2nd of 2010dave34m wrote:I must have watched a different race. Alonso was very average todayvall wrote:somebody remember in which lap Alonso caught LH? It was too early, I was sleepy and don't remember. But it recovered from last quite fast.
I would say excellent drive from Alonso. Had he managed to pass The Bulk, he would finish 2nd.
You must be joking.....Yeah he gets plenty of credit, wasnt his best drive is all. When he got stuck behind Massa he just followed along all day. Not his best day at allTazio wrote:Dude he went from p18 to fourth! Give him a little credit for christ sake.dave34m wrote:I must have watched a different race. Alonso was very average todayvall wrote:somebody remember in which lap Alonso caught LH? It was too early, I was sleepy and don't remember. But it recovered from last quite fast.
I would say excellent drive from Alonso. Had he managed to pass The Bulk, he would finish 2nd.
no not at all it could be a bleed and a one way check valve .to get it down quicker a blow off could be used (would need you to really drive hard over the curbs to get the blow off into action ...but these are things we all have seen years ago (supertouring in BTCC for example) .as soon as you know the maximum force will be you can adjust the blow off accordingly to drop the car for qualy by going hard over the curbs.Tim.Wright wrote:Just a thought on the red bull ride height subject.
If the pushrods contained a spring/damper with extremely high rebound damping at certain parts of the stroke, then after one lap the downforce would push the car down and the rebound damping would keep it there. That would explain why it creeps up very high in parc ferme.
This also would work like a ratchet which Whitmarsh has suggested RB might be using.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82461
To make the car run at different heights from saturday to sunday, I think it would need to be adjustable by a driver or someone else.
Tim
Hmm, he made a bad start then passed some back markers and then did nothing, how is that a steller drive?Raftaar wrote:To all forum participants : Who do you think drove the best race today!!
In my view, Alonso's was probably the most steller drive of all today. He made a poor start and had an unfortunate incident immediately after; But his race after the safety car period was outstanding.
He overtook the back markers easily, without wasting much time (unlike Schumacher in his Mercedes). He didn't do anything fancy after he climbed upto the top ten.
He (and his team) then went ahead with a very tricky tyre strategy. But credits to him, he looked after the tyres very well and drove a very sensible race, much unlike Massa.
Massa looked in awful shape in the last 3rd of the race. He was slipping and sliding and was all over the place. Whereas, Alonso looked very much in control; He had the same pace as Massa, if not more. After he climbed up to behind Massa, he drove very sensibly, didn't try too hard to attack Massa, kept just behind him all the way, making sure he ended the race in good shape as far as the tyres are conserned, and at the same time was ready to take advantage if Massa made a mistake.
But, his defence against Hamilton was superb. When Hamilton caught up with him, he was gaining more than a second a lap on Alonso. Inspite of that Alonso managed to defend his position and did it masterfully. =D> =D> =D>
Maybe but it wasnt a steller drive, Brdigestone had already said that the softs would last the entire race, didnt the top 4 all drive most of the race on softs. I just think Button and Hamliton drove great races today. If Alonso had passed more at the front of the field them maybe I'd agreeRaftaar wrote:Hey! Com'on "dave34m". He practically drove 4/5th of the race on one set of soft tyres, inspite of that at the very end frustated a much faster car (with a much newer set of tyres), and finished ahead.
It is probably not unfair to say, Massa has Alonso to thank for his podium place, had Alonso not kept Hamilton at bay, I don't think Massa would have been able to defend his place, as awful as he was on the degrading tyres.
