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Looking to see what Kimi can do from close to the sharp end of the grid and looks like its going to rain there very soon. Should make for an interesting start
Aaaaaaaaaagggghhhhhh, stuck at work and cannot watch it today 🙁
Lightning reported...
I spent some of yesterday putting my £25 B&Q dish up to get RTL FTA. Just need to learn German now 🙂
Pity I'm going for a ride at 09:00 🙁
Rain rain rain...
raining with a heat haze
No surprise Massa on full wets!
....and now everyone else coming in
Looks like Hamilton will lose out on the pit stop. Come on Jenson!
Oh well maybe not. That was close!
red flag
no red flag, safety car
Wonder if the safety car has ever spun off in the wet? Would be interesting 🙂
listening to it on the radio, sounds like interesting weather 😐
red flag 🙁
Red flag now
better than 30 mins+ behind the safety car, i guess
night finish with no lights
one upside of listening on the radio is you can't see just how fugly (excluding the Macca's) these new cars are.
There really should be some regulation about this, a fugly rule...
[i]There really should be some regulation about this, a fugly rule... [/i]
that would be 1 vs the rest.
There really should be some regulation about this, a fugly rule...
There's going to be for next years cars.
[i]There really should be some regulation about this, a fugly rule... [/i]
they should allow the teams to put on non structural body work, an F1 paper bag.
Bahh was hoping to watch the whole race .. cut oiff time is 12 midday as i gotta get out on the bike in this weather working yesterday!
I'm supposed to be working today. Thought the start was 8AM, forgot about the bst change, should be in now!
BOOOORRRRRRIIIIINNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on, it's time to race now
TFFT!
At last!
BOOOORRRRRRIIIIINNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!
At least you can see what is happening!
It's all going pear shaped at mclaren today!
It's always going wrong in the pits st maclaren, one day they'll get it right
Ffs, track wil be ready for slicks in another 4 laps
I was just about to say gotta be worth a punt on slicks now, but another shower on the way 😕
Ready for slicks now but would be a major gamble
How many frames per second was that slo mo of hamiltons tyre?
really impressed with perez, went off him last season a bit after monaco, didn't think he had the stones
Just found this: http://www.mclaren.com/formula1?utm_source=McLarenDotCom&utm_medium=GroupWebsite&utm_campaign=Homepage_Button_F1
mclaren are rubbish with race strategy, always wait and see.
Really surprised Jensen didn't just say "I'm having slicks now" about 10 laps ago
Its not really strategy they mess up, they are just silly mistakes. Hamilton stalling on stop 1, then something on the wheel on stop 2. Looks like bad luck, but it keeps happening to Mclaren, so it would seem to be more down to a lack of preparation.
He didn't stall, too much traffic coming to release him. Left it too late to pit
great race.
Alonso top of the leaderboard. Can't be there for long surely.
Wonder if it will rain in China in a few weeks?
Am I the only one a little suspicious about Perez having a 'moment' whilst trying to overtake the lead car of his teams engine supplier shortly after being 'encouraged' to not lose his second position.
Maybe “Checo, be careful, we need this position, we need this position” actually translates as "Checo, be careful, we need these engines, we need these engines".
The thought had crossed my mind but it was pretty close to a proper off so not so sure.
a little suspicious about Perez having a 'moment' whilst trying to overtake the lead car
Oh i dunno- second place is like a victory for Sauber and Perez 😀
Boy done good, shame he didnt go and beat Alonso.
Bad day for Jensen and Schuie got done over again. Raikkonens looking useful 😉
I am convinced that Perez in effect took a dive after that message from his team, sickens me.
I thought the race was crap really all the teams were in disarray and badly out of position hence Alonso winning.
I don't think Perez lost it on purpose - the message was too cryptic if it was an instruction to not pass Alonso. I doubt they would have thought they would be in a position to be racing for the lead against a Ferrari this year. I reckon Perez would have raced the wheels off that Sauber right to the line
I reckon Perez will be driving Massa's Ferrari pretty soon!!
I am convinced that Perez in effect took a dive after that message from his team, sickens me.
Why risk an actual dive though when he could have just backed off?
I could buy that there might be some pressure for a Sauber not to pass a Ferrari and that's what the message meant, but I don't think Perez muffed it up on purpose- too much chance of losing 2nd for no gain.
i think the call to Perez just affected his concentration, and he missed his braking point later in the lap.
a bit like the example of Senna at Monaco - he was well out ahead, just in the zone and some one spoke on the radio and he crashed out on that lap. I think on the BBC highlights DC mentioned something similar had happened to him one race.
Go on then, someone say it, Alonso out drove the privleged few in their shiny machines and nearly got beaten himself by a kid in an even crappier car. I love wet races, car control plays a part in who wins.
Is this a new, more grown up Hamilton?
Instead of binning it he shows a more mature head?
Hamilton's still #2 in the WDC and he knows that on dry pace he's only got 1 real challenger. Seems that Vettel's moved on to using a different finger to show his feelings though.
As for Perez to Ferrari, I think Alonso's got some say in who his #2 driver is and I can't see him being too chuffed with a team mate who nearly built him in supposedly inferior machinery.
Not sure I read much into the conspiracy theories.
Perez made a mistake while pushing really hard on a drying track.
If he had wanted to "take a dive" he could have dropped it in a area with plenty of tarmac run off like the hairpin at the end of the lap.
I think he was entitled to that one mistake he drove an awesome race up to that point
He didn't take a dive
As others have said, he could well have lost concentration due to such a bizarre message
Most teams would have said nothing in that situation so I think it was simply an error by his race eng
Seems that Vettel's moved on to using a different finger to show his feelings though.
😆