Alonso and Perez overachieved today. Raikkonen did well too. Mercedes WTF???
+1 Once it started drying even Fred couldn't pedal it around at any kind of decent pace. The car just flat out sucks in the dry and Fred is fighting *way* above his weight. While Checo (as it seems he's known) drove a great race it wasn't mistake free - Many other tracks he'd have been "sur la plage" as Is likes to say..... Seems the haters here witness a solitary impressive drive and anoint the jockey the next coming - If I could be bothered I reckon I'd find posts promoting everyone from Nico thru Lettuce to Bourdais eek among almost all of 'em at one time or another. Cheers, Ian
The facts as you outline them are indeed true. Which, of course, will have no effect on the rumors. Which is as it should be.
Good job Alonso and Perez. Webber appears to like this years car better than Vettel. And LH must be upset about missing his pitstop marks causing the pitstop issues, although to be fair the guy on the rear jack just needed to move forward a little ... Ferrari is still in trouble, but one cannot criticise Alonso for giving 100% all the time! Pete
He ran a good race, but today was just really weird. Schumacher, Button, Vettel, Rosberg are all top class drivers and every last one of them finished 10+. It's not that they didn't run good races, each and every one of them was a victim to an unfortunate circumstance. Just an odd race that seemingly random driver and random teams ended up where they did at the end. No one could have predicted this one. It's a nice change-up and I'm glad for Ferrari and Sauber, but let's get back to our regularly scheduled program which is of course the championship of 2012 please. A good example is W02 which was brilliant in the rain but it did nothing for the championship. Moving on. I think I obviously feel worst for Schumacher. They guy has done great things so far this season yet has been really dealt a bad hand with circumstance, much like W02s season beginning last year. Grosjean almost took Michael out in Australia, and now this go around he takes Michael out because he made some rookie move braking too late and sliding into the guy. Perez did the same garbarge to Michael last year at Singapore. Rookie driving error tripe.
Fair enough, rain what can I say. Vettel did make a error by clipping a tyre on another car overtaking, apart from that he did the best of a bad job I'd say. MS the planets just don't seem to line up for him. Whatever the case I thought it was nice to see Perez up there and Alonso winning, it may be a while before that happens again.
Part of me likes the fact that teams like Lotus and Sauber have better designs than MB and Ferrari do.
Oh good. I was worried only I was thinking that. MS had zero grip yesterday and was going backwards in Australia too. Same for nico of course
It was crazy how MS was able to run faster times than Nico even after Nico pitted for new inters and MS's were 25 laps old.
You're taking comfort from agreeing with me? What's the world coming to? I had hopes for MB this year but it looks like they've, in fact, regressed.
+1 its hard to say beyond practice and qualy they have done anything meaningful for race pace which is all that matters. Just ask this mysterious driver named Alonso
After just two races, one of which was wet, and next to no practice it's hard to tell but the indicators aren't good.
