2012 F1 SANTANDER BRITISH GP: RACE *** SPOILERS ***

I still can't believe Maldonado is walking away from colliding with Perez w/ no penalty...

 

"wasn't i in the lead at one point??"


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agreed but i feel during his tenure with Ferrari, Alonso has held his part of the bargain, Ferrari has not. bad cars, design, set ups, strategies, etc but Alonso always makes the best of it. i would find it disheartening to put on a fantastic show in yesterday's conditions to take pole, race brilliantly all day, only to be passed with 4 laps to go because the car is not designed well to preserve the soft compound.

 

Good one. I missed it earlier - Have to go poke at the Sky app and see if they're replaying it.

Mclaren set for wet conditions it seems.

 

perez on maldo = "...very stupid driver" (just quoted in skysports interview)

 

Complete transcript one page back - He's *pissed*...... As I said, not often a rookie speaks out like that.

Charlie also told 'em that if the followers wing is level with your rear tires you better be careful.....

 

Checo has every right to be. Heck, I believe almost every driver on the field has a right to be. There's a difference between dancing on the edge like Senna did and not even being sure where the edge is which is what Maldonado is doing. Or, he knows where the edge lies but crosses it anyway out of frustration.

 

Awesome! Thanks man.

 

mcnish took at replay look at the incident (this race) and shows maldo ahead slightly, perez didn' really leave room for maldo to runout wide at all ...it does look like just a race incident IMO

 

Actually, I'm starting to suspect he may dodge a bullet on this one - He was in front at the entry and Checo was on the outside after all.

 

Everyone was not able to get the softs to work right at Silverstone, it wasn't a strategy/design flaw specific to just Ferrari. And he had no choice (regulations) to use the softs for the last stint, because he had already used all his available hards.

 

Seems that way and the McNish analysis was convincing for it to be a racing incident at this time.

 

this time, but IMO maldo has had a pattern ...unfortunately perez happened to be on the same spot again

 

Mald has got previous, that's why he under the spot light he needs a slap down, he does not appear to be learning.

 

agreed

 

He is stupid ie polite words lacks "awareness". He admitted in a scripted interview that he just got out of the pits on cold tires...yet he assumed he would get miraculous grip to pull off a stunt like that?

 

what stunt? perez was making a move on the outside, and didn't leave runout room for maldo, and maldo of course should try to hold his inside line ....i'm not a maldo fan, so not defending him ...i would agree with you, had thier postions been reversed in that incident

 

Brilliant win for my fellow Aussie .. congrats to Webber on the win and Fred on a good race.


but interesting comment from Webber there when asked on Sky whether he'd be happy to stay at Red Bull next year .. "I'll be in Formula One next year"