2016 FORMULA 1 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX: RACE *** SPOILERS ***

At 5 O'clock in the morning ?

 

That was Hamilton.

 

I woke up at 6:30...went to look at the cars in the garage, did a small detail, went for a jog w the pooch and by the time I got back it was already almost 11. Weather was beautiful all day even at 6:30, it felt like 65°

 

1. who wakes up at 630 on the weekend
2. the start is the most exciting part i can never miss them I'm always on the edge of my seat heart pounding

 

Vettel understood that his car could not simply drive through Perez, upon whom he was gaining in a corner where the g forces were high, recognising he would have to blend the throttle to time acceleration, speed and such forces to manoeuvre successfully around Perez without crashing.

Kyvat of course figured that a policy of maximum speed and a pointy nose would dispose of anything in his way anyway, and that on home ground, mr Putin would deploy anti-tank weapons to clear up any stubborn opposition.

 

You may remember Andre De Crashius

 

SKY's driver ratings post Sochi - Tad tough on Kimi -- 2016 Russian GP driver ratings | F1 News


Relatively speaking, Kimi Raikkonen did exactly what his team needed him to do on Sunday. He kept both Bottas and Massa at bay, nursing his Ferrari to the end of the race after his team-mate's retirement.

But the fight, or lack thereof, he was able to put up when it came to the Mercedes will be a concern to the Scuderia and Hamilton breezed past Raikkonen for second place after the Finn made an error when following Bottas.

On another weekend, Raikkonen's lapses in concentrations could have been costly. The Finn also made an error on the last corner of his flying lap in qualifying, thus starting behind Bottas on the grid, while his countryman easily overtook him following a slow response to the restart after the early virtual safety car.

Raikkonen admitted he was fuel-saving throughout and instead focused on his longer run. He sits third in the standings and leads Vettel, but all in all this was a steady, yet uninspiring, weekend for the former world champion

 

Tough but not necessarily untrue, pains me to admit it.

 

Kimi has the second best car on the grid-he finished exactly where he should have........

 

Essentially what sky was saying.

Kimi didn't look at one with the car for the entire weekend, car finished where it would have but the mistake in quali, sleeping at the restart and letting ham pass quite easy wasn't really inspiring.

He was never going to beat ham, so fair enough. Perhaps if Vettel was there he would've made it a lot harder for Ham to pass.

 

I do, and Pedro Diniz...

 

Remember him? I worked for him back in his F3 days.

I may be exaggerating a little, but I'm gonna say we built 3 new cars over the first half a dozen races.

His very first time in the car was a test session at Goodwood; He turned it upside down within about a dozen laps!.....

Nice guy though!
Cheers,
Ian

 

I guess you couldn't ever say he wasn't trying hard enough.

He sounds kind of like Maldonado, driving at 10/10ths at all times, resulting in an unusually high crash rate.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

I wake up every morning around the same time w/o an alarm clock, unless there was a lot of alcohol & "pilates" the night before...

 

McLaren apparently had 50sec of fuel saving. That they are all genuinely happy just to get into Q3 and the points these days is a painful spectacle. I truly fear for the long-term sake of this team, they are having their grave dug by Honda who will eventually walk away again.

Right behind Ferrari, McLaren is the team that F1 needs to be strong and fighting for the championship and neither are even close to it. I miss the days when they were properly run by Todt and Ron.

Fuel saving cost McLaren-Honda 50 seconds in Russian Grand Prix - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com

 

This fuel saving stuff SUCKS!! This is supposed to be racing, not economy run.

 

Agreed.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

To be fair they all only do fuel saving at a few tracks over the year and even here it was supposed to have been negated by the safety car laps. Such extreme fuel saving is down to a poor Honda engine.

 

Takuma Sato. My son used to ask why Sato was always driving "on the beach" (sand and gravel traps).

 

Sato is in Indy racing now, no?

Not many gravel traps on the ovals, so how does he survive?

Sato was very good in F3, I remember.

 

It should be a major concern to them as to how much fuel saving they need to do compared to everyone else - That shows they've got something major wrong with their PU!

(Still, at least they're finishing races these days!, and in the points! [when half of the front runners have been smashed out of the way by others that is!] )

 

I guess he's trying, that's for sure.....

And yeah, I agree the 'parallel' with dear ol' Pastor is very valid. More balls than brains. I'm not sure what it is, maybe 'temperament', the infamous 'red mist' or something else, but something is awry.

In fairness, Andrea leveraged himself a pretty decent run in F1, but oh dear, did he ever bin it a lot!

Cheers,
Ian

 

Hi Ian ,yes a nice guy and 'entertained ' a lot of F1 fans over the years.i came across this interview by Motor Sport with him in 2012 ,before his tragic motor bike crash.Interesting reading.http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/october-2012/110/bigger-picture

 

Indy Car runs a 16 race schedule, 11 road courses, 5 ovals.

 

Guy Ligier:

"We cannot afford anymore the repair bills for Andrea de Cesaris"