Take of 20 seconds from 1st to 2nd and its even closer. 16 cars within 40 odd seconds.
When you remove the outliers (Rosberg and the 'new' teams) thats a field spread of well under 1 second a lap.
Chinese Grand Prix 2012, Shanghai - Race 3/20
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Take of 20 seconds from 1st to 2nd and its even closer. 16 cars within 40 odd seconds.
When you remove the outliers (Rosberg and the 'new' teams) thats a field spread of well under 1 second a lap.
Thats no way to talk about Herbert or Davidson...
Although it's perfectly fair if you're talking about The Beige Bint.
Jean Todt ambled into the Mercedes garage to say well done. He's always looked like a hobbit/hobgoblin to me. In fact if you went back a few years and found an F1 race thread, i'd probably be referring to him as such, sat on the pit wall for Ferrari.
Very true indeed.
Jean Todt ambled into the Mercedes garage to say well done. He's always looked like a hobbit/hobgoblin to me. In fact if you went back a few years and found an F1 race thread, i'd probably be referring to him as such, sat on the pit wall for Ferrari.
I just call him Toad. Jean Toad, small and slimy.
just for you , now go check what temp the track was
So why did Schumacher not do the same?
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ice creams all round!Enjoyable race, really pleased for Rosberg. Shame MS retired I wanted to see how much in a winning car he would beat MS by if any.
Mclaren made extremely hard work of today again. This is what worries me most about mclaren if a one driver team gets a run at them while they are busy taking points from each other. They seem unable to adapt a strategy and just pop the cars in traffic because that's when they were scheduled to pit.
A good drive by both button and hamilton.
I'm still not a fan of these tyres, the first 2/3rds of the race were pretty dull because no one wanted to push. The start of the gp could have been excellent, yet no one even had a look, they all maintained a safe gap to each other. Then as soon as they let loose a cars tyres fall off the cliff so fast it was beyond a joke.
I felt for kimi today, great drive while everyone is keeping to the plan and when he has to defend for 2 laps the car looked like someone had let his tyres down.
Most of all from this race I gleefully await Sunama's change it attitude towards how bad the Merc is and how no one should copy anything on the car etc etc
Mclaren made extremely hard work of today again. This is what worries me most about mclaren if a one driver team gets a run at them while they are busy taking points from each other. They seem unable to adapt a strategy and just pop the cars in traffic because that's when they were scheduled to pit.
A good drive by both button and hamilton.
I'm still not a fan of these tyres, the first 2/3rds of the race were pretty dull because no one wanted to push. The start of the gp could have been excellent, yet no one even had a look, they all maintained a safe gap to each other. Then as soon as they let loose a cars tyres fall off the cliff so fast it was beyond a joke.
I felt for kimi today, great drive while everyone is keeping to the plan and when he has to defend for 2 laps the car looked like someone had let his tyres down.
Most of all from this race I gleefully await Sunama's change it attitude towards how bad the Merc is and how no one should copy anything on the car etc etc
Most of all from this race I gleefully await Sunama's change it attitude towards how bad the Merc is and how no one should copy anything on the car etc etc
He's probably still washing his hair for the 6th time
I think McLarens strategy problems are because the over analyse everything. They spend so much time looking at all the details that they miss the chance for those 'off the cuff' split second decisions. Sometimes you have to just go with your gut, and you cant do that if every decision needs to go through all the simulations and people at mission control to analyse every possible outcome.