Chinese Grand Prix 2013, Shanghai - Race 3/19

Skeeter said:
See, that's what F1 needs, cars on track on different strategies. The problem is that the only way to get it with the current rules is to break qualifying.

We need flat out qualifying AND the ability to run wildly different strategies in the race.
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Yup, refuelling basically, because if you get stuck behind someone you can come in, pit and change your strategy, with tyres that can do 30 laps then you wouldn't lose anything going faster on less fuel, or slower on more fuel for more laps, and you can change the strategy on the fly.

With the current tyres there is just no adjusting for on the fly changes, if you do 15 laps at 2 stop pace and have to switch, you're screwed, and absolutely no chance to do 3 stop pace and move to a two stopper.

Half decent race, Merc are decent, they've moved from sporadically good pace and terrible race pace, to being pretty much the best ultimate pace and less bad race pace, significantly better than last year in every aspect, but still the hardest wearing on tyres of the top guys, quite easily.

However I think once again, doing the fastest times in qualifying means taking the most out of your tyres, which is a disadvantage at the beginning of the race.

The Ferrari is the strongest weekend package, pace + tyre wearing, the Lotus seems to be a mixed bag, sometimes great pace and tyre wearing, sometimes just good tyres, their car seems a bit more track specific and potentially harder to set up.

Did anyone think at the end that Hamilton slowed down after being told he had a 5 second gap and giving up on second so started crusing a bit. I know Vettel's soft tyre pace was awesome and would have gained most of that anyway.

But again, most of the race done at over 1:40, and Vettel doing 1:36's.... I want to see ultimate racing, with the fastest car and fastest driver... errm... racing. Instead we're seeing odd stints, great tyres for 5 minutes, and the rest of the race cars crawling around, its not great.
 
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