German Grand Prix 2014, Hockenheim - Race 10/19

The car advantage they have is so impressive when they want to or need to use it. Mega job Mercedes have done. Laughable how far ahead they are. A back row start is not even need for panic in that car.
 
The fifty point race gives me such a turn off for this season. I will feel so let down by F1 if that ends up deciding the title. I still can't believe anybody agreed to the idea, such a farce.
 
Bottas is looking decent but has got the advantage of a very fast car in a straight line. Riccy I think looks the next step up from Bottas. He's pulling overtakes and defending better with a car that is much more vulnerable and much less capable in overtaking.

That's not to say Bottas can't be a world champ, he looks very promising, not making the same idiotic mistakes Massa makes for one thing. But Riccy is just doing some unbelievable things, and beating a much better team mate.

But I'll always like guys like Alonso, Bottas, Riccy, Hamilton. They make racing exciting to watch, they can race wheel to wheel without just smashing the other guy off as a way of winning.

I'd love to see Riccy could do with a slightly better car.

I didn't really see it and haven't been watching the after race stuff till now, what happened with Alonso/Riccy at the end. Did Alonso's tires fall off the cliff, did he just back off and he was just a bit surprised by how hard Riccy was fighting, or was it epic driving from Riccy to get back at him?
 
Finners said:
Agreed, the one of the worst decisions made for F1 ever.
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Its a pretty negative attitude from F1 that they think the season is going to be so unexciting that we need a double points race to liven it up a bit.
Give them some rule stability and we'd maybe get much closer paced cars and that would give us closer racing all round
 
Glaucus said:
Surly everyone has to see ric as a world champion contender, given a decent car. And has to be the top driver choice, after the usual WDCs
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He certainly is a future WC given the right car. He is really impressing me this season especially how he is driving better than his teammate.
 
Wow, that slow mo, Kimi did excellently to get his tire out of the way of Alonso's there. Also I thought in the race, Vettel squeezed him for me, very unfairly. Again because there was a car on the outside of Kimi, for Vettel to just turn left across the track over the distance he did it and the degree he cut across the track. It was delibrate and he basically forced contact with Kimi and only for Kimi's lightning reflexes did he save that taking probably all three out. If his tire hit Alonso, his car would probably go sideways and could easily have hit Vettel at that point also.

Moving over a little, fine, but he moved over way way too far for three cars alongside each other.
 
OldCoals said:
Don't cry Jenson.
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Hamilton hit him, sure, but we saw Sutil with MUCH less space spot and avoid Hamilton because he was actually paying attention to what was on his inside. Button saying he hit his rear like he came from behind. But had Button actually looked on his inside he'd have seen Hamilton there and could have avoided him VERY easily. The contact was also on the sidepod, not his rear tire, showing just how much Hamilton was alongside him, not behind him.

Button was not paying attention seemingly going into the corner or during the corner. Went wide, was slow, and then didn't even look for a car on the inside.

I think both are at fault, but Hamilton simply misread button's mistakenly poor corner. However after that Hamilton couldn't turn any tighter to avoid contact, Button COULD have done something to avoid contact, for me there is a bit more blame there for Button.

Not sure why teams keep going for stupid long stints... it hasn't worked for years except in some very extreme circumstances. Mclaren aren't a known great on their tire car, neither are Ferrari(compared to say a FI or Lotus of past years). Why are Mclaren trying to go so long? Even if you pit early why not split a 37 lap stint into 22-23 laps soft and the rest supersoft and push harder?
 
NeverWinter said:
Cracking drive from Hamilton but he was lucky to not bin the car for a second time this weekend.
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Not exactly hard to do when you've got by far the best car on the grid. There are many drivers that would have put in the same performance from 20th in that car today. I'm not saying it was a bad drive, just not as impressive as everyone is making out.
 
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