Hungary Grand Prix 2011, Hungaroring Circuit - Race 11/19

[Merlin5]

You have to remember Eddie Jordan was no pussycat when he was a team owner - no doubt him and Whitmarsh have probably had a few arguments over the years

ps3ud0

True, but credit to Jordan. He actually owned his team, where Whitmarsh doesn't, plus Jordan gave the start to Schumacher's career.

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

Sure did. Only need to look at Brundles twitter page to know how he feels.

And to know that he is already looking for racing drives next year to replace his commentating role.

 

[Duke]

[b]World Championship standings, round 11:                

Drivers:                    Constructors:             [/b]
 1.  Vettel       234        1.  Red Bull-Renault          383
 2.  Webber       149        2.  McLaren-Mercedes          280
 3.  Hamilton     146        3.  Ferrari                   215
 4.  Alonso       145        4.  Mercedes                   80
 5.  Button       134        5.  Renault                    66
 6.  Massa         70        6.  Sauber-Ferrari             35
 7.  Rosberg       48        7.  Force India-Mercedes       26
 8.  Heidfeld      34        8.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari         22
 9.  Schumacher    32        9.  Williams-Cosworth           4
10.  Petrov        32       
11.  Kobayashi     27       
12.  Sutil         18       
13.  Buemi         12       
14.  Alguersuari   10       
15.  Di Resta       8       
16.  Perez          8       
17.  Barrichello    4

 

[Slam62]

tbh I got the impression that Jenson thinks the championship is long gone.

I also got the impression that the BBC team think they are not going to be employed next year.

That was a strange experience watching that race, normally I want Jenson to win but I would have preferred Lewis this time as he might have stood a small chance of catching Vettel.

The races now take on less and less meaning and next year it will be difficult to get into.

 

[Demon]

so
Button to win
Vettel Second
Alonso third (Mainly helped by Massa moving over obligingly on the first/second lap)

Despite preferring it if Hammy did win, I just had this feeling that the track was going to favour Button's strengths, shame I got lucky with the predictions!

Awesome race, I was rooting so much for Button, I think this is a superb way to get some cred back, and for his 200th race, mimicking his 2006 win as well just looked like all the planets aligned nicely for him! Well done JB!

I was glued to my seat for quite some time, and I felt a bit sorry for LH, and can't understand how EJ keeps banging on about Jenson being able to 'sense the grip' in the wet better then others, in the opening stint, totally blind, it's always Lewis who manages to drive rings around everyone else.. but hey, you know when the stats build up, JB is doing something right!!

 

[Duke]

Those first opening laps were hilarious! So twitchy for all the cars

 

[FrankJH]

tbh I got the impression that Jenson thinks the championship is long gone.

I also got the impression that the BBC team think they are not going to be employed next year.

That was a strange experience watching that race, normally I want Jenson to win but I would have preferred Lewis this time as he might have stood a small chance of catching Vettel.

The races now take on less and less meaning and next year it will be difficult to get into.

Well to be fair even Webber needs Vettel to effectively retire 3 times (or crawl into 10th place while he wins etc).....with 8 races to go

Its going to require an almighty push by McLaren or Ferrari to continually beat RBR after the summer break

 

[CaptainRAVE]

3 weeks now till the next race so plenty of time to moan about f1 going to sky.

Great to see McLaren back at the front. Hopefully the beginning of the end for RB

 

[JUMPURS]

I can't imagine them holding onto a driver who is consistently under performing, in comparison to his team-mate (Race Pace Wise)
surely mercedes will be looking to hire di resta as their number# 1 driver once schumacher retires


schumacher retired because of gearbox problems acording to what people are saying on autosport

Well the option for next year is on Michael's side, so if Schumi wants to race F1 in a mercedes next year, he will.

 

[arknor]

True, but credit to Jordan. He actually owned his team, where Whitmarsh doesn't, plus Jordan gave the start to Schumacher's career.

he didnt give anything he earned £300k schumacher had to pay him

Well the option for next year is on Michael's side, so if Schumi wants to race F1 in a mercedes next year, he will.

yea i dont see him leaving mercedes not when they have just started to hire loads of people we have to remember they developed the two mercedes cars at the staff limit that was suposed to be enforced... it never seemed to happen and personally i didnt think it ever would anyway.

 

[Mr Jack]

Cracking race again. Got to feel sorry for Hamilton. Two wrong decisions, both of which look like sensible choices when he made them, and a penalty for something which was 30/70 at worst.

Great from Button again, and Vettel kept his head to gain good points. Honourable mention for Di Resta - good stuff.

 

[Rybo89]

Haha will have to watch the forum tonight when i have time, had to rush off straight after race so missed it.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Of the many highlights, the one that stands out for me is the exploding Renault - hope the marshall was OK. Do we know what happened yet?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Weird how they didn't show a replay of that (in the main show).

Seems like the engine blew a hole in the sidepod, and he caught the impact from the blast. Didn't seem that hurt.. Bet he's sore tomorrow though!

 

[Duke]

Could have been KERS battery?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Maybe trying to downplay it or something? Not really sure why they would do that though?

 

[JRS]

Of the many highlights, the one that stands out for me is the exploding Renault - hope the marshall was OK. Do we know what happened yet?

I assumed it was a KERS battery that blew, or was simply conrods and pistons exiting the engine block stage left if the motor was even still running at that stage. Given that the car was quite obviously lunching itself while still sat in the pitbox I do have to wonder why the team let him go instead of saying 'shut it the **** down, it's broken'. But that's LOLtus-Genii-Renault for you

 

[Lakeland]

Good video of it here. The sound of the explosion sounds more like the cooling system rather than an engine blowing up

 

[JRS]

Suppose it could be the radiator in the sidepod that burst.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

That is an excellent video of it. There really should have been a SC though - we have seen it deployed for A LOT less.

Was great to see the McLaren boys being allowed to race today - even better that they were within inches of each other, but both had a clean fight.

Alonso said after the race that the McLaren is now the fastest car. A little late unfortunately, but very promising. Would be great to see Ferrari and McLaren battling over championships again.

Vettel is an OK driver, lots of people have different views on him - one thing is for sure though, he is rarely exciting to watch unlike drivers such as Alonso and Hamilton.