Malaysia Grand Prix 2012, Kuala Lumpur - Race 2/20

It is early days yet but hopefully Lewis has learnt that it is better to finish 2nd/3rd and pick up a good load of points than go flat out and risk finishing a race with nothing.
 
Skeeter said:
Alonso is being realistic and sensible. He knows the car isn't fast enough and they won today through other things beyond raw pace. Its good to see a driver being grounded with his reaction and firmly set on the long term goals.

We need an interview with Massa, tbh.
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Yes and no, its irritating when people overblow a single result(check any football thread any weekend for that), but F1 drivers rarely do that. Mclaren weren't jumping around claiming the title last weekend, they all said, great start, we'll see how it goes, everyone else will move forward, we've got hard work to develop aswell, etc, etc, and we see Sauber saying the same thing today.

Thing is, Hamilton and most people might think the mclaren is faster in the dry and not be worried but, why when it was dry could he not make any time at all on the front two, and why were both Red Bulls gaining.

Something was very odd today, did they in the red flag break set the car up for pure wet and screw themselves, maybe. They weren't screaming ahead at the start, and definitely really poor pitstop decisions/timing cost Hamilton yet again as seemingly every weekend. If they were setup for full wet, they were slower in the wet parts, if they were setup full dry, they were slower in the dry parts, if they were set up inbetween, they were slowing as the track dried also.

This was after Hamilton said last weekend they focused too much on quali balance and not enough on race balance so you'd have expected an improvement in race pace this week from him.

I really get the impression that in the entire inter's stint he was being told to hold the tyres as long as possible. Which makes so little sense as even had it rained again, the inter's would have been worthless. Mclaren especially from 3rd should have been looking to be the first in the top 10 onto dries, and Hamilton is normally THE guy in changing/dodgy conditions as he was with inter's going into full wet before the red flag. Essentially he didn't push while the inter's were actually on a wet track, then on an almost dried out track the inter's had nothing much left in them, then when he could have come in for dries first, Mclaren hesitated and utterly screwed the pitstop as well to cap it off. Had he come in 5 laps earlier which he fully could have, he could have made upwards of 5 seconds on the other two IF they came in after 1-2 laps, if they waited another 1-2 laps Hamilton could well have won.

Mclaren seem far to hesitant with Hamilton, and get the tactics wrong constantly, and they seem to have this thing about saving tyres, which really just wastes what little they have to offer.

Still Hamilton's lack of any capability to gain on Perez/Alonso in the final 15 laps was worrying.
 
Entertaining race. Looking forward to McLaren actually capitalising properly on their qualifying performance... maybe.. just once?

Still good to have it so level on the numbers early on.
 
Well hopefully we get some more entertaining races like this, rather than the domination of last season.

I'm off to take the dog to the beach so I can be back to watch a bit of GP2 before the Indycar.

Have a good day all :)
 
Weebull said:
"Ok, Sergio. Fernando is ahead of you. Can you confirm that you understood that message?"
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Hehehe. That's funny.

If I were Ferrari, I would be doing everything possible to get Perez in the Ferrari, within 3 weeks.

Perhaps do a Massa - Perez swap, with Ferrari paying Sauber some compensation.

It would be handy for Alonso to have a rear gunner and right now Massa is nowhere close enough, to Alonso, to assist him at any stage during the race.
 
sunama said:
Hehehe. That's funny.

If I were Ferrari, I would be doing everything possible to get Perez in the Ferrari, within 3 weeks.

Perhaps do a Massa - Perez swap, with Ferrari paying Sauber some compensation.

It would be handy for Alonso to have a rear gunner and right now Massa is nowhere close enough, to Alonso, to assist him at any stage during the race.
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Whilst the idea amuses me are we being too hasty just two races into the season? xD

kd
 
sunama said:
Hehehe. That's funny.

If I were Ferrari, I would be doing everything possible to get Perez in the Ferrari, within 3 weeks.

Perhaps do a Massa - Perez swap, with Ferrari paying Sauber some compensation.

It would be handy for Alonso to have a rear gunner and right now Massa is nowhere close enough, to Alonso, to assist him at any stage during the race.
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Maybe Perez thinks a little more of himself than playing rear gunner. Just because Massa has hid behind that tag for years doesn't mean Perez would be happy too.
 
Great race, Perez should have won it. McLaren also threw a win away in the pits. Hamilton would have certainly finished ahead of Alonso without the dropped time.
 
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