Singapore Grand Prix 2015, Marina Bay - Race 13/19

Man, Vettel spends 10 laps just cruising in front of Ric, then suddenly -3 seconds on him after one lap.
 
Joe! said:
Hulk really wasn't at fault there... Stupid decision by the stewards.

Hopefully Vet makes Ricciardo's tyres go off.

And unlucky Ham :cool:
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Sounds like Hulk was at fault now, Hulk said he did see him but thought he was ahead so turned in. He frankly said exactly what Massa has for years, "I was ahead so it's my line", to me it looked like they were alongside. So I'm happy for Hulk to get a penalty in that case, if he hadn't seen him a penalty is harsh but with Massa alongside and him having seen him, that was just stupid by Hulk. Hot tires faster wider line he'd easily be first into the next corner anyway.

Hamilton screwed, if it came back to him he might if lucky get a couple of points now but more like a retirement soon to me.
 
Hopefully they can get it sorted some way so he can at least finish in the points to limit any damage to the championship.

It's a shame as I was hoping for a good last stint with Mercedes on supersofts against the leaders on softs.

Massa taking a scenic route through the pits, strange!

Massa retiring, hopefully the stewards will get him and Hulkenburg to give their point of view of the incident.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Sounds like Hulk was at fault now, Hulk said he did see him but thought he was ahead so turned in. He frankly said exactly what Massa has for years, "I was ahead so it's my line", to me it looked like they were alongside. So I'm happy for Hulk to get a penalty in that case, if he hadn't seen him a penalty is harsh but with Massa alongside and him having seen him, that was just stupid by Hulk. Hot tires faster wider line he'd easily be first into the next corner anyway.
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Wrote that before Hulk's interview (Streaming it so I'm about a minute behind) - I assumed Hulk was blind going into that corner when I wrote it :)

Vettel has his usual buffer so hopefully all goes well from now on :D
 
Not sure why Brundle doesn't like them wanting to save mileage on the engine, look at him, everyone has passed him, there is no racing involved. If he was 1 second off the pace but still even fighting at pace for 12th or something that is one thing, but when 12th passes you without breaking a sweat and you are 20 seconds behind 12th 4 laps later... it's not racing any more.
 
Shame to see him retire but Vettel is away with this one. Going to be a boring finish to the race unless there's some error for the 3 at the front.

It's interesting to hear the commentators talk about the conspiracy of the metro system under the track potentially causing some of the electrical and neutral gear errors. Hadn't heard anything about it before until they said it happened to a driver last year.

Would have been an interesting last stint with strategies but on to next week!
 
hulari said:
Hadn't heard anything about it before until they said it happened to a driver last year.
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I think they said it was to do with Webber's KERS, "at the first race here" I think they said, which doesn't make sense - Unless they mean the first race with KERS, and not the first race at Singapore?
 
Mclaren have said it interferes with telemetry and radio frequently here over the years. It could be with far more electronics in the car they are more vulnerable but then you'd expect them to be a problem last year.
 
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