Pirelli Chinese Grand Prix - 2016

[Monty]

Really annoying that this year's Shanghai GP was much better than last year (since I was there last year but not this year!).
I think (hope) that McLaren got their tyre selections wrong - Button looked like he could be well into the points at one stage.
I think Hamilton drove well to get back into the points. It was a shame that his car damage was killing the tyres - it would have been fun watching him going for more overtakes!
I do not agree that Kvyat did anything wrong. He saw a gap and filled it. He still got the car slowed down and took the corner. He was never posing any risk of damage to Vettel - his trajectory was heading towards where Kimi would have been if Vettel hadn't wiped him out.
Vettel completely overreacted (both in the car, turning sharp left into Kimi; and later when he was trying to cover for his own mistake by blaming Kvyat). I thought Kvyat handled it brilliantly.

[Monty]

http://planetf1.com/news/vettel-changes-his-tune-after-raikkonen-incident/

Seems that I had read the situation correctly. Seb now accepts it was his own fault.

[Irisado]

I'm glad that he accepted that he was overreacting.  Hid display after the race was unimpressive and he was in no position to give lectures to Kvyat, who did nothing wrong.  The whole episode reminded me of how Schumacher used to try to deflect attention from himself by laying into other drivers over certain incidents.  I was not impressed.

The first part of the race was action packed and absorbing, but it ran out of steam as things progressed.  I was disappointed with the lack of action in the closing stages, and surprised by the lack of race pace shown by Force India and McLaren, both of which I thought were potential point scorers.  A great performance by Rosberg though.  He's really looking the part so far this season.  Red Bull are also going very well.  So much for Renault's engine being terrible.