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F1 News & Discussions => General F1 Discussion => Topic started by: Scott on July 24, 2011, 09:12:56 PM
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Wow - everyone having a busy summer Sunday? No time to post about a relatively exciting race? Well, here goes my summary...keep in mind I missed about 15 laps until the second last lap (caught the highlights though).
Heroes: :good: :good:
Hamilton. Made it through the race using his head, and keeping everything clean. Kudos to the team for managing him well. Don't know what happened to Jenson, but he was starting to close on the leaders when things went wrong.
Alonso. Another superb, flawless race. No Ferrari errors this time, so some credit should go to them.
Webber. Not his fault. Lousy pit stop by the RBR team (hope it wasn't team orders, cough, cough, ahem), and a car that seems to be losing its edge to Ferrari and Mclaren. But big cheer for Mark stretching out a 40 sec gap over Vettel by the end.
Sutil. I was confused at first how he got in the sharp end, but sure enough, he was there honestly. I guess I'll have to eat my words about Mallya's team this past week. Amazing race.
FIA. Get the stewards from the German race and put them on salary. No silly penalties (ok, giving Heidfeld a drive-through while he was in the gravel wasn't too bright), and the race finished without controversy. :good:
Zeroes: :fool: :fool:
RBR really let down Webber. In a sense the race of the top three was fairly boring by half race, even though they were only separated by a few seconds. Only a pit stop could shake it up, and shake it up it did. Crappola stop by RBR, which had followed a clockwork stop by Ferrari and a superhuman stop by Hamilton reversed the order to how it would end. If Alonso had paid a bit more attention when Hammy came out of the pits, it might have ended differently.
Buemi. Toasted Heidfeld's race, but Heidfeld was struggling this weekend, so it's hard to say how else it might have ended.
Not really a zero, because I'm actually happy about it, Ruby has once again DNF'd (sorry Williamsfan - I'd feel the same way if he was driving a Mclaren). Ok, he has the record for F1 starts...but does anyone know if he also has the record for all time F1 DNF's? I guess he's pretty close if he isn't there already.
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all good points Scott
Hero's
Button-except engine failure he could have been 4th,with some luck
Schumacher-good finish despite another mistake,the old MS would
never have this many driver errors
Sutil-good to see Force India back,proving Scotty wrong :tease:
Zero's
Schumi-for making another driver error
Heidfeld-not for his race but for his performance this year,I
really expecter better from Nick
Sutil-for finishing in the points and costing me a GG point I needed
Bid Man David-does he ever have a bad race? ;)
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Heroes
Hamilton - Really exciting race preceded by a beautiful qualifying lap. Well done Lewis.
Sutil - Kept Button behind him for quite a few laps, changed to the medium tyres at the right time and generally drove very well. Last I heard, Force India was still celebrating (though they waited until after pack-up to start).
Alonso - Drove commendably apart from a silly off towards the start.
Honourable mention: Petrov - For taking the medium tyre gamble and salvaging something from a difficult race. If only those brakes hadn't grabbed so much...
Zeroes
Ferrari mechanics - Being 2 seconds slower to change tyres on Massa's car (a 4 second operation) is poor. Especially when the stop should have been done 10 laps earlier, thereby costing Felipe about 15 seconds of pace. The Alonso stops were not fantastic either. They might as well have told Massa to stay out and taken the 30-second penalty hit if they were going to do that.
Buemi - Hitting Heidfeld was excusable considering he was looking in the mirror to check for people coming the other side of him. Hitting Heidfeld by mounting a particularly poor defence and thereby creating the problem... ...not so much.
Heidfeld - Hitting Paul di Resta on the first lap is not the way to this Force India fan's heart, even if the Buemi crash was all Sebastien's fault.
Dishonourable mention: The scrutineers for taking 5.5 years to notice that some teams were screen-printing compliance labels onto overalls, and then not penalising Petrov for getting extra practise time in FP1 (he left the pitlane early). They missed being in the main part of the zeroes due to improving their performance considerably in qualifying and the race.
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Heroes:
Hamilton: Ran a good, smart race. A well deserved win.
RBR Pit Crew (Vettel edition): Great last stop to get Seb past Massa.
Webber: Except for yet another bad start, ran a fine race. Pit crew cost him the race.
Zeroes:
Chandhok: He certainly made Jarno look good.
RBR Pit Crew (Webber edition): See Webber above
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Zeroes:
Chandhok: He certainly made Jarno look good.
Oh! A bit harsh considering it was his first race in the car. He was getting quicker in every session.
Otherwise I think the other comments cover it.
Most impressively; it was a great race with good scraps all the way down the field.
I felt really sorry for DiResta because he looked capable of some very good points and the biggest cheer in my house came when Schumacher spun :D
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Actually, I'd like to see Michael score a podium. Then maybe he'd retire and di Resta could have the seat. :D
Lonny
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Heroes: Hamilton, Alonso and Webber.
Zeros: Heidfeld, Buemi's Weeekend and the Number 4 McLaren
Lucky Not to be a zero: David Coulthard, spinning the vintage Mercedes was embarrasing and could have been very expensive
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Zeroes
Ferrari mechanics - Being 2 seconds slower to change tyres on Massa's car (a 4 second operation) is poor. Especially when the stop should have been done 10 laps earlier, thereby costing Felipe about 15 seconds of pace. The Alonso stops were not fantastic either. They might as well have told Massa to stay out and taken the 30-second penalty hit if they were going to do that.
Could agree more, I had my head in my hands watching it. Idiots! >:(
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Zeroes:
Chandhok: He certainly made Jarno look good.
Oh! A bit harsh considering it was his first race in the car. He was getting quicker in every session.
Trulli and Webber are my two favorite active drivers.
Jarno should send Karun a bill for the broken gearbox, too. ;)
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Heroes: Hamilton, Alonso and Webber.
Zeros: Heidfeld, Buemi's Weeekend and the Number 4 McLaren
Lucky Not to be a zero: David Coulthard, spinning the vintage Mercedes was embarrasing and could have been very expensive
Let me know what the program was that he did that on. I'd like to download it and watch it!
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It was on BBCs pre race coverage Sunday morning. BBC asked Mercedes management what the cars were worth if DC had crashed and told they were priceless and irreplaceable. Spun in front of Mika in another vintage merc.
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So...does this mean Whitmarsh's job is now safe? ;)
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So...does this mean Whitmarsh's job is now safe? ;)
Hopefully.
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I doubt he was ever in serious jeopardy. Ron had a few bad months during his career as well.
Lonny
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I doubt he was ever in serious jeopardy. Ron had a few bad months during his career as well.
Lonny
Exactly what I suggested when the rumor poked up its head...
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From rumours I've heard there is a power struggle between Ron and Martin, maybe with the MP4-12c project up and running Ron wants back into F1 full time?
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@f1 darrell and any one else who hasn't seen why DC was nearly a zero in Germany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh2BAsPemeM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh2BAsPemeM)
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Wearing modern racewear while driving a W196 should make you a zero anyway!
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:good: :good:
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From rumours I've heard there is a power struggle between Ron and Martin, maybe with the MP4-12c project up and running Ron wants back into F1 full time?
The way Maclaren is structured, if Ron Dennis wanted to run the F1 team there would be no struggle, he would simply move Martin Whitmarsh to one side.
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Yeah, I can't see there being an issue about power within Mclaren. Simply look at the shareholdings. Technically Ron reports to Martin, but in reality (i.e. voting shares), Martin reports to Ron, who reports to Mansour Oijeh, who really doesn't care what Ron does, he's just along for the ride. ;)