Formula 1 - 2012 - Page 30

On June 11 2012 05:54 Pandemona wrote:
I really do think if Vetell and Alonso came in, after the slow pit stop from Lewis like 1/2 laps after they would of been 1st / 2nd in that race, in the end they think they can make a 1 stopper work, so bad from both their teams. SO HAPPY FOR LEWIS THOUGH :D he deserved that i think and well im happy being a big fan :D

Also spare a thought for Schuiee ^_^ poor guy. 7 races, 7 diffo problems. OUCH.

On June 11 2012 07:17 baldgye wrote:


I think that if Ferrari had pitted they would have gotten 2nd for sure, Lewis had Alonso covered for out and out race pace on fresh tires.

But a really classic old school style race that came down to strategy and tire management, a good race and a great result!



Lewis for 2012 Driver's Champion!! :D

On June 11 2012 13:43 Release wrote:

Except DRS made passing a breeze and the 2 stopper all the more feasible.

Classic old school race is going as fast as possible. Not tire management. That is almost pirelli exclusive.
A true old school race would be on bridgestones or goodyears, and would probably involve the likes of senna, prost, schumacher, mansell, hill, etc. These young guns are not old school.

On June 12 2012 01:26 baldgye wrote:


Not really... it's not a hard track to over-take on, and the only reason Lewis used his DRS to over-take was becasue there was no need not to.
And I mean old school in that it was won and based around pit-stops and tire management, when I started getting into F1 properly back in the mid/late 00's while there was over-taking people still had to work and manage there tires and alot of it came down to strategy.

Though, for DRS, I'm not sure it's needed at tracks like this where over-taking isn't an issue. I thought the point of DRS was to make over-taking more viable, not to make it easy. It would have been a more exciting race if Lewis actually had to fight a little instead he had DRS to cruse past two double DWC's

On June 12 2012 04:09 Release wrote:

Canada is not particularly easy to overtake. You can say that the back straight is easy, but the turbulent air in the old days made the turn in and braking for the hairpin rather difficult and you would be in the slipstream but not close enough to pass. There was a race (b/w 2001-2004 not sure which) b/w the schumi brothers and Ralf got probably 30 runs on his brother and simply could not overtake. Old school overtake (in this era) would be staying out a few laps longer, making those hotlaps, and leapfrogging in the pits, or coming in earlier and throwing a few hot laps straight after.

I got into f1 around the same time (early 2000s) but this is already into the modern era; they are on grooves after all. Back in the 90s and 80s when pilots risked life and limb was the true .

On June 23 2012 03:10 Aristodemus wrote:
Hamilton was trying something that didnt work, it will be changed for tomorrow. They were expecting to struggle here, Red Bull and Alonso for the win with perhaps Maldonado to go well again if he stays on the track. The sooner Valencia gets dropped the better.

On June 24 2012 21:54 zere wrote:
McLaren Pitstop (C)2012