Good race, and lots of people under investigation where the standard penalty is 20 seconds added onto their time, so hamilton could move up to 2nd while raikkonen vettel button etc all move back.

LOLItsRyann

England551 Posts

April 14 2013 10:05 GMT

#549

I would seriously go and check into a sponge room right now if I was Webber. I'm seriously afraid that an undiscovered volcano is going to erupt directly underneath wherever he's standing at some point tonight...

Sok4R

Germany124 Posts

April 14 2013 10:10 GMT

#550

On April 14 2013 16:36 Doraemon wrote:
didn't put in enough fuel

sister team crashes into him

wheel nut not screwed on property

all of the above will never happen to vettel. what a disgrace

They said the same for years when Schumacher was at Ferrari and his Teammates Irvine and Barichello had all the technical problems.

The race was not that exciting except for the start and the last few laps, when Vettel got the faster tyres. If they would put him on them one lap earlier, he might got on the podium, but this is all speculation. Alonso drove a dominant race from start to finish, thats more what is expected for him. I feel that Massa couldn't keep up with him this time, but also the timing of the stops worked against him. Kimi also drove a steady race, but somehow messed up his start. But I don't think he would have gotten any further without this, Alonso was just to good this weekend.
Also strong performances from Hulkenberg, I wonder why he dropped so far behind in the last stages. He just, uhm, disappeard after leading the race for a quiet a while. Seems like the Sauber isn't as competetiv as last years car. McLaren seems like a Button-One-Man-Show, as Perez is clearly overshadowed and not as quick at all. With both being on the same strategy, at times Button drove 2-3seconds faster than Perez - seems like he needs to learn more. Speaking of learning, Guiterrez showed how it's not done. A quiet, but succesfull race for Riciardo, he made the best out of his good starting position, unlike last year where he often dropped back a lot.
Otherwise really not that exciting race. If it wasn't for the last 5 laps and Vettels strategy, it would haven been an Strategy-Only-Race. But I really didn't expect that much, since China isn't know for exciting race, as is Bahrain.

peidongyang

Canada2084 Posts

April 14 2013 10:15 GMT

#551

wowowowow not a bad race

Zaros

United Kingdom3692 Posts

April 14 2013 10:15 GMT

#552

More bad luck for Webber he apparently has a 3 place grid penalty in Bahrain for crashing with Vergne

Salazarz

Korea (South)2591 Posts

April 14 2013 11:23 GMT

#553

McLaren and Force India tied in CC, not sure if I want to laugh or cry.

RowdierBob

Australia13406 Posts

April 14 2013 12:42 GMT

#554

Meh, I though Webber was just as culpable for his accident as Vergne. Maybe I saw it wrong? I thought Vergne had position and Webber should have backed off.

LOLItsRyann

England551 Posts

April 14 2013 13:21 GMT

#555

On April 14 2013 21:42 RowdierBob wrote:
Meh, I though Webber was just as culpable for his accident as Vergne. Maybe I saw it wrong? I thought Vergne had position and Webber should have backed off.

Yeah it was Webber's fault :p

Hence the 3 place grid drop for next race.

Aristodemus

England2010 Posts

April 14 2013 13:24 GMT

#556

I think it was pretty clear Vergne and Sutil were both victims of drivers being too ambitious. The penalties seem fair to me. I did find it strange they didn't punish the guys who used DRS under yellow flag status.

Lonyo

United Kingdom3884 Posts

April 14 2013 14:14 GMT

#557

They didn't punish them because there wasn't sufficiently clear instruction in time.
They have new telemetary providers this year, and they have so far failed in supplying things like blue/yellow flag etc indicator lights to the drivers in time, and the notification about DRS was supplied late to the teams, who then had to radio the drivers.

Also the straight where you use DRS was green, while the corner had yellow flags, so it wasn't 100% clear.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/106769

As was the case in the first two races of the season, the FIA's telemetry system had to be turned off, meaning among other things that drivers had no automatic disabling of the DRS when it was prohibited.
[...]
there had been a one-minute delay between the displaying of yellow flags until the notification that DRS had been de-activated.
[...]
A third issue was that a green light was being displayed on the main straight, which drivers believed meant that they could use DRS.

ToKoreaWithLove

Norway10161 Posts

April 14 2013 17:11 GMT

#558

Yea their new telemetry system is a lot more "advanced" and "a big step forward".

a176

Canada6688 Posts

April 14 2013 17:45 GMT

#559

the speed vettel put on in the middle of that race was frankly unbelievable

baldgye

United Kingdom1103 Posts

April 14 2013 20:18 GMT

#560

On April 14 2013 16:36 Doraemon wrote:

Show nested quote +

didn't put in enough fuel

sister team crashes into him

wheel nut not screwed on property

all of the above will never happen to vettel. what a disgrace

QQ much?

overall pretty good race, pretty amazing result for Lewis given the cars overall pace isn't really all that close to Renault, Ferrari or probably the Red Bulls. Shame he probably wont be in contention for the championship this season but he's really building a nice new home for himself