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[Roysneon]

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[Jon325i]

Awesome race. Super bummed for Massa.

Agreed. Not sure what happened with Massa.....it looked like a misjudging of the car in front, or did Perez lift/brake? Hard to tell in the re-play, but Massa was suddenly into the back of Perez's car. And Vettel.....he just got lucky neither car collected him!

As for Hamilton, I think he could've won it if his car held up. He was setting a very good pace. What I also found interesting was how his cars' fuel consumption was lower than Nico's. Clearly different driving styles at work.

Looking forward to this circus returning to the A1 ring in a couple weeks. Nice challenge for good aero set up with those long straights and fast corners.


Jon

[Hick]

Awesome race. Super bummed for Massa.

[bmw325_num99]

+1 on that. Canada seemed like such a car breaker it evened out the field a little itself.

I thought the Mercedes failure was especially interesting. Hamilton's brakes...related to the electrical problems or not?

[lukeADE335i]

We'll see how long it lasts now Ricciardo has a race win under his belt :)

Hopefully this season now turns into 2009 when Brawn dominated the first 6 races, but then the field evened out after that for the remainder of the season.

[Eric]

Just for all the Vettel-haters out there, and to stir the pot, I was SUPER impressed with him when he pulled into the pits before they retired him in Monaco. Super professional.

He started to kind of lose it about the car not working, then stopped himself mid-sentence and said "I know you guys are doing everything you can".

Love him or hate him, that's some serious sportsmanship. He knows he doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell at the championship this year, so now he's just doing his job. Really hoping that he'll continue to support Ricciardo, who is really doing quite well.

Reminds me of the last few wins last year when he would say over the radio something to the effect of "enjoy this now cause it won't always be like this"

[Jon325i]

I agree, it was good professionalism on his part. This year the tables have turned on his past success.....no doubt it is probably testing everyone on the squad. Times like these will really define a driver's character.


Jon

[Jand3rson]

Just for all the Vettel-haters out there, and to stir the pot, I was SUPER impressed with him when he pulled into the pits before they retired him in Monaco. Super professional.

He started to kind of lose it about the car not working, then stopped himself mid-sentence and said "I know you guys are doing everything you can".

Love him or hate him, that's some serious sportsmanship. He knows he doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell at the championship this year, so now he's just doing his job. Really hoping that he'll continue to support Ricciardo, who is really doing quite well.

[Eric]

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I have a plane flight tomorrow, must download the race tonight!


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[naplesE30]

Merc may lap the other podium finisher in canada. Its going to be a sluaghter there spa and at monza.

[Jon325i]

I don't believe what Nico did was intentional at all, just an incident that can happen to anyone in F1. The inter-team battle at Mercedes is in full swing now, these two will be out to better the other for the rest of the season. Nico has shown he's very capable, but I think in outright pace Hamilton is the better driver. Going into the next race at Canada, Hamilton has won at this track 3 times (including his very first career win in 2007) and I think he'll have the edge going for the top podium spot.

Pray for rain....always makes for a good race ;D


Jon

[blck325is]

Still not fully convinced Nico didn't do it on purpose. Video shows him braking and shifting the car around as thought the rear was loose yet his car was planted according to telemetry..does not compute. Nevertheless I know Nico was cleared and its possible it was a genuine accident but this definitely means battle lines drawn between he and Lewis.

[bmw325_num99]

In before "Nico did that on purpose."

Shumi maybe, but can't get away with stuff like that these days.

I can't decide on whether it was intentional or not. Watching the feed live it armed a harmless innocent mistake. Hearing from brundle and Lewis afterwards makes me think again. Maybe just the commentator trying to spice up am other wise boring season as someone else put it

[Roysneon]

The most interesting thing about this season is trying to workout how many points behind Mercedes Ricciardo will end up, and how many points ahead of his team mate he'll be.

I predict many on the first count, and few if any on the second.

[Ray Smoodiver]

The most interesting thing about this season is trying to workout how many points behind Mercedes Ricciardo will end up, and how many points ahead of his team mate he'll be.