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Aug201004

Rob

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Webber triumphs in Hungary as Vettel loses his cool, again

The hungaroring isn’t the most interesting track on the calendar, it’s narrow, twisty and boring, the drivers hardly have anywhere to overtake and it only seems to produce and interesting race when something untoward happens. Sundays race was no different really, the only incidents happening under the safety car, with Rosberg’s wheel going walkabout, Kubica and Sutil colliding in the pits and Vettel getting a penalty.
Webber avoided all the interesting goings on by staying out during the safety car and then using the Red Bull to the max to open up such a lead to Alonso that he could stop and rejoin in the lead – that’s some pace, the others have a lot to do. Vettel would have won the race had he not got a penalty under the safety car but in some ways that seems to sum up Vettel’s season so far.
The Ferrari’s capitalised on Vettel’s [...]

Jun201014

Rob

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Amazing Canadian race sees Red Bull knocked off their perch by McLaren

The Canadian GP normally serves up a good race but this year was a special one with non stop action from the first corner until the end. It was the first time that the tyre rules really worked as they were planned to, coupled with the endless capacity that the Gilles Villeneuve track has for incidents and F1 sprang to life.
It was the first race of the year that has started without a Red Bull on pole and with the leading cars split on tyre choice the start looked exciting. It played out that way too with passing in the first few laps. Then by the time that the race had just begun to stabilise the soft tyres started to go off – this was only a few laps into the race. Hamilton and the others on the softer compound pitting to change and the Red Bulls (on the harder [...]

Jun201003

Rob

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Team play in turkey for Hamilton and Button

The Turkish GP promised some close racing after qualifying with a McLaren managing to split the Red Bull’s on the grid and the shows in practice but it was the Red Bulls that seemingly had everything in the bag, though the McLarens were by no means done when the Red Bulls got together. It was Lewis Hamilton’s first win of the season as Button continues to pick up solid points as did Mark Webber after the incident which saw him pit for a new front wing and still hold out for third ahead of Michael Schumacher.
The 1-2 for McLaren seemed to mask something between the drivers after the race, Button’s move for the lead 11 laps from the end showed that he’s not going to let Hamilton get away with anything though the somewhat lacklustre defence of that position a few corners later seemed a little odd. I wonder what [...]

May201019

Rob

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Schumacher, Alonso and the punishment

With Schumacher taking a penalty for overtaking under the safety car and Mercedes not appealing that means that Schumacher will go down in the record books as being beaten by Rosberg again – not something that he’s going to enjoy making a habit of. It seems that everyone other than Ferrari thought you could race to the line, even the commentators but then everyone knows which team has the ear of the stewards.
The punishment at first seems fair, a 20sec penalty, but when it’s taken in the context of a safety car finish it’s clear that it’s about as damaging as disqualification as all the cars will be finished. Some have talked about swapping the cars back as punishment but a) that’s not in the rule book, and b) that doesn’t really punish anyone. It seems that the 20s penalty was the lightest reprimand that they could hand out – [...]

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