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I'll have to try and watch it, as everything I have read thus far is that it was a great race.
Alonso was immense, but Perez should have had that. Inexplicable message from his team near the end, and a really untimely mistake. The most impressive was Senna though, it was like the pack he was working through were standing still.
I'm still on Team Grosjean, but we'll see how he does in China.
What a race! It was fantastic for the spectator (apart from the red flag) seeing so many critical moments, you really got the sense that every corner was a potential spin and every pit stop a win or lose decision.
I also understand the frustration from some of the drivers; Kimi said after the race that while he was happy he finished 5th what he really wanted was a normal clean race so they have any idea how good they are. Instead they get a second DNF for Grosjean and Kimi started 17th in Melbourne due a mishap and 10th here due to a penalty followed by crazy wet race where he made up 5 positions simply by staying on the track.
And what the hell is going on with Massa? I mean I understand if he can't match Alonso, very few can. But yesterday he was being overtaken by what 8 drivers? That surely can't be all Massa's fault? There must be something very different going on with the management and car setup of each driver for that to make any sense.
Oh well, lets hope China brings some answers.
Definately a phenomenal performance from Perez and Alonso though. I'd like to see what they'd be like if they were both in a good car, which at the minute would be a Sauber. Senna quite impressed me aswell. His drive went a long way to showing that he deserves his place there.
Still wondering what happened to the Mercs though. They're phenomenal in qualifying, but their race pace is nowhere - the duct can't count for that much surely? McLaren were pretty poor this race aswell. They did manage a podium, but the number of screwups with strategy (out on the wrong tyres for too long) and pitstop screwups was very poor for them.
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the screen stays black.
And we are sitting on the couch looking at each other after 5 minutes of this, checking our connections, going WTF? It turns out they black out the live race on Canada and we can only catch it 9 hours later. So I took my jittering caffeine laden body and walked 15 blocks home, laid in bed, and coffee-convulsed myself to sleep eventually around 5am. Spent the next day feeling hungover.
Managed to get a copy to watch and I guess I'm kinda glad I didn't watch it live! Red flag. But WOW, what a race. That was just so exciting! My thoughts:
As far as Massa goes, it was mentioned quite clearly that Ferrari had spent time tuning and building an entirely new chassis for Massa, so its really no wonder it was so far off from Alonso's car. But I honestly think Ferrari's engineers are going with chaos-theory-design and just throwing a bunch of carbon fibre into a paste bucket and slopping whatever comes out on the track.
Perez... can't say how elated and disappointed I was watching what happened. I'm firmly convinced that the team manager put words of doubt into his head, and with Perez being so young, it took just a bit of his concentration out of the car and he put the wheels on the curb. It doesn't take much. Stupid thing for a team manager to say to a pilot who is literally DEVOURING the lead car by .7 seconds PER LAP to hold off and enjoy second place, especially when you have a chance of blowing the freaking doors off of a) a Ferrari and b) an ALONSO, while driving a c) SAUBER!!! Would have been so cool, I really think Perez would have had it had the TM kept his mouth shut.
Otherwise, I love the tire rules, the red flag made things very interesting, Button is awesome and unfortunate, HRT's are very sharp Pylons, and Grosjean is going to make top 4 next race. Also, go Kimi.
I understand Vettel's frustration, but his comments are a little unfair.
And the BBC hired the dullest man in the world, Gary Anderson, to do commentary. I didn't like him when he was with Star Sports, now he's being offensively boring elsewhere. Great move, BBC.
Kobayashi in 4th, ahead of Räikönnen and Button, is also pretty impressive.
In other news, the Ferrari still sucks - if Vettel hadn't screwed up with his exhaust choice, not even Alonso would have made it to Q3.
Lot's of the season left to go, but hopefully it stays like this.
Means little for the race, but really nice to see it.
(Am I just talking to myself in this thread now? Seems like we usually have 4-5 people on race nights at least.)