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If Ferrari start winning it will be a good season, else it will be another long and disappointing season like last year,
Unfortunately at the minute i think they are behind Renault AND McLaren.
If Kimi hadn't had his qualifying incident I think he would have walked the race.
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Stuart
Unfortunately at the minute i think they are behind Renault AND McLaren.
If Kimi hadn't had his qualifying incident I think he would have walked the race.
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Stuart
sstein said:
If Kimi hadn't had his qualifying incident I think he would have walked the race.
I tend to agree, hardly saw any footage but he must have been flying. To finish on the podium from last place is not mean achievement. I think Ron Dennis will be reasonably happy with that result.
touchingcloth said:
If Kimi hadn't had his qualifying incident I think he would have walked the race.
I tend to agree, hardly saw any footage but he must have been flying. To finish on the podium from last place is not mean achievement. I think Ron Dennis will be reasonably happy with that result.
I think Ron Dennis might also be disappointed that Montoya, in the same car and starting from fifth, got overtaken twice by Button and finished fifth, whilst Raikkonen started last (and thats 22nd not 20th James Allen) and finished 3rd.
A good race - I didn't have to consider falling asleep!
Seriously though I have enjoyed this race weekend. Qualifying wasn't too bad and the championship should be good with 4 teams all within spitting distance.
Kimi had a flyer and it would have made the weekend for me if he had been able to win - however 22nd to 3rd is one hell of a race.
Rossberg - not slow is he? Without a stop to put his nose on I wonder if he would have been troubling 4th or even 3rd?
All in all a very satisfying F1 opener in my mind, loads of overtaking throughout the field too which can only be a good thing.
Phil
Seriously though I have enjoyed this race weekend. Qualifying wasn't too bad and the championship should be good with 4 teams all within spitting distance.
Kimi had a flyer and it would have made the weekend for me if he had been able to win - however 22nd to 3rd is one hell of a race.
Rossberg - not slow is he? Without a stop to put his nose on I wonder if he would have been troubling 4th or even 3rd?
All in all a very satisfying F1 opener in my mind, loads of overtaking throughout the field too which can only be a good thing.
Phil
quite a good race. Rosberg certainly seems to have some potential, did very well for his first race.
did people hear the interview with DC? not knowing what the buttons on his steering wheel did and having to get his mechanincs to tell him over the radio. that would be a bit scary at 180mph!
did people hear the interview with DC? not knowing what the buttons on his steering wheel did and having to get his mechanincs to tell him over the radio. that would be a bit scary at 180mph!
It was a good close race. A few years ago we'd have given anything to see the two top drivers finishing that close. With third and fourth less than 20 sec behing too.
Also, DC seems to have a lot more balls now at Red Bull. His experience really shows with those great blocking moves.
Also, DC seems to have a lot more balls now at Red Bull. His experience really shows with those great blocking moves.
Piglet said:For sure he is the real thing.
Good race, good weekend. For me Rosberg was the star - wheel to wheel racing in his first F1 race. Got to be one to watch for the future.
Other conclusions:
- MS, FA and KR are even more plainly than last year a cut above the rest.
- Villeneuve continues to drive the only car that's twenty feet wide. Will somebody please give this clown the hook?
It actually bodes well for the rest of the season. Lots of unanswered questions - which is excellent.
I was really impressed with Nico Rosberg. Certainly looks like a star of the future and worthy of the family name.
I've just been watching my videotaped highlights of the 1983 season and have been thoroughly enjoying watching his dad chucking the Williams FW08C sideways through corners and power sliding out of the turns. It's a real shame that current F1 cars don't really allow that type of flamboyant driving.
I was really impressed with Nico Rosberg. Certainly looks like a star of the future and worthy of the family name.
I've just been watching my videotaped highlights of the 1983 season and have been thoroughly enjoying watching his dad chucking the Williams FW08C sideways through corners and power sliding out of the turns. It's a real shame that current F1 cars don't really allow that type of flamboyant driving.
flemke said:
Good race, good weekend. For me Rosberg was the star - wheel to wheel racing in his first F1 race. Got to be one to watch for the future.
Other conclusions:
- MS, FA and KR are even more plainly than last year a cut above the rest.
- Villeneuve continues to drive the only car that's twenty feet wide. Will somebody please give this clown the hook?
erm... surely keeping other drivers behind you is a good thing?
Gilles Villenueve's greatest race is reckoned to ne the 1981 Spanish GP where he kept six cars bottled up behind his lumbering, ill handling Ferrari 126 for the entire race. No one complained, including the drivers who couldn't pass him. They all thought he had done a magnificent job doing what a racing driver should do, try to stay in front of his opponents.
You can't blame a driver for trying to retain his position.
Blocking someone when you are being lapped is a different matter.
You can't blame a driver for trying to retain his position.
Blocking someone when you are being lapped is a different matter.
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