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Charliemouse

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It's funny, after the whole "Fernando is faster than you" debacle of last season, I saw Stefano as the panto villian; but he this season he's come across as a really cool guy.

I feel the same, he is making me hate Ferrari far less than I used too as seems like a really nice guy.

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Shimmyhill

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Come on Debbie, clever move whining about Lewis whoop and deflecting you rubbish views on vettel being the great one.

What a great race, some proper racers out there and maybe we need to put Massa ahead of vettel as he fended off the much faster car with ease until passed in the pits - the only way vettel was going to pass him.

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Sidewaysbob

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Lewis is a driving GOD

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Lewis Hamilton is the most exciting driver on the circuit today.

What an absolute thunder bucket of a race. Give Lewis a sniff of the chequered flag and he will thrash the car within an inch of its life to give you the win. Considering that last week McLaren were all long faces and “where the heck did the speed go!!!”. This week , whilst Jenson was looking a bit lost and miserable, Lewis was out there spanking it for the win. What a turn around, and he didn’t need a pit stop to pass anyone he did the talking on the track and showed Vettel how it should be done.

Redbull in fact had a terrible weekend by their standards. Webber got pole with an outstanding lap, laughing in the face of Ferrari who though they just had to turn up after Silverstone and nail the pole. Whilst Vettel got jumped by Alonso who though he had it in the bag and Hamilton who was as surprised as anyone after he’d told the world he wasn’t even thinking about doing well in qualifying. So for the first time in 14 races Vettel wasn’t on the front row on Sunday and was going to have to show everyone he could overtake. Well that’s what was supposed to happen. The smug young German was expected to cruise back to the front of the field and win with ease.

What actually happened was yet again Webber choked on the big occasion when the red lights go out and ended up behind Lewis who’d made a blinding start. Alonso almost jumped Webber too but backed out of the first corner at the last second to set up an afternoon of a Hamilton, Webber and Alonso master class in racing. For 60 odd laps the three of them drove the nuts of their cars to try and take the win. All Vettel could do was fart around behind Massa and look rather sad and pathetic as he stared forlornly at the back of the Ferrari. He was hopeless; if he made an attempt to pass I missed it. All I saw was a world champion protecting his championship lead and nancying around for the points. Where is the glamor in that ?

At the front it was nip and tuck, never more than 3 seconds between them. Once Alonso had his tires up to temperature he came back at Hamilton. Webber jumped them both with an early stop but lost out to Alonso the next stop.

Then the defining moment of the race came when Alonso dived into the pit and came out ahead of Hamilton who had pitted the lap before. “Aaah” we thought, this is going to be Alonso’s race after all, oh well. But then Hamilton steamed round the outside of Alonso into turn 2 taking the lead and motoring on to the win. See Vettel .. That’s how you do it.

Make the move -> take the win.

Not; wait and wait and wait and wait and pass Massa in the pits on the last lap you tart..

Alonso tried to get the jump on Lewis at the end with the last stop for the hard tires, but Lewis absolutely spanked the McLaren on cold tires and Alonso stayed out a lap too long to lose the race by 3 seconds. Just for good measure Hamilton got the fastest lap as the race ended to show all and sundry that he is a driving GOD.

So Hamilton gets his second win of the year and is a happy bunny once again. Up until Qualifying he was saying the car was too slow and had not grip, then all of a sudden with low fuel and sticky tires he was the balls out Lewis of old. Nailing a front row spot and taking the win. Its races like this that keep me coming back time after time.

Alonso is Second after thinking all he had to do was turn up for the win. The Italian team was so confident of victory that they’d sent Alonso out in Q3 at the very start to set a banker lap and lay down a marker for everyone else to chase, then Webber stole the pole and Hamilton from nowhere passed him too. Alonso tried his damnedest to get the win but was beaten by a better driver on the day. If only this had happened at the start of the season and we could have a four way battle for the title. As it is, it sets up an exciting second half to be second to Vettel.

Webber started 1st finished 3rd ...... that’s about right and he didn’t need to worry about being told to stop racing this time happily, he’d done that before the first corner hahahahahahahaha.

Vettel, proved he can’t pass anyone in the best car of the field, for 4th.

Massa plays tail gunner and made Vettel look as ordinary as Hamilton did last week in 5th.

Sutil, plays it softly softly and is the best of the rest this week in 6th.

Rosberg didn’t step up to the plate and should have at least gotten past Sutil. The shine is defiantly starting to fade off this star in 7th .

Schumacher makes it through a race to 8th this time without having to replace his front wing for a change, but still doesn’t look like a seven times world champion. It’s got to the point where people aren’t even talking about how badly he’s doing anymore. That’s how far he’s fallen!

Kobayashi is 9th wining the “did he take part in the race ? I must have missed him” award this week.

Finally Petrov is 10th and got in everyone’s way during the race.

Right at the back of the grid Chandock makes it home 4 laps behind Hamilton and 1 lap behind the HRT of Ricciardo. So they fire Trulli for being rubbish and replace him with Chandock who can’t get ahead of the HRT’s. Now I Like Chandhok, he’s lucid and erudite so I feel sorry about making that jibe. But still he did do worse than Trulli and will have done nothing to build his reputation. Hopefully we’ll see him in India if nowhere else, I’d like to see more of him because I think he not a bad driver. Unlike Trulli who is shit.

And finally In HRT watch we have this gem from Colin Kolles, Team Principal:

“ The pit stops went smoothly”

More positivity, that’s what I like form HRT.

Prediction results in the usual place, you should all have your emails by now. Well done to Agent L this week.

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Shimmyhill

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bob, you missed the bit about Vettel locking up every time he tried to get close to Massa (one can only assume to pressure him into a mistake) to 'pass' him.

The comment from Alonso about using Mclaren to take points from Red Bull to aid his championship win was hilarious, as much as i dislike Alonso and Ferrari i would prefer him to beat Vettel this year if lewis or Jenson can't :o

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marsh

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I think he still has pace, he just has to take more chances and fucks up alot. When he stops having to drive so hard, and stops fucking up, he'll be back on the podium. He might even bag a win this year.

I'm also not suprised that he's like 'oh I'd love to see in season testing come back.....'

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Shimmyhill

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But Schumacher used to drive extraordinary races ..... now he's just a bit meh. :blah:

I would love to see him in one of the Red bulls to see if he still has it but even them i doubt he would be as quick as the best of the current crop :o No doubting how good he was but in a different era when he had the perfect car made to fit him in a money no object time with unlimited testing etc - its well documented that the current cars are harder to drive and with limited testing and development budget the ability to make a car that again is unlikely to happen again.

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Sidewaysbob

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I don't think he stands a chance of the podium at all. He was close in Canada but he just didn't have the car to give it to him. And he's being beaten by Rosberg race after race. I think the problem is in his day he could test the car to death and have it sorted for the start of the weekend. These days he can't adapt to the car when it turns up on friday, so he has to chase a set up fro scratch then throw in some new bits and he's casting around for a set up. He's still not really using the simulator either i understand so he's always on the back foot.

The Merc are beating the Renaults just about but given their budget they should be up there with Mclaren, Ferrari and arguably now redbull. the reality is they got boosted by Sutil in the Force India. They look pretty fragile if chased down by Force India, williams and Torro Rosso.

That and Mickey just keeps hitting other cars far to often these days. I think he's lost something like 3 front wings this year. That'sa rookie error.

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dayte

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This race has been conclusive proof that Vettel is second rate when he doesn't have clean air - he might be world champion, but in terms of racing pedigree he isn't even as competitive as some of the midfield racers. Fastest laps, poles, driving in a technologically superior car and relying on others' mistakes off track (he can't even capitalise on drivers who lock up their tyres) - he can do all that perfectly. Driving against others, amateur. Maybe he should make a career of drag racing and time trials.

But what a drive by Lewis. Absolutely immense, the best racer on the track. He needs to get a better radio man though, almost like he wasn't happy with Lewis' win, the complete opposite to Massa-Rob Smedley.

Pretty ironic that the only time Vettel finishes outside the podium is in his home race :)

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