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| An F1 fan this afternoon. |
Not the most exciting
of races again, only Ferrari cocking up the drafting in qualifying once again
and Hamilton driving it old school to keep it interesting.
Actually I feel asleep at about the first third point and
woke up again for the last third, so I'm not entirely sure what happened. I saw
Hamilton go into the pits for the slow puncture, which didn’t seem to be that
bad as he missed the pit entry for three laps after someone forgot to replace
the batteries in his radio before the start of the race. I feel asleep then as
it was pretty much over as a spectacle for me, to wake up to find he’s got all
the way to the top ten ... hurrah. Then he stopped to change his tyres again and
he was all the way back in nowheresville....booooo.
Then, sans radio he drove it like a proper racing driver
with balls and vim and grit and determination and stuff, Vettel please take
note. So yeah that was entertaining, whilst Vettel calmly went about his usual gig
of driving away from the rest of the field. Apparently they had some sort of
gearbox issue and a slightly wobbly tyre for a bit of the race. Didn’t seem to make much difference to his pace though.
Oh well
Alonso tried, but the Ferrari just wasn’t going to catch
Vettel once he was ahead.
Vettel wins after a pretty easy pole (I think, I fell asleep
for that too).beat Webber off the line and flat spotted the front right into
turn one, the vibrations messed up his dyed blond hair a little bit. He then won by a country mile. Dull dull dull dull dull dullness.
Alonso gave it some beans, bit of a banzai move for second
from Webber in the opening laps. Decided to ignore the team and stay out for
aaages when he should have come in for his tyre stop. Would have still come
second regardless. Ho and indeed hum
Webber gets on the podium for the first and last time in his
F1 career. He didn’t really do anything
wrong, but he might have tried a bit harder to take second from Alonso. Maybe
he was worried about being lynched by the Tifosi after the race. Anyway, I don’t
think he’s particularly bothered now; he’s off so Redbull wouldn’t let him win
and Seb is pretty much nailed on to the championship win so why risk an
accident.
Massa, who everyone is expecting to get fired on Wednesday
at the team meeting before they head off round the world, showed once again
that when he gets threatened with the sack, he goes really well. To be fair the
Mercs and Lotus cars had problems so he had a clear run, but it’s always nice
to see him up there on merit.
Hulkenberg was fifth with a fine drive that didn’t require
too much actual racing, once again he benefited from the other top line cars
not being there. Still he was third on the grid on merit and if that doesn’t
put him front and centre for the Ferrari seat, I have no idea what will. Kimi
might be that little bit faster, but the Hulk will always keep trying however
rubbish the car is.
Rosberg sixth had that better weekend he’d been looking for.
But look at Hamilton and what he got out of the car, Nico just sort of tooled
round and didn’t get in the way of Lewis as he went past. His engineer told him
to use Hamilton to drag him up the field, but he failed to do that. I think he
was ahead of his team mate by default, not because he deserved it.
Ricciardo seventh, yeah okay pretty good.
Grosjean eighth more of the same really.
Hamilton’s ninth was the drive of the day in my book. AND
the drivers these days have a pit wall telling them when to push, how they’re
doing, where they can go faster, which bit of their car Webber knocked off etc.
Lewis had to do the whole race with no one telling him how to do his job. He
went out there a spanked it, not even a slowly deflating tyre put him off his
stride. He was driving like they used to do it in the good old days, by the
seat of his pants and a state of the art steering wheel dashboard. Next time you’re
on the motorway, passing a sign for a turn off to some backwater Hicksville area.
Imagine you’re doing 200 miles an hour, the car is vibrating all around you,
and there is another driver in front of your weaving around to break the tow
and stop you slipstreaming past (for the purposes of not being blamed for someone
causing a multi car pileup on the M6 on Monday .. don’t actually do this) But
the sign is being changed each time you go past it. With messages about who’s
in front of you and when you have to stop and have a cup of coffee at the little
chef. There is a reason they developed
state of the art pit to car radio systems. Waving a board at a car travelling past
at 200 mph is pretty much waving a hope he saw you.
So I was dead impressed with what Lewis did. That fast that
he apologised to the team for not getting a better result makes me love him
even more. That is a proper racing driver, one with passion and heart.
Oh yeah and he got the fastest lap, at the end of the race.
See even at the end he was still trying!
Button, tenth and still dull. Actually its been highly
amusing watching him tell anyone that will listen and anyone that doesn’t care
than he loves McLaren so much and how he desperately wants to stay at McLaren
and he wants to drive a McLaren Honda so much and he really admires McLaren and
thinks they are really, really ace and he thinks’ it’s his perfect team ... and
dear lord please don’t fire my sorry ass McLaren.
Max was last, i think we can kiss goodbye to Van Der Garde
for last place now, he’s doing alright and Caterham have invested a bit of
money in the car at last. The Marussia boys are going to be scrapping it out
for the last spot now ... and that means its Max all the way. So you should all
get a least five points a race now ....
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