I was shocked by Hamilton's crash in Q2. Looked like he lost the right front brake which caused the car to swerve left and out of control.
Still, I'm happy for Rosberg. I'm kind of pulling for him this year. I'd like to see him win a championship.
Lewis wins the race if that happens, so in the end I am glad that didn't happen.I couldn't believe that Sauber in the middle of the track on the front straight didn't bring out a safety car and then when 3 marshalls ran across the track to push it out of the way I was even more stunned.
Great race though.
If only drivers didn't take big chunks out of Kimi's car every time they tried to work past him. He is up there with Massa in terms of luck this year (well second on the list, but Massa's bad luck is unapproachable).What a great action packed race. I loved seeing the scraps between Ham/Raik/Ricc and Alonso/Ric.
It's hard to pit blame on either one. It was Massa's line and Mags was way off line. But it would have been nearly impossible for Mags to see or account for Massa.Yeah and Masssa's crash was unlucky - but not Magnusson's fault as Massa claimed. Massa's had an awful season. Really a bummer since the car is so good.
Happy with the action, but not happy with the result.
To keep up with my key competitors, Alonso has to perform better than Ricciardo. That dream shattered with three laps to go.
Rosberg has to do better than Hamilton: Hamilton runs him off the track in the last lap, gets no penalty, ignores team orders that would have made Rosberg a contender for victory
And Button and Hülkenberg have to get more points than Hamilton. With the Hülk getting taken out by Perez (who caused the second safety car and plenty of woes for the other guys in my team) and Button falling prey to that horrible call of judgement on tire strategy, that didn't happen either.
So, all in all a rotten weekend, result-wise. That first safety car robbed me the important Rosberg victory, and allowed Hamilton to get into contention.
Vettel must be fuming too, but then he has no one to blame but himself for later spinning out of the final corner.
But it seems that despite the still massive advantage in pace the Mercedes have (looks like they were running pretty high downforce, judging by how Rosberg pulled away at the start, and then didn't have the straight line speed to make much happen on the start-finish-straight) which slowed their race pace. Putting Hamilton on the hard rubber was also a bad call, on softs he wouldn't have performed worse, by the looks of it.
Massa also did two stints on hards, no idea why Williams thaught that was wise. At least he scored some important points. Kimi also got into a decent position for once. Both obviously at the cost of my runners, but that takes off some of the hurt. Dropped to second in both leagues now..
Also, Hamilton's quali bad luck is only offset by his race good luck. Sure, he had those DNFs, but whenever is quali is worst, he gets race results gifted to him. I wonder why Rosberg even bothers getting into the car on a Saturday
Fantastic race today! I was hoping Rosberg would get Hamilton at the end there. One more lap and I'm sure he would have gotten past Hamilton.
Not in the same lap.If Hamilton lets Rosberg go, Rosberg would have gotten around Alonso.
Alonso did a great job with what he had to work with.
Not in the same lap.
Not in the same lap.
if Hamilton backed off to let Rosberg pass he would lose time to the drivers he was chasing.
To be honest Mercedes missed a trick when they put Hamilton on the Prime tyre. He could have gone to the end on the Option and he would have been much faster, probably fast enough to win if he could have nailed Alonso.
Rosberg also lost out because he made a mistake when attacking Magnussen which allowed JEV through. His inability to overtake JEV is what cost Rosberg the win rather than anything Hamilton did or did not do.
Fave race of the last few years! So much good driving and seeing the cars at the edge reminded me of the good ol days where you could SEE who was really driving the wheels off the car.
I could not believe Alonso's pace and how he kept hamilton off him for so long. If he was in say the RB as it is this year he would have won 3-4 races by now. I am almost feeling sorry for Seb right now.
Ricciardo got around him so fast Hamilton must have really been having tire issues since he could have gone past there in the same spot for 2-3 laps but didnt have the tires for the subsequent turn. The Cynic in me thinks Alonso was easy on the rookie to spite MB and ingratiate himself with RB since he will likely be there at the end of the year. Alonsos remarks the last few weeks about Daniel are interesting to me.
Really an amazing run for Hamilton. From pit row to podium is insanely crazy. He made some really aggressive passes and I was not surprised a few drivers didnt put him into the sand. He was basically doing the Senna "im gonna put my car there and you either hit me or let me trough" tactic.