Comments on: Vettel’s mistake lets Button in for another win (Turkish Grand Prix review)

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:12:30 +0000

As a postscript, i must mention that i find it incredulously hilarious, that most of you swoon about fellas from the past who dominated in their respective eras. Yet, when you have the opportunity to watch some of the truly greats LIVE at work, you spit venom. I pity you!

That just has to be requoted! Spot on, cheers.

While I feel the same about Jenson’s performance. I think it worth mentioning Lewis was in his rookie season matching and beating his World Champ team mate etc.

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:57:43 +0000

I’m English in England and I am a Lewis Hamilton fan thru and thru.
I don’t find the season boring at all – an evolving & reordering of the F1 hierarchy – (maybe temporarily maybe not) is something I’m really enjoying. I’m sure it helps that Jenson is British but I’m also thrilled to watch his flawless performance with deserved spoils.
Watching the old guard often trip over themselves as they try and scrabble together at least an explanation of this seismic shift.
Watching Rubens genuinely struggle to maintain any consistency as the pressure of keeping up with Jenson eats at him. I hope it doesn’t alter Rubens often chilled and happy demeanour.
Also, enjoying watching the World Champ slowly coming to terms with his inverse position. Driving a surprisingly poor package extremely well. Monaco grabbing back that beautifully taken slice of luck she presented him last season. Serving a healthy dose of humble pie.

That’s just a small part of the detail I enjoy in F1, whatever the result and I always love it…

Keep on Jenson, fantastic performance!

By: Dileep Nair

Dileep Nair — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:47:19 +0000

The Turkish Grand Prix, didn’t make for spectacular racing. Most of the action was packed into the first lap and that was where Jenson Button won the race. The famous turn eight, which include four apexes continued to fascinate drivers; this being the entire calendar’s longest corner. Read more about the race here.

By: David A

David A — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:13:32 +0000

So much for positivity, eh?

By: V

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:24:00 +0000

I guess you are not paying attention to reality. Is not uncommon for one driver to get “old parts” that are more prone to break. I do recall Alonso complaining about the same. You would not say Alonso was too old to drive F1 would you?

By: V

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:15:56 +0000

you must be joking.
The fact that Jenson is not laping the RBR cars just tells that he is not good enough.
The dominance of the Brawns is so clear that drivers like Schumi would have minutes advantage over the next cars. The race laps being so close tells us that either Jenson is taking it easy or just plain slow. Note that in race conditions Jenson never runs over the bumps or limiters. Because he does nor need to. The car is probably 1-3 seconds faster per lap in race conditions.

By: Kegs

Kegs — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:54:03 +0000

This is the first time that Fisi has got past the first corner at Turkey though, he has had an accident there every year since F1 started racing there

By: Sri

Sri — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:54:35 +0000

Don’t get me wrong mate. I’m a huge Williams fan, more so for the man who gave the team his name, brought it to life. However, i would want to see the guy who’s doing the winning a tad more than i get to. No disrespect to the other guys, they work equally hard and in some case harder than the leading driver. However, it’s something about the winning car/driver combination, which is superlative and you want to want watch it, to absorb details. YES, i want more on-board action as well…

By: racingtier

racingtier — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:21:02 +0000

nuff said. i agree 100%. you wrote exactly what i think.

By: JoshH

JoshH — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:38:17 +0000

Sri June 8, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Come to think of it… the broadcast, it doesn’t show much of the leading cars as much as i’d like to see

there’s not a great deal going on at the front anyway – the only advantage would be if it were n on-board camera…

I think that overall the race was good, I know that the sport is largely about winning…. okay its all about winning, but still, there is plenty of action and good racing to be seen in the rest of the pack. For instance I would have liked to have seen a lot more of Trulli and Rosberg near the end of the Grand Prix. Also Barrichello and Kovalinen had a great battle near the beginning and it would have been good, if the gearbox didn’t break on his car, to have seen Barrichello battle his way up from the back. In some respects the regulations do help this and I have found this season interesting because of the new regulations. They would have worked much better if Brawn had had the same amount of time as everyone else rather than developing the car for like the whole of last season.

My driver of the day would probably be Rosberg – I think I read that it was his best result of the season, in a car that frankly isn’t fantastic, which meant he got past the two ferraris and alonso… but we either didn’t see this or it was strategy.