Rate the race: Europe
What did you think of the European Grand Prix? Rate the race out of ten and leave a comment below:
Rate the 2010 European Grand Prix out of ten
- 1 (11%)
- 2 (5%)
- 3 (7%)
- 4 (8%)
- 5 (12%)
- 6 (18%)
- 7 (22%)
- 8 (13%)
- 9 (3%)
- 10 (1%)
Total Voters: 2,293
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2010 European Grand Prix
- The physics of Webber’s Valencia crash
- Technical review: European Grand Prix
- Sauber “thrilled” by Kobayashi’s passes
- 2010 European Grand Prix – the complete F1 Fanatic race weekend review
- Alonso retracts Valencia criticism
- FIA must learn from Valencia shambles
- Best finish of 2010 (Williams race review)
- Di Grassi shines (Virgin race review)
- Double finish at home (HRT race review)
- Buemi slips to ninth (STR race review)
beanzoo said on 27th June 2010, 14:47
not a great race (ferrari fan) but Kob at the end was great
OVERBOOST said on 27th June 2010, 15:04
FIA sucks!
What a shame of race!
OVERBOOST said on 27th June 2010, 15:08
Thanks God Webber and Kob its OK by the way
rok said on 27th June 2010, 15:27
Agree… fia is whatever…
What was that with Hamilton… another flower from him….
gero said on 27th June 2010, 15:27
Totally true. Too bad for Charlie he can’t fix the Germany-England football score.
Jef said on 27th June 2010, 15:36
I couldn’t agree more. Out with Whiting who is manipulating the races! Why is nobody doing anything??? What else has to happen?!?
Macca (@macca) said on 27th June 2010, 15:50
I voted this a perfect race simply because Mark Webber is alive.
Mark Hitchcock said on 27th June 2010, 14:48
5. Not much action really but Kobayashi livened things up towards the end.
And obviously, as horrible and scary as it was, Webber’s crash was memorable.
damonsmedley said on 27th June 2010, 15:15
Yes I totally agree. This track needs to go as soon as possible. Every time someone attempted a pass, there was contact. Luckily there weren’t many crashes like Mark’s. But it was even happening it the support races. There can not be any better proof that this track is terrible. Well done Kobayashi though!
James_mc (@james_mc) said on 27th June 2010, 14:48
Good race by Valencia’s standards! Overall pretty dull though, don’t think track design helps, too often we saw a driver lock up significantly in the final turn while being shadowed by another and retain their position.
Robbie said on 27th June 2010, 14:49
Before Webber’s crash, which was heartstopping and spectacular (I was extremely worried for his safety for a second until he threw the wheel out angrily), it was pretty decent. After the safety car it was just a procession and a bunch of disappointing penalties. It’s not often that a safety car makes the race less exciting but without it we would’ve seen Vettel and Hamilton battling at the end (made impossible by his drive through), we wouldn’t have to wait to see what the stewards have to make of the final result. That being said it was probably the best race we’ve seen at Valencia. It’s also a shame we have that 2 tyre rule because I really believe Kobayashi could’ve been on the podium if he was allowed to carry on. I was well happy when he overtaked Alonso and Buemi (on the final corner) though! And with the penalties still to come he might even be on the podium!
6/10
Lachie said on 27th June 2010, 22:43
You gotta be careful though. Even Brundle said without the safety car we would have seen a great battle but it was pretty clear Vettel was crusing out on his own and made to extend the gap when Hamilton pushed after his drive thru. Had there been no Safety Car Vettel would have just kept pushing the whole way.
And if there were no 2 tyre rule then everyone would have done what Kobayashi did and not pitted at all and he wouldnt have made up the positions by not pitting.
I was thinking the same things but you gotta take everyones race into perspective
miguelF1O (@) said on 27th June 2010, 14:49
this was another strange race why cant f1 be just 4 or 5 drivers battling on the track at valencia we had cheating whining drivers fantastic crashes rocket kobayashi i think that will be a lot of DSQ hopefully too mutch luck too mutch artificial racing it seems impossible to have fair competition
aa said on 27th June 2010, 15:17
yep, I love alonso Whinning “tell Charlie Hamilton overtook the safety”. It was like being back to skool when I was 10 :)
dragon said on 28th June 2010, 1:09
are you saying Alonso should have just shut up and driven? He was easily third, then he was easily tenth, through no real fault of his own – and in his view, the perpetrator escaped unpunished. If he wasn’t furious, he’s not a true racing driver.
bosyber said on 27th June 2010, 14:50
Kobayashi’s last leap moves made it an 8 for me.
I notice that Alonso is 32.8 behind Vettel while Button is 7.6, so if Button does not get more then 25 seconds penalty, Alonso is still behind him, but Kobayashi would be just ahead.
Frans said on 27th June 2010, 15:20
Btw, how much does a drive through penalty cost? I hope if those drivers that are under investigation does get a penalty it would not cost them more than a drive through penalty. My rationale behind it is that there are plenty of time to give those driver a drive through penalty so there is really no reason to give them more than that. They should give the penalty relative to the penalty they are given to Hamilton.
Well, I’m still waiting on the post race analysis on whether if they are actually speeding under SC give them any advantage or not.
And great drive by Koby… Burger power? :)
Chris said on 27th June 2010, 15:35
I think a drive-through awarded after the race nets 25 seconds added to their finishing time. That’d put Kobayashi up to 3rd, Button down to 4th, still 0.2 seconds ahead of Alonso.
SoLiDG (@solidg) said on 27th June 2010, 14:50
For Valencia this is all we could have hoped for.
Ok maybe some more if Hamilton didn’t have his penalty.
Damon said on 27th June 2010, 14:50
Thank you, Kobayashi, for showing how fantastic this track is!
We saw overtaking maneuvers on half of the corners.
newnhamlea1 (@newnhamlea1) said on 27th June 2010, 14:50
much better than the previous two events.
Robbie said on 27th June 2010, 14:52
Are you mental?
Skett said on 27th June 2010, 14:55
I’m guessing he meant the previous two at valencia?
newnhamlea1 (@newnhamlea1) said on 27th June 2010, 16:51
yes, i was refering to the previous two valencia races.
antizyklon said on 27th June 2010, 14:53
What a farce. The SC just ruined a race when the top 3 where fighting for the win. Terrible decision form the stewards that favoured as always Mr. Hamilton
gabal said on 27th June 2010, 15:12
They favored him by penalizing him? Interesting way to favor someone.
Manu said on 27th June 2010, 15:40
They favored him by waiting more than 10 laps to penalize him. So yes they favored him.
J said on 27th June 2010, 15:18
what are on about?
J said on 27th June 2010, 15:19
what are u on about antizyklon
Dizzy-A (@david-a) said on 27th June 2010, 17:40
He is referring to the way the penalty didn’t cost Hamilton anything. But this was because of a combination of two things- the time it took for the decision to be made, and Hamilton’s raw pace that he had anyway.
gabal said on 27th June 2010, 20:59
Did stewards know he would exit the pits in front of Kobayashi when they penalized him? Hindsight is great but they needed to examine the situation first. We don’t know how much examinations they had and how many teams complained about. From the feature in F1 Racing about the stewards they have a lot of work examining situations, especially in first part of the race.
Todfod said on 30th June 2010, 11:39
Or the Kobayashi train, than enabled the top 2 drivers to pull away at more than a second a lap.
razer13 said on 27th June 2010, 14:54
Kamui driver of the race putting the move on both Buemi and Alonso. Webber’s crash fanstic. Have to see what happens with stewards decisions on the other cars. 8/10
miguelF1O (@) said on 27th June 2010, 14:59
agree but there are 10 cars that probably are going to be penalised it will change this race a lot a complete farce fighting for th win should be on track and please ban all fuel mix options cause hamilton gave us hope for an exciting decider for the win but in the end vet was saving is car and eventually ham had to save fuel as well not to mention that if he had respected the rules he should have ended in a similar position to alonso
renzo said on 27th June 2010, 14:54
it was a farce… Vettel automatically won the race after SC and Hamilton stole P2
really really terrible
Blog Raider said on 27th June 2010, 15:25
Stole P2? Wasn’t he running P2 before the safety car?…and yes he was punished, denied a chance of going for P1!
renzo said on 27th June 2010, 15:55
well.. to be correct he did’nt stole anything, but where the stewards who gifted him with P2 awaiting 15 laps before taking a decision… really disgusting this time…
Blog Raider said on 27th June 2010, 16:09
sure, and it is not his fault, also not his fault that Kobi was holding everyone else behind for him to built a nice gap…
miguelF1O (@) said on 27th June 2010, 14:55
After the messy race champ may be a bit scrambled counting the DSQ the classification might be
1ºVettel
2ºKobayashi
3ºAlonso
4ºAlonso
5ºMassa
6ºAlguersuari
7ºSchumacher
8ºDi Grassi
9ºGlock
10ºChandkok
James_mc (@james_mc) said on 27th June 2010, 14:56
Hamilton isn’t getting penalised post race though…
miguelF1O (@) said on 28th June 2010, 1:57
ok if hamilton penalty was fair im starting to ignore the safety car every race
Robbie said on 27th June 2010, 15:00
Two Alonsos and no Hamilton? The latter already served his penalty.
Dizzy-A (@david-a) said on 27th June 2010, 18:13
They made a hash of things today, but the stewards aren’t going to give Alonso 3rd and 4th place :P
You might mean Hamilton in 2nd, and Kobayahsi 3rd, ahead of Button and one guy called Alonso.
miguelF1O (@) said on 27th June 2010, 14:56
i gave 5 but now i think after all this cheating and bad conduct the race should not count for the champ
AndyC said on 27th June 2010, 14:57
Ferrari is screwed by the FIA. At the end it was better for them to overtake the safety car.