Pass of the Year: 2012 Spanish Grand Prix (38 posts)

  • Profile picture of Jake Jake said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Whilst I see why people have gone for Vettel’s move on Rosberg, to me, it just seems that Vettel had far superior traction so simply had to move to the inside and from there it was easy.

    That’s why I’m going for Hamilton on the Torro Rossos. Yes he had better tyres, but the intelligence of the move was outstanding. Firstly, he stayed well up on the curb (nearly the grass) to stay out of the dirty air, so that he could get good grip up the inside of the first one. Then he thought ahead, deciding to go to the outside of the second, knowing it would give him the inside line for turn 5.

    I wish I could say Hamilton on Massa was the move of the race. If that had come off round the outside of turn 1 it would have been truly epic!

  • Profile picture of cosicave cosicave said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I feel that Hamilton’s double-pass around the outside of first one Toro Rosso – and immediately pulling off another on the second – was overtaking and opportunism of the highest quality. I say this in the midst of a race which had a number of excellent moves, but unlike some of them, what Hamilton did here was not the result of DRS or tyres.

    As an instructor, I often make notes if I get opportunity to watch a race. Here is some of what I wrote at the time (which ignores DRS overtakes except for Schumacher’s frustrated attempt):

    Alo Mas g/starts
    Maldo falling
    Alo going. Rabbit!
    Ham v Senna
    Schumuck v Senna Oh dear no excuse. Job on line. Xpect bull.
    Kobay v Button may touch – yes. Close!
    Karthi mob-chic for Maldo (Blue Pen?)
    Ham should PIT. Y DLA?
    Vett v Butt nice move. Tyres?
    Maldo win? Frank willb Xing fings. Watch Alo & Raik
    Ham double-O/t Turn 4! v Toros! Super xmple
    Vett v Butt (∆ as abv ≠ tys?)
    Kob v Rosberg? tys?
    Vett v Ros (yes ∆ as abv tys gone)
    Alo to lap Massa ≥ job on line

    Excuse the shorthand but that’s how it’s written amongst all manner of other hieroglyphics!

  • Profile picture of Deleted User said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I think the pass of Kobayashi on Button was excellent. Pretty difficult in a corner that is not the best for overtaking and using the minimum space required to make this pass…

  • Profile picture of Mads Mads said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I missed Hamilton’s double overtake. Do anyone have a video of it?

  • Profile picture of Karthikeyan Karthikeyan said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Kobayashi on Button

  • Profile picture of vinicius.jlantunes vinicius.jlantunes said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    KOB on BUT.

  • Profile picture of joac21 joac21 said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    could someone upload videos ?

  • Profile picture of Keith Collantine Keith Collantine said 6 months, 2 weeks ago:

    Thanks for contributing, everyone. The shortlist will now be drawn up and the ten most popular suggestions from the year put to a vote.

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