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@jleigh that was the first race in a long time (possibly even since Germany 2010) that I actually considered turning off. I am not one of those people either who says that half-heartedly for the sake of […]

@mike first from @commendatore

Should’ve been higher, like in 2nd place.

…which was in reply to me asking whether @jleigh thought he should be higher or lower. Then from the man himself:

I personally […]

@jleigh fair enough, but his performance was just as dominant and so driver of the weekend I think was well deserved with both drivers.

@vettel1
Should’ve been higher, like in 2nd place.
Kimi, 1st place.
Perez, 3rd place. ;)

@jleigh
+1

@jleigh as in should’ve been higher or should’ve been lower? I think 3rd is pretty a pretty accurate representation of how good he was (although I’d maybe put him behind Perez personally).

@jleigh

fair point. Out of curiosity, did you give DOTW to Kimi in Australia? He said it was easy as well.

@jleigh – very true: if it turns out he could’ve been in touch with Rosberg I may reconsider slightly, but I guess there may be just too much of a “what if” on that…

@jleigh – it’s the way he portrays it though that just seems strange: he never failed to mention last year that Vettel also had the fastest car, which was evidently not true.

You obviously believe Vettel would […]

@jleigh you’re meant to rate the race, not race + qualy.
i gave it a solid 7.

@vettel1 & @jleigh

Wasn’t Vettel a clever enough driver to miss a flag let alone a yellow colored one? Remember Brazilian GP 2012 anyone? By no means I wish to isolate Vettel here though.

@jleigh – I think that just goes to show even we as spectators, with the benefit of the timing and flag alerts, can’t say for sure whether certain drivers violated the rules or not – why should we then expect the […]

@jleigh

Would a driver get away with speeding in the pit lane if the pit limiter broke

That’s hardly comparable, considering that would be an isolated fault on one car and this is an FIA system failure.

You […]

@jleigh Well it does say GRID penalty in the article title, therefore one would presume a grid drop for the next race.

+1 This.

The better strategy is soft’s at the end when everyone else is wearing out their hard’s. With that said I agree with @jleigh that it is important for future qualifying runs that this does not work out.

@jleigh – You know, I bet this strategy of not bothering with Q3 isn’t even going to work (despite everyone saying it will, which would give me a pleasant surprise). Vettel did the same thing in Spain last year, […]

@jleigh for sure? if you know it please let me bring some champagne to celebrate…

@jleigh
100% agree…if voting the comments was a possibility here, your comment will have the most positive votes

@jleigh – if it continues I can see them reverting to an Abu Dhabi 2012-esque set-up; that worked very well with the tyres and was great for overtaking if Red Bull lost qualifying pace because of it, but I do […]

@jleigh : Are you kidding? The 3 other fastest cars are the other RBR and the Mercs? Haha, first of all the other RBR is driven by Webber, so take it out of the equation. The Mercs are not that great in the race, […]

@mike-dee – it was said that in Q2 he went out on a used set of mediums that is very true.

@jleigh – interesting proposal: usually it works that downforce prevents the tyre from sliding across the track so […]