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@joshua-mesh
No, it wasn’t, at least Pirelli did not expect it and if anyone, they should know what to expect form their tyres. 4 stops on the 2 hardest compounds is far from OK. Pirelli says the aim is 2-3 stops […]

@poul
True but who said there was? What I mean is the fastest lap in the race is run on low fuel levels so the times shouldn’t be that much off those in qualifying. The 7% difference shows pretty well how much […]

Exactly. In Ferrari’s case there might be something apart from sheer luck, but the Lotus E21 is pretty much an evolution of the 2010 Renault which is Pirelli’s development car.
It’s hugely hypocritical of Lotus […]

@fisha695
Really? Is it normal to drive 7% slower in the race than in qualifying? Is it normal that the fastest lap in the race would hardly be enough to qualify for the race (107% limit)?

No it’s not.

Yes, it is. Ferrari and Lotus didn’t “build” their cars around the 2013 tyres. That was impossible considering the teams had ZERO time to test the new tyres in the development phase of their new car. […]

Yet if your DRS jams open, many people consider it bad luck. Much like Ferrari.

I think Webber’s car was damaged by the contact with Rosberg though?

He’s not a native English speaker, I think he just couldn’t express himself correctly. For me it looked like he meant to say can’t do that because he does not have the flexibility of a woman. I’m sure he didn’t […]

his team made a horrendous decision for him to stay out on track.Don’t tell me it was his decision

As more and more of such incidents happen to Alonso, I’m getting more and more convinced that it largely boils […]

It wasn’t Vettel’s mistake, he did not see Senna in his mirror because Di Resta was between them. True, Vettel could have been more cautious, but he was ahead of the other 2 at the corner entry and it is pretty […]

that might have not worked though because the conditions are much different at high speed (air pressure for example), one way to minimize risk would have been to refrain from using it on the second stint and test […]

Nice, but Alonso’s troubles were mainly caused by Ferrari or Alonso who made another idiotic decision again after Malaysia, opening the flap after it stuck thus forcing him to the pit again and losing like 20 […]

Stop whining already, the bulls have always been good at Bahrain… just a week ago in China, they were struggling while Alonso had an easy win like Vettel had today.
Hadn’t Ferrari (or Alonso) screwed it up […]

I would have voted Ricciardo, but then I realized I don’t remember seeing him on screen at all…
So I picked Vettel who finished 5 places better than he started, and it could easily have been 7 and a 2nd place […]

yeah, unlike the great Alonso who never cracks, except in the last couple of races in the season.

He said after the race that he had turned down the engine

He did, he just conveniently forgot to add that he needed to spare more fuel than Seb… Seb’s was also turned down but not as much as Mark’s, since he […]

Lets face it, Red Bull hate when Webber wins in front of Vettel

hence they issued “multi21″… makes perfect sense dude

It was unfair when WEB was told to slow down and assured that VET would do the same too

That may be true but I fail to see when exactly Mark did slow down seeing as they were racing each other hard from the […]

Mark did NOT slow down. He himself said today that his tyres were over by the last pit stop and Vettel caught him on the fresh soft ones. He wanted to pit one lap earlier (e. g. when Vettel pitted), but the team […]

At Silverstone 2010, after testing them, Mark was happier with the old wing, Seb was happier with the new wing, that’s why they gave it to Seb.