Darth_Pugwash
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Eventful race today - great result for Sauber and Perez in P2 but really they had the pace to win it.
Consistently quick pit stops from Ferrari helped Fernando Alonso on his way to an improbable win. His lap 14 stop allowed him to leapfrog both McLaren drivers – the corresponding pit stops for Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton were three and five seconds slower respectively.
Hamilton lost time in this visit as the rear jack did not go on properly and the team had to hold him in his pit box. His lap 41 visit was little better – as one mechanic struggle to remove tape from one of his brakes, Hamilton made an early departure.
Hamilton lost 8.5 seconds to Alonso over his three pit stops – more than half his deficit of 14.5 seconds at the finishing line. “In general, we lost some time in the pit stops and I was pushed out of the fight somewhat,” said Hamilton after the race.
4 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 22.534 0.913 40
7 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 22.864 1.243 14
37 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 24.653 3.032 4
30 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 24.271 2.650 5
58 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 26.338 4.717 41
62 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 27.961 6.340 14
31 Jenson Button McLaren 24.305 2.684 4
54 Jenson Button McLaren 25.922 4.301 13
72 Jenson Button McLaren 36.517 14.896 15
I am shocked that F1 now apparently allows such dangerous blocking. I was fully expecting him to be penalized for doing it not once, but twice."At the time Rosberg made the move, Alonso was behind him and no part of his car alongside the Merc," they said. "Rosberg made the move to the right before Alonso.
"For more than half the distance travelled by Rosberg in moving in a straight line towards the right edge of the track, Alonso remained behind him.
"Because the speed delta (difference) between the cars was quite significant it was difficult for Rosberg to detect the exact position of Alonso in relation to his own car. No part of Alonso's car was alongside Rosberg."
In explaining their verdict for the Hamilton incident, the stewards used almost identical phrasing.
After learning Rosberg would not be punished, Alonso wrote on Twitter: "I think you are going to have fun in future races! You can defend position as you want and you can overtake outside the track! Enjoy! ))"
I don't know what sort of personal grudge you have against Schumacher based on your continuing negative comments, but Senna clearly moved to the left as Schumacher approached for the turn after initially taking a middle-of-the-tarmac path to make passing difficult.while Schumi diappointing again in driving into Senna instead of normally overtaking him
Schumi accused Senna to drive zigzag to avoid being overtaken, but one could not see any trace of that in the replays
while Senna said that his tyres were old and wanted Schumi to overtake innersidely
but Schumi surprisingly and rather unprofessionally changed to outside and induced collision himself
"If you look at the overhead shot you can see he moves right to defend his position and then in the braking point he moves left," Schumacher said. "And I couldn't avoid him.
"It's in the braking phase. I'm very much annoyed about that. In Brazil (last year there was) a strange manoeuvre from him, and just before (in this race) he had an incident with (Lotus driver Romain) Grosjean. I don't know what happened there."
The overtaken driver should never move from his current line like that for obvious reasons. The person behind is no mind reader. This is especially true in the braking zone. Even though Schumacher was eventually penalized by the stewards with a 5 position penalty at the next race, I thought that Senna was also responsible for the incident. It also appeared that he slowed far too early for the corner even with old tires. But the closing rates with many other similar passes at that corner were far higher than I would have expected as well. Many of the passes were even completed long before the braking area. However, it is the responsibility of the driver behind to make a safe pass."I moved a bit left because I thought he was going to the inside. I never thought he'd go to the outside."
The FIA have confirmed in a statement that 31 team members were seen by circuit medical centre staff, the majority for smoke inhalation, with 24 released.
Seven, however, were transferred to a variety of local hospitals for treatment, one from Williams in particular for severe burns, understood to be to 40 per cent of his body.
Force India deputy team principal Bob Fearnley was fiercely critical of the response of the circuit's fire crews to the Williams garage incident.
"Incompetent would be a very polite way of saying what these people have done here today," Fearnley said.
"There's no training, no procedures. I went down to see how my man is, and I had to fight my way in.
"We need to look seriously at the training of people at the circuits. I'm not impressed at all."
I don't know what sort of personal grudge you have against Schumacher based on your continuing negative comments, but Senna clearly moved to the left as Schumacher approached for the turn after initially taking a middle-of-the-tarmac path to make passing difficult.
Senna even finally admitted he did so despite initially claiming he had not when interviewed on TV immediately afterwards:
The overtaken driver should never move from his current line like that for obvious reasons. The person behind is no mind reader. This is especially true in the braking zone. Even though Schumacher was eventually penalized by the stewards with a 5 position penalty at the next race, I thought that Senna was also responsible for the incident. It also appeared that he slowed far too early for the corner even with old tires. But the closing rates with many other similar passes at that corner were far higher than I would have expected as well. Many of the passes were even completed long before the braking area. However, it is the responsibility of the driver behind to make a safe pass.