gav schrieb:
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> I thoroughly enjoyed that race. You just accept
> that Vettel will win at the moment, so it's
> pleasing that what happened behind made for great
> viewing.
>
> First up, I'm utterly shocked at the standard of
> marshalling. First it took the marshalls a full
> minute or so to get to Webber's car, then when
> they did get there, they started extinguishing the
> side of the car that wasn't on fire! That's not
> the marshall training, that's common @#$%& sense.
>
> The cherry on the top was the horrific sight of
> seeing the fire truck wandering down the middle of
> the back straight. The only relief was that the
> truck wasn't plodding around the fast, blind
> sections in the second half of the lap, otherwise
> we could have had one hell of a scary accident.
> It was bad enough when Mansell hit a wall at about
> 30mph to avoid going under a truck in Detroit a
> few years ago. As it was, I thought the drivers
> were very well behaved under the circumstances, as
> it would have been very easy for someone unsighted
> further back to cream into the back of a car
> jamming on the brakes.
>
> Anyway, back to the racing. Obviously Hulkenberg
> was the star. Stunning, stunning faultless drive
> with no errors and keeping his head in gear all
> the time. He needs to keep up these excellent
> drives to get that top seat (which is why he's
> lost out on a great seat so far - he lacks
> consistency).
>
> Hamilton's little strops were entertaining. He
> really is a little girl at times. Still, it would
> have helped if his pitwall hadn't been on the
> Horlicks all day. They were unbelievably slow to
> bring Hamilton in when he was 3 seconds slower
> than the cars around him, and then Rosberg's car
> fell apart when they were due to bring Hamilton
> in. Even with half a front end and the other half
> scraping along the road Rosberg was as quick as
> Hamilton's 3-and-a-bit wheels at the time.
>
> Alonso wasn't at the top of his game for the first
> time in a while - he made a few errors early on.
> But the Ferrari was woeful. It had zero
> mid-corner or exit speed in the low speed corners.
> It didn't look especially poorly balanced, just
> slow.
>
> And finally, I thought Sky's commentary was poor.
> I'm seldom critical of Brundle, but he wasn't at
> all on his game today. Even halfway through the
> race he was still complaining that Alonso was
> understeering wide in the dirty air at turn 6
> whereas that's been the his line all weekend. For
> the first lap he and Croft were adamant that it
> was Alonso who'd Massa'd turn 3, but of course the
> timing screens, helmet, rollover hoop and number
> all showed it was indeed Massa who had Massa'd
> turn 3. Still, easy mistake to make...., they are
> both red after all....
In contrast I was kinda happy with the RTL-commentators. Apart from Wassers' crappy as usual introduction to the ad-sections they were kinda great. Especially Danner had one great day.
Also, Vettel is unbeatable atm. Still it was a great race for P2, the first where I wasn't actively surfing the internet and skimming the race. Super happy with the result nontheless :-p