Nice with some calm and collected thinking, among all the hotheads
Wheely Wrote:
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> Well, I enjoyed the race. Was interested to see how those who, through
> one reason or another, started in the middle/back end of the pack did.
> Especially when the rain moved in and changed all the setups and
> strategies for the teams.
> The race winner did as well as those penalised in moving through the
> race order.
> As to MS, well, other drivers managed to pass cleanly, he seemed to be
> the only driver bumping and banging other cars in passing situations.
> Which is unfortunately not a new or unusual thing for MS if you have
> watched F1 for the length of time I have. ('60's onward, for the
> curious)
> Kimi's accident? No visual indicators, apart from the rain light, to
> show a car braking and when an F1 comes off the power the speed loss
> is tremendous. For someone that close, like Kimi, superhuman reflexes
> would have been needed. So, for me a 'racing incident' that both
> drivers involved seemed to accept as such without hair-pulling and
> handbags at dawn attitudes.
> This was an exciting race and in the memories of other fans will be
> times when this was the norm and it didn't matter who the driver or
> team or tyre manufacturer was that decided the outcome.
> Congrats to JB on his first GP win, a milestone in any F1 drivers
> career. Kudos to DC as well for driving his usual, unremarked mostly,
> race and finishing in the points again.
> The important thing for fans of both FA and MS though, is that the
> points tally remains the same and so the result will once again depend
> on head to head, hopefully, not side to side, battling for the rest of
> the season.
>
> 2p's worth. ( No really, that's all it's worth.)
>
> Wheely
It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.