Review
The race was brilliant....absolutely fantastic and one of the best I have seen for some time. The right guy won it and it proved the effectiveness of a lot of the new "toys" in F1. The most notable success was the strategy that can come into play surrounding the tyres. Saving a set in qualifying now looks to be more and more important. So much so that you can qualify well down the field and, given a reasonably competitive car and fresh tires, watch as your opponents struggle and lose track position to you. So does this make qualifying less important than in past years.....time will tell.
Lewis Hamilton drove an outstanding race and deserved all the plaudits he received afterwards...but I would say that the drive of the day came from Mark Webber who stormed from 18th on the grid to nab the final podium place. This was more impressive than some of his victories and showed real fighting spirit. I would have liked to see him overhaul Vettel in second but the laps ran out before he had a chance. Speaking of Vettel....both he and Button suffered due to not having pace at the right part of the race. Button took the lead from the start and was quick enough to hold his persuers at bay....Vettel later on drove away for a while...but at the key moment late on in the race both faded into the clutches of Hamilton and Webber whose tyre advantage really was significant. Jenson also made a rookie error by driving into the wrong pit box, stopping briefly in the Red Bull area and his race seemed to go downhill from there.
The race and indeed the championship will I think be about these 4 drivers and more than likely Vettel and Hamilton will ease away from their team mates to dominate later on.
The team who seem to be struggling right now more than most is Ferrari....their woes continue and they NEED to turn it around for Alonso to have any chance at mixing it with the leaders...right now he simply does not have the car underneath him to challenge and they are always racing for "best of the rest." In the past it would have been possible to blame the driver but the team know they cannot do that this year....the car is simply not good enough, as a lot of people predicted at the beginning of the season.
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