Zitat von Olgayeah, i agree too. i found the Perez move not bold but bullish.
as for gro, its not that i dont like him, its that i think he costs the team huge resources. i dont know how much his Total sponsor balances for that....
Lotus should invoice him the overspending hr caused since part of the team (Take out of his salary would be an idea)
Scufflings escalate easily in F1-top. Monaco Grand Prix -weekend produced crisis-stubs like from a conveying belt.
When Mercedes didn't drop from pole into backgrounds like they have done for four times, the opponents knew the reason for it immediately: The private tailored tire test with Merc's drivers right after Spain GP in Barcelona!
As a matter of fact the team managers became aware of the secret test all of a sudden when Charlie Whiting replied on Saturday evening in the team organisation's meeting to a question concerning tires, that based upon the latest tire test there won't be anymore of those problems in the next races.
Red Bull and Ferrari ended up protesting and I assume that at least Lotus and Sauber will join the same frontier.
Nothing will however waver Nico Rosberg's spectacular home victory. That should be clear.
On the driver-level there was a war or words between Sergio Perez and Kimi Räikkönen. When Perez heard that Kimi had called him an idiot, Perez replied that it was Räikkönen who was an idiot in the crashing incident.
When I did my interviews for my blog after Monaco, Jacques Villeneuve shot right away that Kimi had ruined Sergio's great race with his move that was against the rules.
Mika Salo stood beside his buddy and told him that he was wrong.
When braking into a corner one can't change the driving line, but had Räikkönen remained normally on his driving line, then Perez would have crashed right into him in the corner.
The young Perez already has very few friends in the starting grid and he won't be getting more of them by blaming experienced champions who are reluctant to yield him just because he is blind when it comes to his own situational awareness.
Zitat Crazy racing, flying carbon fibre & dented barriers - Monaco came alive in the final stages Sky F1's Martin Brundle on a race that started with tyre preservation and ended with bold overtakes, damaged cars and red flags.
That was definitely a slow burn Grand Prix but our patience was rewarded in the end with some crazy racing and the usual volume of broken carbon fibre. Not to mention dented barriers.
Speaking with Adrian Newey on Sunday night, he clearly didn't enjoy it as much as me. His main gripe was the early stages when the tail-end of the field were once again lapping considerably faster than the leaders, who were in major tyre conservation mode at the time.
It was rather pedestrian to say the least but it was always heading towards a crescendo - although the red flag period spoiled the race in many ways because 40-plus laps on one set of tyres was going to challenge many and generate some late surprises. It does feel odd to see the teams changing tyres and adjusting cars on the grid while waiting for a restart.
The drivers' briefing in Montreal should be fun and I suspect Sergio Perez may be sitting by himself, even possibly with a black eye. In the early stages his team rival Jenson Button was on the radio to highlight the fact that Perez had maintained position only by cutting the chicanes. That was a fair cop and the place was duly handed over.
Sergio then sent a clear message to the rest of the front runners that he will not be intimidated and he will counter attack immediately. He was very passive in the first two races of the season but, particularly since Bahrain, he's been super-aggressive.
Alonso says it reminds him of himself in 2008 and 2009 when he wasn't in a Championship position. Quite a compliment from a man who was on the receiving end of one of his assaults and a subsequent recipient of a 'let Perez past' official instruction.
Kimi Raikkonen, on the other hand, wants to punch him in the face for costing him Championship points. The general view was that Perez was making late and wild moves and relying on others to sort the mess out and let him through. It reminds me of my days against Senna. After some cracking moves on Button and Alonso, unfortunately he rolled the dice one too many times and connected with Raikkonen in a gap half-a-car wide.
Alonso had decided not to risk damage in this tyre-conserving traffic jam and I guess it paid dividends even if he looked unusually low energy throughout the race. He left some awfully big gaps as open invitations, especially to Sutil and Button.
The problem is that, when you exit the tunnel in Monaco, you have to commit very early with a decision to overtake - and at that point it's impossible to reverse it if the gap disappears or you've braked too late. It's the best overtaking zone on the track but it's also very high risk to say the least.
What we are seeing here is the inventive overtaking of younger drivers who've grown up in junior series and have to fight their way through scores of other great young drivers to get noticed in the last chance saloon of GP2. It's a changing of the guard in that respect and I like it. Expecting others to politely hold position behind you while you carefully protect your Championship position never was, and remains, unrealistic.
It was an epic weekend for Nico Rosberg. Other than failing to get fastest lap due to Vettel looking for some 'satisfaction', Nico was simply perfect. His pace, start and restarts where immaculate, as was his pedestrian tyre saving up front. He was simply the driver of the weekend and surprisingly put Lewis in the shade. The word 'surprisingly' is actually no longer appropriate, and it seems it probably never was.
The Mercedes multi-day 1000km test in a 2013 car with both their race drivers after Barcelona certainly cannot have harmed their performance. On the face of it, whatever the apparent agreements between the FIA, Pirelli, and the teams, it appears to be wholly unfair. We know that teams bolt on goodies for their 'promo filming days' to be carefully measured, but a full-on test at such a critical stage of the season is very significant.
If it was all above board then why not put out a press statement as happens almost daily anyway, and why not inform the other teams? Pirelli's response is that had they publicised the fact then politics would have eventually cancelled an important test for them to sort out the structural issues. I suspect that whatever pain Mercedes must now take, if any, it may well be worth it....
For the first time this year Vettel didn't lead a lap but he has created a 21-point lead in the Championship. If he had chosen to do two flying laps in Q3 he may well have been on pole and it could have been a very different story. But he didn't.
Poor old Felipe Massa must feel bruised and confused post-race after two mighty accidents which appeared largely identical but apparently weren't. The first was driver error and the second was car failure. A bizarre coincidence, I reckon, and some in the paddock were wondering why he didn't initially come off the brakes. It all happens very quickly but there must be specific track and car dynamics along with driving style just at that point which triggered the unusual accidents.
Romain Grosjean also had a crunching weekend to forget - although he won't be allowed to because he carries a ten-place grid penalty into Montreal. Unfortunately, when you get a record and a reputation the penalties seem to be ever-more brutal although he did wreck Daniel Ricciardo's day.
Pastor Maldonado's crash resulted in the race being red-flagged
In all of the incidents each driver blamed the other, with the exception of Max Chilton who connected with Maldonado to set off a scary crash at Tabac. It was alarming to see the air fence bouncing back and blocking the track.
McLaren increased their consecutive points-scoring races to 63 but they would happily trade that for considerably higher in the Constructors' Championship than their current 6th position. At least the car seems to be improving.
Thankfully everyone left the circuit physically intact and we now look forward to more crazy 'hurry up and wait' racing in Montreal.
Zitat von SonnyI am perplexed by Martin Whitmarsh's comments which actually continue to support Perez despite his accident with Raikkonen yesterday .
How many WDC's and pundits comments about this wrecking ball on an F1 circuit will it take to realize this boy is a liability? To be fair to Perez, his actions were quite literally admonished by the stewards when they made Fernando give up the place after Perez's attempted pass. What more could Fernando do? He had to cut the chicane in order to avoid an accident. This allowance from the FIA was the impetus for Perez's repeated attempts to try to pass Raikkonen in the exact same spot. I personally think Perez was not investigated because of the FIA's stance on Fernando and Perez at the very same corner. It would be very difficult to penalize the same driver who was deemed to have 'been ahead' on a prior passing attempt. But this incident should have led to a Perez penalty. It's not correct to assume that the other driver will take evasive action to facilitate your passing attempt. That is not a proper F1 pass. That is wishful thinking and exactly the attitude which leads to a reckless attempt at a pass. And the prerequisite for an unnecessary coming together. I personally thought robbing points from a WDC contender coupled with an unnecessary coming together would have led to a penalty. But I understand the FIA would have looked like two-faced decision makers if they investigated the incident further.
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I agree so completely!
This whole issue was created because of the FIA's incompetence. They shouldn't have given Alonso a penalty, to start off with. It would have gone against their earlier ruling to give Perez the penalty he deserved. But Perez has been pushing his luck for a while now, it can only go on for so long. The FIA and Martin Whitmarsh is busy creating a monster. The more he gets away with this the more entitled he will become. They are not doing the right thing by just ignoring everything. It was a similar situation last year with Grosjean as well. They just kept on letting him make mistakes, until it resulted in a big crash, and then they were only interested in banning him. They are actually making it worse for these younger drivers, it is sometimes better to just give someone an immediate slap on wrist. Rather then to let the situation spiral out of control and go to far. Giving them small punishments whenever they have made a mistake would give them direction about what is right or wrong, Right now there is no direction, someone like Perez can just do whatever he wants and he gets away with it.
But just like Grosjean last year, I have a feeling he will soon cause some crash and then the FIA will come for him.
Zitat... Sometimes when things like this happen, you want to blow off steam but by that point I really couldn’t be bothered shouting and screaming at Grosjean. It was a disappointing end to a deeply unsatisfying weekend and I didn’t want to waste the energy yelling “screw you, what the hell were you thinking?” I just said “you’re an idiot”, and that was it.
If there’s a bright side, it’s that it didn’t cost me any points. It’s a funny sort of positive to take away but I’d have felt a lot worse if I’d been in the top ten at that stage.
It’d be nice to see the chequered flag in Monaco but at least I got 62 laps. Obviously the race was a stop-start affair with the two safety car periods and the red flag restart. The advantage of that was it kept you in touch with the leaders and dangled the prospect of getting something out of the race in front of you.
Those periods behind the safety car really added some spice because the restarts were very difficult. The prime tyre was cooling down a lot when you weren’t circulating at full speed, and keeping the front tyres and brakes warm was a real struggle, so when the safety car peeled off the car could be a real handful – which is always interesting.
But even under those conditions, making a pass in Monaco is near-impossible. If the guy in front is half-smart, he’s going to defend his line when you’re close. We’re not racing against too many muppets and those guys are aware of when and where you’re going to attack, and they defend, so it tends to be a race of follow-the-leader....
in one word like in a thousands, both Grosjean and Perez make me sh...... as they both by the way they are badly influence on Kimi's chances to be World camp at year end. Perez for the point loss and Gros for the money his stupidities cost Lotus and my have an impact on car development as money runs short " title="fury" /> " title="fury" />
Zitat von jpp47in one word like in a thousands, both Grosjean and Perez make me sh...... as they both by the way they are badly influence on Kimi's chances to be World camp at year end. Perez for the point loss and Gros for the money his stupidities cost Lotus and my have an impact on car development as money runs short
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