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Vettel | 0 | 0% | |
Webber | 111 | 62.01% | |
Alonso | 0 | 0% | |
Massa | 1 | 0.56% | |
Hamilton | 63 | 35.20% | |
Button | 0 | 0% | |
Heidfeld | 0 | 0% | |
Petrov | 0 | 0% | |
Schumacher | 1 | 0.56% | |
Rosberg | 0 | 0% | |
Maldonado | 0 | 0% | |
Barrichello | 0 | 0% | |
Perez | 0 | 0% | |
Kobayashi | 0 | 0% | |
di Resta | 0 | 0% | |
Sutil | 0 | 0% | |
Kovalainen | 2 | 1.12% | |
Trulli | 0 | 0% | |
Alguersuari | 0 | 0% | |
Buemi | 0 | 0% | |
D'Ambrosio | 1 | 0.56% | |
Glock | 0 | 0% | |
Liuzzi | 0 | 0% | |
Karthikeyan | 0 | 0% | |
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17 Apr 2011, 16:13 (Ref:2865119) | #51 | |
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I mean on the Pirelli tyres, which are nothing like the Bridgestone tyres were last season, even though the racing in Canada was much the same to watch as it was today.
It was interesting that during Friday practice (when the track temps were slightly hotter than today), Hamilton struggled with the tyres. There will be some races when the tyres suit one driver better than another, for whatever reason. It's obvious that the teams and drivers are still learning quite a bit about the tyres at the moment. I'm certain that Red Bull and a lot of other teams learned a lot today. |
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17 Apr 2011, 16:36 (Ref:2865129) | #53 | ||
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However, that won't always be the best way to use the tyres. |
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17 Apr 2011, 16:39 (Ref:2865131) | #54 | |||
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17 Apr 2011, 16:59 (Ref:2865140) | #55 | ||
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Hamilton or Webber. eenie, meenie...
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17 Apr 2011, 17:16 (Ref:2865156) | #56 | ||
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Mark for me.
Don't think he put a wheel wrong in his run to the front from the rear. Simply AWESOME drive. |
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17 Apr 2011, 17:54 (Ref:2865186) | #57 | ||
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Has to be Webber.
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17 Apr 2011, 18:41 (Ref:2865211) | #58 | |||
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Hamilton for me. He learned well from last week. Great job overtaking and not trying anything silly against Vettel. Webber was great and all, but Hamilton won and did his overtaking without the advantage of the soft tires. Jenson Button's evil twin made another appearance... he seems to be having as much problems with the tires as everyone else, maybe more at times. |
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17 Apr 2011, 19:23 (Ref:2865240) | #59 | ||
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Hamilton for me, some good clean overtakes and pushed through for the win. Webber was impressive thanks to a very good strategy. Rosberg too had a great race.
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17 Apr 2011, 20:14 (Ref:2865268) | #60 | ||
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Head says Hamilton, heart says Webber.
I went with heart........ |
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17 Apr 2011, 21:08 (Ref:2865311) | #61 | ||
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Hamilton for me - top notch. Webber was amazing though - what a crying shame he hadn't had another lap to demote Vettel.......
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17 Apr 2011, 22:11 (Ref:2865346) | #62 | ||
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Webber - super drive - followed by Hamilton. Great race!
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17 Apr 2011, 22:27 (Ref:2865354) | #63 | ||
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An extraordinary drive from Webber. I still can't work out how he managed it.
Otherwise Hamilton. |
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17 Apr 2011, 22:37 (Ref:2865359) | #64 | |
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webber by a long margin , uncompetitive on the prime tyre and fuel load in the early stages of the race while the front runners had the best of fuel load and track position to manage their stint on the prime tyre and they failed, with their performance over last few laps was dismal one or two laps more and webber was the winner.
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17 Apr 2011, 22:55 (Ref:2865368) | #65 | ||
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I wouldnt say by a long margin, basically the same thing has worked out for Webber and Hamilton, but whereas saving a set of the option tires was an edcuated choice in Hamilton's case, who knowingly built up his weekend for a nice 3 stopper and an extra set of the fresh softs. Webber was just simply too slow to make it thru q1 and found a sh1tload of tires laying around in his garage.
also winning the race is always a nice touch Last edited by newlaprecord; 17 Apr 2011 at 23:13. |
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18 Apr 2011, 00:29 (Ref:2865406) | #67 | |||
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But, credit where credit is due, he drove a good hard nose to the grindstone race today. And not a whinge about anything over the qualy messup. Very different from the tantrum and scandalising he did when Mark was not fussed about the new nose at Silverstone, not believing it was any benefit. So when Newey said the nose must be run for data collection the decision was that as Mark was non plussed by it give it to someone who cares, someone who does believe it has benefits. Mark turned that very much into a Vettells influence / fault and doing, when it was as much a surprise to Vettel to see the new nose on his car for the race as it was Mark. Now had Mark dealt with that in the same adult way as the qualy messup there likely would have been no drama between them last year. Anyway the purpose of this post was to praise his drive and attitude, not hark on old wounds. |
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18 Apr 2011, 02:48 (Ref:2865451) | #68 | ||
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18 Apr 2011, 04:06 (Ref:2865465) | #69 | ||
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18 Apr 2011, 06:04 (Ref:2865475) | #70 | ||
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Webber gets the nod for me by just a whisker from Hamilton. Two fantastic drives from two fantastic drivers.
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18 Apr 2011, 06:43 (Ref:2865482) | #71 | ||
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Webber for me. I'm still not sure how he appeared in 7th or 8th after what seemed to be a disappointing first stint! Excellent stuff in the middle of the race went unnoticed I think.
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18 Apr 2011, 06:57 (Ref:2865484) | #72 | |||
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18 Apr 2011, 07:14 (Ref:2865489) | #73 | |
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18 Apr 2011, 07:25 (Ref:2865497) | #74 | |
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Great race from Webber. Had there been a safety car period while he was on the hard tyres, I reckon he would have easily won it.
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