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OK to talk about it yet? :biggrin5:

Alonso really ran a masterful race, he looked a lot like Vettel did last year....get just far enough in front to keep them from using their DRS on you, stay in clean air and out of trouble and roll to the end.

I'm sure everyone was just waiting for the Ferrari's tires to go off and see him drop back thru the order, but it didn't happen!

Alonso may be on his way to this third driver's championship, but Massa is killing them for the constructor's, isn't he? And it's the Constructor's that pays all the money, not the driver's championship....

I was surprised that Webbo couldn't come forward after qualifying third, wonder why?

Oh well, on to the Hungaroring this weekend.

 

Highligt to read, spoilers in post.

Though this trick won't work for Tapatalk....

That ending was a bit odd though, I'm not sure about the ruling for Vettle's penalty. He would have passed anyway, if he had waited. I think 20 seconds might be a bit excessive.

Though on the other hand, if the controversy of Red Bull's engine mapping is correct (in that they've managed to finagle a kind of traction control system within the letter of the law) then that's exactly the situation where it would have helped, since he passed Button on the paint, which has far less traction available than tarmac.
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I totally agree with the mapping issue. Button actually left rubber down as he tried to match Vettel's acceleration out of that turn. And I do think the penalty was adequate.

 

That turn 6 pass made by Vettel was very telling. Vettel on the paint & he out accelerates Button who is spinning tires on the asphalt. That was pretty stupid on Vettel's part. Button could have been passed easily at that stage in the race. No reason to do it there that way. I figure Vettel got off lucky only to lose a couple spots via the penalty.

 

UBB has a [spoilers] tag that could be added. It basically does what I did up there and changes the text to the background color until a cursor rolls over the text and makes it readable. Though I suspect Tapatalk and other mobile readers will ignore that tag just like it ignored my color change trick above.

 

I've seen some speculation that fewer safe drive-off areas and more gravel traps would prevent that kind of driving. Then if Vettel had gone off that way, it'd have been race over for him. Thinking about it, that might be nice to see. Keep the drivers a bit more on their toes as far as leaving the track goes.

 

Making the tracks safer is the right thing to do. Gravel traps while better than some earlier solutions can cause things to go wrong in a very bad way. They work, but are not the right solution in every instance. Remember when catch fencing was considered the ultimate in trackside protection? :frown2:

 

Perhaps so, I bring it up due to this quote:

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I agree with that. As long as they punish the rules breakers even the dumbest one will figure it out pretty darned quick. Better that than having the trackside more dangerous to discourage such moves. As safe as this sport is these days it is still hella dangerous.

Back in the old days foolish moves were often paid for with drivers lives. I like things much better now.

Going back to Valencia Lewis threw away a bagful of points in a pissing match with Maldonado. Yes it was Maldonato's fault, but what was Lewis thinking?

 

^Exactly.

...and if rolls were reversed, Button would be crying that he didn't do anything wrong. The rules worked, they were broken, penalty assessed, no need to change a thing, move on to the next race.

Race on Chaps!!

 

I'm curious why Vettle did not give the position back to at least have one more shot at a clean pass. Ain't hind site great?

 

Me thinks it is not in a drivers nature to give back a spot they worked all race long to get. All Vettel was thinking is finally got him. Once his team told him that Jenson was yelling to the FIA it was too late to give the place back. At least that is my take.

On to the Hungarian GP!

 

I love those animated shorts

If you want to see the real life inside of McLaren, along with the actual drivers, there's this.

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