2012 Formula One Chinese Grand Prix

[ENDR]

Interestingly Ferrari has been the quickest pitcrew in all races. their stops have been phenomenal this year.

That's at least one thing they improved on during winter...

i mean there was more action into this GP that into a Michael Bay movie.

Nah, there were no explosions.

 

[Bradley Vanian]

Nah, there were no explosions.

I think Webber had an explosion in his pants when his car did a wheelie

 

[ENDR]

I think Webber had an explosion in his pants when his car did a wheelie

I think he should've gotten used to it by now

 

[David O'Reilly]

I think Webber had an explosion in his pants when his car did a wheelie

Webber would not even rate that. Unless it is 20 feet up and inverted and 200 mph (as per Valencia not to mention TWO occurences at Le Mans for Mercedes in 2 days) ) its just a day at the office for him.

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

That's at least one thing they improved on during winter...


Nah, there were no explosions.

Every Michael Bay Explosion

And no slow motion shot of helicopters in the dusk.

Sorry for the off-topic but couldn't resist..

 

[John Robertson]

so rossberg wins but webber definitely scores huge points for pulling a wheelie AND passing vettel.

What a brilliant race though, I just now finished watching it and I've gotta say I'm a huge fan of 2012.

I wish sauber could figure out how to strategize though, I feel like if perez had been on the right strat he would have had more success. same complaint from last week.

 

[ufunacaoenn]

For everyone who wonders how Webbers neck and back was riight after the race, he said on twitter "Good as gold".

 

[Manalys]

Raikkonen's luck in 2005 was apalling
and the renault was easily the fastest in 2006, bar the finals races of the season.

Sigh, Renault was quick till Silverstone at the most, whenever Mass Dumpers were banned, but it was NEVER the quickest car of the season, what the man did in 2,006 in Hungary was Senna-esque, in 4-5 laps in the wet from p15 to p3 then to p1, before a pit stop error from his mechanics cost him the race. And everyone seems to love saying how the rest were unlucky, but Alonso has never been lucky in his carrer from a championship pov, 2,006 was perhaps his most unlucky year, with Hungary's Pit error, Massa's ridiculous request, Monza's engine blowup, and more and ore and more.

 

[Diego Lopez]

69th pole for Schumi, it's 91 wins that he's on, not poles

oh duh thats my fault....w.e the man has.

 

[Daniel Collier]

And everyone seems to love saying how the rest were unlucky, but Alonso has never been lucky in his career from a championship pov, 2006 was perhaps his most unlucky year, with Hungary's Pit error, Massa's ridiculous request, Monza's engine blowup, and more and more and more.

The thing is... if luck were to ever go Alonso's way, who would stop him? Guy is doing some serious damage control with a **** car right now. 3 Races, 1 Win, a Top 5 and Top 10 finish. I would argue that this season so far RB, Merc, McLaren, Sauber and Lotus are all better than the F2012, yet El Nano still sits in 3rd behind Button and Hamilton. Its very early, but Alonso shows year after year that he is one of the best drivers. He will never have the stats of a Senna, Prost or Schumi, but he is certainly in Niki Lauda territory (who happened to have quite a bit of bad luck himself).

 

[Hampus Andersson]

He is 5th in terms of amount of GP wins in all of Formula 1.
10 more and he will surpass Nigel Mansell.

6 more podium finished and he surpasses Senna and moves up to 3rd all-time.

3rd in terms of most podium finishes in a season.
2nd in terms of consecutive podium finishes, only Schumi ahead.

2nd in terms of career points, only Schumi ahead.

 

[Metalfreaky]

2nd in terms of career points, only Schumi ahead.

You can't compare that with the new point system.

Alonso shows (almost) every race his talent. This guy deserves a competetive car more than everyone else on the grid.
I hope (as a Ferrari fan ) that the team starts to deliver something good and worthy.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

I'd love to see Alonso turn his back on Ferrari in a couple of years.

 

[Michael Brown]

I think he extended is contract until the end of 2016. Hopefully he can turn things around by then.

 

[Ho3n3r]

You can't compare that with the new point system.

Alonso shows (almost) every race his talent. This guy deserves a competetive car more than everyone else on the grid.
I hope (as a Ferrari fan ) that the team starts to deliver something good and worthy.

If we did a historic comparison between drivers, what would be the best points system to use? 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1? 10-6-4-3-2-1? Any others? Because the last one I mentioned feels like it really awarded drivers and teams that achieved something.

 

[Diego Lopez]

I think he extended is contract until the end of 2016. Hopefully he can turn things around by then.

he is fine, he can put a so so car up there, give him a competitive one and im sure he will sail past almost everyone up the grid. Is not Alonsos talent or anything in question, is the car itself (sadly).

He will win for Ferrari, he will, thats no doubt, is just Ferrari itself not giving him a competitive car....I think they ate too much pasta during the process of creatig the new car

 

[Hampus Andersson]

They have hired Ben Agathangelou to the Aero-department. Hopefully all of these changes Ferrari has made will start to come in effect later in the year or next year. I´m tired of seeing Ferrari produce dog after dog.