Leslie

If you reckon that F1 is too boring to watch, I can recommend seeing the recording of the Chinese race today. Outstanding race and full of action right up to the end. What a turn around!

Les

f1_fan

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Fantastic stuff, although no doubt someone will be along in a minute to call it boring

Ant

loved it ! was up at 6:45 with the little one so got to watch the lot

but button's **** up

now time for btcc

Trout

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Superb, rivetting viewing!

Trout

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I reckon Button let Webber past to avoid the post-match press conference!!

Jamie

It was a great race

Aaron1978

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Great race, and I even got up early to watch it this week. At least were on to Europe next and a more reasonable start time.

Bonehead

Cracking race, and a Mclaren won!!

Would've been great to see Webber pass Vettel, that wouldv'e been an interesting press conference

SirFozzalot

Great race, good to see McLaren on the top spot....even better to see the ferraris well down the field again

joz8968

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Yep, well done to Ham/Macca for executing their plan to perfection -- a great tactical win by 'sacrificing' going for pole by retaining a fresh set of softs for the race. Fantastic stuff!

And the tyres/DRS/KERS are all combining to end the years of "Sunday processions" - so all hail to that. (I don't care if some aspects of it are, perhaps, a little contrived). Bottom line is, you have to wait till the end of the race to be CERTAIN of who's gonna be on the podium!

Is that not what we've been crowing for, for years?!

drb5

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I agree also, great race! Would have been great to see Webber pass Vettel too, yer.

One question though...i presume the rules state you can weave here, there and everywhere when the red lights turn off? Vettel was all over the place.

SirFozzalot

According to the commentary, yeah, you can do what you want at the start of the race as it's too complicated to track what everyone is doing whilst jostling for position at the start.

SWRTWannabe

Was thinking the same myself Maybe Jenson is looking for a drive at Red Bull, and he wanted to show experience coming into their pit box

Best race I've seen for ages, though I think something should have been done about Alonso activating the DRS out of the zone. If he activated it, then it should have been a drive through penalty, and if it was a fault it begs the question about whether it should have been a visit to the pits for a repair.

Edited to let Alonso off after reading the BBC News article on his rear wing activation. Begrudgingly

Markus

Excellent race. A very solid performance for Webber given where he started from.

joz8968

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Yes! Brundle explained that in the forum. The reason being that it would be impossible to try police. Don't know at what point it stops though? I think MB said by the first corner, or even the second...???

joz8968

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It's mad that new softs can be 3+ sec quicker than shagged primes! But I love the fact that this means you can never know the 'true' track position of any car at any one time. As already said, contrived maybe, but keeps you well interested!!

SirFozzalot

Liked Webbers statement during the interview about whether it's really worth trying so hard in qualifying or just keeping all your tyres for the race, maybe he's on to something

joz8968

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Well, we just witnessed Ham/Macca do exactly this. They 'learnt' from it in KL, and so sacrified quali for the race - and it worked out!

SirFozzalot

Will be interesting to see how the teams strategists play the next race

scoobywrxwagon

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Great race, fantastic for the fans ! Like a game of chess for the teams. Hamilton/team did a great job but what the hell was Button doing..... new spec savers ad me thinks lol

jameswrx

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One of the best races I've seen in modern F1. I was out my seat willing Webber to catch and pass Vettel.

It's about time they started racing properly here's to hoping the rest of the season is as good.

And where did Paul De Rista spring from? Looks promising.

CREWJ

It must have been one of the best races I've seen for nearly a decade!

It's so much better having the DRS.

joz8968

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The boy Di Resta is set for big things, I reckon. He's got such a level head and seems to already know what F1 is all about! He interviews extremely well.

Watch this space... (Hopefully one of the bigger teams will snap him up, if he fulfills the promise).

Very impressive.

Wasn't he 2010's DTM champ? (Can't be arsed to google...)

ScoobyWon't

The Express was running an article saying Di Resta could replace Schumacher at Mercedes next year.

Gear Head

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Fantastic race!
Regarding Alonso's DRS being activated in the wrong zone, read here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/form...e/13109394.stm

Turns out there was a delay with the system being available.
Don't forget, the FIA are in charge of when a car can deploy DRS, not the teams or the driver.

Was great to see Schumi back to his good racing ways.

Dr Hu

DRS

Brun

Drag Reduction System. Rear wing opens on main straight when you are within 1 second of the car in front to aid overtaking in simple terms

f1_fan

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Love it when the media does this. I could run an article saying anyone could replace anyone at anyone next year and as it uses the word 'could' you cannot disprove it.

Do people actually pay money to read these rags?

f1_fan

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Watched the race again last night and it really was non stop action. Hamilton and Webber drove brillianlty and great to see both Mercedes with better pace.

Pity Massa couldn't finish higher up the order as he had his best race for a while. Won't be long before he gets another of those radio messages though Shame Alonso is having such a diffcult start to the season

Miniman

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But ultimately it's the driver that presses the DRS button and it's a system designed by the team.

There have been plenty of other penatlies applied even during "no overall gain" type scenarios - just take Alonso's penalty last weekend @ Sepang for hitting Lewis. I've no doubt that look deep enough, you will find other examples of penalties handed out for FIA controlled systems that failed and a team using that feature at the wrong time.