Wow, finally Valencia comes good....though only because Webber got too needy with the overtaking.
Look, hundreds of times before we have seen defending no less aggressive than what Kovalainen did. Same goes for Webber's slipstreaming and overtake. We even had it at Monteal a few weeks ago with Schumacher and others.
The problem with this incident is that the Lotus was just not as fast as the Red Bull, and Webber and Kovy decided to get all toe-to-toe about it when they were too close.
Both of them misjudged how close they were to each other, the speed differential and their ability to move out of the way in time.
But as Webber was the one with the fast car and the one who was shoving his nose mere centimeters behind Kovy's gearbox, I think hes more to blame simply for pushing it so far. Its a bit like the Vettel/Webber incident - one driver could have made it a bit easier but they didn't have to. Just like the onus was on Vettel to then react appropriately to a hard-defending Webber, so its the onus on Webber this time to overtake Kovalainen with respect given to the difference in speed.
I think we also saw many drivers effectively panicking because of the reputation of this circuit. So many of the overtakes and driving was really ragged and desperate - everyone knew its hard to overtake around here and were desperately trying to make it stick somewhere.
Full marks to Vettel, Kobayashi, Hamilton and Barrichello for making the most of what they got. Ferrari should have done what Sauber did and split their cars rather than stacking but they got screwed by it. Pretty dumb really.
I kind of want to see everyone being penalised just for the
and Kobayashi securing a podium
.
Oh and I called the backmarkers creating the action
