2010 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix

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Seismica
We would have seen more, but we saw the likes of Schumacher driving very defensively. I feel Massa would have had a go at Button if it were not for his front wing.
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Actually, Massa was no slower with a slightly damaged front wing and even set his personal best lap after the incident. Hell, even Massa's engineer said "Ok Felipe, half a second faster with a damaged front wing. I think we've found the solution" :lol:
 
Nice one Mark, a really A1 performance all weekend.
The championship is coming together nicely, a good mix of points for all the top 10 drivers each race.
The race itself was lacking a bit in drama, although the backmarkers did their bit to spice it up.

Vettel's brake issue rears its ugly head again, don't really know what it could be. His style of braking by using the kerbs is the only thing that comes to mind. The issue of a sticking wheel in the pitstop, has happened too often to be a chance occurance. They could well be related.

Lewis's failure was quite cruel, he had driven as good a race as he could hope.He seemed to know something was about to happen, looks like he jumped on the radio seconds before the failure.
 
Bram Turismo
Actually, Massa was no slower with a slightly damaged front wing and even set his personal best lap after the incident. Hell, even Massa's engineer said "Ok Felipe, half a second faster with a damaged front wing. I think we've found the solution" :lol:
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I know but, that was after dropping back on Button, he was in clean air when he made his personal best lap. But he was unable to catch back up, at least not close enough to challenge for position. But he was right on Button's backside before the incident.
 
I often compare Webber to Heidfeld in my head, most of the time he is average/good level, but every so often he has moments of brilliance. He may have only won three races, but they were all in very impressive fashion, and he scored on his debut with Minardi, and got reasonable results out of an underachieving Williams in '05 and '06. I'm sure we can expect more from him, although I don't seem him as a future champion, at least not while Vettel's his team mate!
 
Seismica
I know but, that was after dropping back on Button, he was in clean air when he made his personal best lap. But he was unable to catch back up, at least not close enough to challenge for position. But he was right on Button's backside before the incident.
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I don't think Massa is mad enough to pull off a move that would have gotten him ahead of Button at a Catalunya, just as Button couldn't on Schumacher. Massa would have to have been significantly faster than Button (like, 2 seconds or more) in order to have a chance into turn 1, and even then its difficult to really make a move stick without being on the inside, which is very easy to cover.
The only people to make overtakes there yesterday were all coming out of the pits.

PeterJB
I often compare Webber to Heidfeld in my head, most of the time he is average/good level, but every so often he has moments of brilliance. He may have only won three races, but they were all in very impressive fashion, and he scored on his debut with Minardi, and got reasonable results out of an underachieving Williams in '05 and '06. I'm sure we can expect more from him, although I don't seem him as a future champion, at least not while Vettel's his team mate!
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Hmm, their careers have been similar but Nick has never had a championship-winning car other than the 2008 Sauber, which as we all know had its development stopped too early.
I will always rate Heidfeld higher than Webber because he is more reliable, Webber can be far too aggressive for his own good sometimes and he's sometimes inconsistent in qualifying.

I agree, I don't see Webber as champion, he isn't consistent enough basically, in race weekends or over the season. A bit of a Barrichello. I could at a stretch see Heidfeld as a champion, but I don't think he will ever get that chance.
 
I think Button could have done a lot more. He should have done to Schumi what Schumi did to all other drivers for 15 odd years of his career.
 
Sureboss
I think Button could have done a lot more. He should have done to Schumi what Schumi did to all other drivers for 15 odd years of his career.
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Nah, he's leaving that for the last race of the season, where Schumacher will run wide and Button will try to come down his inside.....:p

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Sureboss
I think Button could have done a lot more. He should have done to Schumi what Schumi did to all other drivers for 15 odd years of his career.
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Drive quicker than him?
 
Wouldn't it be funny if the request for the split qualifying 1 session at Monaco was just so that the other teams could send Schumi out on his own just in case he parks it again:lol:
 
Autosport
Hamilton's wheel rim failure confirmed

By Jamie O'Leary Tuesday, May 11th 2010, 12:37 GMT

McLaren has confirmed that Lewis Hamilton's penultimate-lap crash at last weekend's Spanish Grand Prix was caused by a wheel rim failure.

Hamilton looked set for a comfortable second place in the race, but crashed at the high-speed Renault corner when the rim failure caused his left-front tyre to deflate and sent him across the gravel and into the tyre wall.

Team principal Martin Whitmarsh said that the cause of the rim failure had yet to be determined though, and that an investigation remains ongoing.

"The analysis of the part came back yesterday [Monday]... We had Bridgestone here," Whitmarsh told a Vodafone teleconference on Tuesday.

"As we said at the time, we did not believe that the deflation was caused by a puncture or a tyre failure in that all the evidence told us that the rim failed, which caused the deflation.

"The rim failure is being investigated. It could be debris-related, it could be that a lack of tightness of the wheelnut allowed some flexing. What we know is that the rim failed, probably a human error somewhere in the process to cause it, and that led to the deflation and the accident."

Hamilton's crash left him sixth in the World Championship, 21 points behind his championship-leading McLaren team-mate Jenson Button.
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83530

Same as Kovalainen in 2008.
 
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