Yes, lots of luck, but it was Vettel's pass on Senna that really caused most of his issues. Like I said... he got gifted several places, but he had to make up many of the rest on his own.
Yes, he had some luck, but let's not get ridiculous here, he still put in an excellent drive to make up so many places. Who would've predicted him still getting 3rd from 24th?
Yes, he had some luck, but let's not get ridiculous here, he still put in an excellent drive to make up so many places. Who would've predicted him still getting 3rd from 24th?
Spectacularly good driving from all three podium finishers. Vettel did get lucky but he also drove a very good race, especially after the first few laps. Judging from how they gulped down the rosewater on the podium they had all given it everything.
Bad luck obviously for Hamilton who would have won this one easily.
And that fantastic race just summed up the season in one go.
We had Hamilton absolutely flying, but car/team reliability hampering him..
We have Kimi slowly getting better and the Lotus finally achieving what it should have at the start of the season.
We have Alonso making the most of a situation and pushing a 6th place car to 2nd, with an amazing drive.
And we have Vettel, being very lucky but driving very well none the less.
Yes, he had some luck, but let's not get ridiculous here, he still put in an excellent drive to make up so many places. Who would've predicted him still getting 3rd from 24th?
I predicted 7th. Remove the three guys who retired that I expected him to have trouble overtaking (okay, so he wouldn't have had trouble with Webber, but still), and that puts him at fourth. Then you have that opportune safety car that put Button within striking distance...
Which three guys are you talking about? He was already ahead of Grosjean, Webber and Perez when they had their accidents. Sure, Webber screwed up his own race prior to that and made a mess of Massa's and to a lesser extent, Maldonado's, but that's all I can think of atm.
