In the next part of my little reviews on the Formula 1 season in 2011, we're off to Malaysia. What a dull intro.
Anyway, the race was won by an absolute mile by Sebastian Vettel, who seemed to have it wrapped up after 20-odd laps. That fella would still manage to win just walking round. It seems no-one is willing to push him yet.
But it's not that the cars aren't. Oh no. After what I've called the Webber Wobble - Mark Webber's car had mechanical failures before the race even began, leaving him with no KERS system - the majority of cars managed to keep to his pace. Showing quite how big a difference KERS has to the Red Bull performance.
But Webber definitely deserved driver of the day. He pitted on four occasions, but still pulled through and finished in fourth place, and posted the fastest lap of any car. That's without the ability to press a button and add an extra 30km/h to his speed. Remarkable.
Kamui Kobayashi again seemed to take it all in his stride, and the car just glided round. His overtaking today was superb, and he finished in seventh, after Lewis Hamilton's penalty.
Yes, Lewis Hamilton's penalty. Was it worthy of a 20-second post-race pen? Probably not, but he did definitely block Alonso off. But what else was he gonna do - let him through? The FIA seem to have lost it a bit when they say they want to encourage competition, yet ban it too. Besides, Alonso's penalty for ploughing into Hamilton was farcical too - and I hate Ferrari with a passion. Surely having to pit again and change his front wing was penalty enough?
Jenson Button drove brilliantly in his McLaren though to finish second - he had a great race. As did Nick Heidfeld - after being thrown in at the deep end joining Renault at such short notice after Robert Kubica's horrific injury, he has turned everything around and brought his car home quite comfortably in 3rd.
Another whose drive was brilliant was Vitaly Petrov - again, another Renault. His race was wrecked when he decided to try and take off in his car, however. The steering column dislodged, and goodbye decent finish in the race. Proof that the curbs work though.
It was so nearly the perfect race though - we had loads of overtaking, genius driving, rain that changed the race over and over again, constant changing positions, and some 'decent' crashes'. All it needed was some further battles down the field, and we're battling like we did last season all over again.
Our next race is next week, in Shanghai, for the Chinese Grand Prix. And if that's anything like today, we're in for another great battle.
All my lovely photos are this week taken from the Sky Sports website!
Taken from General Musings of an Idiot: http://www.gmoai.com
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