Sebastian Vettel has won the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal in dominant fashion after starting from pole position. The fights were all happening behind him, with Alonso emerging in second place, followed by Lewis Hamilton who completes the podium for Mercedes AMG.
Really ?SilverArrow10 wrote: Mercedes not improved,
Actually it kinda felt like the FIA GT championship...As if Vettel was racing a GT1 car and the rest of the field the GT3 classstefan_ wrote:For a moment I thought I was back in 2011. Vettel's pace was simply disarming.
Great race for di Resta & Vergne.
Rubbish. 25 for a win makes no difference, because what goes around comes around. 25 for a win means it's easier to pull a big gap, but also easy to reel it back. Try dividing the points system by 2.5:maranello55 wrote:Whoever approved the 25 pts for a gp winner is a fool.
Nothing foolish about it! Just take the previous award of 10 points for 1st, and multiply by 2.5, and so on down the line, but giving the top 10 points instead of the top 8. There is a slight difference for second, but the gaps are still basically the same. It is all to with your perception of numbers. On the old points system, Vettel would still be the same distance ahead.maranello55 wrote:Vettel is already a runaway WDC contender by the gap he already have to Alonso in the standings. Whoever approved the 25 pts for a gp winner is a fool. It was introduced in 2010. The first year Vettel becomes a WDC.
The points system has nothing do to with that. It was calculated in previous years that the WDC would have been the same with the previous system.maranello55 wrote:Vettel is already a runaway WDC contender by the gap he already have to Alonso in the standings. Whoever approved the 25 pts for a gp winner is a fool. It was introduced in 2010. The first year Vettel becomes a WDC.
Fully agreed. Looking at where they were coming from at the beginning of the season , (starting in the front row and almost dropping out of the Points in the race) this seems like a massive improvement, although they are not quite there, yet.WhiteBlue wrote:Merc was substantially improved methink. Hamilton lost only one place.
As was the stop and go for Van De Garde! What is the effect of such a penalty on a driver who is already last?stefan_ wrote:I think the drive-thru penalty for Sutil was a nonsense.
What were the stewards smoking, really?stefan_ wrote:I think the drive-thru penalty for Sutil was a nonsense.
I agree, I almost fell asleep in the first half of the race.Morteza wrote:Agreed. A pretty boring race. The only thing that caught my attention was di Resta's run on the primes.Poleman wrote:The second DRS zone was a joke IMO. If you failed to pass on the (already) long DRS zone you get a free attack right after! Genial! =D>Nevertheless quite a boring race but somehow expected,so...on to Silverstone.
if i am correct, he ignored the blue flags 3x. At that point they automatically have to give him a penalty.stefan_ wrote:I think the drive-thru penalty for Sutil was a nonsense.
What about the penalty Maldonado got?gilgen wrote:As was the stop and go for Van De Garde! What is the effect of such a penalty on a driver who is already last?stefan_ wrote:I think the drive-thru penalty for Sutil was a nonsense.
It actually looked to me that, considering the fact that Hamilton was not that close to Sutil, he was staying behind to catch the DRS and defend from Alonso.turbof1 wrote:if i am correct, he ignored the blue flags 3x. At that point they automatically have to give him a penalty.stefan_ wrote:I think the drive-thru penalty for Sutil was a nonsense.
Same with van de garde; he ignored the flags also 3x, and ran into Mark Webber. The stop 'n go was fully justified.
