Grand Prix 2011 Italian Grand Prix Practice, Qualifying & Race Discussion

The fat bloke lady is starting to sing

Sebastian Vettel took a major stride towards a second world championship after a crushing win in Belgium, he extended his lead over Mark Webber who made a good recovery from a bad start to finish second after a fantastic overtake on Fernando Alonso into Eau Rouge.

Lewis Hamiltons indifferent season continued after a crash with Kamui Kobayashi into Les Combes, while he won't admit it, he will be close to giving up on closing down Vettel as he is over 100 points behind, but while he can't win the championship, that won't stop him going to win every race remaining and with Monza being a strong McLaren track, he will be up there in the running.

Monza is one of the most historic tracks on the F1 calendar and will be full of Ferrari fans as it is the teams home race and the tifosi are known for their support of the prancing horse and after a Ferrari win in 2010 they willl be expecting more of the same from Fernando who needs a win to keep alive his fading championship hopes but an average showing in Spa including losing third place late on will be a killer blow to the Spaniard. Massa is sliding further into obscurity after a good start, but faded quickly into the minor points.

The track isn't one of Red Bulls strongest circuits due to the low downforce and long straights but we have said that a few circuits aren't Red Bull friendly circuits and Vettel has gone on to get pole and win and Monza might not be an exception with Vettel in imperious form and the car seemingly bulletproof there is no-one who can stop the bull racing to the title in emphatic fashion.

After a turbluent weekend, Pastor Maldanado picked up his first point in F1 with a strong drive to tenth (and a lot of luck) to give his beleagured Williams outfit a small reason to be happy but it represents how far they have fallen in that a point is an achievement for them. Barrichello finished a dissapointing 16th finishing behind both Lotus cars.

Bruno Senna will be aiming to improve on a promising first weekend back in F1, he qualified a brilliant 7th, but rusty racecraft caused a bad collision at turn 1 and he eventually finished 13th, the last of the unlapped cars, Petrov managed to pick up a handful of points to go level with his former team mate Nick Heidfeld who is seeking legal advice after losing his seat last week to the young Brazilian.

Adrian Sutil continues his upturn in form after outpacing Di Resta who had a poor weekend with the German taking home 7 points and Di Resta just finishing outside the points in 11th, with Nico Hulkenberg challenging for a set at Force India next season, both these two drivers have improved lately with both taking home points from the last few races
At the back of the field, Jarno Trulli finished ahead of his team-mate showing that maybe he still has some pace in the Lotus now that they have fixed the power steering issues, with Chandhok just over his shoulder he will need to beat his team-mate to ensure that he still has a seat at the team next year and extend his long career.

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Excellent race, excellent hard battles. Pitty Vettel didn’t have anyone on his tail tho, but I was expecting him to drive away if he was in the lead after lap 1.
 
well done vettel,button and alonso.
its a shame lewis was stuck behind schumacher for so long,and went wide when trying to overtake him.thats what cost him big time.and no suprise button was there to take advantage of the situation.
lewis was so close to getting past alonso aswell.he just needed 1 or 2 more laps.
 
Personally speaking a very disappointing race again.

Schumacher's weaving and chop were responsible for changing the whole race.
I'm not quite sure why it wasn't investigated and even a reprimand given.

Oh well, there's always next year...
But......Let's face it .....it was only Lewis so who cares..well I do! Button once again...hyena...waiting for LH to do all the work...then nipping in...kept back from the dirty air ....what a selfish:censored:
 
Personally speaking a very disappointing race again.

Schumacher's weaving and chop were responsible for changing the whole race.
I'm not quite sure why it wasn't investigated and even a reprimand given.

Oh well, there's always next year...

I'm happy with the way FIA handled it which is to a issue a direct instruction for Mercedes to tell Schumi to behave. The real issue is the inconsistency regarding these decisions. I don't want to spark another stewarding debate but if the shoe was on the other foot, would the stewards have taken the same line of approach? I don't think Hamiltn choppping up Schumi like that would've gone down to well.

All in all, good race. McLaren had the right strategy but simply ended up in the wrong fight. You have to applaud Vettel for the brave move round the outside of Alonso.
 
I'm happy with the way FIA handled it which is to a issue a direct instruction for Mercedes to tell Schumi to behave. The real issue is the inconsistency regarding these decisions. I don't want to spark another stewarding debate but if the shoe was on the other foot, would the stewards have taken the same line of approach? I don't think Hamiltn choppping up Schumi like that would've gone down to well.

All in all, good race. McLaren had the right strategy but simply ended up in the wrong fight. You have to applaud Vettel for the brave move round the outside of Alonso.
Well that's alright then...only LEWIS got compromised so who cares....!
 
But......Let's face it .....it was only Lewis so who cares..well I do! Button once again...hyena...waiting for LH to do all the work...then nipping in...kept back from the dirty air ....what a selfish:censored:

How many laps did it take for Hamilton to not overtake Schumacher? Button overtook him at his first attempt. What was wrong with that?
 
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