Poll Out of Ten - 2013 Spanish Grand Prix

[Greenlantern101]

were you all watching the same race as me. I enjoyed it.

7

 

[Slyboogy]

The question is.

Were you watching the same race as us all?

 

[RickD]

2, absolute pile of steaming wank. The thing is, i'll never get those two hours back and could really do with them right now.

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

5 ... if only for Lewis' "I can't drive any slower" comment ... another fantastic advert for Pirelli ... who should get only some of the blame... just following the orders they were given for this season ...

Superb effort by Ferrari and the Lotii ... poor old Mr Lettuce... can't take a trick...

 

[Bill Boddy]

Since it has closed the gaps in the WDC and was a reasonable tactical race it would get a six, but it has an extra point for Massa being on the podium. There have always been reasons why drivers have not raced flat out for the whole race since F1 began, at the moment it's tyres.

It wiped the smile off the face of a certain team principal as well.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Shouldn't that be the "Smug smile." Bill Boddy?

 

[Il_leone]

Alonso won and for once Red Bull got truly thrashed and it makes it more exciting for the championship

Other than that even with DRS - the problems with the tyres did not help but then Ferrari and Lotus managed to cope better than the rest

 

[GermanF1]

Gave it a six. But my interest in F1 has reached an all time low. Almost everything is just disappointing. Tyres, DRS, "I can't drive any slower". I mean this not F1 anymore. It's utter garbage really.

 

[KekeTheKing]

Sixer. Certainly wasn't terrible, but nothing overly spectacular.

Pity that we endured a three week hiatus before Barcelona. Monaco can't come soon enough.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Monaco will be shit as well..

 

[KekeTheKing]

Love the enthusiasm Meph! Can always count on you for an uplifting thought or two.

 

[Dizzi]

By lap 5 I was doing the gardening, nuff said.

 

[snowy]

Fernando overtaking Kimi and Lewis round the outside of turn 3 and such a commanding victory for Ferrari over Lotus and Red Bull is worth more than a measly 5 or 6 points. The tyres are crap and DRS is a flaming joke but the reality is that that race had more spectacle than any race held in Spain over the last two decades.

I gave it 7.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

5. A generous 5 at that. Get rid of that pathetic excuse for a chicane at the last corner and you'll get more overtaking, I'm almost certain.

 

[pirateplunder]

Dull. This vote is more interesting than the race from lap 4 onwards. 2

 

[Slyboogy]

How did they actually think that chican was going to work?

It's a tight entry going into it, and a one way car going through it, add to that you can't get much acceleration out of it due to it being so tight and always clunking the massive kerb.

 

[snowy]

How did they actually think that chican was going to work?

It's a tight entry going into it, and a one way car going through it, add to that you can't get much acceleration out of it due to it being so tight and always clunking the massive kerb.

The final turn used to be massively fast, it was not then and is not now tight on exit. It has been reduced to an acceleration zone. The chicane that precedes it was introduced in response to the events of the 1994 San Marino GP at Imola and turns that fast being deemed to be unsafe. The changes were never supposed to promote anything other than safety and seem to "work" in that regard.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

If it was a response to Imola, why did it take them 13 years to implement?

 

[snowy]

Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld It was a Tilke trick to promote overtaking wasn't it?

My bad.

 

[siffert_fan]

To me, all the tyre changes have turned F1 into open-wheel NASCAR!