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I have been beating myself up about this post and whether after all I might have been right first time. After Senna's drive to 6th in Malaysia and Romain binning it, not once but twice in three and a half laps... Maybe he has just been a bit unlucky - he was still out on inters when he spun for the second and final time, but by lap 4, it was pretty obvious that was a gamble on staying on track long enough for the safety car. After his earlier "mix up" with Schumacher, he was trying to recover lost ground of course. But their contrasting races were interesting: Senna also got into a scrape on lap 1 and lost his front wing so perhaps for him pitting for full wets on lap 1 was a bit of luck (unlike Perez who could have chosen not to). Another rookie though, Vergne, managed to keep it on the island on inters. Grosjean did neither. Romain is obviously a very fast driver when there are no other cars around him, but I wonder whether he is a bit too timid or uncertain when racing against the big boys? Lotus will be patient with him, but he is going to have to prove all this was bad luck now.
I have been beating myself up about this post and whether after all I might have been right first time. After Senna's drive to 6th in Malaysia and Romain binning it, not once but twice in three and a half laps...
Maybe he has just been a bit unlucky - he was still out on inters when he spun for the second and final time, but by lap 4, it was pretty obvious that was a gamble on staying on track long enough for the safety car. After his earlier "mix up" with Schumacher, he was trying to recover lost ground of course.
But their contrasting races were interesting: Senna also got into a scrape on lap 1 and lost his front wing so perhaps for him pitting for full wets on lap 1 was a bit of luck (unlike Perez who could have chosen not to). Another rookie though, Vergne, managed to keep it on the island on inters. Grosjean did neither.
Romain is obviously a very fast driver when there are no other cars around him, but I wonder whether he is a bit too timid or uncertain when racing against the big boys? Lotus will be patient with him, but he is going to have to prove all this was bad luck now.