Comments on: How Rubens' race was run

By: Leigh Woolford

Leigh Woolford — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:10:29 +0000

Yes you are right I can clearly see the Red Bull on three wheels. I guess the cars were still going quite quickly as they hadn’t caught up with the safety car. Thanks for replying. I envy you being there.

By: Mike Ellison

Mike Ellison — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:33:13 +0000

Thanks Andrew for the video. I can see how the stewards ended up penalizing Trulli but as he was pretty well forced to pass Hamilton due to McLaren being extra cautious (and who could blame them) the penalty should have been something nominal and less harsh. Trulli wasn’t being unreasonable and it could have gotten pretty silly if it had started a “no, after _you_” between two cars under the safety car. Couldn’t they have given him a fine or something?

By: Colin S

Colin S — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:19:33 +0000

I’d love to see a similar analysis of Hamilton’s race. He lucked into a few places but he seemed to be regularly in the mix despite the crappy car.

Podium from 18th is pretty impressive whichever way you look at it and would have been the story of the weekend if not for Ross’s Raiders.

By: Peter B

Peter B — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:29:43 +0000

hi rpaco,
I have replayed the incident and quite frankly, to me ,Webber was on the racing line, being pressured from the outside, when RB just came in too hot. I was surprised there was no further action by the stewards. Subsequently it looked as though RB thought he was in a dodgem car demolishion derby.

I think his second place was more by luck than judgement. In my opinion he was more than helped by the Brawn mania down here, and an absolutely bullet proof car. Pity RB wasnt as good

Still we all have our own views , and only the decleared result matters. It looks like a season out of the ordinary, fast cars politics and noses out of joint….Bring it on

Have fun

By: M__E

M__E — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:19:45 +0000

yep KERS was the main culprit! – and his strategy helped a bit too, plus his bold bullish determanism as usual.

By: M__E

M__E — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:16:07 +0000

‘NOW! clear to me why’ – edit…

By: M__E

M__E — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:15:19 +0000

yep +1 on the video, cleared the matter right up, I was about to go looking on there to see if I could find a video of how Hamilton got passed but didnt get penalised while trulli did for passing him…its no clear to me why..

By: Andrew Jackling

Andrew Jackling — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:08:35 +0000

Hi Leigh, the safety car was definitely deployed at the time I took that video. If you watch closely you’ll see that the Red Bull that gets passed at the end of the video is Vettel’s Red Bull which only has 3 wheels after his crash with Kubica.

So yes, the race had definitely been neutralized at that point.

By: Derek Lorimer

Derek Lorimer — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:06:19 +0000

James,

Great analysis. Totally agree that this is the best source of detailed infomation on Formula One.

Takes me back to when I used to read Jenks articles in Motorsport in the 1970s.

By: Stephen Kellett

Stephen Kellett — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:48:20 +0000

I think we need a poll.

– This blog is bloody great

Yes

- Do you really think the BBC contract would allow him to write this blog?

Possibly.

- Would you prefer this blog or James commentating?

Blog,

- I doubt his ITV website contract would allow it

Its does, he is contribuing to both.

- Give the new BBC guys a break – its their first event, they need to get into the groove – they’ll get there, just like James did over 10 years ago

Well, I was watching the cycling commentary on BBC – the guy that does that is *SO* much better than Legard – so if his enthusiasm also translates to F1, he would be much better than Legard, if JA could not be retained.