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Posted by 'SimonS' on 28 Mar 2010 @ 14:04

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I think Chad's has the right of it.

Looked at in purely karting terms, Webber was trying to join the train. Hamilton had been held out wide by Alonso right into the corner and it was reasonable to think that he might get into that hole.

In hindsight, it was also predictable that Hamilton would cut back into the apex and that Webber was a bit too far back for the move to work...but at the time Webber started the move, about half way down the straight after it was obvious that Hamilton was going to be hung out to dry, it must have looked to be 'on'.

And by the time Hamilton started to cut back in, Webber was committed.

If Hamilton had stayed out there, where Alonso left him, or had continued at the same slow speed that the dirty side of the track reuired, it would have been a great overtaking move.

What it did show was that in the current cars, being 2 seconds a lap faster than the guy in front does not mean you can overtake. Alonso was possibly only so slow because he was in the dirty air of Massa, and Massa because he was in the dirty air of Zubica and Zubica had held onto his place for a number of laps, until Hamilton had had to try to find an advantage from tyres, because he could not do it by driving.

In some ways it has reduced F1 to Big Rotax, so much grip that a slow driver in front of you can occupy the racing line so well that you have to make an outrageous move to pass, hope you can pressure him into an error or nerf him off the track, the latter being illegal.

I think we will see more incidents of the racing kind or more processions, one can't rely on the weather all the time.

Message Thread:

No overtaking in F1...... by 'richpudd2003' (28 Mar 2010 @ 7:28)

Re: No overtaking in F1...... by 'Doink' (28 Mar 2010 @ 7:37)

Re: No overtaking in F1...... by 'Doink' (28 Mar 2010 @ 7:47)

Re: No overtaking in F1...... by 'Doink' (28 Mar 2010 @ 7:49)

Re: No overtaking in F1...... by 'richpudd2003' (28 Mar 2010 @ 8:36)

Re: No overtaking in F1...... by 'Doink' (28 Mar 2010 @ 8:41)

Re: Webber should be punished by 'Chris34' (28 Mar 2010 @ 9:37)

Re: FIAT beaten by a lada by 'max75' (28 Mar 2010 @ 10:50)

Chris.. by 'Chads' (28 Mar 2010 @ 11:30)

Re: Chads.... by 'Doink' (28 Mar 2010 @ 13:17)

Re: Chads.... by 'SimonS' << You are here!

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