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Damn that was wild.
Sucks for Alonso but he got something at least...least he's in contention for the win every race.

Some great battles, Perez shut up some critics (maybe TOO forcefully) and Webber/Hami was a great one. Great top 10
 
That was a good race lots of fighting.

Feel bad for Paul they should have just done 3 stops, they would have been no worse off.

Great recovery drive by Alonso and lewis.

Loved the button Perez fight.
 
Feel sorry for Force India, if only their decent driver hadn't got a puncture from Massa. Sutil was faster than Di Useless all race, so they would have got a podium.

The Scot keeps proving time and time again that he's the new Trulli (qualifying specialist) and just cannot race - just like he was in DTM.

Yay for Kimi, driving the socks off his Lotus this year again <3
 
Just seen a reply of Massa hitting Sutil, why do they not give drivers penalties for that? Massa destroyed his race.

Just seen the button interview lol. Don't think they will be going for dinner soon.

Button on sky is so funny, blaming martin for telling Perez to be more aggressive lol. Then Davidson getting in on it and button making a comment back :)
 
Yup, same results.
Even Kimi's face is exactly the same : P
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Perez today was not to aggressive it's racing. Spa 1995 was racing as well as was France with the Ferrari and Renault that year and everyone goes on about how great that was.

There is nothing wrong with wheel banging at all.

At least drs did not destroy this race and drivers were passing without it. Infact that's the idea of drs, not to pass but to get closer to help pass.
 
Well it's not 1995 lol for 2013 that was intense!
It was great to see, he did not let up at all. Loved how he didn't even slow down as he went entirely on the sand :)


And I doubt a single viewer (except Button fans!) thought Perez was too aggressive, that's the s**t we love...the team are the only ones that thought he may have gone too far :lol:

Good point, Alonso did well without any DRS though it still sucks that he could easily have 4 podiums...you can't help mechanical issues but his stupidity in Malaysia...if he loses by like 2 points to Vettel again that race will go down in infamy : (
 
Yes I think drivers are scared to race like that now days in fear of a drive through. It took me back to the days of Jpm, ms, Mansell, senna and I loved it.

Real racing, real passing.
 
Thought Perez was excessive tbh, once or twice he crossed what I would call acceptable. Think once with Alonso he cut across him a bit too sharply for my liking, and once alongside Button he was a bit reckless. Good to see though, his mini-battle with Alonso was great.

Don't get this whole love-in about it being real racing either, DRS made so many passes too straight-forward for me.
 
Which were down to the tyres rather than actual driver quality or skill. Di Resta case in point, Grosjean had an extra set of brand new tyres which is why he worked his way through the field so easily.

Took an absolute age to actually figure out who was actually in position and who was out of position due to tyres, pitstops and strategies. Far too much for me and I'm usually one of the ones defending the current system in place.
 
well too be fair marc, if I was driver I'd be scared of that type of racing too, but not because of them becoming "soft" or any of that crap, just if you even get near someone the FIA at least launches an investigation...
But yeah, the kers/DRS stuff feels kinda lame and like it's dumbing the sport down, but it is limited in use and I think it's enhanced the sport rather than taking skill away. Though yeah it's a little annoying in the overtakes when no skill is used and they just blow right by.
 
See that's my problem been watching f1 since 1988 so I miss the close fighting.

Am not saying drs is all bad, today it was balanced. I just don't like it when a driver can use it and pass half way down the straight.
 
Yeah but what can ya do?
Like I said here we have the cries of how football/handegg was better when they could just kill each other, and coaches could pretty much beat the uni kids and if you had a concussion or major injury you were a wuss and get your ass back in there and run into that guy.
But can't go back, might as well enjoy what you can.

It's true, it used to really wow me when someone would make a great pass (I remember Takuma Sato being one of my favorites) now it's often just well....there he goes by.
 
No you cannot go back, but I enjoyed it today as they were racing fighting hard. Yet people are saying Perez was to hard.

Tbh he was faster and if anything button was holding him up.
 
I'm not button bashing at all, some of his moves were great today as well.

There was some great racing out there today.
 
I think I see where you're coming from here marc, the racing itself outside of the DRS zones was great as it was down to driver skill to get past in most instances (I'm guessing you've got Button/Perez, Perez/Alonso and Hamilton/Webber in mind with this). Thing is to me this was only the case because the track only really had two overtaking zones, and they were both hugely aided by DRS which is why there was such fighting in the middle of the circuit because there was little room to pull a clean overtake. Plus tyres meant there was such a huge contrast in outright speed between drivers, Button and Webber just went backwards on the last two laps.

Catch 22 really, tyres DRS and kers will give you racing like we saw today on some tracks, on others it will just give you a procession of simple overtakes in a straight line.
 
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