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[JHS18]

LabradoRacer, on 10 June 2012 - 07:20 PM, said:

Is Perez's move on Rosberg kosher? I mean Rosberg had slowed down only to allow Massa past. Gray area?

Nope. That's been happening since...forever. Perfectly legal to capitalise on someone slowing to allow someone else past.

Entertaining race. A little disappointed that Hamilton won, but it is interesting in itself that we now have 7 different winners and that the championship is so close. A price worth paying really.

Great jobs by Grosjean and Perez. Maybe they were gifted it a little bit with Alonso's old tyres and Vettel's pitstop, but they made their strategies work.

Edited by JHS18, 10 June 2012 - 08:02 PM.

[Ikyrotz]

Ikyrotz, on 10 June 2012 - 07:49 PM, said:

Kimi's inability to heat the tires quickly is costing him dearly. It puts him at a disadvantage at quali and after pit stops, like today. I bet he lost at least 3 positions due to poor first couple of laps after pitting.

Actually, make that 5 positions. He was 1.5 seconds ahead of Perez before pits (on subsequent laps) and should've easily kept him behind him, but Perez (my DOD) ended up finishing third while Kimi ended up trailing Webber, another car who was behind him before pits. I have to say I'm disappointed he didn't do any better.

Great to have another winner, though. Lewis definitely deserved the win, and Grosjean and Perez made one-stop work for them brilliantly. Top-5 in WDC standings within one win, top-7 within 35 points, can't remember a season like this...

[Massa]

I was supposed to do the race report for the Inaugural Running of the Very First 2012 Grand Prix du Canada but I have absolutely nothing clever, unique, interesting, or insightful to say (I don't really have anything dense, unoriginal, boring, or obvious to say, either) so you're going to have to just have watched the race yourself and seen everything I saw, and more, since you may not have commercial breaks and/or may be more attentive and intelligent than I am.  You ain't getting anything in this world for free and a race report's sure as **** something...

...though they actually will have free cups of water at Taco Bell tomorrow to celebrate Sergio Pérez' podium...

Spoiler

But they have that every day.

[Insider]

I think Lewis showed today that he is probably the best racing driver out there this year. Astonishing performance. Ferrari and RBR lost the podium to Lotus and Sauber through poor strategy and I am as baffled by JBs form as he and everyone else is. Sam Michael gave some insight when he said that this year's car was a little more skittish at the rear. We know that Lewis would handle that situation better than Jenson overall and thereby hangs a tale, maybe. It would also account for the rapid deg on the rears, excessive spin up and front brake problems. Many engineers in the pit lane will tell you that JB is tinkering way too much with his set up this year. Hardly surprising, perhaps. Some of the Brawn GP gang will tell you that Shovlin set the car up in 2009 and Button just drove. Jens had a great season last year and he was doing exactly what he is doing this year. He's now on his third engineer in as many seasons. What do I think? I think he's a great strategist on the hoof but he needs an engineer like Shov. It's just not his car and only Woking can help sort that out. Power to Romain and Sergio. Super effort. Kimi - where were you?

[Rainmaster]

Good to see the best trio of drivers on the grid this year battling for the victory, even if the strategy ultimately did not work out. At least they went for it.

Great job podium finishers. Nice to see Perez up there again, he's been accused of over driving the car a little after the Malaysia result, hopefully he's back on it now. Grosjean? Look at the miracles he can perform when he does not try to win the race on lap one, carry on like this and you will have Kimi under the cosh for the season and a promising career ahead.

Schumi: this season is a tragedy. Button is not too far behind in those stakes, that narrow operating window really hurting him and what's worse, with no end in sight. Massa...oh boy. I thought Monaco/Canada qualifying was the start of a new trend.

Fun race.

[BradSpeedMan]

Ikyrotz, on 10 June 2012 - 08:25 PM, said:

Actually, make that 5 positions. He was 1.5 seconds ahead of Perez before pits (on subsequent laps) and should've easily kept him behind him, but Perez (my DOD) ended up finishing third while Kimi ended up trailing Webber, another car who was behind him before pits. I have to say I'm disappointed he didn't do any better.

He definately has a problem with the supersofts, they started using it at Monaco and he just faded, on the prime he's way better...

He has to sort this out quickly!!! Work with the engineers to get to the bottom of the problem... same situation 2008 when he could'nt generate enough heat into the tyres