11-06-2014, 14:34
In F1, the first person you have to beat is your team-mate.
Mercedes
Nico Rosberg 1 - Lewis Hamilton 6
Race: Hamilton
As you all know by now, the rules of Team-Mate Wars are as inflexible as a 2013 Red Bull front wing under an FIA deflection test. When Lewis left the pits after the second stop he was already ahead of Rosberg and then he felt his brake pedal go long. By Turn 10 it was all over and he knew that pumping it wasn't going to get anything back. So, as he was leading his team-mate when he suffered a mechanical failure, it means the TMW points are his.
As noted elsewhere, Rosberg sounded very panicky on the radio, but then again that might be because we're not used to hearing him so much. In comparison, it'd be nice to hear more of Dan Ricciardo. The Red Bull team say that he's astonishingly calm on the radio and that would fit with his reply to the team earlier in the season when they asked him to drop back and save his tyres: "no, if something's going on, I want to be part of it."
Returning to the Mercedes drivers - this race more than anything else has shown that Hamilton and Rosberg are very close in ability. But which one is the better driver is unlikely to be the difference between who wins and who loses the World Championship, that will be down to the season-long reliability of their cars. Had the DNFs gone the other way then Rosberg would be on 97 points not 140. Had Lewis picked up those points then he would be on 161 not 118. So switch those two results round and it could have been Hamilton 161 and Rosberg 97. And very boring.
Red Bull
Daniel Ricciardo 5 - Sebastian Vettel 2
Race: Ricciardo
Dan won this one the easy way - but nobody would say he didn't deserve it. He didn't suffer any of the anxiety of thinking he was going to win the race, for much of it he was tooling around in P7 following other cars, with maybe one eye on jumping Vettel at the second pit-stops. Then all of a sudden the opportunity presented itself at the end and he made a very difficult overtaking move on Sergio Perez. Jack Brabham may have gone, but there's a new champion in waiting.
We're beginning to get a different radio relationship between Vettel and his engineer 'Rocky' this year. When he was winning there was rarely a dispute between driver and the pitwall, but now Vettel is questioning every strategic move and Rocky has had to develop a series of answers which basically mean 'shut up and drive the car'.
Ferrari
Fernando Alonso 6 - Kimi Raikkonen 1
Race: Alonso
Nobody does overriding gloom as well as Fernando Alonso and you feel it the minute he steps up to the microphone. Button does a very good 'frustrated' and a regular line in 'doh, can you believe it?', but like his driving Fernando's gloom is a cut above everyone else's. Because even when he gets moderate results that's not enough. He wants the main prize and, understandably, he wants to see that there is a route to the main prize, when right now Ferrari are slipping back.
Raikkonen is still struggling with the handling of the F14T and two spins in almost the same place at the casino (one in practice, one in the race) put paid to his chances of finishing right behind Alonso.
http://www.planetf1.com/features/9344001...anadian-GP
Mercedes
Nico Rosberg 1 - Lewis Hamilton 6
Race: Hamilton
As you all know by now, the rules of Team-Mate Wars are as inflexible as a 2013 Red Bull front wing under an FIA deflection test. When Lewis left the pits after the second stop he was already ahead of Rosberg and then he felt his brake pedal go long. By Turn 10 it was all over and he knew that pumping it wasn't going to get anything back. So, as he was leading his team-mate when he suffered a mechanical failure, it means the TMW points are his.
As noted elsewhere, Rosberg sounded very panicky on the radio, but then again that might be because we're not used to hearing him so much. In comparison, it'd be nice to hear more of Dan Ricciardo. The Red Bull team say that he's astonishingly calm on the radio and that would fit with his reply to the team earlier in the season when they asked him to drop back and save his tyres: "no, if something's going on, I want to be part of it."
Returning to the Mercedes drivers - this race more than anything else has shown that Hamilton and Rosberg are very close in ability. But which one is the better driver is unlikely to be the difference between who wins and who loses the World Championship, that will be down to the season-long reliability of their cars. Had the DNFs gone the other way then Rosberg would be on 97 points not 140. Had Lewis picked up those points then he would be on 161 not 118. So switch those two results round and it could have been Hamilton 161 and Rosberg 97. And very boring.
Red Bull
Daniel Ricciardo 5 - Sebastian Vettel 2
Race: Ricciardo
Dan won this one the easy way - but nobody would say he didn't deserve it. He didn't suffer any of the anxiety of thinking he was going to win the race, for much of it he was tooling around in P7 following other cars, with maybe one eye on jumping Vettel at the second pit-stops. Then all of a sudden the opportunity presented itself at the end and he made a very difficult overtaking move on Sergio Perez. Jack Brabham may have gone, but there's a new champion in waiting.
We're beginning to get a different radio relationship between Vettel and his engineer 'Rocky' this year. When he was winning there was rarely a dispute between driver and the pitwall, but now Vettel is questioning every strategic move and Rocky has had to develop a series of answers which basically mean 'shut up and drive the car'.
Ferrari
Fernando Alonso 6 - Kimi Raikkonen 1
Race: Alonso
Nobody does overriding gloom as well as Fernando Alonso and you feel it the minute he steps up to the microphone. Button does a very good 'frustrated' and a regular line in 'doh, can you believe it?', but like his driving Fernando's gloom is a cut above everyone else's. Because even when he gets moderate results that's not enough. He wants the main prize and, understandably, he wants to see that there is a route to the main prize, when right now Ferrari are slipping back.
Raikkonen is still struggling with the handling of the F14T and two spins in almost the same place at the casino (one in practice, one in the race) put paid to his chances of finishing right behind Alonso.
http://www.planetf1.com/features/9344001...anadian-GP
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