14-10-2014, 21:42
(14-10-2014, 13:53)maripi escribió: http://www.planetf1.com/race-features/95...Russian-GP
In F1, the first person you have to beat is your team-mate.
Mercedes
Nico Rosberg 3 - Lewis Hamilton 13
Race: Hamilton
Before the race there was an aerial display from the Russian equivalent of the Red Arrows, flying red, blue and white vapour trails over Sochi. Sutton motorsport images have taken a picture of Nico Rosberg braking into Turn 2 from above which makes it look like Nico had decided to imitate the trainer jets with his two front tyres, producing a spectacular trail of smoke as he slid. It was another example of the difference between how the Mercedes duo manage their braking. In Monza Rosberg messed up his braking into the first chicane a couple of time and lost the race as a result, and it was the same story here. It was a good job he didn't hit Hamilton on the way through - that would have made for a fun three weeks before Austin.
What's the betting that Lewis was saving this particular engine for Abu Dhabi...?
Red Bull
Daniel Ricciardo 12 - Sebastian Vettel 4
Race: Ricciardo
You can always learn things in F1 and right now Sebastian Vettel needs to learn how to exit a Red Bull team that has given him four World Championship winning cars, with elegance. It would have been no difficult thing for him to move over and let Daniel Ricciardo follow his slim mathematical pursuit of Rosberg and Hamilton, and made up for the kind of malaise that has descended on him.
Daniel did his best, but this wasn't a Red Bull track. Earlier in the weekend, there had been a touching moment as Dan pulled his car up to a halt out on track in Friday practice. It was like a scene from the best medical drama, as the dying engine finally shut down and emitted some tell-tale wisps of smoke Dan came on the radio and said slowly and mournfully, "She's gone."
Ferrari
Fernando Alonso 14 - Kimi Raikkonen 2
Race: Alonso
Yet again Alonso increased what is the most emphatic team-mate difference in the Championship. Raikkonen's temporary happiness with his turn-in of the F14T and the braking under turn-in has disappeared and we're back to unusual gaps in qualifying.
The worrying thing going forward is that, in a lot of respects, the Sochi track is similar to the end-of-season points bonanza Abu Dhabi track. And the form the cars showed at the Sochi Autodrum could be translated forward to the double points race. In which case, McLaren's resurgence could be slightly alarming for the Scuderia who are only 45 points ahead of the Woking team. Jenson and Kevin scored 22 points in Russia, so double that up and it's a haul of 44 points. They still need some results to go their way in Texas and Brazil, but stranger things have happened.
So right now Marco Mattiacci needs to keep working on Raikkonen's set-up problems to give them the car in which he can show the kind of stellar drives we saw over the last two years with Lotus.
McLaren
Jenson Button 13 - Kevin Magnussen 3
Race: Button
Button outqualified and outraced his rookie team-mate who finished 23 seconds down the road. Magnussen's weekend was compromised by a series of glitches, such as malfunctioning fuel flow sensors, but he coped with it all pretty well. Although the paddock is a sombre place after the Jules Bianchi accident, Magnussen is looking particularly downbeat right now and although they're still saying the right things, neither McLaren driver seems comfortable with his role in the team. Well done, Ron.
Ya que estamos en un foro español, estaria bien una traduccion para los que no sabemos ingles.