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Alguersuari, because he did quite well apart from the Chandhok-incident

You're surprised?

I slept for 10 laps in the middle and missed nothing. No one could overtake (other than fast cars going past the 3 new teams or guys at the back on fresh rubber). There was a little bit of action with Vettel and Hamilton at the end but I want to see some damn racing. Not rely on cars falling apart.

3/10. I'm being kind. I don't know how much longer I can watch cars parade around a circuit separated by a second.

Chandhok is one of the most liked drivers on the paddock.

Massa lost control and hit him.
Alguersuari (who is also inexperienced) jumped in front of him too soon.

Shit happens, but none of it was his fault.

Webber.

But a great effort from Sutil and Hamilton.

actually looking at Lewis's crash again, it initially looked like the tyre sidewall blew, but if you look closely at the video as he goes round the left part of turn 1, the camber angle of the wheel changes, then when he turns to the right, it changes to the other way, like the top mounting of the hub is flexing.

Suppose it's possible the tyre blew because of the pressure being put on it by the failing joint (allowing camber changes in the tyre/wheel outside of normal paramaters), rather than the tyre actually failing by itself.

I can't give it more than a 2. Compare it to the last 3 races wich were awesome, this one really was almost exactly like Bahrain but with a few incidents (not great racing).

The GP2 race I saw on saturday (couldn't watch the GP2 race today on any channel) was more exciting (not much though)

I meant a rim failure.

They are designed to do that, and the rim broke before the tyre deflated. The tyre didn't fail, it suddenly deflated because it was no longer attached to the rim.

BBC just showd an OnBoard with Alonso & he not only had his left hand off the wheel to use the F-Duct but them moved his right hand off the wheel to adjust something on the left side of the cockpit and he was also looking down.

Webber.

Shout outs to Alguersuari (for a blinding start and some great passes), and Vettel for managing yet another RBR failure. But Webber was better than both.

Not sure if this has been picked up on at all but at one point we had an onboard with Kobayashi at one point and he was doing something similar to the Ferrari all the way down the straight.

they said they have an F-Duct, it probably works the same way as the Ferrari one
they do have a close relationship with them

How do they know he was also adjusting something with his right hand? I can't see his right hand on those pictures or any onboard camera we had in the race.

That's his right hand underneath his left hand, reaching at something to the left.

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Yeah he was operating the F-duct with his left hand and adjusting the brake bias with his right hand, at various points all weekend long.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83485

Shame Button says this.

Button's real problem:

"He didn't make a mistake, so it was very frustrating."

I didn't see anything wrong with Michael's pass. Haven't seen it again since though.

There was one lap where Michael did leave a small gap on the inside but Button still tried the outside. Hindsight is a wonderful thing though.