2011 Formula One World Championship - Round Ten - German Grand Prix (22-24 July 2011)

[DonsRule]

Right call to leave him out but why they left him out that long I have no idea, RBR fail on strategy yet again. Still have no idea why they pitted him first and put him behind traffic when he was leading...

Not sure either, might have even been Marks call? Earlier in the season I remember he made a decision that seemed to cost him.

 

[OzBomber]

1 second at that 2nd pit stop cost him 1st place basically. Quite amazing really. Oh well.

 

[Simple Jack]

Bloody hell Ferrari, could you **** up the most important pitstop of the race any more?

 

[Frankster177]

Congrats to Hamilton, all came together for them today.
Second is ok for points.
At least Webber didnt win.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Massa has to take blame as well. He basically came to a complete halt at pit lane entrance. If he hadn't he may have gotten away with it.

 

[smoovy]

Webber sets his fastest lap of the race in the the last lap.

May be they should have got on the primes earlier. If we were to believe what teh McLaren engineer said on radio they wre supposed to be 1.5s slower. What do they know?

 

[Warsaw]

Highlight of the GP.

Alonso on Webber's Red Bull.

 

[Drummond]

That was gold.

Alonso and Webber, both guns.

 

[rideclutch]

That was gold.

Alonso and Webber, both guns.

Hahah they just roll in to the pits casually like it's no big deal

I can also hear the Geelong club song in the background. Based on a German composition perhaps?

 

[IBleedBrownNGold]

Hahah they just roll in to the pits casually like it's no big deal

I can also hear the Geelong club song in the background. Based on a German composition perhaps?

Nahh... Geelong's song is based on Bizet's 'Carmen'. He was a French dude.

 

[Ljp86]

Woohoo, go Lewis!! Great win by McLaren, hopefully they can string some wins together and Jenson can get some more luck with his car.

 

[rideclutch]

Nahh... Geelong's song is based on Bizet's 'Carmen'. He was a French dude.

Ahh I see, thanks

 

[Sven]

A great race that exceeded all my expectation leading into the weekend. A welcome return to form for McLaren and Hamilton and hopefully a guide to the competitiveness we can expect from Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari for the remainder of the season.

I'm pretty certain that McLaren brought an upgrade to Germany and it seems to have done the trick, particularly when you compare Hamilton's performance at Germany to Valencia which is a similar speed track. At Valencia Hamilton finished 45 seconds off the pace. Apparently McLaren had the upgrade for Silverstone but couldn't get it to work properly and eventually ditched it for the race there.

The other aspect that really interested me in Germany was the early call by the top three on changing tyres. I was watching the race and using live timing from formula1.com and couldn't see any noticeable decrease in anyones lap times before they went in for tyre changes. Obviously the drivers can feel subtle hanling changes before it starts to really hurt lap times, but I thought most came in too early.

Then at the end of the race when there was a noticeable difference in lap times on Webber's car, Red Bull didn't call him in. Very bizarre stuff IMO.

A disappointing race from Vettel, and apart from a few laps on his last set of soft tyres he seemed to be off the pace for the entire race. Mind you it just shows how much luck he's having this season when Ferrari stuffed up Massa's last pit stop to gift him 4th place and minimise his points loss to Webber.

Looking forward I'd expect more of the same at Hungary with hardly anything between the top three teams. The main question to be answered is whether or not Red Bull have been passed by McLaren and Ferrari in the development stakes..

 

[royboy2]

Great start form Lewis and fantastic race overall, shame about Button's DNF

 

[NSWCROW]

AMW's race -
Massa'a pitstop -

 

[Simple Jack]

The other aspect that really interested me in Germany was the early call by the top three on changing tyres. I was watching the race and using live timing from formula1.com and couldn't see any noticeable decrease in anyones lap times before they went in for tyre changes. Obviously the drivers can feel subtle hanling changes before it starts to really hurt lap times, but I thought most came in too early.

I thought the same thing, AMW was already 3rd by 4-5 seconds so worst case scenario was he stayed third, and after Petrov put on the primes he did 2 or 3 personal best sectors in a row. I definately thought they should have rolled the dice just incase he could have got the undercut on a faster set of new primes, which it turned out he may have been able to.

 

[Herbs]

Ricciardo seems to be making some positive steps, expecting him to outqualify Liuzzi soon.

 

[BomberFletch31]

Bloody hell Ferrari, could you **** up the most important pitstop of the race any more?

I'm so glad they stuffed it up.

 

[rayven]

They left webber out for as long as they did because they were testing mclaren and ferrari's fuel situation, the longer mark was in front of them the more both cars had to push until they knew where he would be after his pit.....It nearly pushed Alonso to far....

Mark's pit stop before that may of been a shocker but he dropped 5 seconds on the track to Hamilton after that, he simply didn't have the pace...

 

[yc168]

+1 agree with Rayven, I don't believe he had the pace as well, it was Hamilton's day straight from the start! Just wish Webber can get his starts right!