My driver of the day goes to Lewis Hamilton. He was the only one fighting at the top...

Alonso had it easy from the start, the moment Hamilton held up Massa and Kimi, alonso already had the entire race on his side. He just had to bring the car home, thats all, which is what he's been doing for the pass 2 years anyway.

Massa looks like he can't stay focus whenever he's behind other cars. He got of slow, slowed too early into turn one and there was no attempt to fight into turn 1. Kimi got held up and both Ferrari are compromised. After his accident, seems like massa's confidence got dented more than his car is, can't even beat BMW

Kimi didn't quite fight alot too anyway. And Ferrari team mess his strategy up, unnecessarily fueled him up heavier and cost him to exit behind Fisi

Yeah, thats one positive thing out of this race. Pass 3 weeks we've been worried about his engine. and finally, it went through fine. A podium is better than engine burning in smokes

Yep. Both his 1st and 2nd should be hard with the extra fuel.

Seems like our strategy went wrong after McLaren overtook both ferrari and ferrari had no answer to it.

indeed the pit stop isn't correct at all. The strategy planned earlier got ruined when both driver drop behind Lewis and got held up while Alonso casually pull open a gap. It was a tough situation, but it appears that our strategist didn't have any answer for that.

and then its going to stop for 4 weeks if i'm not mistaken

I think naturally top teams are more conservative when it comes to finding drivers, although I think Ferrari is more so compare to the rest. Lewis is very very lucky to be able to step straight into a top team car. Even Kimi and Montoya debuted with other teams. So did Alonso.

I think Flavio is still the best at spotting new talents lol, as he did with Schumi and Alonso. Only problem is that after making them into champions, he lose them to other team and his own team goes back to mid field.

So far his champion all have been very good drivers. Needless to say what Schumi has done for Ferrari, now seems like Alonso is putting McLaren back on top too.

This post has been edited by Hornet: Apr 9 2007, 12:28 AM

Its only fun and exciting if ur at the circuit there watching

Watching it on TV, its been a boring race. Ever since FIA brought up the front wing and brought forward the rear wing, there's too much turbulence behind an F1 car that any car following behind cant generate enough downforce.... In short, there was no any action on the front... only overtaking for position nobody cares about...

New faces at top teams. Ferrari and McLaren has lots of supporters here... heheh

yep, actually many ferrari fans forgot about that... Kimi actually cross the line with no smoking engine, and he got a podium, which is the best the team could get after a series of mistakes and misfortune...

It seems the limit the engine RPM...

Actually, a ferrari fan couldn't care less what anthem they wants to play for McLaren.

Merc holds 40%. The majority of the rest belongs to Ron and co. Fair enough if they wants to plan London's song.

What does ferrari have to do with Bild anyway. not that anyone takes them seriously (or so I heard among the tifosi) This has nothing to do with team rivalry if the first place, and u'r attempting to stir up some ruckus

I don't think we'll ever hear the German anthem again for a very long time lol. I understand if the German's F1 fan will start to miss it but that's just the way it is...

Any press conference script? Starsports didn't show it...
damn rtm had to delay the program

A guy of his caliber is very hard to be humble. Can't blame him though, he swap the track for alonso again this weekend, his 2 time world champion team mate... Who can stay humble like that

i find that very funny... the race starts half hour after 7... so RTM, had to delay them extra half hour as well... wtf

RTM2 12.20am
Astro Starsports 7.30pm Race starts

Starsports cut off the press conference half way...

Anyway congratz to Massa. Overtaking was insanely hard at the front, except if u'r Nick apparently, which is frustrating to see Kimi got stuck behind Alonso. But the good thing was Kimi was about 1 lap more fuel than alonso yet slightly faster than him.

This race was one of the more fun race to watch, lots of action and some smokes too. Still... i can't wait till next year, no traction control...

I wouldn't say so

when a car is sliding round corners like that, without TC, you'll have to be very careful with accelerating out of corners, because that's what TC is all about. They help acceleration when the rear wheel is lacking grip. Without it, driver may have to wait longer before accelerating out of a corner, as compare to a smooth driver who have his rear wheel in grip through the corner.

the same commentator who said "Massa pulling away from Lewis" after the screen shows Lewis gap to Massa for 3 laps in green

I don't find that logical at all. Alonso just lost his championship to kimi and lewis, and lewis didn't even need to win any race. With 2 championship already, I'm sure Alonso knows how to focus more on his championship rather than trying to win at Spain only. everyone at the front will be using the same engine, so there's really no reason for him to throw away a win to save the engine...

Thank god I didn't wait for RTM... Next time if RTM delay their F1 telecast, i think u guys better watch it at Astro or stream online, don't bother waiting. RTM really horrible...

Nick mentioned that Alonso made mistake, that's why he manage to pass him. If not for that mistake, the front cars are not able to overtake each other. Blame it on the FIA changes to the car regulation. Now they capped the engine at 19k rpm, so drivers cant overdrive the engine for a short moment to make an overtaking move. Not to mention the raised front wing...

This post has been edited by Hornet: Apr 16 2007, 06:18 PM

From Nick's post race comments,
Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber (4th):
"I feel fantastic. Currently I have a good car, a good team, I can drive good races and I really enjoy this. Before the race I didn't think I could overtake Fernando (Alonso), but in the second stint I was a bit quicker than him because I had one more set of fresh tyres than him. On the other hand, Fernando had the better top speed. I had to wait until he made a mistake, which he did in corner 13. For the team it is extremely important that both cars finished the race and scored points. I think here we were even stronger than in Malaysia, which is surprising as our car has not changed in the past week. Obviously the track suited us and I had a very good set-up."