An early accident between Raikkonen and Alonso neutralised the race before the end of lap 1. Once the safety car pitted, the race was all but over. Lewis had no response to Nico this weekend, Nico has been on top of the car and has been absolutely on it.
We've seen a little bit of side-by-side action. Grosjean and Nasr went wheel to wheel through the middle sector, which was rather good, Bottas pulled a lovely out-side pass on someone, I can't remember who.
After 8 laps of racing after the safety car went in, the top 10 were covered by 20 seconds. 20! That's nearly a third of the track. At half distance, the top 10 are covered by nearly a minute. How on earth do you expect racing to happen when the drivers are nowhere near each other?
Here is that tier:
Mercedes
Ferrari
Williams
Lotus/Force India
Toro Rosso
Red Bull/Sauber
McLaren/Manor
Williams keep banging on about challenging Ferrari but they just can't.
Red Bull not only seem to be under-powered, but being out-performed by the junior team.
How much did Honda get it so wrong? Why didn't McLaren do the deal, but just not tell anyone so Honda could test and develop as much as they want without the FIA strict regulations.
But no, they're languishing at the back in with a power unit that's under-powered, thirsty, unreliable and sounds terrible with two world champions whose talents are being wasted in that heap of junk. Yet the come out, week in, week out saying "Oh you know, it's alright, it'll get there, we just need time you know" No. Not the point, what an absolute joke. 50 place penalties between the McLarens this weekend and neither made it past 25% race distance.
DRS seems to be either too overpowered or not powerful enough. The cars cannot run closely enough to allow them to follow enough between fast corners.
Formula 1 is really starting to annoy me. The sport is at war with itself, there is little, to no competition. The penalty system is ridiculous. All the action happens in the first couple of laps, then it might as well be a track day. I'm fed up of hearing, "This is fascinating" and "This is interesting" Interesting is a terrible word, it doesn't mean anything. It's just mush. It doesn't mean good, it doesn't mean bad. It's just letters without meaning.
I want exciting. F1 in 2012 was exciting. 7 different winners in the first 7 races, I think the biggest and most dominant victory was... ugh, Mercedes, with Nico Rosberg at China at about 20 seconds. A 20 second lead is commonplace in Formula 1 now.
The races mid to late season were still good, even with that annoying Vettel started winning again.
I'm fed up with F1 as a whole. Do something. And do it fast. I've forked out a lot of money to go the British GP in two weeks, it had better be worth it.
Race still isn't finished, on lap 63.
Cheerio.
A very annoyed Stevie.
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