Good points
- Jenson Button (pole to finished with a race win)
- Red Bull Racing (Sebastian Vettel finished 2nd, Mark Webber finished 6th)
- Kimi Räikkonen (finished 3rd)
- Nico Hülkenberg (finished 4th)
- Felipe Massa (finished 5th)
- Scuderia Toro Rosso (Jean-Éric Vergne finished 8th, Daniel Ricciardo finished 9th)
- Vitaly Petrov (finished 14th, ahead of Heikki Kovalainen, Pedro De la Rosa and the Marussia drivers)
Bad points
- Romain Grosjean (DNF, first lap Collision and a one-race ban for this weekends Italian Grand Prix)
- Fernando Alonso (DNF, first lap Collision)
- Lewis Hamilton (DNF, first lap Collision)
- Sauber (Kamui Kobayashi finished 13th, with first lap Collision; Sergio Perez DNF, first lap Collision)
- Pastor Maldonado (DNF, Collision damage, given two five-place grid penalties for Monza for a jumped start and causing a collision with Timo Glock as-well)
- Narain Karthikeyan (DNF, spun off)
A dominating race weekend from Jenson Button in the McLaren Mercedes, which usually is not a good luck track for the former world champion. But, this weekend is year quite different from pole position on Saturday to conclude with a race win on Sunday to give Jenson his second win of the season.
Behind Button it was a cluster of a race, when at the beginning of the race were Romain Grosjean made a better start than Lewis Hamilton alongside him and cut sharply across the track, squeezing the McLaren driver up against the white line. Contact was inevitable, and as Hamilton lost control of his car the McLaren pushed the Lotus into the cars ahead which were slowing for the first corner. The Lotus scythed across the front of Fernando Alonso’s car, passing terrifyingly close to his helmet. Hamilton’s car reared into the side of Sergio Perez’s, and the other Sauber of Kamui Kobayashi was knocked into Pastor Maldonado. Only Maldonado and Kobayashi emerged from the crash, but their weekends are ruined. Which, gives Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel starting from 10th to finish in second place, ahead of Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen at the end of the race to finish in third. Which, gives Vettel now only 24 points behind Alonso in the driver standings, Mark Webber only 32 points behind Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen now only 33 points behind Alonso in the drivers championship with eight races to go.
So for the first time that a Formula 1 driver had a race ban since 1994, with Mika Häkkinen banned for one race for the Hungarian Grand Prix, for causing a first lap pile-up in the German Grand Prix and was replaced by Philippe Alliot for that race.
My opinion about the first lap collision, which gives Romain Grosjean an one race-ban for Monza. There's no doubt that Romain Grosjean was at the centre of the accident that plunged the start of the 2012 F1 Grand Prix of Belgium on Sunday. But, overall I felt that it's a racing incident, no one was to blame for that first lap collision. But I heard and read that people are saying other opinions that should have been a two-race ban, some say a one-race ban is about right, some say too harsh! Just have a grid penalty at Monza and even some people say It's not his fault - it was Lewis Hamilton's fault. All about opinion at the end of the day and what the stewards think its right or wrong.
Overall, I don't think that Romain Grosjean isn't a dangerous driver, I personally fell that there are three or four F1 drivers that are more dangerous than Grosjean (two are former world champions, one is a back marker who brings in sponsorship and other is a race winner from this season without naming them). But, this race is clear daylight of what Formula 1 drivers can and can not do and race bans do exists in the modern day of Formula 1 which you can learn.
At the end of the day it's a miracle that Fernando Alonso isn't dead or heavily injured with this accident and Motorsport is still a dangerous sport. No matter if its Go-Karting, motorbikes, Formula 1, Indy Car, any kind of Motorsport is dangerous, but motorsport can be safer between tracks, fans, specators, tracks marshells, people in pits, cars and drivers too. But, I'm hoping that Formula 1 doesn't go into a nanny state were Formula 1 cars in a few years time doesn't look like a modern day version of the Red Bull X2010 race car in my opinion.
And so this weekend is the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, home race for both Ferrari and Toro Rosso. Predictions for the race: Fernando Alonso for the win in the Ferrari, ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren and Jenson Button third in the Mclaren as-well. Don't forget the two Red Bull drivers, Kimi Raikkonen or the two Mercedes AMG drivers as-well for a podium place too.
End of blog for how, new blog soon, that is all. Bye.
At the end of the day it's a miracle that Fernando Alonso isn't dead or heavily injured with this accident and Motorsport is still a dangerous sport. No matter if its Go-Karting, motorbikes, Formula 1, Indy Car, any kind of Motorsport is dangerous, but motorsport can be safer between tracks, fans, specators, tracks marshells, people in pits, cars and drivers too. But, I'm hoping that Formula 1 doesn't go into a nanny state were Formula 1 cars in a few years time doesn't look like a modern day version of the Red Bull X2010 race car in my opinion.
And so this weekend is the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, home race for both Ferrari and Toro Rosso. Predictions for the race: Fernando Alonso for the win in the Ferrari, ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren and Jenson Button third in the Mclaren as-well. Don't forget the two Red Bull drivers, Kimi Raikkonen or the two Mercedes AMG drivers as-well for a podium place too.
End of blog for how, new blog soon, that is all. Bye.
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