Good points
- Red Bull (Sebastian Vettel, pole to win; Mark Webber, finished 2nd)
- Mercedes (Lewis Hamilton, finished 3rd; Nico Rosberg, finished 4th)
- Filipe Massa (finished 5th)
- Romain Grosjean (finished 6th)
- Nico Hülkenberg (finished 8th)
- Jean-Éric Vergne (finished 10th)
- Jules Bianchi (finished 13th)
Bad points
- Fernando Alonso (DNF, Alonso clipped his front wing on the back of Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull on the first lap. But on lap 2, the front wing broke off and sent Alonso off the circuit at turn 1. Despite, it his 200th Grand Prix in F1)
- Jenson Button (DNF, lost wheel nut in the pits which included a DNF with a Wheel problem)
- Pastor Maldonado (DNF, KERS failure)
- Daniel Ricciardo (DNF, Exhaust)
- Force India (Paul di Resta, DNF wheel nut; Adrian Sutil, DNF wheel nut)
Overall, the race was an OK race to watch. Until twelve laps to the end, we all thought that Mark Webber going to win after the pit-stops are finished. Unless your name is Sebastian Vettel that is. Sebastian Vettel took the lead to win this seasons Malaysian Grand Prix and his first win of the season. But after the race, that wasn't the case, there was team orders to let Mark Webber win the race from the last twenty laps telling both drivers to turn down the engines.
So was Sebastian Vettel greedy, disobeying orders or ruthless. My opinion he was disobeying orders which he said sorry afterwards but mainly ruthless. I am not defending Vettel's actions, but this is ruthless, similar ruthless if you see with Michael Schumacher winning races and world championships in the past and also similar to Ayrton Senna's ruthless to win races and championships as-well.
Also, he was looking at yesterday's results, DNF for both Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton only managing third place. And last weeks race winner Kimi Raikkonen only getting seventh place in the race when we all think he be in the top three once more. And now Sebastian Vettel leads the drivers championship, for now that is.
But, what I didn't notice until I re-watched the highlights on the BBC on Sunday Afternoon that Vettel was on the medium tyres on his last stint. While, Webber was on the hard compound on his last stint, which was around 0.6s per lap slower than Vettel. I would question why Red Bull did that strategy, if the team were in place to do the team orders, why not give both drivers the same medium/hard compound tyre's because I doubt that Lewis Hamilton would have finish no higher than third place, due to he was saving fuel at the end of the race.
As for Mark Webber, I can't blame him for throwing his toys out of the pram at this moment of time. I would have done the same as him if I was in that same position. I wouldn't be surprise either if he quits the team after this and we see a new driver at Red Bull at the next race at Shanghai. But, I doubt it it's more than possible it's his last season at Red Bull. A possibility of musical chairs at Red Bull, Ferrari, Lotus and Mercedes next season is very possible in my opinion. Possibly at Ferrari for 2014 teaming up with Fernando Alonso.
To finish off with a lighter note, despite he finished third (from a little team orders from Ross Brawn) at last weeks Malaysian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton forgot which team garage to pit in for his first pit stop.
End of blog for now. New post soon. Bye.
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