Monday, 3 November 2014

2014 United States Grand Prix Review and thoughts, and Brazilian Grand Prix predictions

2014 United States Grand Prix review of round seventeen of the F1 season at Circuit of the Americas near Austin, Texas, and predictions for this weekends Brazilian Grand Prix.

Good points
  • Mercedes (Lewis Hamilton, race win; Nico Rosberg, finished 2nd)
  • Red Bull Racing (Daniel Ricciardo, finished 3rd; Sebastian Vettel, finished 7th, despite started the race from pit lane after changing all six components of his power unit before the race)
  • Williams (Felipe Massa, finished 4th; Valtteri Bottas, finished 5th)
  • Pastor Maldonado (finished 9th)

Bad points
  • Jenson Button (finished 12th)
  • Kimi Räikkönen(finished 13th)
  • Daniil Kvyat (finished 15th)
  • Force India (Nico Hülkenberg, DNF, ERS failure; Sergio Perez, DNF, collision on the first lap with Adrian Sutil, which conclude with a seven place grid penalty for Brazil)
  • Sauber (Esteban Gutiérrez, finished 14th; Adrian Sutil, DNF, collision on the first lap with Sergio Perez)

The race itself was a very good race to watch, with Nico Rosberg took pole on Saturday and stayed into the lead ahead of team-mate lewis Hamilton. Rosberg stayed in the lead, until lap 24, when Hamilton managed to overtake Rosberg for the race lead at the end of the back straight. To give Lewis his tenth Grand Prix win of the season.

While, team-mate Nico Rosberg finished in second place in the Mercedes to give the team its tenth one-two finish of the season.

Meanwhile, Daniel Ricciardo finished in third place,in the Red Bull, to complete the podium.

Hamilton has now improve his lead of the F1 driver championship from 17 points to 24 points ahead of team-mate Nico Rosberg with two races to go.

And so this weekend is the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos outskirts of São Paulo for round eighteen of the season. So predictions for the race, Lewis Hamilton for the win in the Mercedes, Nico Rosberg second in the other Mercedes, and Felipe Massa third in his Williams. Don't forget Valtteri Bottas, the two Red Bull drivers, the two Ferrari drivers, or the two McLaren drivers for a podium place as-well.

End of blog for now. New post soon. Bye.

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