Tuesday, May 12, 2009

F1 Spain

All the teams brought upgrades to Spain. Ferrari improved the most but threw away any technical benefits with bad strategy and poor race craft. McLaren, on the other hand, appear to be going backwards. I can't recall Hamilton ever being so blunt about how bad the car was.

I feel bad for Barrichello. He looked like he had a good chance of winning this race but something just wasn't working for him after the second pit stop. But that's motor racing. The media made too much of his statements afterwards as it is way too early for the team to be favouring one driver. Barrichello will be pushing himself much harder over the next few races to prove that he deserves the equal treatment. That should be fun to watch!

Webber made the bravest move of the race when he passed Alonso after the safety car restart. Webber is another driver with something to prove since Vettel has out shone him so far this season. That's probably indicative of this season, as there are so many drivers who are hungry for success and who finally have cars that will let them achieve something. It makes for some great racing.

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