Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix 2011

[Mar]

Alonso remarkably happy for someone who's just flunked a podium. He also distinctly did not blame it on Hamilton, using the highly ambiguous 'we touched'.

That's in BBC, right?
He's intelligent enough to care about where and what he says.

[phil1993]

Hamilton and Alonso in the stewards room. I should imagine a reprimand for Alonso, if any.

[Vida]

@insideferrari: WE deserved the podium with Fernando...

Somebody should stop drinking

wake up wake up...

[phil1993]

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The Malaysian Grand Prix
Sepang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
56 laps; 310.408km;
Weather: Dry.

Classified:

Pos  Driver        Team                       Time
 1.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault           1h37:39.832
 2.  Button        McLaren-Mercedes           +     3.261
 3.  Heidfeld      Renault                    +    25.075
 4.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault           +    26.384
 5.  Massa         Ferrari                    +    36.958
 6.  Alonso        Ferrari                    +    37.248
 7.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes           +    49.957
 8.  Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari             +  1:07.239
 9.  Schumacher    Mercedes                   +  1:24.896
10.  Di Resta      Force India-Mercedes       +  1:31.563
11.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes       +  1:45.000
12.  Rosberg       Mercedes                   +     1 lap
13.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +     1 lap
14.  Alguersuari   Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +     1 lap
15.  Kovalainen    Lotus-Renault              +     1 lap
16.  Glock         Virgin-Cosworth            +    2 laps
17.  Petrov        Renault                    +    4 laps

Fastest lap: Webber, 1:40.571

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                         On lap
Liuzzi        HRT-Cosworth                 47
D'Ambrosio    Virgin-Cosworth              43
Trulli        Lotus-Renault                32
Perez         Sauber-Ferrari               24
Barrichello   Williams-Cosworth            23
Karthikeyan   HRT-Cosworth                 15
Maldonado     Williams-Cosworth            9


World Championship standings, round 2:                

Drivers:                    Constructors:             
 1.  Vettel        50        1.  Red Bull-Renault           72
 2.  Button        26        2.  McLaren-Mercedes           50
 3.  Hamilton      24        3.  Ferrari                    32
 4.  Webber        22        4.  Renault                    30
 5.  Alonso        20        5.  Sauber-Ferrari             14
 6.  Petrov        15        6.  Mercedes                    2
 7.  Heidfeld      15        7.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari          1
 8.  Massa         12        8.  Force India-Mercedes        1
 9.  Kobayashi      8       
10.  Perez          6       
11.  Schumacher     2       
12.  Buemi          1       
13.  Di Resta       1       
       
All timing unofficial

[iceman1]

Button just had to ask Heidfeld during press conference 'sorry what do I have to call you guys?'

[harrisv48]

What they doing in Mercedes base??? Only michael did a good job. They have to find some serious pace

[phil1993]

Review of the race will come tomorrow. I've got to remember everything that happened first.

[Nin13]

I would first like to say all those who said there is no overtaking in F1 should take another look at the race.
May be DRS or KERS or tyre wear but there were some brilliant overtakes like Webber(without KERS) on Massa.

And I think Pirelli are doing really great not to thing like what Bridgestone did like softs could last entire race. Current tires are very good I think.

Also I'll like to say Congratulations to Vettel on winning and Button having a good sensible race finishing 2nd.
And what about Heidfeld, where are all the people who thought Heidfelds career was over. Where are they now. He had great start, then overtook a compromised Hamilton, did not do a mistake and got a podium.

Good race by Saubers who are proving that they can save tires. Kobayashi only driver on 2 stopper.

Also good race by Di Riesta to get another point. And he seems to be doing much better than Sutil so early in season. All credits to Paul.

About Mercedes, I think, they were very bad, bad car, bad strategy. They kept out Schumacher out for couple of extra laps when he was clearly losing time, sometimes almost 3-4s a lap. In 6 extra laps he did before his 3 stops, he lost around 10-15s. And cost him place to Kobayashi.

And about Hamilton- Alonso incident. It was just racing incident.
And good to see that Massa finish ahead of Alonso, no team orders early on in season.

[phil1993]

Lotus finished 15th with Kovalainen, a lap ahead of Virgin and not far behind the midfield teams. They should score points very soon.

[Zack]

What they doing in Mercedes base??? Only michael did a good job. They have to find some serious pace

Mercedes is simply slow and unstable ... poor drivers look so helpless and stupid with all PR

And I think Pirelli are doing really great not to thing like what Bridgestone did like softs could last entire race. Current tires are very good I think.

...but at least Hard compound should survive more than 25 laps

When you have this type of tyres who needs DRS or KERS

My moment of the race was Lewis-Alonso battle.

[phil1993]

First time the championship leader has won a race since Turkey 2009

[phil1993]

Lewis Hamilton has been given a 20s penalty, dropping him to 8th.

[naiego]

Lewis Hamilton has been given a 20s penalty, dropping him to 8th.

On what grounds?

P.S. This is my first post, hello to everybody!!

[SpliT]

Where he change of direction more than one?

[phil1993]

Moving more than once whilst defending his position.

If he gets penalised for it, its stupid. Lots of people were weaving. I bet Alonso went and cried to the FIA.