DHL Turkish Grand Prix 2011

[François]

French TV: FIA currently investigates an affair involving Sutil and Hamilton in China, both drivers had a fight in a club against some others people...

Is that a joke?

Heard it live, that sounded pretty serious. Mainly for Sutil though.

Again, a nice, action-packed yet (mostly) clean race. No question that the best man in the best car has won. This is increasingly looking like what 2010 would've been without RBR's silly mistakes.

[phil1993]

Hamilton: "Guys I'm deeply sorry about that. trying to get by, lost position. But great job."

Pit » Hamilton: "Sorry about the problem in the pits. Fourth place is still good and we're still second in the championship."

Doesn't matter. Top 3 were too far ahead.

[Mar]

Schumacher says on RTL that he doesn't know why he and Petrov touched and that he was very surprised when it happened .

[iceman1]

Schumacher says on RTL that he doesn't know why he and Petrov touched and that he was very surprised when it happened .

Schumacher doesn't know anything

[iceman1]

Ross Brawn: "We knew we had a bit of a vulnerability on high fuel. We'll have to think again how we approach our priorities over a weekend. When we got into the race we started blistering the rear tyres, which we hadn't seen in practice. With a shortened practice with the rain... we hadn't seen that problem. I think what's clear in racing is that qualifying is the least critical thing now."

[JoostLamers]

Hamilton: "Guys I'm deeply sorry about that. trying to get by, lost position. But great job."

Pit » Hamilton: "Sorry about the problem in the pits. Fourth place is still good and we're still second in the championship."

Doesn't matter. Top 3 were too far ahead.

Correct, he lost about 13/14 seconds in the pitstop, which would've put him 16/17s behind Nando

[JoostLamers]

Did Schumacher break the record for the amount of cars touched in 1 race?

[phil1993]

Schumacher says on RTL that he doesn't know why he and Petrov touched and that he was very surprised when it happened .

Go and retire Schumacher. Give the seat to someone better, younger and with a future.

[Mar]

Hamilton: "Guys I'm deeply sorry about that. trying to get by, lost position. But great job."

Pit » Hamilton: "Sorry about the problem in the pits. Fourth place is still good and we're still second in the championship."

Doesn't matter. Top 3 were too far ahead.

Correct, he lost about 13/14 seconds in the pitstop, which would've put him 16/17s behind Nando

But did he went back to track behind slower cars as a consecuence of the bad pit stop? (I don't remember it ). Because then, it would not have cost him 16 seconds but much more.

[phil1993]

I don't think he did. Anyway, he couldn't keep up with them, 4th was the best. 3 stops was wrong for Jenson, he lost 5th because of it.

[sleenster]

Schumacher says on RTL that he doesn't know why he and Petrov touched and that he was very surprised when it happened .

What about all the other times he touched with someone else?

[iceman1]

S. Vettel : "We had a smooth race, a good start which was crucial. I was able to pull a gap right in the first stint which was important... All in all I've always had three, four to eight second cushion to the second guy. It makes my life and our lives a bit easier to find out which strategy works.

"I'm very happy obviously... I had an accident on Friday and crashed the car badly, but all the guys helped a lot. Together they fixed the car. It meant some extra hours for them which I'm sorry for but I think yesterday and today makes up for it."

[iceman1]

The unhappy Jenson Button : "I think most people were on my strategy initially. Because most of them damaged their tyres on the first stint, they changed their strategy. We didn't. We didn't leave the stops late enough. The tyres were good at the end of every stop we came in. We should have stayed out longer.

"You're not racing anymore, you're trying your best to get the most out of the car but... you're a sitting duck. They just come past you and you can't do anything.

"It was good fun, it's a pity to finish so far back after everything in the first stint seemed to be good. Strategy-wise... something we did wrong."

[Mar]

Schumacher says on RTL that he doesn't know why he and Petrov touched and that he was very surprised when it happened .

What about all the other times he touched with someone else?

He forgot to tell about it, à la van Merksteijn Jr

[JoostLamers]

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