The Motorsport Thread - 2012

I missed the race due to having gone camping this weekend.  Thus I did not know the result when I watched the highlights.

An awesome and well deserved win for Hamilton.  A fantastic drive from Perez (he's becoming one of my favourites) and a great result for Grosjean too.  Grosjean is easily showing he's no mug and isn't worried that he's the second driver for Lotus.  He's more than shown his class.

Perez too.  To start in 15th and to finish 3rd is a great result and a great use of the one-stop strategy that failed so badly for Alonso and Vettell (not the same extent as he came in toward the end).  I like Kobayashi but Perez is the better and more-rounded driver.  He'll be going to Ferrari in the future, I think.  Which is a shame for me, as I'm not that huge a fan of Ferrari.  I wish he'd join McLaren or even stay at Sauber and prove he can win a championship for a team not in the top 3.

I'd love to see that.  It won't happen this season but who knows?

As for Button... I have no idea what's going on there.  It seems his car is really suffering.  He's always complaining about understeer too.

Any ideas, guys?  I really hope it's sorted out as Button is a great driver and deserves better from McLaren.

Yep, he said it's not tires.  He's been off the pace for a while now.  I really hope the issue gets sorted.  I'm a bit worried that if this season continues he'll walk away from McLaren.

Having said that, perhaps another team could help his career too.  He has the talent.

But that Y looks odd.

I get the feeling there might be something wrong with that chassis of Button's, it's the only thing I can think of that would account for him being so far of Hamilton's pace all of a sudden after being right up there at the start of the year.

He wont walk away though, he signed a mutli year contract (believed to be about 3 years) at the end of last year.

And James, you look like a yank with your spelling of tyres.

Originally posted by Snow Dog I wish you'd spell tyres like the rest of us.

He's too avant for you

Also McLaren almost gave themselves another footbullet as well...but Lewis just drove through it

I'm still not even thinking about it until tickets go on sale (I guess even then they can back out of the race) but man...if that NJ GP happens I will be there!

It did seem like a cool track, I know it had lots of elevation change... and I can also attest the NYC skyline is a nice sight

Edited by Sheavy - June 12 2012 at 17:57

Originally posted by VanderGraafKommandöh Perez too.  To start in 15th and to finish 3rd is a great result and a great use of the one-stop strategy that failed so badly for Alonso and Vettell (not the same extent as he came in toward the end).  I like Kobayashi but Perez is the better and more-rounded driver.  He'll be going to Ferrari in the future, I think.  Which is a shame for me, as I'm not that huge a fan of Ferrari.  I wish he'd join McLaren or even stay at Sauber and prove he can win a championship for a team not in the top 3. I'd love to see that.  It won't happen this season but who knows?