Was a great race wasn't it! Shame Alonso made that mistake at the end. Would have been good to see him make a few crazy dives up the inside!

ehh, i think he knew that it was over... there were some good attempts though during schumi's second stint when he had ths shysty tires

Malaysia was duller IMO.

I kinda enjoyed the race, gotta admit.

And about Albers' flip... damn! I hope Ide gets the axe. Stunningly slow and a danger. illepall

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I thought it was the dullest race of the season so far

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well this was the first race of the season that i watched... compared to last year, i thought it was great...

one race that should go down the history book.

totally stunned me for 20 laps.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I thought it was the dullest race of the season so far

why?

Two driver dueling with next to nothing in between with different strong/weak point in their package for over 20laps is boring?

Just the pace control of schumacher and his confidence in his own pace under pressure is something to admire.

You know a good fight doesn't always have to end up with overtaking, in this race I see the maximum strength of both racers, and one this day schumi beat Alonso fair and square, no trick, no politics, no team order, just PURE RACING which the best man win, something that people think are so rare in modern F1.

Quote from JJ72 :

one race that should go down the history book.

totally stunned me for 20 laps.

Which ones, if I may ask?

It was a good race

but in german TV (I had the feeling that) they showed 90% of the time Alonso or Schumacher. So it was a bit boring to watch sometimes (looks like 2 drivers doing hotlaps for themself)

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When one of them is three seconds slower than the other, yeah it's boring, and there was nothing interesting happening further down the field either, it was a shit race.


Alonso did exactly the same thing last year. Clearly Imola is a very easy circuit to maintain a lead.


Except the part where Massa held up Alonso before his first stop. No team orders involved there I'm sure - Massa just decided to go 1.5 seconds a lap slower until his pit stop, I'm sure Ferrari didn't tell him to slow down... :rolleyes:

If you really believe the pace of both drivers has been static throughout those laps and they are doing nothing more than running their own pace, then you must have missed quite something.

The slow corner speed advantage that alonso has initially is fading after ths pitstop, and by the way both cars brake you can surely notice that schumi might be having trouble with the brakes that he has to compensate. And Schumi is taking a much more gentle approach on the curbs as well, which I think is a carefully paced drive that ensures the renault is never close enough to overtake without overstressing that car.

If THAT is easy then you might just go try and repeat it, driving an F1 car with a world champion behind while knowing that you are slower under braking and turn in is NO WAY easy.

and how can you be sure about massa's pace relative to his car's true potential? if he CAN be as quick as alonso why was he behind Montoya?

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Which ones, if I may ask?

the ones before the final pitstop and to the flag.

One word: Yawn. Not even one pass attempt in whole race.

And last year no doubt he drove well, as you have mentioned both are defending their position with a car that is a second off, so I guess the best drivers on the world performing under stress is nothing but boring.

I cannot deny that for anyone because I don't know, nor I have a solid believe in both argument, but how about the later laps where alonso is free form the pack, isn't that a straight race?

Cant believe they even race at a track where you can overtake on track, the whole point of motor racing is to battle it out on track but at imola you just cant do that, either redesign the track so atleast theres one place where you can pass or drop it from the calendar because it really doesnt provide excitement. I dont really call this excitement when one driver is clearly quicker but because of the track cannot pass. I am still against the desing of tracks to get overtaking, it should be the design of cars that needs changing so that people can pass anywhere on any track... Imola is the second Monaco.

I enjoyed it, but not the best race of the season

It was quite a boring race tbh. No exciting passes whatsoever. Just a typical F1 race..

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dunno what happened

i only saw the last part of it. it was on channel number 2 for me, which is like cbs or something, not sure. the battle between alonso and maca was nice, but its too bad alonso made those mistakes..i was looking for a closer race at the end

Quote from BBO@BSR :

It was a good race

but in german TV (I had the feeling that) they showed 90% of the time Alonso or Schumacher. So it was a bit boring to watch sometimes (looks like 2 drivers doing hotlaps for themself)

RTL sucks big time.

The most boring race so far. The track seems to be crap for any kind of good racing, there wasnt singe overtake in the race! And watcing Schumi and Alonso driving behind each other wasnt that exciting because it was clear its impossible to overtake. The best parts I think were when that who ever it was rolled the car in the first lap (not his fault), and second good part was when Hondas lollipopman was too busy with Button's pitstop.

Rather dull race IMO. Somehow it was exciting last year, this years repeat was just dull.

Is the track really so bad? It's just funny that always the F1 experts/commentators says that the track sucks. Maybe it's just that F1 sucks.

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The most boring race so far. The track seems to be crap for any kind of good racing, there wasnt singe overtake in the race! And watcing Schumi and Alonso driving behind each other wasnt that exciting because it was clear its impossible to overtake. The best parts I think were when that who ever it was rolled the car in the first lap (not his fault), and second good part was when Hondas lollipopman was too busy with Button's pitstop.

Actually, there was ONE overtaking move. Mark Webber overtook Kimi Raikkönen at turn one, and it was a pretty ballsy move.

Yuji Ide tried to overtake Christijan Albers, but we all know how it ended...

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Is the track really so bad? It's just funny that always the F1 experts/commentators says that the track sucks. Maybe it's just that F1 sucks.

no its not bad, i personally loved playing on this track in gtr and f1c... but in f1 (real world) its just impossible to overtake on and who really wants to see a race where people just queue up...

the only bit of action at the track was first lap when one of them flipped! thankfully he was ok..

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