I didn't find the F1 race that great but have just seen the GP2 race on ITV and all I can say is the second race was stunning. Lewis Hamiltion spun on about the third lap and made up over 20 positions to finish second, beats F1 anyday

Best race i have ever seen in any form of motorsport. Hamilton was immense after the spin, Glock put up a great fight though...how long where they side by side? it seemed like half the lap!

The funny thing is Piquet Jr (however you spell it) accused Hamilton of cheating saying he had some illegal wing on the car...which was dismissed as bull because it was cleared to race and deemed 100% legal. Sore loser it seems

Was a great drive from Lewis but a bit hot headed when he went to spin the car around. I was excpecting someone to run into him.

Keiran

Quote from keiran :

Was a great drive from Lewis but a bit hot headed when he went to spin the car around. I was excpecting someone to run into him.

Keiran

Yeah I noticed that too, could have been nasty.

However, a great comback race anyway. At least JA didnt gush as much crap as he does when button overtakes. I wish F1 had that much action.

Most of the racing was clean and of a high quality. F1 should be exaclty the same but with faster cars and more polished driving. IMO F1 seems to sap the competitiveness out of some drivers. For instance, when Rosberg first started in F1 he had loads of enthusiasm and overtook quite a bit, now he appears to be just another runner. Same goes for JPM, the longer he was on the scene the less good racing we saw from him.

Anyway, lets hope F1 stabalises enough soon so that there is a similar competitiveness that provides opportunities.

(having said all that Alosno-Shumacher was pretty good last week )

Quote from mrbogeyman :

Yeah I noticed that too, could have been nasty.

However, a great comback race anyway. At least JA didnt gush as much crap as he does when button overtakes. I wish F1 had that much action.

Most of the racing was clean and of a high quality. F1 should be exaclty the same but with faster cars and more polished driving. IMO F1 seems to sap the competitiveness out of some drivers. For instance, when Rosberg first started in F1 he had loads of enthusiasm and overtook quite a bit, now he appears to be just another runner. Same goes for JPM, the longer he was on the scene the less good racing we saw from him.

Anyway, lets hope F1 stabalises enough soon so that there is a similar competitiveness that provides opportunities.

(having said all that Alosno-Shumacher was pretty good last week )

I very much doubt F1 will ever be like GP2. It's the nature of the teams developing the fastest cars they can. The thing the FIA could do to seriously help the situation is let F1 teams use ground effects which is what GP2 is using. Less open to all the dirty air.

Keiran

Quote from keiran :

Was a great drive from Lewis but a bit hot headed when he went to spin the car around. I was excpecting someone to run into him.

It did take me a lap or so to think anything of his drive but bloody stupid because of that but the quality of the comeback soon overcame that. I was also appalled by the behaviour of one of the French drivers who tried to squeeze him off the road going down the straight.

Rubbish, thats called hard racing. He never actually pushed him off the track, each time the drivers left a cars width..plus about 2mm space which is perfect in my view

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Rubbish, thats called hard racing. He never actually pushed him off the track, each time the drivers left a cars width..plus about 2mm space which is perfect in my view

No when your driving side by side down a straight you don't start forcing a car across the track into the pit wall, if Hamilton had held his ground which TBH he could of done or simply hadn't expected to get rammed off the road then the result of two cars smashing into one another flat out in front of the pits could have been very messy.

GP2 kids steal the show every F1 weekend, Im looking forward more to that race rather than F1

Quote from nikimere :

There was absolutly nothing wrong with any of the block/overtaking manoeuvres in that race.

No it is never acceptable to force someone off the road down a straight, had Hamilton held his ground, which he was perfectly entitled to do then it would not have been his fault had the other guy hit him. A lot of this 'good hard racing' isn't technically legal it just makes good TV and gets ignored because of that fact (BTCC is an extreme example) actually when some common sense and respect is applied you can get much closer racing because racers know they can trust other drivers not to do anything silly even when they're rubbing paintwork.

Quote from ajp71 :

No it is never acceptable to force someone off the road down a straight

he didn't force him off the road...
he squeezed him to the limit, which is perfectly acceptable, it was tight but so what? nobody was harmed or affected.
i can guarentee you that Luis Hamiltion thought nothing of it after the race. if anything he thought it was a great move on his part because he didn't back out when he was threatened.