I missed the Montreal GP completely because of a simple mistaken channel chosen on my DVD recorder! NOOO! (o.O)
Well... I got a short update on the race and my dad said it wasn't a huge miss for me as the race was 'ok' at best, so I watched the results on the internet and that was it!
Nice that there are 7 out of 7 so far and great for Hamilton to finally get his GP win this season as he was always at the frontlines with several poles, but was never able to cash that pole with a win before.
And Schumacher... ohwww... Schumi... again, wasn't able to finish, this time because of a malfunctioning DRS system?! Man... there should really be a tornado of anger coming down on his engineers for sure! It's nerve wrecking to see him struggle the way he does, simply because of his failing team letting him down time after time... =/
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On with the latest GP at Valencia... and finally, an end has come to the streak of consequetive races won by a different driver when Alonso won in an eventfull European GP! Great job for Raikonnen in finishing second of course and AWESOME that Schumacher has finally made the podium!! WHOO-HOO!! YEAH!! Man... you can't imagine how long I've waited for that to happen! His first podium since the 2006 Chinese GP! Finally!! YES!!
A podium completely filled with current and former employees of Ferrari!
(In between F-1 trivia: the European - Valencia GP podium consisted of 10 World Championships alltogether when adding Fernando, Kimi and Michael!!)
Normally, this isn't one of my favorite circuits as the past 2 years were excited enough to fall asleep! Except for Webber's 2009 salto mortale of course... but this time around it was a nice race to watch! There were several incidents and a ton of really nice racing moments between drivers, therefor the 3rd Valancia GP was finally worth watching for me. And that was not only because of Michael's 3rd place finish... =P
Shame for Hamilton that Maldonado was too eager to gain a position and ended up pushing him into the wall and a DNF in the last lap! That cost Maldonado a 10 sec. penalty and gave his point to his colleague: Senna! At least that kept the point with the Williams team... LOL
And Mark Webber had a comforting 4th place finish which made up for his troublesome start of the race in the end! Him teaming up with Schumacher was a nice thrust forward through the field and ended up in points! =)
And I learned that they gave away a few penalties for next race at Silverstone! Jean-Eric Vergne got a 10 position grid penalty and a 25,000 euro fine for his stupid move causing a collision with Kovalainen and then (to add to the stupidity of the rookie) driving back to the pits at an insane speed, demolishing the back of his car, which was thrown on the track causing a safety car. Deserving punishment if you ask me...
And the other one was a 5 position grid penalty given to Kamui Kobayashi for T-boning Massa, which was easily avoidable according to the stewards lead by Mika Salo.
And the fact that Petrov wasn't punished for torpedo-ing Ricciardo was something I just can't understand... Petrov being wrong was clear as a whistle to me! But Mika knows what he's doing I guess... =/
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To finish with some news next to the race report... Vettel has been able to drive the stretch that's going to be the new to be made circuit at new Jersey - New York!
It's way to early to say how it's going to turn out to be, but from what I've seen, there are a few turns in there that can be really great for a driver, especially that one curve swaying downhill to the left! Can't wait to see it when it's finished in 2013! ;)
