Spanish GP - Race Thread

[scuderiafan]

I'm an Alonsofan , at least I was before he came to Ferrari - since then I slowly turned in to a Ferrarifan too. That's nice for me, my fav driver in my fav team
I don't blame Ferrari for this car because I know they must be just as unhappy as I am with it. They have worked hard to come up with this car and now we see it's not good enough and we really have a big problem.
They must be utterly frustrated by this but I know they will start working tomorrow just as hard as they did last week to improve.
So I just do not see the reason to bash Ferrari - I know they did want to do better than this but until now it just won't work.

It's easy to support a winning team but it takes real fans to support a team in trouble and exactly that is what we have to do now!

[SanderV]

I just finished watching the race. What happened? Fernando dropped back during the race and Massa was nowhere.

I was at the circuit on Friday afternoon by the way and I think it is a very good track for spectators.

[Aussie]

This could be start of a good era by red bull
Like ferrari in 00 to 04

Get use to more Vettel wins this year

[Hornet]

I just finished watching the race. What happened? Fernando dropped back during the race and Massa was nowhere.

I was at the circuit on Friday afternoon by the way and I think it is a very good track for spectators.

Alonso had a very good start which rocket him into P1. But a good start is just a small part of the race, you still need to have the raw pace to win and we didn't. Our car was the 3rd fastest, McLaren and Red Bull are simply way faster than us. As Alonso said later on, P1 was not really our position at the moment. We're not fast enough yet.

Not to mention all RB and McLaren drivers have one set of soft tires which are brand new, while both our drivers used all 3 set of softs during qualifying, so no new softs for us

[Anni]

I'm an Alonsofan , at least I was before he came to Ferrari - since then I slowly turned in to a Ferrarifan too. That's nice for me, my fav driver in my fav team
I don't blame Ferrari for this car because I know they must be just as unhappy as I am with it. They have worked hard to come up with this car and now we see it's not good enough and we really have a big problem.
They must be utterly frustrated by this but I know they will start working tomorrow just as hard as they did last week to improve.
So I just do not see the reason to bash Ferrari - I know they did want to do better than this but until now it just won't work.

It's easy to support a winning team but it takes real fans to support a team in trouble and exactly that is what we have to do now!

great post

[NJB13]

I'm an Alonsofan , at least I was before he came to Ferrari - since then I slowly turned in to a Ferrarifan too. That's nice for me, my fav driver in my fav team
I don't blame Ferrari for this car because I know they must be just as unhappy as I am with it. They have worked hard to come up with this car and now we see it's not good enough and we really have a big problem.
They must be utterly frustrated by this but I know they will start working tomorrow just as hard as they did last week to improve.
So I just do not see the reason to bash Ferrari - I know they did want to do better than this but until now it just won't work.

It's easy to support a winning team but it takes real fans to support a team in trouble and exactly that is what we have to do now!

Spot on!

[M.K]

Alonso Makes Ferrari The Great Pretender
The great thing about Alonso's incredible start is that he probably didn't even know what was going on either. It was all instinct and his surprise at finding himself in first place was probably the equal of everyone else's.

For the next twenty laps or so, Alonso summoned all of his skill to deceive his home support into thinking that his car was at least the equal of all those behind him. He may not have the sheer pace of Vettel or the daring of Hamilton, but there isn't another driver in the field who could have pulled off such a deception for so long and so emphatically. Though Alonso's second-half unraveling was spectacular, with the Spaniard lapped towards the end and finishing a full minute behind the leaders, the truly incredible half of his race was the first. Only a special kind of genius could have kept the Ferrari in first place without offering the slightest hint that it was just an act of defiance.

As he acknowledged afterwards, the 'trick' was qualifying the Ferrari in fourth rather than "eighth or ninth" to sew the idea that he could challenge the Red Bulls and McLaren. It was a brilliant lie, making the Ferrari appear competitive when Felipe Massa couldn't disguise any of its imbalances and inadequacies. Being put on hard tyres for 40% of race distance saw Alonso lose around forty seconds in the final twenty or so laps compared to Vettel and Hamilton, but ultimately it made no difference. He couldn't have finished any higher than fifth whatever his strategy. And, with the possible exception of Hamilton, there isn't another driver in the field who could have finished as high as fifth in such a truly uncompetitive car.

Pete Gill

[sagi58]

To use Horner's ridiculour analogy: I guess Alonso threw out a dummy
and it seems that Red Bull, McLaren and the rest of us "fell for it"!!
I do it again, in a heart beat; especially if he were able to get through
the entire race all the way up to the podium's first step!!

[F1NAC]

Our time will come don't worry