Alonso proud Ferrari gambled on the win

[Greig]

Believe what you want again he makes mention of losing place to Vettel, that's all they focused on not the race win.

[sagi58]

Believe what you want again he makes mention of losing place to Vettel, that's all they focused on not the race win.

The question is "why?". Let's look at our options:
Vettel/Red Bull always seem to find that little bit "extra" at every race;
Hamilton/McLaren have not been consistent, giving up many opportunities.
Makes sense to cover one "more" than the other. BUT, this should be a lesson learnt, unfortunately, the hard way!!

[sav_pap]

BUT, this should be a lesson learnt, unfortunately, the hard way!!

Amen because another titleless year could be a disaster.

[Greig]

It would make more sense for me to run our own race and get the best result possible. We were good enough for 2nd and we lost focus on that.

[kiwifella]

Well, I've only just managed to calm down after Sunday.............funny how when things go wrong and we dont finish well up I have a tendency to not watch replays, because it hurts so much, but when we win, or do well (2nd or 3rd) I rewatch the race over and over.

I have to say that, at the beginning of the season I moaned about how the car was rubbish at Melbourne, then we go and win at Malaysia, which got my spirits up again. I never really thought from then though that we would end up in contention to win any race all season, given the problems with the car. Must say though, that our lads in red have done a stirling job with the F2012 so far, and I reckon they never thought themselves they would be chasing a win at Canada. All I can say is bravo lads, and to Alonso for giving it a shot, although we could argue until we're blue in the face about strategy, just hope we've learnt our lesson and keep trying to understand the tyres as best we can, we should be at a head start with it by now seeing as we have our tyre technician formerly from Bridgestone? with us, but understand that it is a completely different company providing the tyres (Pirelli).

Perhaps 4th was our best chance even if we did stop, who knows, but I did rather think that with 14 or 15 laps to go when Hamilton stopped, if we pitted too, put on the supersofts, perhaps the 2nd was still within grasp, never mind, we rolled the dice and it didnt go how we planned...........must say, at least the mindset is to take a gamble, it either works or dosent, in recent seasons we wouldnt have done it. I reckon it goes to show perhaps our faith in our machinery is much much more positive than we first thought, all they have to do is keep progressing and discovering the best setups for each weekend. Perhaps a compromise in race pace and tyre saving as opposed to being more aggressive on setup for qualy made all the difference, but at least we tried.

Happy so much we are at least going in the right direction at last

[Ferrari_gal]

It would make more sense for me to run our own race and get the best result possible. We were good enough for 2nd and we lost focus on that.

I have to agree here with you Greig .