It was an ok race but I wasn't very happy how the race ended behind the safety car. This hasn't happened that many times in F1 history but I have seen all of those races and it has never been a good thing if you ask me.
Let's talk about how the race started shall we.
After the warm up lap Lewis Hamilton placed his car in an angle at his grid spot so that he could easier go in front of Nico Rosberg without turning the wheel as much. Was he really that worried about Nico? I would have been more worried about the Ferraris!
Speaking of Ferraris did you see how well Kimi Räikkönen's start went? He jumped from 6th to 4th by overtaking both of the Williams's (Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas).
Bottas had a good start because he overtook Massa. Unfortunately for his sake he didn't hold that position very long because when Kimi overtook him he also lost the position back to Massa. You can clearly now see that Ferrari has done a better job than Williams. Last year Williams were in front of them most of the time and Red Bull was the second best team. Now Williams is still the 3rd best team but Red Bull has dropped even further back. Ferrari might even catch the Mercs at some point of the season just like Red Bull did with Brawn in 2009. But in 2009 it was too late to win the championship.
Red Bull and Renault are really struggling. Daniel Ricciardo's start was a disaster when his car went into antistall and didn't move forward very fast. He got overtaken from both sides in an instant. Daniil Kvyat retired again even though he drove well. What a pity! Ricciardo and Kvyat are both great drivers and they are wasting their time at Red Bull if they can't get things moving forward. Should Red Bull try to use Infinity engines or should they just wait for Renault to solve the problems? Who knows... that's probably what's on Christian Horner's mind right now. Max Verstappen also retired once again. He also had a great race and showed better skills than Carlos Sainz, but if you can't bring the car to the finish line it doesn't count or even matter.
Pastor Maldonado and Romain Grosjean did a very good job! Lotus has also made huge progress if you haven't noticed. Maldonado was just flying and overtook several cars one by one. Then he crashed with Jenson Button but this time the blame wasn't on Maldonado. Button even admitted that it was his own fault.
The funniest moment was when Kimi said on the radio "get these two McLaren's out of the way!". Listen to this clip:
The end part of the race was boring because after the last retirement the safety car was deployed just 2 laps before the finish. They didn't have time to restart the race before it was all over. Hamilton asked Mercedes if he had already won it just to make sure. Rosberg was second followed by the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen.
As usual it's time for the predictions and the results.
Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - CORRECT
The race:
- Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - CORRECT
- Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - WRONG. He was 3rd.
- Nico Rosberg, Mercedes - WRONG. He was 2nd.
Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - CORRECT
Surprise: McLaren will do better this weekend! - CORRECT. They managed to finish with both cars!
POINTS: 1st - 3
2nd - 5
3rd - 10
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