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[Sonic]

Vent here guys and gals.....

Race gets a 8/10 for me - crackin racing up and down the grid, and NO politics.

Williams - 2/10. So so bad, where has all that pace gone?

Mechanics (all teams) 10/10 - how reliable were those cars????? My road car couldn't do 57 laps in that heat!

Piquet - 6/10. That's the kind of drive you expect from a number two. Much better.

Mark Webber - 8/10. That guy drives so well when he's mad, if reliabilty hadn't been so good he'd surely picked up some points for his hard work.

[F1boat]

9/10
Bloody good race, had action, strategy and the driver I preferred to win, won :)

[christophulus]

6/10 - somewhat underwhelmed by it. Good drives from a large proportion of the field but the result was fairly obvious from about half distance.

[wedge]

Had its moments, underwhelming after about 10 laps, but watched rest of the race with the onboards and the main feed misses out on so much eg. respect to Piquet today for his effort to hold Rubens for a few laps as he placed his car in all the right places and used KERS to advantage.

[52Paddy]

7/10. By all means a good race. Some great overtaking and battles all race long. But I would have liked the Toyotas to put up more of a fight for the race win. It would also have been nice to have the Ferraris and BMWs in the mix. If them two teams get their act together for the coming races, the results may be a complete lottery.

[Psycho!]

Fingers crossed for Spain...

[aryan]

6/10 for me too (which in my book is 'good').

I'm not hoping for much in Barcelona, cause it's... Barcelona

[markabilly]

3/10
but bettter than the usual 1.5 of 10
sad once again

A faster car (Vettel) can not pass a slower car and trulli could not pass hamilton
Gee, does not take much to make you guys happy...

[N. Jones]

Race gets an 8/10 from me. Good battles for position, lots of intrigue - was Toyota finally winning, and if so who would it be? Raikkonen and Hamilton closer to the front, the Brawns with a good strategy, all kept me interested.

[ozrevhead]

3/10

Boring as - no overtaking to speak of

[Big Ben]

1/10 for RB for all that hand shaking because NP jr. didn't let him through. He was quite pathetic I'd say.

[wmcot]

5/10 - Typically average modern F1 race - a few good moments mixed in an hour and a half of follow-the-leader.

[52Paddy]

1/10 for RB for all that hand shaking because NP jr. didn't let him through. He was quite pathetic I'd say.

I wouldn't agree. I don't think Barrichello expected Piquet to move over. It seems to me that he was just frustrated at the painfully slow Renault his charge was compromised by, and he just had to let it out visually. I think it was a case of: "Come on, you can take that corner way quicker man!" as opposed to "Get the flip out of my way!"

Lets be honest, Piquet was real slow looking from RB's onboard.

[PolePosition_1]

6/10 - not the best race, but entertaining nevertheless, and had potential throughout to become a classic duel, which never happened, but kept me excited at the prospect.

Jenson for driver of the day, and a special mention to Piquet for a solid race, he had good actual racing, defending and overtaking well.

[aryan]

5/10 - Typically average modern F1 race - a few good moments mixed in an hour and a half of follow-the-leader.

Which leader? By the end of first round of pits, 5 drivers could lead the race. By the second round, that possibility had gone down to 3. But the point is, until very late in the race, it was still anyone's race. Specially as we didn't know what Tulli would do on the super-softs in his final stint when everyone else was on mediums.

[truefan72]

5/10 - Typically average modern F1 race - a few good moments mixed in an hour and a half of follow-the-leader.

felt the same way

[ShiftingGears]

It was solid, interesting and had its moments. 7 for me.

[AndyL]

I wouldn't agree. I don't think Barrichello expected Piquet to move over. It seems to me that he was just frustrated at the painfully slow Renault his charge was compromised by, and he just had to let it out visually. I think it was a case of: "Come on, you can take that corner way quicker man!" as opposed to "Get the flip out of my way!"

Lets be honest, Piquet was real slow looking from RB's onboard.

A fair assessment, but I would say Rubens' obvious frustration was not the right response to the situation. I think it suggests that Rubens' morale is dropping and he's getting himself into a negative frame of mind.

[wedge]

A faster car (Vettel) can not pass a slower car and trulli could not pass hamilton
Gee, does not take much to make you guys happy...

That's why refuelling should be banned. Vettel sat back to save fuel decided to pit pass him instead.

[SGWilko]

A fair assessment, but I would say Rubens' obvious frustration was not the right response to the situation. I think it suggests that Rubens' morale is dropping and he's getting himself into a negative frame of mind.

Eh? Am I the only one who thought, given he had to manage cooling issues etc, and being constantly stuck in traffic, that he was quite recey yesterday?

[SGWilko]

That's why refuelling should be banned. Vettel sat back to save fuel decided to pit pass him instead.

I have to confess that I really like the idea of having a set amount of fuel per race, and having to manage consumption etc. Only pitting for tyres/damage repair if necessary.

ANd yes, let them pick and choose what compound to run.

[markabilly]

Which leader? By the end of first round of pits, 5 drivers could lead the race. By the second round, that possibility had gone down to 3. But the point is, until very late in the race, it was still anyone's race. Specially as we didn't know what Tulli would do on the super-softs in his final stint when everyone else was on mediums.

says it all as to why "3" might be a little high....unless you love great pit passing

http://www.motorsportforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132840

[wedge]

1/10 for RB for all that hand shaking because NP jr. didn't let him through. He was quite pathetic I'd say.

They were racing for position. Piquet was 1 stopping, Rubens doing 3.


A fair assessment, but I would say Rubens' obvious frustration was not the right response to the situation. I think it suggests that Rubens' morale is dropping and he's getting himself into a negative frame of mind.

Agreed but 3 stopping was not the right strategy. Still can't fathom the thinking behind it.

At that moment in time, due to red mist, Rubens was driving erratically at times, especially at the exit off slow stuff and spinning the rear wheels way too much.

[stevie_gerrard]

Race 7/10 Some good action at the start, and then great strategies paid off for Brawn GP.

Mark Webber 9/10 Just for the first lap, and the fact that he fought so hard after being so harshly at the back.

[AndyL]

Agreed but 3 stopping was not the right strategy. Still can't fathom the thinking behind it.

Ross Brawn alluded to this in an interview afterwards, IIRC he said something along the lines of Rubens being unhappy with the handling of the car and a 3-stopper being the strategy that he (Rubens) was comfortable with.
If you were uncharitable you might say that was just Ross trying to deflect the blame for a strategy that turned out to be a failure. But I don't believe he would have said that if Rubens hadn't had a significant part in choosing the strategy.

Edit: found it - 2:40 in:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8019435.stm

[jens]

Just one sentence: most uneventful race of the season so far.
It doesn't mean the race itself was bad (the winner was unclear for some time), but it's a testimony to the high quality of F1 2009. :)

[Jag_Warrior]

I enjoyed the race, and Bahrain is far from my favorite circuit. It takes some time to get used to not seeing the traditional heavy hitters up front (and I think that's one thing that many of us feel), but it was a good race, IMO.