Sunday, September 22, 2013

Vettel's 3rd win in a Row, Spectacular comeback by Kimi. - 2013 Singapore Grand Prix


The lights of Singapore receive the Formula 1 with the reigning champion, Sebastian Vettel, with the pole position.



Race started, Nico Rosberg was very close to overtake Vettel but he slightly went off track and that didn't let that happen. Then, Vettel built a 4 second lead in 4 laps, although on lap 5, he was said through radio: "Look after the tyres"

Lotus strategy was a little different as Kimi boxed in lap 10 and would fall to 19th place. 
Gutierrez would do in lap 11, Massa in 12 and Webber and Hulk in 13.
Alonso and Rosberg would also pit on lap 14 and 15.
1.51.768 the time that Kimi set in lap 15, fast lap at that time.
Then, Grosjean and Nico would box.

The leader, Vettel would finally box on lap 17.
Paul diResta looked impressing enduring 19 lap son a super soft compound, he boxed on lap 20. 
After his pit stop, Vettel built a 10-second lead on Rosberg.
Lap 25, Daniel Ricciardo would crash and... SAFETY CAR SAFETY CAR SAFETY CAR! Vettel's lead would be cut.
During the Safety Car, many cars stopped such as, Romain Grosjean, Alonso, Räikkönen, Massa. Button, Perez, Hulkenberg, Sutil, Van der Garde, Vergne.
I think on the accident, Ricciardo's brakes had a failure which caused that he was unable to take the curve.
Lap 30. Safety Car in this lap...
The restart of the race! 
Vettel got 2 seconds of lead on Rosberg in the first lap after Safety Car went in the pits. 
Grosjean, who was making a great race, would have to box due to some problem with the refrigeration of the car. He would come back but he would lose many time and would be in coming back in last place.
Grosjean retired on lap 40, if he hasn't gotten those problems he would've had a nice shot at the podium.
Webber and Sutil would box in 41st lap.
Rosberg again boxed in lap 42.
diResta and Massa would stop in lap 43. Hamilton would also do in lap 44. The pit stops brought Button, Kimi and Checo to 3rd, 4th and 5th positions respectively.
Sebastian Vettel would stop one last time in lap 45 but he would keep 1st place, a great job in pits by Red Bull team.
Gutierrez was having a nice race in 7th place until Webber, Rosberg, Hamilton and diResta overtook him.
A great move by Kimi got McLaren out of the podium as he overtook Button.
diResta crashed in lap 55 and a Safety Car wouldn't be deployed. 
Checo and Button would be overtaken by Webber.
Then, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton would overtake Perez and Button. The bad pace of the McLaren was again highlighted. Massa overtook both of the McLarens too. 
Then, in the last lap, Mark Webber's car went off, it was the end to a good race by the Australian.

SEBASTIAN  VETTEL! FIREWORKS IN MARINA BAY! VETTEL HAS TAKEN THE SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX! 3 WINS IN A ROW FOR THE CHAMPION!
ALONSO COMES IN 2ND AND KIMI IS BACK IN THE PODIUM ON 3RD!

Great Race by Kimi!
Great podium in Marina Bay! 3 world champions, 6 championships in one podium!
Predictions:
  ME     RACE
1-VET   VET
2-HAM  ALO
3-GRO  RAI
World Drivers Championship:
1-Vettel 247
2-Alonso 187
3-Räikkönen 149

See you in two weeks in Korea! Yeongam is awaiting!
Kiitos kaikkille!
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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Another win for Vettel in Monza, 1-2 for Red Bull. - 2013 Italian Grand Prix

Formula 1 comes back after two weeks!
In the cathedral of racing, Monza, Italy.

Lights went off in a race threatened by rain, Massa overtook Webber in the start, Kimi took 3 places, diResta had an unfortunate accident and abandoned in the first lap.

Kimi would have a problem on front wing and would box. Which would make him fall to 23rd place.
Kimi would start to add to the pace making record laps. 
Hamilton would box in lap 12 due to a small puncture.

Nico Hulkenberg who surprised with his 3rd grid place, maintained the pace and would be in 5th position.
Button would box in 22 lap and would fall to 15th but in the next lap, Checo Perez and Ricciardo boxed and Button would be in 14th.
Massa would box and would go back to 6th, Hulkenberg would also box. Vettel would be 3rd after his stop.
Kimi would keep climbing places and was 7th place.
Alonso would stop and Vettel would retake the lead.
'The Iceman', who was 5th, stopped for his last pit stop and fell to 14th.
Grosjean made a great move on Perez and took 10th place.
Hamilton stopped in lap 39 and fell to 14th.
Webber started to Attack Alonso, cutting the gap to 0.6s.
In lap 51, Lewis would overtake Kimi, Perez and Button to be 9th, Kimi would overtake Perez.
Final lap, Vettel leading for 8 seconds, Kimi wouldn't be able to overtake Button and would end 11th.
Alonso and Webber would wrap up the podium, Massa came 4th, Hulkenberg surprised and came 5th.

It was a great win for Sebastian  who keeps taking a big lead in the championship.

My predictions were almost right:
1 VET
2-ALO
3-WEB
My predictions:
1-VET
2-WEB
3-ALO

I hope next race is better for Kimi.
See you in two weeks in Singapore.
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