FIA Formula One Championship 2013

**Retz** · April 17th, 2013 09:51 AM

Alonso w/ his gf after winning the GP

**ClaNker** · April 17th, 2013 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by niky

At the end of the race, tire wear is not as big an issue, since the track is as fully rubbered-in as it's ever going to get. You can seriously take a gamble on running the soft tires longer... but it will definitely depend on the car. Button is good at keeping the tires in shape (as long as he's happy with the car), but for a driver like Vettel who's on full attack mode, we can't be sure if the results would be the same. As it was, Vettel almost had Hamilton, but he went just a tiny bit too wide when the opportunity presented itself.

Too bad.

Too bad for Vettel. Suck it up, losers, this year belongs to Alonso! :hysterical: Won't even need a Piquet to win this one...

Tire is still a big player in that race. Everyone was watching their delta just to preserve the tire, depending a position or attacking is also not an option unless if you want to box every few laps.

**Monseratto** · April 17th, 2013 05:18 PM

Quiet dinner between rivals...not team mates....

**niky** · April 17th, 2013 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by ClaNker

Tire is still a big player in that race. Everyone was watching their delta just to preserve the tire, depending a position or attacking is also not an option unless if you want to box every few laps.

What I mean is: Once the track is rubbered in, the softer tires will last longer than they did at the start of the race... which means that it's a good gamble to run a longer stint on soft tires at the end of the race than you would at the start.

**Retz** · April 17th, 2013 10:56 PM

Who were you cheering during Chinese GP?

**ClaNker** · April 18th, 2013 04:16 AM

Originally Posted by Retz

Who were you cheering during Chinese GP?

Vettel of course, for once we saw a driver doing a race to the limit. We won't be seeing much of that this season unless Pirelli/Bernie change the tire compounds after Bahrain.

**ClaNker** · April 18th, 2013 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by Monseratto

Quiet dinner between rivals...not team mates....

Oh boy Vettel is in a ton of trouble again.

**CVT** · April 18th, 2013 12:16 PM

With FA's "angas" of a two-time champion in a Ferrari car, and MW(WDC wannabe)'s continuous entanglements with the Fingerman,- this is profound!

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**ClaNker** · April 18th, 2013 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by CVT

With FA's "angas" of a two-time champion in a Ferrari car, and MW(WDC wannabe)'s continuous entanglements with the Fingerman,- this is profound!

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FA tweeted that first but deleted it, unfortunately the Ausiegrit re-tweeted it before FA was able to delete it.

That idiot ausie whiner must have forgotten this.

At the end of last year's campaign, Webber reportedly defied a Red Bull strategy to help teammate Sebastian Vettel beat Alonso to the 2012 title.
Indeed, Webber's own manager Flavio Briatore had observed afterwards: "The only one who helped Ferrari was Webber."