Vocal Voices

Something has to be done! It was almost as bad as Monaco, but different.

Tyres, downforce and DRS have to be looked at long and hard.

Has anyone else noticed that the DRS zones happen to be where the highest paying fans are sitting so that they get to see some 'overtaking'?

I felt sad for Bottas and Williams, it shows that they are well off the pace, but the drive of the day had to be Di Resta with his one-stop strategy.... If he had qualified a bit further up the grid who knows where he might have been.

Yes, Di Resta did well. Lotus didn't! They were well off the pace.
Could be worse though - they could be MaClaren! How they have managed to go backwards quite so fast is a mystery.
Vettel is looking ominously good again. Because he gets pole and the first corner he gets to run in the clean air; good for the cooling, good for the brakes, whilst everyone else is bunching up, overheating, getting bits of their wing taken off and wearing their tyres out quicker.
If Ferrari ever get further up the grid Alonso will be mighty in the race!

cromwell wrote:Vettel is looking ominously good again. Because he gets pole and the first corner he gets to run in the clean air.....

That's the DRS factor... all the commentators mention it. Use the first two laps to break the 1 second rule and you can control the race. On twisty or street circuits, with current levels of downforce, the car behind has no chance of getting near, and so the procession begins.