Sunday 7 July 2013

Not blogged for a while

Justin:

First off let me say that I think I can speak for all 5 readers (and one would think the world at large) when I say we all wish Murray Walker a speedy and full recovery. Like many people around my age who grew up on F1, Murray's voice, energy and Murryisms were a vital part of Sunday afternoon's on F1 race weekends. The guy is a living legend and we look forward to him recovering and continuing with his BBC website column and seeing him live on the Beeb's coverage of the British GP next year.

The German GP is starting in just under an hour. I won't see it until 6pm tonight - stupid BBC. Bah.

Anyway....

Canada was a while ago in the memory now, but I recall it was a great race. Now that is lazy F1 blogging right there!

Silverstone...was pretty much utter chaos, drama, excitement and any driver that left their balls at home probably had a bit of a bad day.

There were so many candidates for driver of the day. Webber, getting punted after a rubbish start, from 14th to 2nd. Massa - a lightening start from 11th to 5th, a tyre blowout, and he recovered from 17th to...7th was it? Alonso, started 9th, suffered a tyre failure, recovered to 3rd. Paul di Resta, drove from the back to get good points. Hamilton....a fighting drive. He was leading when his tyre blew up...he went to the back and fought back up to 4th. Rosberg too...ok, he benefited from problems for others, but as Webber remarked, to capitalise on others problems, you have to be in a position to capitalise.

Storming race. The last ten laps after the safety car were a pure shootout. Webber and Alonso were on newer tyres and destroyed most of the people around them.

I have to admit, it would have been great to see Webber win his last race at Silverstone, but as it was, his was a barnstorming drive to 2nd. Another lap and it would have been 1st.

Vettel....gearbox failure. That certainly helped liven up the title race!


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