Yet again, Romain Grosjean is investigated for causing a first corner/lap incident and is subsequently penalized with a 10 seconds stop/go penalty. Considering this is his nth time being "the reason", I'm starting to think Lotus F1 might be considering him too much of a liability to retain. I mean, he is involved in an incident every other race, more often than not. You can't have just the one driver hauling the team up in the points!
Honestly, when the confusion happened in that first corner, I was cheering like mad cos Alonso went out and retired. I don't particularly think that the RoGro incident was the precursor to Alonso's off-track moment. It was him banging wheels with Kimi, trying to chop (ok, maybe more like fiestily closing the gap) him off.
Sigh, on a related note, that E-20 is just not fast enough. Currently we're on the penultimate lap, Kimi is in 6th, up one place from where he started on the grid. I can't calculate right now if he will still retain 3rd in the WDC race. Hamilton is in front of him in 5th. Ooh, race finished with Vettel winning. That's great cos I'd rather have Vettel win the WDC than Alonso :D
UPDATE:
OK, Kimi is still THIRD in the WDC standings. Barely ahead of Hammy by about 5 points if I'm not mistaken. And that incident with FAlonso, I have no clue why the dude is crying to the media about Kimi messing up his weekend. Yeah, yesterday Kimi spun in Spoon and brought out the yellow flags. Nando blamed that as being the reason he got 7th (but started 6th) on the grid. Then during the start, Kimi was already on the left side of the track and Nando was the one who kept moving to the left, basically running Kimi off track - there was nowhere for Kimi to go. By the time Alonso's tires clipped Kimi's front wing, Kimi was already alongside a third length of the Ferrari. but Nando is going on twitter saying Kimi yet again spoiled his chances by not braking. Uh, hello, I believe it was Kimi's right not to yield to you, Nando. It was you who should have been more aware and backed out of that move. Ass! Also, good for Massa who podiumed in second and Kobayashi who got a third, and his very first podium finish, at his home race.
Honestly, when the confusion happened in that first corner, I was cheering like mad cos Alonso went out and retired. I don't particularly think that the RoGro incident was the precursor to Alonso's off-track moment. It was him banging wheels with Kimi, trying to chop (ok, maybe more like fiestily closing the gap) him off.
Sigh, on a related note, that E-20 is just not fast enough. Currently we're on the penultimate lap, Kimi is in 6th, up one place from where he started on the grid. I can't calculate right now if he will still retain 3rd in the WDC race. Hamilton is in front of him in 5th. Ooh, race finished with Vettel winning. That's great cos I'd rather have Vettel win the WDC than Alonso :D
UPDATE:
OK, Kimi is still THIRD in the WDC standings. Barely ahead of Hammy by about 5 points if I'm not mistaken. And that incident with FAlonso, I have no clue why the dude is crying to the media about Kimi messing up his weekend. Yeah, yesterday Kimi spun in Spoon and brought out the yellow flags. Nando blamed that as being the reason he got 7th (but started 6th) on the grid. Then during the start, Kimi was already on the left side of the track and Nando was the one who kept moving to the left, basically running Kimi off track - there was nowhere for Kimi to go. By the time Alonso's tires clipped Kimi's front wing, Kimi was already alongside a third length of the Ferrari. but Nando is going on twitter saying Kimi yet again spoiled his chances by not braking. Uh, hello, I believe it was Kimi's right not to yield to you, Nando. It was you who should have been more aware and backed out of that move. Ass! Also, good for Massa who podiumed in second and Kobayashi who got a third, and his very first podium finish, at his home race.
