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[McLaren Fan]

Did any else see this? Piquet Snr saying his son did better than Alonso in Spain.

http://www.f1sa.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13468&Itemid=219

Piquet talks so much s***, you can never take him seriously. He's cried wolf so many times, even when he is telling the truth people do not believe him.

[Corrado]

^^Exactly.

By the way, Sutil was forced off because he was the initial collision. The first lap, Truili got sideways and smashed into Sutil, and that was the actual crash.

Rosberg got together with Trulli, forcing him wide in an oversteer that carried him back on the track. Sutil was at the back coming into the first corner and elected to short-cut the corner (he was *not* forced wide). It appears that by doing so he improved his position by 5 or 6 places before accelerating into Trulli as he rejoined the race.

The Rosberg-Trulli tussle may have taken Trulli out of the race if he continued off track to the left into something hard. However, he was vacating the track and other cars were making their way around him until Sutil appeared from off-track and hit him. At that point, Buemi swerved to avoid the wreck and occupied Bourdais' racing line, wrecking both STR cars.

I was very surprised that Sutil wasn't handed a penalty for that move. Even if he wasn't faulted for the wreck, he improved his race position with a voluntary short-cut. I'm pretty sure that's against the rules. To be somewhat fair, it WAS Bourdais with whom he was racing side-by-side and I would probably have bailed out rather than take my chances with him, too.