Great stuff from Nico, he really deserves it. Could be that knowing Lewis had a 5 grid drop helped him avoid the small mistakes he sometimes makes when it comes to the crunch winner takes all lap.
Hope he can challenge through the race for a win.
I wonder if Lewis' car wasnt setup for the race, after the penalty RB is the man at coming up with silver linings in a cloud.
haha Button whooping at making q3, welcome to 2013 baby! And Sergio was only a couple tenths behind, less than the thrashings button received from Lewis in quali so the kid is doing well and will get better.
Did you mean to say "wasn't setup" I thought his car WAS setup for the race thus lacking the pace in Qualli as compared to his teammate. I hope Rosberg wins or they finish next to eachother ie: Rosberg P3 and Hamilton P4 with Lewis having to let Rosberg get the P3. Just to... make it even.
The Ferrari's are right next to eachother on different strategies with great long run pace... Rosberg and Vettel will have to push like crazy to get away.
As for Perez, I agree and you've also got to take into account he definately will still be getting used to the new car/team so only a couple of tenths is fine. It's when you have situations like in Q2 with Kimi doing times 0.6xx faster than Grosjean but to be fair to Gro the two laps he messed up were both at difficult corners.
Turn 1 we could see some serious lockups on the first lap and a high chance of some crashes.
Turn 4 we could see the backend stepping out a few times.
Turn 6/7 we could see a fair few going in too fast and going over the run off.
If you do turn 6/7 perfectly you could have too much confidence just like Grosjean did and break too late or lockup into turn 8.
We are bound to see a lot of lockups into turn 10 as it's a tricky corner to get right.
Drivers with DRS coming out of turn 10 might run wide into turn 11.
A lot of time can be made up in turn 13, need to stay close, there is really no point overtaking on the straight after turn 13.
Turn 14 is easy to run wide on, also if you take it too tight there is quite a curb which could definitely damage your front wing or floor.
Get a nice tow out of 14/15 get the DRS and blast past and you've got a decent chance to hold it.
