BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Ubik wrote:Whoever it was at Ferrari that figured it would be a good idea to have the championship leader waste qualifying time bathplugging around towing his team mate needs a good kicking.
It was a solid strategy. You can't blame the strategists for a mechanical failure - who plans for that?
Quite - nobody within the team could have anticipated that Alonso would have picked up damage to his rear anti roll bar, so getting Alonso to give Massa a tow was probably a damage limitation move by the team to at least get Massa up as high as he could and stick a better chance of denying Vettel points.
tristan1117 wrote:I'm excited to see what Force India does tomorrow. It's a shame that Hulkenberg got knocked out in Q1 because he would have easily made Q3. Di Resta was excellent on his qualifying run but that five-spot penalty sill hurt him considerably. I'm hoping that Force India somehow gets another good result tomorrow.
Force India do have a chance of another decent haul of points today, which might help them open up a bit of a gap between themselves and Williams in the WCC. Hulkenberg was very unlucky in qualifying, but he has excellent straight line speed and put in some decent times during the longer runs on Friday, whilst Di Resta seems to have found a bit of form with those excellent qualifying laps - I only hope that both drivers make it through the usual first corner carnage intact.
