*** Spoiler *** F1 Bahrain

[imcarthur]

Despite the civil unrest & despite a track that looks remarkably like a video game screen, that was a fun race. Congrats to Vettel. Great drive by Kimi & Grosjean. A lot of overtaking made it a good watch - just like the rest of the races this season. Do you think we might actually have a Title RACE this time around?

Ian

[Noah930]

Great drive by Vettel. Made it look boring (to his credit).

Good the see Kimi challenge for the win. And to see Grosjean finish well for once.

Rotten luck for McLaren. I'm not a Hamilton fanboy (did you hear his exchange after the first botched pitstop? "Went went wrong there?"), but the mechanics and/or equipment certainly let him down. And Button had bad luck with the tire/exhaust, too.

[jyl]

Why do you think the cars seem so evenly matched this season? Wait, maybe that is wrong, it's more like they are completely unsettled, no consistency, a guy qualifies in the top 4 one race then can barely get into Q3 next race. I didn't follow the pre season, were there so many reg changes and so little testing that the engineers are all discombobulated? Someone fill me in? I'm trying to keep with with the bicycle racing season and MotoGP and F1 - and I watch like 4 hours of TV per week at most - so I'm missing a lot here.

[oldE]

Given the rules structure, I think you have a lot of very talented people developing their cars as fast as they can to the highest level so that there are at least a handful of potential winners on a given day.

Then throw in the tire characteristics and the tire behavior relative to chassis set up and track temperature. That can really put a spanner in the works as they move from continent to continent. (Witness Kimi in China, looking so good in second place, 8 laps from the end and dropping ten places in two laps.)

The add the occasional mistake (Button's wheel nut, Hamilton's wheel nut, Shumacher's wheel nut) which shows you cannot make any mistakes this year.

Then factor in a bunch of the best drivers in the world, all competitive as heck.

I'm loving it.
Les