Renault and Alonso : Starting from where they left
Fernando Alonso and Renault have begun their title defece in style. Helped by a demon strategy Alonso won the Bahrain GP outwitting Ferrari's Michael Schumacher. It was indeed a champoin performance from Renault. Michael looking for his first "real victory" since the 2004 season had to settle for second.
Starting from pole Michael settled into an early lead but it was his team-mate Massa who had a teriible start to his race. He lost his second position to Alonso on the second corner. Jenson Button in his Honda had a bad start too dropping down to 6th place.
Like most races these days this race too was decided in the pits. Renault clearly had the better overall package and that gave them the room to go for a win from the pits. Alonso was able to lap faster than michael on a regular basis, who himself was driving his Ferrari on the limit. Michael managed to keep his lead after the first round of pit stops but Alonso was eating into his lead. After Schumi stopped for a second time Alonso was able to use the clear track to produce what his race engineer described as "the winning laps". The highlight of the race was Michael breaking really really late in an attempt to emerge ahead of Alonso who was coming out of the pits. Alonso on his part was in a better position and was able to squeeze out Michael and took the race lead. From then on it was easy, some tyre conservation, some solid cool headed driving to P1.
Spare a thought for Kimi Raikonnen. It took a brave and radical strategy from the Mc Laren to enable him fifsh third. We have often seen teams trying a one stop strategy but more often than not it fails. But some agressive and solid driving saw Kimi pull off a...well "Michael".
One man who will be disappointed is Jenson Button. He had a great chance to challenge for a win but thanks to a scratchy start ended up 4th. None the less he has staked his claim to the title. It will be an exciting season ahead and lets hope Alonso will find his title defence hard.
Starting from pole Michael settled into an early lead but it was his team-mate Massa who had a teriible start to his race. He lost his second position to Alonso on the second corner. Jenson Button in his Honda had a bad start too dropping down to 6th place.
Like most races these days this race too was decided in the pits. Renault clearly had the better overall package and that gave them the room to go for a win from the pits. Alonso was able to lap faster than michael on a regular basis, who himself was driving his Ferrari on the limit. Michael managed to keep his lead after the first round of pit stops but Alonso was eating into his lead. After Schumi stopped for a second time Alonso was able to use the clear track to produce what his race engineer described as "the winning laps". The highlight of the race was Michael breaking really really late in an attempt to emerge ahead of Alonso who was coming out of the pits. Alonso on his part was in a better position and was able to squeeze out Michael and took the race lead. From then on it was easy, some tyre conservation, some solid cool headed driving to P1.
Spare a thought for Kimi Raikonnen. It took a brave and radical strategy from the Mc Laren to enable him fifsh third. We have often seen teams trying a one stop strategy but more often than not it fails. But some agressive and solid driving saw Kimi pull off a...well "Michael".
One man who will be disappointed is Jenson Button. He had a great chance to challenge for a win but thanks to a scratchy start ended up 4th. None the less he has staked his claim to the title. It will be an exciting season ahead and lets hope Alonso will find his title defence hard.
posted by Not an intellectual at 4:48 AM
3 Comments:
yeah.....definitely a brilliant start to the f1 season.....some reallt exciting moments there provided by....ms...alonso and massa.....of course paddy has covered them all...but a notable performance that's missing is that of nico rosberg....a great finish for a debutant some of his manuevers were commendable....n since i'm writing this on the eve of the malaysian gp where he'll be starting 3rd ...i can safely say that he's the guy for the future.....another hit with me was the qualifying session....whatever the technicalities....its good entertainment for an average f1 fan....paddy might defer though
You right man... the new qualifiers rock. Nico is great, no wonder he was chosen ahead of our very own Narain. He sure is a champ in the making. Bahrain would have made papa Rosberg proud. He is proving he has more to him than just the illustrous surname
hey!! where is all the analysis?? get off the football bug. looks like the power of red is back..though i agree that alonso will end up creating a legacy
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