Fernando Alonso has won the Chinese Grand Prix to become the third winner in three racing this season. Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen finished in a distant second place while Lewis Hamilton is third, fending off the last charge of Sebastian Vettel.
There's no Chinese drivers are there. So all the fans in China will have there favourites and will fly that drivers flag. Mostly Kimi from what I have seen.roadie wrote:I'm not sure if anyone else noticed the huge amount of Chinese spectators waving flags for other countries over the weekend? Seemed a little strange to me!
The bigger the smile, the sharper the kniferoadie wrote:I'm not sure if anyone else noticed the huge amount of Chinese spectators waving flags for other countries over the weekend? Seemed a little strange to me!
Yeah its a bit weird how some drivers are almost completely non existant in grand prix weekends.NathanOlder wrote:Not sure if anyone mentioned before, BUT, did we see or hear anything from Pastor Maldonado in the entire race ? He finished 1 place behind Bottas, completed every lap. Where was he?
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Alonso's race winning time was 0.016s slower than Rosberg in 2012! 1h36m26.945s to 1h36m26.929s
About Raikkonen disagree:stefan_ wrote:Another great drive by Raikkonen, especially saving the car during the Perez incident and putting the Lotus on 2nd place with a damaged FW and nosecone. Don't know what's happening with Grosjean though, 9th is a poor result from him.
Alonso also did a great race, the pace is in the car and they obviously have a good shot at the WDC.
Very good result from Ricciardo too, nice to see him score good points. Bottas beat Maldonado - another good thing.
I feel sorry for Sutil, if it wasn't for that Schuey-like maneuver of Gutierrez it would have been a better result from FI.
All in all it was a good and enjoyable race, not the catastrophy that some predicted it will happen because of the tires.
Post race penalties because of that DRS on yellow flag thing would be stupid.
. It's way too early to say but Alonso should be a favourite. Also: I told you Rosberg wouldn't know what hit him, with Webber it was all too predictable. 
However Andrew Benson has quickly taken to twitter:His disappointing departure for China Grand Prix in Shanghai was less than three hours ago, came from England early on Sunday afternoon, new reports on the future of Red Bull driver Mark Webber (37): The Australian, British sources say, a five-year contract signed by Porsche.
The Swabian sports car manufacturer Audi to occur from 2014 to intercompany fight on for the win in the WEC Long Distance World Championships and the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. An Audi spokesman would not confirm the execution of the long awaited transfer conceded, however, that "it is in this direction" could.
Webber has experience in the sports prototypes: He drove before his entry into Formula 1 in the years 1998 and 1999 for Mercedes.
That's a cop out by the FIA. They shouldn't need to inform the teams, the yellow flags are on display on the track and the drivers have a duty to be aware of them. The stewards have basically fluffed it because they didn't want to change the podium result or have to punish so many drivers.Ral wrote:Lee McKenzie said no action on DRS-users: https://twitter.com/LeeMcKenzieF1/statu ... 2829383680
Jennie Gow explains there was a 1 minute delay between yellow flag display and teams being informed: https://twitter.com/JennieGow/status/323402002937827332
Yeah, a couple of mitigating circumstances quoted by the FIA: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/106769LionKing wrote:FIA did the right thing:
"The DRS use was on the main straight where a green light was displayed."
