I did not watch Massa on the start, I will. I've heard comments about his lousy start.
What a crappy track. As much as Massa flaws could have been exposed by 800 hp without traction control, I saw the same for the track: it offers maybe a couple of passing places.
Malaysia has a regular first curve, let's wait and see if four or five cars are lost in it again. If this rate of attrition continues, maybe TC should be back.
I think that the armchair thinkers of F1 went a tad too far by banning essential driver helps. The speed and power of the cars have increased a lot, they are much more "designed to the limit" than cars of before.
I suppose this influenced the "attitude" of the cars: it was a little suicidal for my taste. By this I mean that the drivers are taking greater risks, evidently. Those who wanted to see F1 cars "drifting" at 250 kph must have been happy.
Meanwhile, even with larger run-off areas, the problem of the "flying cars" is still unresolved, so a touch might have consequences. I hope not, of course, but I left the race with a "Coulthardish" feeling, wondering how a wet race would be: how many cars could be left at Brazil if it pours?
A brave race by Alonso, on the edge, but with this crappy Renault, he's out for good this year.
I wondered why Kimi, with a supposedly fast car, had such a long first stint: the dangers of being caught midfield are higher than last year, many more mistakes were made by everybody, him included. The "I-will-win-this-from-start-to-end" attitude of Schumi pays even more in this kind of races.
I hardly could resist five years of Ferrari dominance. Now I don't know how much McLaren-faster-by-a-second can I stand. I hope (oh, my god) Ferrari gets better quickly, because the BMWs still seem slower by half a second, not to mention the rest, Williams included, so the first place race seems a little... boring.
I did not see Hamilton on TV until the end (well, once in a while when they showed the huge, immense gap with the second place).
Nico's podium seems, given the attrition, a thing we'll see once in a blue moon.
I was happy with Rosberg, was surprised by Hamilton maturity and dominance and his sincere congratulations to Nico, had a sense of relief and hope with Alonso's five points, suffered a little with Kubica's fate.
All in all, I enjoyed a really hard and very, very, very hot, relentless race that apparently took drivers to the limit. Thanks, Aussies.
Hard as rock outside but rotten inside
