Kovalainen 2008 was very similar. The wheel rim disintegrated in a hard race. McLaren at that time speculated about a stone getting between the wheel rim but they never really came back and told the story of the failure after the analysis. I remain convinced that their wheel design isn't up to it for this track.wesley123 wrote:.. from what i believe it was the rim, again. It happened before in 2007 and 2008 too, i believe even in 2009 but i cant remember that one. It seems to be a structural mclaren problem.
Today they had a repeat of what looks very much the same design problem. I can not understand why someone can blame Hamilton for the failure. He drove a beautiful race.
Webber could cruise it home due to his better qualifying. He made no mistakes.
Hamilton, Alonso and Schumacher all drove very well. I'm sorry for Hamilton. Alonso was rewarded above his race pace due to Hamilton's bad luck. Vettel was also unlucky to loose his brakes 15 laps before the end of the race and again Alonso profited.
Man of the race for me was clearly Schumacher who managed to pass Button on the outside and defended masterfully for 40+ laps. He did it without a single unfair move and he got some hard earned points.