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Frijns will start 4th, Bianchi 7th and Bird 16th, so it looks like Frijns' title. It was a wet qualifying though. da Costa starts 3rd.

 

Da Costa should win this race easily. It's Frijns' title to lose now, .but if he chokes again and Bianchi doesn't drive like a noob....anything is possible.

 

Lost all respect for Frijns. What a dick.

He deserves a championship disqualification, like Schumacher in 97

 

What did he do?

 

He took Bianchi out.

 

Oh. Did he get away with it?

 

He'll just get 20 seconds. It certainly didn't look deliberate. Big shame to see that happen though. Definately feels like a tainted title.

 

Completely agree. Frijns didn't need to take Bianchi out to win the title, and the way he went into him I thought he was more likely to end his own race than Bianchi's so I don't think it was deliberate. It does feel tainted though given it was error from Frijns that won it for him. Really enjoyed the battle between Vainio and Aleshin; good, clean, aggressive racing. There's been a bit of discussion about GP2 and WSR on here in the last few weeks, and I don't think you'd see racing like that in GP2, you'd get a lap of that and then they'd both end up in the gravel trap. Vainio's only 19, but he drives like someone much older in my opinion. Dominant performance from da Costa, I'm getting really excited about the lad now, there's perhaps a hundred drivers in the lower formulas and he's head and shoulders above all of them from what I've seen. I thought he was racing in WSR next season but apparently he could be in GP2, I really hope he carries on in WSR though.

 

Da Costa isn't actually young though, so he probably has a maturity advantage over the other drivers. He's 21/22, and been around for a while too.

 

da Costa to Caterham next season? Bearing in mind at one point Red Bull were looking into loaning them Ricciardo...

 

21 is incredibly young for a racing driver, just because a few kids have been thrown into F1 cars too soon doesn't change the fact that racing drivers tend to peak around the late twenties/early thirties. If he gets a Toro Rosso drive for 2014 he'll be 22 when he makes his F1 debut, that's a good age to start in my opinion, same age Hamilton was.

 

Good point.

 

This is a good read on young drivers progressing up to F1: http://willthef1journo.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/poisoning-the-well-f1s-underlying-problem/

I think a lot of perspective has been lost since Vettel came into the sport and started setting youngest driver to... records. Especially as Hamilton and Alonso had done the same before him. I think people expect too much too soon from young drivers, including the Red Bull programme which Buxton seems to have a rather low opinion of. He comments on da Costa underneath and fears for his future a bit now he's with Red Bull. If Red Bull/Toro Rosso discard him too soon though I'm sure he'll be picked up by another team.

 

The problem with the Red Bull programme is that they are looking for the next Vettel, whereas Vettel is a once in a generation type of driver, they will not unearth someone of his ability and maturity at such a young age for a very long time.

 

Seconded, Vettel (his performance) will last a long time.

 

A video for those that don't know what happend.

[video=youtube;Pln1b3pGwW0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pln1b3pGwW0[/video]

French commentators having kittens!

 

Lol look at the family 0:34.

 

Frijns family are a piece of work as well...

Reminds me of Pastor's father celebrating when Perez had a big crash to hand Pastor the GP2 title.

 

Cool, more reason to dislike Maldonado!

Seems a lot like Frijns ran him off the road, and here I was thinking that Bianchi would've been the one to cause an accident again. Hard to tell whether it was deliberate or not, but I agree, it definitely feels tainted now. Also, I can see why some of you guys are talking about da Costa, he looks very quick.

 

So the drivers in WSR are just as reckless as those in GP2 then...