I saw it. They were asked about Rosberg's actions in Bahrain and Vettel said something like: "Alonso made himself very clear when he said "all the time you have to leave a space!"" - the last bit was an impression of Alonso's radio message, which caused a few journalists to laugh, but Alonso didn't find it funny. Alonso then said "Yes, as I did with you at Monza".
Mini facts of the day: Raikkonen has led more laps at Barcelona than Button, Hamilton and Vettel put together. (128 Vs 89) and out of the 'big 5' Alonso has lead the most laps (74) compared to Hamilton who has lead the least (19) Obviously Schumacher trumps all
Autosports track guide... [video=youtube;ts_d7vMWH9c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_d7vMWH9c&feature=player_embedded[/video]
I under stand the spanish GP being backed by them as they are spanish Im presuming from the town of Santander? The brittish GP being backed by them I guess as they own Abbey national, brittania, Bradford & Bingly etc etc so its a good market along with backing Mclaren and their drivers. The German GP and Italian GP I guess are for the same reasons as the British.
Just watched it. Alonso was a good sport about it - he had a laugh. Did you notice Vettel apologised as they moved onto the next question?
What to look out for in Spain A brief snapshot of the new parts and upgrades to look out for this weekend in Spain... [Warning, may contain images of Skyf1] and as for the press conference shinanigins, see 22:30 onwards - [video]http://www1.skysports.com/formula1/video/12870/7745730[/video]
Seb is playing the mind games back to Alonso it looks, Jenson style. Subtle yet funny, make the other feel uncomfortable.
What do mean by "Jenson style"? I'm thinking the triathlon challenge to Hamilton (but Button was in a nowhere car then, I think) or little comments about Vettel taking him off at Spa. I wouldn't call them mind games as such - they're just having a bit of fun. I'm sure they make jokes at each others' expense often enough on parade laps or elsewhere away from microphones but in public they're more mindful of the corporate image. Button, Vettel, maybe Webber, etc. are probably a lot more relaxed about where the line is than many others whose English is perhaps not as good as Vettel's.
Jenson style: Joke around about incident, keep it interesting to talk about, media do the rest, other driver feels a bit uncomfortable, he has to defend himself, everybody else is laughing at him, makes him keep thinking about his outburst = Jenson style. It's subtle and I've seen it been done plenty of times in F1 and life in general, it's not vindictive as most of the time they dont even know they're doing it.
I was looking at the Driver's Championship, and Schumacher needs a big result asap. His teammate is 6th with 35 points while he is 18th with 2 points - the same number of points as Massa - that's really embarrassing! I was also surprised to see Vergne ahead of Ricciardo, as Vergne keeps getting knocked out in Q1. Looking a bit deeper, Ricciardo has outqualified Vergne in all four qualifying sessions, but Vergne has finished ahead of Ricciardo in the last three races.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-2142583/Lewis-Hamilton-rejects-Mark-Webber-criticism-Nico-Rosberg-Bahrain.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Webber and Hamilton on Hamilton's overtake on Rosberg in Bahrain. Technically Webber is right. I noticed it straight away in the race that Lewis had all four tyres off the track and gained an advantage, and wondered if he was going to be penalised for it. Having said that, Rosberg should also have been penalised I feel as It's obviously illegal to force someone off the road. I think Hamilton's comments are a bit melodramatic and over-defensive.
Fair enough, Roadie, but there's already a thread for this rather than bring Bahrain's incidents into Spain's race thread.
Jenson using the new nose first! Lewis using the past design, likely trying to compare with both versions for this practice session. Though I'm waiting for "Oh my god Jenson is being favoured over Lewis"
