Wow Alonso in the top three. It's been a while since that happened. I honestly thought Alonso would be down in sixth or seventh, outqualified by Hulkenburg. Vettel was completely dominant in the middle sector. EDIT: Alonso's best qualifying since Bahrain. Wow.
And Vettel outqualifies everyone by a huge margin yet again. I'll probably watch the start and first lap tomorrow - predictably, Vettel will end it over 2s ahead and streak off into the distance. I don't quite understand how the officials don't see that his dominance is killing the sport for the fans.
So Alonso admitted he messed up and the car is actually faster than the Mercedes all along? *shocked* Well done Nico for an awesome lap, beating a faster car and getting 2nd. We all know rain is the real equaliser and both Vettel+Rosberg crushed everybody.
Honestly, i'd rather Vettel dominate than Di Resta. AT least Vettel has humility and credits the team, with Di resta it would be something like "how i overcame all odds, my team prefer my teammate, and they secretly steal my lunch money and give it to Adrian"
Great job by Alonso. Considering how dominant Red Bull are in all conditions, it's amazing that without that one mistake Alonso could've been just 0.2 behind Vettel. Shows that while Vettel's lap was good it wasn't really special, just made to look good by Alonso's mistake and Rosberg underperforming (based on his performances in practice, Rosberg should have done better). Tomorrow at the start should be exciting. Alonso is a fast starter and he hates Vettel.
So, is it a good result for Alonso bearing in mind where he has been recently, or an opprotunity missed because of a mistake he made?
Alonso has been lacking in qualifying all year and Massa is no benchmark unless your name is Max Chilton of course. He dug his own grave when saying 'I could of easily gone 7-8 tenths faster' so he admits he ****ed up 100% and the car is in fact better than he makes out? I wonder how many wins better drivers like Vettel/Hamilton/Rosberg/Webber/Kimi/Hulk/Chilton would of got with that dominant Ferrari? If Vettel ****ed up that badly they would be saying how average he is, so I guess finally for once after it repeating 40 odd times it applies to Alonso... Btw say goodbye to 2nd in the WCC!
Alonso was impressive today and it's bitter to suggest otherwise. For Vettel it was just another day.
I'd say it was the other way around, Vettel beat his team-mate by over 1 second, Alonso was less than half a second ahead of his, as usual. Vettel was immense and showed exactly why he's the best driver in F1 today. The difference is one was perfect and one made a mistake, I'd say it was bitterness that makes people rate the mistake ridden guy better.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111568 What wimps!! These F1 drivers are moaning when we get a little bit of rain. Compare that to the young drivers:
Bitterness aside, Alonso qualified five places higher than where I expected whereas Vettel did exactly what I presumed he would. Not very scientific, I know Good effort from both Toro Rossos too, incidentally.
Yesterday was a complete farce. There shouldn't have been any delay, let alone a 45 minute one, the track was too dry for extremes when they finally went out and Rosberg says they should've delayed it longer.
Needs to be something done with regards to wet races, it's a joke now and I love wet races. Domestic cars do run in the rain you know F1.... Though no surprise as they keep driving in deserts nowadays maybe they forgot how to handle it in the wet after all the oil money.
