Race laps: 70
Lap: 4,361km
Last year winner: Lewis Hamilton
Lap record: 1min 13,662secs by Rubens Barrichello in 2004
The race:
In the end of Q2 Felipe Massa (again) slided into wall. He just got lost the control of the vehicle, because the track was quite wet, thanks to bad weather. The result was Red Flag, and the race stopped for few minutes. When everything back to normal, the race was restart from Pit lane, and after that Kimi Raikkonen and Daniel Ricciardo received 2 grid penalties following to the fact that they opted to line up next to Esteban Gutierrez(he was ledding), not behind him. Qualification went so good for Valteri Bottas. He qualified at 3rd position which is great result.
On Sunday was sunny weather, so intermediate and wet compound tyres weren't necessary. As the lights went off Sebastian Vettel ( who was on pole position) as usual rapidly went ahead and made huge gap, but only one mistake and Hamilton (who started from 2nd grid) got him. Talking about mistakes, Lotus team made one in pit stop, and Kimi Raikkonen lost some important seconds. After few laps from the beginning, Adrian Sutil rotated his car while attempt of overtaking Bottas, and the moment later Pastor Maldonado hit the back of Sutil's car. He received a drive-through penatly, which meant from 8th he was 10th. In the middle of the race Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso overtook Nico Rosberg without any problems and with DRS help. It was so quick and professional. In the channel I watched F1 commentators were admiring the way Mark and Lewis drive, and the way how they overtook Nico. Later on Giedo van der Garde was ignoring blue flags, and he collided with Webber, and destroyed Mark's front wing. It was irresponsible of van der Garde. He received 10 seconds stop/go penalty. Then Alonso secured his podium position and overtook Webber which made him 3rd, and later on he overtook Hamilton, which made him 2nd.But Hamilton is real fighter so he wouldn't just give up. So at 63lap they had a small contact, but fortunately it was unnoticeable. Moving on Nico Hulkenberg destroyed van der Garde's front wing, which after one lap made Giedo's car totally broken, so he moved on grass. He might have stopped his car earlier, because Nico reacted responsible, and talk with his engineer about car's status and decide to stop the car. What was intresting for me, was the fact that Paul di Resta raced a 57 LAPS on one set of tyres. How did he do that, since pirelli's tyres have "good" quality. Later on was a quite funny thing. When Hamilton's engineer started talk to him about tyres, Lewis replied: " Just let me drive, man..". That was totally Kimi style :) Moving on to the end Sutil received drive through penalty for ignoring blue flags. Then Gutierrez was out of the track at 66lap, which meant DRS was disabled and that was bad information for Massa who was struggling with Raikkonen. But at final lap he overtook him.
So there we got the results:
Anyway there was only one sad thing because after this GP one of the Marshalls died after falling under the wheel of a mobile crane. He died in hospital. We all feel so sory about it...
