Kimi does it

[Workingman]

A superb drive by the Ice Man. Cool and calm from start to finish. His reeling in of Vettel and Alonso war reminiscent of Prost, Schumi and Senna at their very best.

It was very hard luck on Sutil. He also had a great drive only to fall foul of the Mickey Mouse tyre rules.

The FIA are going to have a look at this tyre nonsense. If they are not careful teams are going to be doing only a few flying laps before going back to the "race" tyre.

[Weka]

We are so out of touch here with f1. It went to sky tv, which we don't have, about 5 years ago, and that probably is the last race I saw. However, thanks to the power of various things I won't air publicly we have f1 and whatever else was lost, now available again. So we watched f1, and couldn't understand why they were going in for tyre changes after only 7 laps? What's going on?

[cromwell]

I think the tyres are made of a new compound this year Weka, and the teams haven't yet worked out how to get the best out of them.
Yes, happy to see Kimi win.

[Workingman]

Weka, when Michelin pulled out of F1 it left only Bridgestone as a tyre supplier. That was seen as 'boring' by the FIA - everyone using exactly the same tyre, tsk - so compounds were introduced. When Bridgestone pulled out and Pirelli took over they were tasked specifically with making compounds - hard, medium, soft and super soft - none of which would last a race, maybe not even half a race, making for many tyre stops. In addition to that, two compounds would be taken to each race and both compounds had to be used during the race absolutely guaranteeing tyre stops.

It's not racing imo. It brings things down to strategy, and that is in the hands of those in the pits.

[Weka]

That explains what they were going on about. No, not really racing IMO. Pit stops are fun to watch, maybe that's why they have done it?