F1: VETTEL TRIUMPHS IN THE INAUGRAL INDIAN GP

Sebastian Vettel, the 2011 World Champion won the inaugural Indian GP in a comfortable fashion.

As the race started, the German started to move away from its rivals. The track conditions were a little tricky for the drivers to maintain their tyres as the surface was new and there was not that much rubber on it but gradually the conditions improved as it got rubbered in that is why we observed so many fastest laps in the race. Jenson Button made a flying start and overtook Alonso and Webber in the start and maintained his second position right till the end. Alonso came third; he overtook Webber in the second round of pit stops in the lap 39. Webber finished 4^th and was on the tail of Alonso when he crossed the chequred line. Then were the two Mercedes’ in fifth and sixth place and guess who was in front!!!! Not a surprise Of course we are talking about Sunday so it should be Michael Schumacher. Michael drove a brilliant race, he started from the back of the grid (12 position, row 6) and overtook 3 cars in the opening lap and maintained his status of being the aggressive starter. Later on he managed his tyres way better than Nico and managed to run 5 laps more than his teammate Nico Rosberg to overtake him. Schumacher credited his strategy after the race and said the he deliberately didn’t used the KERS in the first two corners of the first lap so that he can use that in straight and it worked out (oh boy! do he think differently)

Further down was the problem guy, yes I’m talking about the sports most overrated drive Lewis Hamilton he came home seventh despite colliding with None Other Than Felipe Massa. It was the sixth time they’ve touched their cars. Tough on the previous five occasions I held Lewis fully responsible for the mistakes and there was nothing Massa could have done about it but this time it was because of the mistakes of both the drivers. Massa was on the cleaner side (the racing line) and Hamilton tried to get his car in at turn, as Massa turned his car the Mclaren’s front wheel touched Massa’s rear wheel due to which both the drivers had to make an early pit stop . Later, Massa was handed a drive through penalty which was very harsh. For me it was a racing incident and Massa alone was not responsible for it Lewis was also at fault but how often do we see stewards favoring Lewis. Later Massa hitted the kerb hard once again in the same fashion he did on Saturday and damaged his front suspension and retired from the race. Later on Massa along with Stefano Domenacalli expressed that he was surprised because of the steward’s decision. Mark Webber also said that he thought that it was a 50-50 incident in his opinion and the steward’s should be a little lenient.

Jaime Alguersuari came eight, Adrian Sutil came ninth and Sergio Perez tenth and all helped their teams earn important 4, 2, 1 points respectively. All the three top finishers paid respect to Dan Wheldone and Marco Simoncelli for whom one minute silence was also observed.

Next Formula 1 will move to Abu Dhabi for the day night race experience the championship is over but let’s see who will finish second in the standings after the last two rounds, till then drive safely and bye. . . . . .