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Old Oct 30, 2011 | 11:59 AM
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These tilke designed race circuits lack character, another big yawn fest - I had more excitement teaching myself forza4
Old Oct 30, 2011 | 12:03 PM
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Yep, another boring race. Good old Tilke! Never disappoints, always predictable. Haha!

Still, its good to see the F1 in India, it looked like the people there were really into it and that goes a long way, particularly when you have places like China, Turkey and South Korea where no one turns up.

Nothing really happened and I am not expecting great things for Abu Dhabi either.

Ho hum...
Old Oct 30, 2011 | 12:10 PM
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Full of promise but failed to deliver. but maybe its early days and once Red Bulls dominance has been eroded then maybe it would make a good circuit. The only thing really of any interest was Massa and Hamilton coming together again. its happening so often I'm starting to wonder if its staged. Made me laugh to see Rowan Atkinson's jestures when that happened - he is Mr Bean even in real life.

With the championship over the interest has kind of disappeared anyway. Not that excited by the prospect of Abu Dhabi but Brasil is always a good one to watch.
Old Oct 30, 2011 | 12:15 PM
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Haha, yeh Rowan's face was a picture!

Good to see all the tributes paid by F1 and the drivers to Marco and Dan.
Old Oct 30, 2011 | 01:52 PM
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Button shows Lewis how to do it again

Webber and Hamilton are clear number 2 drivers. Just hope next season they can up their game and get a bit closer.
Old Oct 31, 2011 | 04:46 AM
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I am a Lewis follower,rather than ''fan'' and I am finding his attitude at the moment getting a little trying,if it boils down to the loss of his girlfriend,I think he starting to let the team down now,he is a professional and is paid a small fortune,he don't seem to be there at the moment.
I was also looking at the crowd, as they were saying how fantastic it is for India,earlier they were doing a walk around the streets asking the locals what they thought of the race and they didn't know anything about the track,and as a reduced price ticket of 100 pounds was a months wages to the average person, I think in some of these countries the races are staged more for Bernie's bank balance than the average person in the street.
And I thought the race was boring, and I think Massa did Lewis on purpose.
The only interesting bit was Shuey giving it a go,I would love to see him get on the podium.
Old Oct 31, 2011 | 06:07 AM
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Hamilton's not a number 2. Still often quicker than Button in qualifying, but just can't keep it all together in the race at the moment.

I'm a big Button fan, but i can't help feeling that Button's current apparent form is more down to Hamilton's current lack of form.

The race should have been so much better with all the build up. Was it the dust problem that meant that there was no decent overtaking?
Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:13 AM
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lewis did well.he qualified second ????

massa punted him off and the ferrari cheating front wing was a flap
Old Oct 31, 2011 | 07:21 AM
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I found the race zzzzzzz-inducing.

The only highlight of the race was the comment by Brundle/Coulthard that Button did 4 consecutive laps, each of exactly the same time; what incredible consistency.
Old Oct 31, 2011 | 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by lower
The race should have been so much better with all the build up. Was it the dust problem that meant that there was no decent overtaking?
There was lots of overtaking in the midfield. Algesuari pulled off a great move round the outside of Sutil. Just for some reason the top teams seemed to settle into the same positions and stay there; perhaps they were just too evenly matched.



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