When was the last exciting Barcelona GP? I can't ever remember one.

 

Where's the pun?

Yes it was dull. Start was good, but once the Mercedes had finished going backwards it seemed to settle down. But Spain is always a boring race; last year was definitely the exception. But good to see the lack of Red Bull dominance on a downforce track.

Monaco is unlikely to be thrilling either. I wonder if the Mercedes can get the front row again and hold up the entire field for 65 laps and win?

 

I watched the start, and saw Alonso rightly rising to the top once again. He was fantastic again with some of his overtaking round the outside of Hamilton

I didn't watch most of the race has I had work to do to my car, but from the sounds of it I didn't miss much. At least Button was able to move up the pack a bit more.

 

He meant that the lack of anyone saying anything spoke volumes about the dullness of the race, quite witty is our Nut

 

So the artificial aids failed to make it exciting, just as they will fail at Monaco.
had to miss Barcelona as I had to go down to Barbados for a few weeks, seems that I missed nothing.

 

When a team is struggling to keep a car that was fastest on Saturday in the top 10, with two very capable drivers, something is wrong.

The idea was DRS and crappy tyres to get the races less dependant on qualifying and aero.

So what happened? DRS means no point in challenging round the course, just stay close and push to pass on the straight. Crappy tyres means it's about who can do a Q3 session taking the least out of the tyres. Honestly Mercedes would be better off not running Q3, starting on the prime tyre, and going longer than the other teams.

I'm not normally paranoid, but when the team who's car is used for Pirelli testing and Ferrari are the teams seemingly coming out on top, something smells fowl.

Even 2011 was more interesting than this, because however hopeless it seemed, at least it seemed like there was a fight on.

 

You can't remember as far back as last year then, granted usually the Spanish GP is boring ... but never as dull as this one

 

He meant that the lack of anyone saying anything spoke volumes about the dullness of the race, quite witty is our Nut
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Still no pun as such though. Dembo is right.

 

With the car? Clearly.

That's not true. We've had loads of side by side racing, often following multiple corners of late. What you describe is how I remember F1 of old.

Shame they've got Ross Brawn, and loads of other highly experienced people with years of experience in making tactical decisions in F1 rather than you.

Who's [sic] car is used for Pirelli testing?

When Vettel won everything seemlingly by default? If things continue, it looks like being a close fight between Alonso, Vettel and Raikonnen again.

Sorry to pick apart your post, but you seem to have imagined an entirely different sport than the one the rest of us are watching.

Was a dull race though.