Track Torque: Dominant Rosberg on a double hat-trick!
He drove a faultless race leading from pole position to the chequered flag.
NICO Rosberg has now won five consecutive races in a row with last week’s race in the desert in Bahrain. He drove a faultless race leading from pole position to the chequered flag. Teammate Lewis Hamilton was not as lucky as he was punted by Valtteri Bottas who earned a drive-through penalty for the harm he caused. Hamilton did recover to a final third position behind the flying Finn Kimi Raikkonen who had also experienced a poor start but came back with a great charge in his Prancing Horse!
It was an eventful race with ever changing positions behind the leader. It was wonderful to see the resurgence of McLaren Honda. Both Jenson Button and Belgian, Stoffel van Doorne who was driving in place of a fast recovering Fernando Alonso, were competing well and van Doorne came home 10th in the points.
Daniel Ricciardo drove very well in his Red Bull Renault, often competing with the Toro Rosso Ferrari team of Max Verstappen.
Verstappen slipped back one position behind Romaine Grosjean who drove a fantastic race once again in the new Haas Ferrari. They were fifth and sixth respectively. The other Red Bull piloted by the rapid Russian, Daniil Kvyat also came from the back through the field to finish in a good seventh spot. Meanwhile the two Williams’ Mercedes cars of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas, after competing at the front, gradually slipped back to eight and ninth positions at the finish.
Sadly much of the race’s promise blew up in smoke when Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari broke its engine on the warm-up lap. Other cars not to finish included Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz, Haas’s Esteban Gutierrez, the other McLaren Honda of Jenson Button and Jolyon Palmer in the Renault.
We are still not happy with the qualifying format which I have said before is not spectator friendly .I hope and believe that they will change it soon.
The next race is two weeks away on April 17 at China’s Shanghai track at 7.30 in the morning.
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