Exciting race. Congtrats to Button. He drove like he wanted to win today. Not on cruise control.
He earned his position today.

Kimi is my favorite driver but today was not his best performance. He started 5th and ended 6th.
He made a fantastic start up until he tried to stick his nose in a hole that would never be there when he got it in. That was Webber he was trying to pass. Everyone on the grid knows that in a close call he is going to defend, block, chop, bump. Kimi would probably have finished on the podiim had he showed some patience.

Best drive goes to Kobayashi. Maybe Hamilton who came from 17th or 18th to take 3rd.
Kobayashi really empressed. First start ever and looked very good. Think Grosjean, Alquersauri, Badoer.

 

Kudos to Button and Hamilton.

Both had one hell of a drive......

 

this was probably my favorite race to watch all year. glad I tivo'd it so I can watch it another dozen times in the winter to see kobayashi, kimi, button, lewis, and vettel driving hard!

 

Anyone signed Kobayashi yet?
Diced with the veterans. Showed speed.

Did Hamilton really do 15th to 3rd.

And who'd guess Brawn went from there's no team couple months before race season to World Champions.


And someone keep Jenson off the Karaoke stage.
Be cool if someone puts the 5? passes from Jenson in this race on YouTube.

 

Awesome race! That's what I want to see in a F1 weekend. Both SV and JB were on their game, but DAMN, Lewis! Wow. Great to see these guys fighting for positions. That fireball around Kimi was cool too.

 

A great race and I am really pleased for Jenson. He really earned his points today.

What I really liked about this race was how many genuinely good drives were put in. Button, Vettel and Hamilton all put in great efforts to move up from the back of the field to the sharp end of the race and, as others have mentioned, Kobayashi made a great debut, especially considering he was not that highly rated based on GP2.

 

That was one of the more exciting races I've seen!!!

First off, Button raced to win the title. He didn't just drive. I couldn't believe I was seeing the same guy that was floudering around for 1/2 a season. He took so many chances, chances where he could have taken himself or had himself taken out with a DNF. Even Wayne has to give it up to Button for that drive.

Hamilton was quite impressive from the very back to podium and Kimi... I haven't seen this much fire (pardon the expression) from Kimi in a long time. The guy goes from P5 to almost P2, and I don't care what anyone says, Mark Webber moved over and pushed Kimi onto the grass causing carnage. Broken wing, flat tire, new wing, strayed with fuel from Heikki's car down pit lane, catches fire, eyes are burning from the gas inside his helmet, keeps going, finishes in the points for a team that just replaced him with Alonso. To the Kimster.

Kobyashi for a first drive EVER was really impressive.


BTW, it was mentioned casually in the broadcast and confirmed today on F1racing.net, but Toyota is in negociations with Kimi right now. Kimi and Kobyashi would fit in nicely at Toyota. Even temperaments. Still Vettel and Kimi would be better at Red Bull.

I don't know what it is about Rubens, but the guy had P1 carried it into the first set of pit stops and perhaps he had a bad set of tires because his first set he was at 1:13:9 and his 2nd set at 1:15:2, but with the super softs, he was just as slow. He had it to lose and he did.

 

I expect Webber to win.

 

http://www.kamui-kobayashi.com/

IIRC, very active in Japanese karting since the 80cc Cadet class.