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I know conspriacy theories are fun and all that, but poor starts have been a recurring challenge for Webber throughout his career. You can be sure he would be speaking up if the team were manipulating things.

Flying Finn

What a ****hole that place is...
Hammy didn't have a good race but then to have piece of facilities get stuck in your car...
Otherwise too, dead grass, ****ty astro turf, sand and in the middle of nowhere and even though is pretty good fir the drivers, boring for fanszzzz...

And great example of everyone driving the pace to keep the tires...

Good drive from RB, F guys (Massa especially, was faster than Fernando), Kimi although for all of them, not much happening. Hulk was the one who had a great drive and also Toro Rosso guys.

And Kobayashi, what a tool... Where is his penalty (other than driver through)? That was pretty poor from him and not the first time.

agdamis

Let's see what Ferrari can muster for the last four races. It took him a bit but Mr. Newey has made an unstoppable car again.

consolidated

The plastic turf hanging onto a McLaren made this track look worse than a club race, reminds of a LeMons event.

If anyone wants to see how to run a team they only have to look at Red Bull, certainly not the fastest car in the first half of the season, they made up ground every step of the season.

Given how the Mercs did this weekend, Hamilton is REALLY going to get his wish to help develop a car and build a team.

Very nice to see Massa hounding the Golden One, radio transmission was the right call but nonetheless priceless "your too close to Alonso, back off a second or more".

Eifeler

Seemed like Massa would slow for a couple laps so as not to frighten Alonso, then lay down a real lap to make sure everyone knew what was up (even without hearing pit comm).

333pg333

They told Massa to drop back from Alonso. You heard it on the coverage.

9.5 Degrees

Why are we racing in Korea? What a horrible track and facilities. The pit entry is dangerous and that was established in year one. Here we are in year 3 and it's still the same - blind corner leading onto the front straight and across pit entry line... no excuse.

Astroturf being torn up and hanging from cars, dirty, dirty air quality similar to China. No one in the stands - why are they racing here?? No one in Korea cares about F1.

Back to the race, RBR isn't going to be caught now.

PS: Too bumpy, not enough run off room and too many walls for a track in the middle of nowhere. I could go on

consolidated

Astroturf was a sad end to Hamilton's championship hopes. He had a broken sway bar, hence the accelerated tire wear and backward march thru the pack.

morganabowen

Congratulations to Red Bull, with their one two finish. We all knew that if Vettel got a good start it was going to be very hard to catch him without a DNF. The Ferraris looked good but not enough to catch or pass the Red Bulls. Mostly, I feel for Hamilton, with all the trouble he had, not to ignore the astro turf draging on the side of his car. With four races left, Red Bull is at the top of their game, I suspect that Seb will be the favorite to be a three time WDC.

multi21

The only way Alonso can with the WDC now is if Koby, Maldonado or Grojean start the race directly behind Vettel.....

My993C2

Ferrari is doing something right, as they have clearly developed a good car taking over 2nd place in the Constructor's Championship from McLaren. But Adrian Newey has to rank up there as one of the most brilliant people who has ever worked in F1. He continues to find new ways to make his designs the class of the field.

On a different front I see Kobayashi has taken over this week from Grosjean and Maldonado as F1's bad boy. Unfortunate to go one week from being a favorite on the podium to the next week being "An Idiot" in Button's words. I guess that is what happens when you are taking chances racing for your career. These younger drivers to need to watch guys like Raikkonen. Kimi is a hard racer, but he knows when to go for it and when to hold back. The Iceman could have easily tangled with Hamilton, but he correctly backed down and chose a different moment to make his move. Maldonado will be in F1 next year thanks to the money he brings to Williams, and I suspect that as long as Grosjean can keep his nose clean for the rest of the season he will be back as well. But this year could be it for Kobayashi. Time will tell I guess.

Finally my surprise result of the race was how well both Toro Rosso cars did. I am guessing Red Bull threw them a few bones, but not too many bones.

mklaskin

Grosjean staying at Renault in 2013 (I'm not sure Webber isn't 50% to blame for the Japan incident anyway...).

http://www.motorsport.com/#!/f1/news...2013-boullier/

Was it me, or did there seem to a really, really, bad haze or smog layer at Korea?

Bob Rouleau

Dis anyone notice that the guy waving the Checkered flag was PSY (Gangnam style artist)?

Eifeler

Commentator's on Speed pointed it out.

Bob Rouleau

^ I was watching another feed and it wasn't mentioned. Thanks.