FORMULA 1 - 2013

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Vettel worried about tyres

Sebastian Vettel fears Red Bull may not have "enough tyres to survive" Sunday's Malaysian GP after suffering severe degradation in practice.

Many teams suffered high degradation with their Pirelli tyres during Friday's running at the Sepang circuit - and Red Bull was one of those teams.

Putting in the laps during the afternoon's session, which he finished second quickest behind Kimi Raikkonen, Vettel was heard over the radio complaining of "vibrations" as ate into his tyres.

As such the reigning World Champion has concerns that Red Bull could run out of tyres during Sunday's grand prix.

"We'll see," he said when asked about his team's prospects for round two of the Championship.

"I hope we have enough tyres to survive the race, tyre wear was obviously quite big today for everyone.

"Tomorrow is a different day. There could be some rain, and you saw how quickly things can change. It's Malaysia.

"It's a different place, different tyres. Today tyre wear was pretty severe for everyone. It's not a lot of fun, but that's how it is, it's the same for everyone.

"We need to try a couple of things to make it better. We tried today. Hopefully we learned the right lessons and can make a step forward.

"This afternoon we couldn't do that much because of the weather, which was a little bit disappointing."

Meanwhile, his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber gave his thoughts on the tyre situation, saying Pirelli are dominating grand prix weekends.

"The whole category is geared around tyres at the moment," said the Aussie. "Everything is around tyres. Tyres, tyres, tyre, tyres, tyres..."

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Hamilton: No 2013 World title bid

Lewis Hamilton is optimistic that Mercedes will win at least one race this year, but he feels a challenge for the World Championship is out of their reach.

After impressing during winter testing, the Brackley squad made a reasonable start to the 2013 season at Albert Park in Australia last week with Hamilton qualifying third on the grid and finishing fifth.

Confidence is naturally growing, but the 2008 World Champion warns it's unlikely that they will be able to keep up with the likes of Red Bull, Ferrari and Lotus when it comes to winning the Championship.

"At the moment, in terms of pure performance we don't have the speed to compete for the World title," he told Press Association Sport.

"But I feel there is more in the car and if we set it up we can be quicker. Whether that means we can close the gap and get ahead of the others, who knows.

"I'm certainly thinking we could get one win, maybe more than one, but the other guys are going to make it as hard as they can that's for sure."

Australian GP winner Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest pace at Malaysia's Sepang International Circuit on Friday and Hamilton was ninth quickest overall, but he was the first to admit that he didn't get much joy out of either the medium and the hard Pirellis.

"It wasn't the best of days, but a work in progress," said Hamilton.

"I think we're strong on race pace, and the car is improving all the time, so I'm definitely satisfied with that.

"We're at least where we finished in the last race, but I think we can do better."

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Williams fail to make progress

Williams were disappointed after putting in another woeful performance during Friday's practice for the Malaysian GP.

The Grove-based team's season did not get off to a good start in Australia with Pastor Maldonado labelling his FW35 as "undriveable."

The Venezuelan driver, though, was confident that his team would fix their problems at Sepang, however, that was not to be.

Maldonado was down in 16th place at the end of Friday's practice, 2.2s off the pace, while his team-mate Valtteri Bottas was even edged by a Marussia.

"We haven't made the progress we had hoped for today," said technical director Mike Coughlan.

"We need to look at the data we have from both sessions to maximise the package we have."

Coughlan did not ssound hopeful of find a solution this weekend saying the team will "work on some improvements ahead of Shanghai."

Maldonado, though, is refusing to give up despite lacking pace.

"We didn't have the pace today unfortunately," he said. "We need to analyse the data tonight to see what we can do.

"We have a lot of work to do but we'll be pushing hard to see what we can achieve tomorrow."

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Button becomes a GPDA director replacing Massa

Jenson Button has become a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), replacing Felipe Massa.

The vote was taken in a meeting of drivers' body at Sepang on Friday.

Sebastian Vettel remains in his role as the other director alongside Button, while Pedro de la Rosa keeps the chairman's seat despite swapping his HRT race drive for a Ferrari development role.

"It's good for the GPDA as we have two world champions as directors now," de la Rosa said.

The GPDA also discussed the current issues over superlicence fees and penalty fines, and agreed to leave the matter with the FIA to resolve for now.

There had been surprise among GPDA members in Melbourne when drivers were fined for offences such as pitlane speeding, which the GPDA had believed would no longer be the case now that superlicence fees had been increased.

[LLC]

Not sure I've seen a more awkward post race ceremony in F1 than happened today.

[riazp]

Lol Gary i was thinking the same thing. Webber said the right things...he was honest but said it in a pc way. I think Webber got the short end of the stick...i think vettel went a-wall and did not follow team orders like rosberg did in the hamilton situation.

PIty about alonso. Should be a very interesting season

[LLC]

Lol Gary i was thinking the same thing. Webber said the right things...he was honest but said it in a pc way. I think Webber got the short end of the stick...i think vettel went a-wall and did not follow team orders like rosberg did in the hamilton situation.

PIty about alonso. Should be a very interesting season

Totally agree with your comments Riaz.

[poorman]

Yes. Awkward post race interview.

But strictly from a fans perspective, love it.

Hamilton going to the wrong pit, classic.

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Horner: Seb took it into his own hands

Red Bull claimed a 1-2 win in Malaysia, but the celebrations could hardly have been more muted after the race.

Sebastian Vettel, who started on pole position, won the race win with his team-mate Mark Webber being "forced to settle" for second place.

While Vettel will no doubt be happy to claim his first victory of the season and take the lead in the Championship, the post-race tension on the podium was clear for all to see as Webber felt he was robbed of the win.

The Australian led the race and was told to turn down his engine with the team assuring him he would get the win while Vettel in turn was ordered not to attack.

However, the German didn't listen to any orders and decided to go after Webber. The duo went side-by-side on the start-finish line with Vettel coming out on top.

Webber was not very happy after the race saying "Seb made his own decisions and will have protection as usual".

Team principal Christian Horner admits it didn't make for comfortable viewing on the side of the track.

"They took it into their own hands, which was uncomfortable for us - we gave them instructions to hold station but Sebastian took it into his own hands to win the race - he wanted to win," he told Sky Sports.

"They've raced each other hard before - they're very good drivers. There are points at stake and they both want to win. For the team it's hugely uncomfortable.

"It's difficult when you have two competitive drivers like ours. It's difficult to watch because you could end up giving up 43 points. You have to remember there's two elements to F1 - there's a Drivers' Championship and a Constructors' Championship."

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Vettel says sorry to Webber

Sebastian Vettel has apologised to his team-mate Mark Webber after he "robbed" him of victory at the Malaysia Grand Prix.

Webber appeared to be on course for the victory at Sepang International Circuit and he was told to turn his engine down by his team with more than 10 laps still to go while Vettel was ordered not to challenge for position.

However, triple World Champion Vettel ignored the calls from the pit wall and attacked the Australian for P1. They went side-by-side on the pitwall and nearly made contact, but the end result was Vettel overtaking his team-mate and going on to win the race.

Webber and team principal Christian Horner were not happy with Vettel after the race with the latter saying: "They took it into their own hands, which was uncomfortable for us - we gave them instructions to hold station but Sebastian took it into his own hands to win the race - he wanted to win."

Vettel, though, admits he got it wrong and apologised to Webber.

"I want to say sorry to Mark," he said. "I did a big mistake today.

"We should have stayed in the positions we were in. I didn't ignore it [the order] on purpose but I messed up in that situation.

"I took the lead from Mark, which I can see now he is upset about, but I want to be honest and stick to truth, and apologise.

"I took quite a lot of risk to pass him and I should have behaved better.

"It doesn't help his feelings right now. Apologies to Mark and now result is there, but all I can say is that I didn't do it deliberately."

MIKA: What a load of Bull S**t!

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Lewis: Nico should've been on the podium

Lewis Hamilton concedes his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg deserved to finish ahead of him at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The 28-year-old claimed the final podium position at the Sepang International Circuit with Rosberg finishing not too far behind him in fourth place.

However, the German wasn't too happy after the race as he was clearly quicker than Hamilton during the latter stages of the race, but the team ordered him to hold station until the chequered flag.

He asked the team quite a few times if he could pass Hamilton, but the answer from team principal Ross Brawn was "negative Nico, negative" while after the race Rosberg was heard saying "I hope you remember this one".

Hamilton admitted afterwards that Rosberg should've been the man on the podium.

"The team did a fantastic job if I am honest I really feel Nico should be standing here, he had a better race than me," he said. "I can't say it's the best feeling being up here but racing is racing."

Rosberg, meanwhile, was magnanimous after the dust had settled and didn't throw his toys out of the cot.

"It's a team effort and I respected the team's opinion," said the German.

"It was an important day. We've had such a tough time in past years, so to be third and fourth, and fighting the Red Bulls, is such a milestone.

"For the team to want us to bring it home third and fourth is fully understandable and I know if it had been the other way around they would've done the same thing.

"There will be times to fight between team-mates in the future."

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Webber: Seb will have protection as usual

There was acrimony on the Sepang GP podium as the Red Bull racers faced off with Mark Webber calling his team-mate a "quick peddler" who has the team's protection.

Webber had been on course for the victory in Malaysia after taking the lead off Sebastian Vettel on lap seven when the German pitted.

From there Webber maintained his advantage until the closing stages when Vettel caught up to him.

Battling for the lead, it was vicious and at times dangerous as the two team-mates touched before Vettel, who had earlier called Webber "slow", muscled his way through.

The reigning Champ went on to win the the grand prix by four seconds ahead of Webber, however, it was evident that all was not well as neither Christian Horner nor Adrian Newey, who was in the pre-podium room with his drivers, celebrated.

The two drivers also barely looked at each other but had to stand shoulder-to-shoulder on the podium and were sent back out when everyone tried to leave before the podium interview.

That was a frigid affair.

Speaking after his team-mate, who wanted to discuss the situation in "private", Webber started by saying that the "first part of the grand prix went very well for us.

"In the end we got the right strategy and after the last stop the team told me to turn the engine down."

Then the gloves came off.

Webber added: "In the end Seb made his own decisions today and will have protection as usual, and that's the way it goes", which hinted at the times Red Bull's powers-that-be have jumped to Vettel's defence.

"I turned my engine down and started cruising on the tyres, and then the fight was on and as we know he's a quick peddler.

"I was disappointed with the outcome of today's race."

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Ferrari: Alonso gamble backfired

Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali concedes the team's gamble to leave Fernando Alonso out longer with a damaged front wing at Sepang didn't pay off.

Alonso started the Malaysian Grand Prix third on the grid and he was able to challenge race leader Sebastian Vettel after the first corner, however, the two made contact at Turn 2 and the front wing of his F138 was damaged.

The team opted to keep him out on the track, but it wasn't too long before Mark Webber started to challenge him and the front wing gave way and became wedged underneath his car as the Red Bull driver overtook him.

The end result was Alonso sliding off the circuit and finishing his 200th grand prix without any points.

"We took a risk that didn't pay off," said Domenicali.

"After the touch, the race was not over and I considered the situation where there was a transition from wet to dry.

"In normal conditions you would come in, but in this transition, if you believe the wing can survive, you try and bide your time. You may have the chance to pit to change to the dry tyres and be the hero of the weekend.

"Unfortunately the wing didn't stay there."

There were suggestions that Alonso was the one who opted to stay out, but Domenicali insists the call came from the pitwall.

"The decision was from the pitwall," he added. "Obviously Fernando can feel it in the car, but he could not see the damage from his view.

"We take the responsibility as the team. The 'kiss' [on Vettel's car] was unfortunate because we could have taken good points from this race.

"Fernando's not happy to come away with zero points, but he's positive and looking forward because he knows we have something to play with."

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Sutil: Sepang promised so much

Force India were frustrated after recording a double DNF at the Malaysian GP as both cars suffered issues with their rear left wheel nuts.

Seeking to follow up his P7 from Australia with another top-ten result, Sutil had been looking strong around the Sepang circuit.

The German, though, lost ground on his rivals when a problem emerged with his rear left wheel, which his team struggled to change.

And with his team-mate Paul di Resta queueing up behind it went from bad to worse for Force India.

Sutil was able to rejoin the grand prix before the issue repeated later in the race and also befell his Scottish team-mate.

Di Resta was the first to call it quits with Sutil joining him in the garage five laps later.

"An early end to a race that promised so much for us," said the 30-year-old.

"Both cars had the same problem with the wheel nuts and it cost us a lot of time in the pits.

"We're not sure exactly what happened yet so the team stopped the cars to make sure we understand the issue.

"It's a shame that this happened here because we had a very quick car today and I felt very comfortable as the track dried out.

"We have to stay positive, keep our heads up and remember that there are plenty of races left where we can make up for the disappointment of today."

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Button: We could've pushed the Mercs

Jenson Button believes McLaren could have challenged the two Mercedes cars if his race wasn't ruined by a pitstop.

Starting Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix seventh on the grid, Button found himself in fifth place behind the two Red Bulls and two Mercedes cars for most of the afternoon.

However, all his hard work was undone when a mistake during his third stop saw him leave his pit box with his front right wheel not attached. He managed to rejoin the race after the mechanics pushed him back and attached the wheel, but he was way too far back to stand any chance of finishing in the top 10.

He eventually retired with three laps left as the team looked ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix.

Button, though, believes he had enough pace to give Lewis Hamilton and Rosberg, who finished third and fourth respectively, a run for their money during the latter stages of the grand prix.

"It's easy for me to say we would have been on the podium as we didn't finish and I am sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but I think we had a chance to fight with the Mercedes," he told Sky Sports F1.

"We had one less pitstop to do, but I don't know what would have happened, but I think at worst it would have been fifth. We could have pushed the Mercedes and they were fighting between themselves so it could have been interesting."

Although Button didn't pick up any points, it was a solid weekend for McLaren as they have improved in qualifying and in terms of race pace following their troubles in Australia last week.

"It is a good improvement over the last race just a week ago," he added. "We never thought we would be fighting for fifth, let alone a little bit better, so there are positives, but it is always very tough when you have an issue like this as it is a lot of points to throw away - even fifth is 10 points. So that is tough, but the positives are that we are improving and I can see that we will be even more competitive in China."

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Bernie considering Rio race

Rio de Janeiro could join the Formula One calendar after Bernie Ecclestone held talks with the city's mayor.

Rio last staged the Brazilian Grand Prix back in 1989 as the Jacarepaguá circuit played host during the 1980s before Formula One returned to the Interlagos circuit.

However, the city could make a comeback in 2016, the year Rio also stages the Olympic Games.

"The mayor has told me they can get it done," Ecclestone told the Mail on Sunday.

"I have been unhappy with Sao Paulo for a long time. It's a super race track, but the facilities need a big facelift.

"We could be there for Olympic year, but I know how hard it was for London to run just the Olympics."

[Reevzy]

That race was full of excitement but it all fizzled out at the end with the whole team orders crap.

They all work hard all week and race each other to the point where the race gets "called off" at the end.

I'm in two minds about it though, so I can't throw stones.

On one hand I just thought it was totally unfair on Rosberg to hang back behind Lewis who was clearly coasting,

and on the other hand, being a Webber fan, I'm dark on Vettel for disobeying team orders

Hats off to Lewis though for calling it how it was and admitting the place should have gone to Nico.

It was all about politics back in the day, Senna voiced his opinions on that, not much has changed over the years.

[ptrthgr8]

MIKA: What a load of Bull S**t!

Agreed. It's complete BS that the three-time defending champ should have to feel obligated to sit behind the #2 driver. Webber shouldn't be such a baby about it. He's known more for terrible starts than anything else. Webber should just be happy he's wearing the Reb Bull colors at all. Telling a world class driver like Vettel to not race is like telling the sun to not rise.

Cheers,

Greg

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Sauber: We are happy about this result

The Malaysian Grand Prix brought the first four points for the Sauber F1 Team in the second race of the new season. At the beginning the track in Sepang was wet, and all the drivers started the race on intermediate tyres. However, after only a few laps they changed to dry tyres. The race was extremely demanding for tyres and, as a result, the specators saw a lot of pit stops. Both Sauber F1 Team drivers changed tyres four times. Nico Hülkenberg finished eighth, Esteban Gutiérrez came in 12th.

Nico Hülkenberg: 8th Sauber C32-Ferrari (Chassis 01/Ferrari 056)

Start on intermediate tyres, after 7 and 21 laps change to medium tyres, after 34 and 44 laps change to hard tyres

“I feel quite well rewarded going home with four points after my first race of the season in a new team and with a new car. I am quite happy with how it went, especially at the start of the race when we were quite quick on the intermediates. But then I was stuck in traffic and couldn’t find my way past other drivers. I think eighth was well deserved, considering I had to fight and push a lot today. I think the potential is there, and now we have to work on a few details.”

Esteban Gutiérrez: 12th Sauber C32-Ferrari (Chassis 03/Ferrari 056)

Start on intermediate tyres, after 7 laps change to hard tyres, after 22 and 36 laps change to medium tyres, after 51 laps change to hard tyres

“P12 is an ok result, but Ideally we would have liked to finish in the points. At the end of the race we lost time because we stayed on the same set of tyres for too long. We tried to change the strategy and I did my best. That was all we could do at that stage. Overall the weekend is a step forward and we need to keep working and put everything together to achieve points.”

Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal:

“We are happy about this result, because we had an unexpected difficult weekend. However, we were able to improve step by step. We now have a better understanding of those areas in which we have to improve. This will help us to exploit the full potenial of the car.”

Tom McCullough, Head of Track Engineering:

“Both drivers handled the difficult intermediate condions at the beginning of the race well, and communicated well with the engineers on the pit wall to get the right tyres at the right time. It’s good to get the first points on the board. We’ve got a lot of good data to analyse, which will help us to be even stronger in Shanghai.”

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Lotus: It’s not been the best day for us

Romain Grosjean finished sixth and Kimi Räikkönen seventh in today’s Malaysian Grand Prix from the Sepang International Circuit.

A wet but rapidly drying track saw all competitors start on Pirelli’s intermediate tyres, with both Romain and Kimi moving to medium then hard compound dry tyres as the race progressed.

Kimi keeps up his run of consecutive points finishes but falls to second in the Drivers’ Championship, behind today’s race winner Sebastian Vettel. The team maintains second position in the Cosntructors’ Championship, with third placed Ferrari on an equal 40 points.

• Kimi and Romain both started on new intermediate wet tyres.
  
• Kimi pitted for new medium tyres on lap 6, scrubbed mediums on lap 19 then new hard tyres on lap 34.
  
• Romain pitted for new medium tyres on laps 7 and 20 then new hard tyres on lap 35.
  

Kimi Räikkönen, P7, E21-03

“Although the car felt very good on Friday, yesterday and today have been pretty difficult. Since Saturday morning it has not been behaving as we expected for some reason, especially in the wet where we really struggled for grip. It was a tough race and I lost part of my front wing at the start which didn’t help, but at least we scored a few points which is better than coming away with nothing. If we can get the car back to how it was in Australia then I’m sure we’ll be at the front again.”

Romain Grosjean, P6, E21-01

“I think we can be quite happy with the result today. It was a tough race, starting wet and finishing dry, but that’s what you expect in Malaysia. I spent a lot of time stuck behind Felipe [Massa] in the middle phase of the race and I’m sure if I could have passed him earlier then I would have stayed ahead, but by the end my tyres were finished so it was best just to let him through. It’s not the result we would have wanted at the beginning of the weekend, but at the end of the day it’s more points for the team and we’ll try to come back stronger in Shanghai.”

Eric Boullier, Team Principal

“It’s not been the best day for us, but when you take into account our qualifying positions and the difficult start for both drivers I think the points we take for sixth and seventh is a solid result. Unfortunately with the conditions today we didn’t see the full potential of the car, and the time we lost at the start was always going to be difficult to catch up. To finish within a reasonable distance of the leaders was a good effort from both drivers and also the team in terms of our strategy. With a normal weekend I’m sure we can expect some stronger results.”

James Allison, Technical Director

“This weekend feels like a case of what might have been. We had a car on Friday which looked extremely promising, but unfortunately that didn’t translate into the sort of result we’d expect. Qualifying tenth and eleventh – particularly in the wet – was not an ideal start, with the consequence that within seven laps we were around thirty seconds from the front. Our progress thereafter was actually quite respectable so it’s frustrating to have lost touch with the race at such an early stage, but I’m confident we’ll be delivering some stronger results in the coming races.”

Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader

“A double points finish today for the team after some good racing. Sepang is a hard challenge for the engines with high top speeds needed for the straights and low speed driveability for the hairpin turns, plus managing the fuel consumption is tricky considering the changeable weather. We moved to a second engine this weekend to give more flexibility later in the season – looking at how tight things are at the front having this margin could be useful later on.”

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Caterham: A fair reward for the efforts the whole team has put in

Team and drivers report from the Malaysian Grand Prix, Round 2 of the 2013 Formula 1 world championship, at Sepang International Circuit near Kuala Lumpur.

Charles Pic, car 20, chassis CT03-#6: “Off the line I had a great start and was up with Giedo for the first few laps while the track was wet enough for the inters. The team called me in to change onto the medium tyres for the first stint in the dry but as I was coming in to the box I saw Vergne being released right in front of me and I couldn’t avoid him as I was turning in and there was nothing I could do to avoid their mistake. The guys did a brilliant job to change the nose and the tyres and I was out again after losing about 25 seconds – that’s the sort of thing the pitcrew train for and it paid off in that first stop. It’s such a shame that incident happened as we could definitely have finished better if it hadn’t happened. It may have cost us a place and while that’s frustrating it’s also positive to see how well everyone reacted and to see that we didn’t stop pushing, on the pitwall or in the garage. We stopped another three times after that, going onto the hard compounds for two stints and the mediums for the last thirteen laps and the car felt pretty good throughout the whole race. I was able to push right to the flag and without the pitlane issue I’m sure the final result would look different.”

Giedo van der Garde, car 21, chassis CT03-#5: “I had a really good start, really strong and the car felt great on the inters for the first stint. Just when the conditions were going from wet to dry I heard over the radio that I had a front left puncture but it was exactly at the time we were coming in to switch to the dry tyres so it only cost me a little bit of time. I came back out on the mediums and was running well in 17th with really good balance. From there the race was ok. The rain that had been forecast didn’t come so we didn’t have another chance to show what we can do on the inters and that’s a shame as I’m definitely quick on those tyres, but the car felt much better on both the medium and the hard compounds we put on in the second and third stops than it had yesterday. I didn’t have the same oversteer problems I had in FP3 or qualifying but we still have work to do to reduce oversteer on entry into the corners and we’ll look at that again in China. We’re also going to work on improving our setup options for qualifying, maximising every run in the practice sessions to help us get the most out of the car on Saturday afternoons and that will definitely help us put in a stronger showing in quali. I also want to say what a good job the boys did in the stops. It was pretty tight with Chilton each time but I stayed ahead of him after good work on the pitwall and really strong work from the pitcrew. When we finished I thanked them on the radio, and after the race Tony Fernandes told the whole team how proud he was of the work he’d seen today in the stops. He’s right – the boys are pushing hard and it’s good to see the efforts we’re making in the car are the same across the whole team.”

Cyril Abiteboul, Team Principal: “Having both cars finish the first two races, including our home race in Malaysia, is a fair reward for the efforts the whole team has put in, considering where we are performance-wise at this stage of the season. Both drivers again had very good starts and they were running well for the first part of the race. The incident Charles was an innocent victim of in his first stop was a real shame as that seriously hit his chances of fighting against Bianchi, but the team reacted very well and I’m proud of the efforts everyone has put in here and in Melbourne, in races that we knew would be tough. Although the general reliability of the cars has been better than a number of bigger teams ahead, we’re still having to deal with a number of pretty intense situations that are affecting our ability to control the finer details of our races. This time we had issues with our intercom failing, which prevents communication between engineers, our telemetry froze at certain points and the timing software went down which meant we weren’t able to accurately map how the race was unfolding. These things go on behind the scenes and while they don’t directly affect the performance of the cars they don’t help, so we’ll make sure we have fixes for each of those in China. Overall, with the strategy we’ve employed for 2013 and in preparation for 2014 and beyond we knew the first few races of this season would be tough, but we’re not going to deviate from the plan. Even though we’re running a hybrid car for the first three races we’re still close to where we want to be and the updates we have coming will pay dividends. We have a long-term goal, one that is built around the whole group we are part of and one that is realistic, sustainable and which will see us right in the mix in the long run.”

[OZCUBAN]

Yes it was a exciting race ,until the very though.yes Mark and Nico were robbed ,you are right Mika vettel's apology was so hollow

And like you said complete bullshit .and like Mark said he will get protection.

It's a shame but more so for the sport that Marko prick should stay the f#%k out of the team running and decision making process.

The gloves will be off for he rest of the season

[CanuckSARTech]

Nascar fight! Nascar fight! Nascar fight!

LOL.

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Nascar fight! Nascar fight! Nascar fight!

LOL.

In this instance, I completely agree keith, NASCAR FIGHT!

[MIKA27]

Yes it was a exciting race ,until the very though.yes Mark and Nico were robbed ,you are right Mika vettel's apology was so hollow

And like you said complete bullshit .and like Mark said he will get protection.

It's a shame but more so for the sport that Marko prick should stay the f#%k out of the team running and decision making process.

The gloves will be off for he rest of the season

You watch, Webber knows this will be his last season with RBR, Helmut Marko despises Webber and after yesterday, Mark Webber will be out for blood. RBR sometime this season will rely on Webber to follow an order and Webber WILL ignore it.