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The Indian Grand Prix(16th round of the 2013 Formula 1 World Championship)
Buddh International Circuit (25 – 26 and 27 October) The first edition of the Indian Grand Prix was held on October 2011 and on this track has always won Sebastian Vettel. The Indian Grand Prix will take a one-year pause in 2014, but could return in 2015, maybe in an early-season date (march or april). The track, designed by Hermann Tilke, has two long straights followed by slow corners. A high top speed is important along the very long back straight, but there is also the need for good traction out of second-gear corners. Then, in the second and third sector, there is a wide range of corner types, including an interesting multiple-apex right-hander (Curves n. 10 and 11) with a profile similar to Turn n. 8 at Istanbul Otodrom (Turkey). The track has a width up to 20 metres in some areas and a lot of ups and downs. The asphalt is smooth and tyre degradation is low. Last year the winning strategy was: only one pit-stop, but with different tyre compound(hard and soft). This year Pirelli has gone for a slightly more aggressive choice and is expected a strategy on two pit stops. They will bring medium compound (white stripe) and, soft compound (yellow stripe), the same combination used in 2013 at Shanghai, Nurburgring and Hungaroring. Obviously at Buddh Circuit, there will be two DRS zones along the main straights. Winners, Podium and pole position. This year will be the 3° edition 2011: 1° Vettel – Red Bull (2° Button and 3° Alonso) – fastest lap: Vettel – pole: Vettel, time 1m 24.178 2012: 1° Vettel – Red Bull (2° Alonso and 3° Webber) – fastest lap: Button – pole: Vettel, time 1m 25.283 The stats of this season(2013) after 15 races. Winners: Vettel(9) Alonso and Rosberg(2); Raikkonen and Hamilton (1) Second place: Raikkonen(6) Alonso(5); Webber(3); Vettel(1). Never a Mercedes driver in second place until now. Third place: Hamilton and Grosjean(4) Vettel and Webber(2); Raikkonen, Alonso and Massa(1) Total Podium: Vettel(12); Alonso and Raikkonen(8); Hamilton and Webber(5); Grosjean(4); Rosberg (2); Massa(1). Pole position: Vettel (6) – Hamilton (5) – Rosberg (3) – Webber(1) - Vettel has won the last five Grand Prix. Only Ascari and Schumacher have a longer series of consecutive wins (seven for both) in the history of F1 World Championship |
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Toro Rosso team announced yesterday that Russian driver Daniil Kvyat, 19 y.o., will replace Daniel Ricciardo
next year and his team mate will be Jean Eric Vergne. |
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gp india last year podium
1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:31:10.744 2 Fernando Alonso Ferrari +9.4 secs 5 3 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault +13.2 secs pole Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:25.283 |
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I agree with you kyke but at least Red Bull stopped Webber only because Vettel is going to win the Championship title, i think it's worse what Ferrari did with Massa from the first race of the season when he must let Alonso passing him every time.
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Today in Network Bull they have demonstrated that they did not want that Webber was winning today.
It was clear that the strategy of three stops was harmful to him and was benefiting Vettel. Vettel, does not need helps like that to win the championship. For me, it is shameful what they have done. |
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Result of the race :
1. Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Racing 2. Mark Webber -Red Bull Racing 3. Romain Grosjean - Lotus 4. Fernando Alonso - Ferrari 5. Kimi Räikkönen - Lotus 6. Nico Hulkenberg - Sauber 7. Esteban Gutierrez - Sauber 8. Nico Rosberg - Mercedes GP 9. Jenson Button - McLaren 10. Felipe Massa - Ferrari 11. Paul di Resta - Force India 12. Jean-Eric Vergne - Toro Rosso 13. Daniel Ricciardo - Toro Rosso 14. Adrian Sutil - Force India 15. Sergio Perez - McLaren 16. Pastor Maldonado - Williams 17. Valtteri Bottas - Williams 18. Charles Pic - Caterham 19. Max Chilton - Marussia F1 Team Did Not Finish : 20. Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes GP 21. Giedo van der Garde - Caterham 22. Jules Bianchi - Marussia F1 Team Fastest Lap : Mark Webber - 1:34.587 Pitstop Valt. Bottas : 2 ( lap 8 + lap 27 ) Bat . 2 Team : Nico Rosberg > Felipe Massa Grid Pos. Max Chilton: 19th place Sebastian Vettel defeats Mark Webber and Romain Grosjean : Sebastian Vettel clinched his fifth consecutive Formula 1 victory as differing strategies produced a thrilling climax to a three-way fight for Japanese Grand Prix honours at Suzuka. Polesitter Mark Webber passed Romain Grosjean late on to secure a Red Bull one-two, but fell seven seconds short of denying Vettel and securing what would have been a first victory of his farewell F1 campaign. Fernando Alonso meanwhile finished fourth, ensuring that Vettel must wait until India at least to be crowned a four-time champion. It was Grosjean's Lotus that captured the lead at the start, jumping from fourth into the lead as both Red Bulls got poor starts. The Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton also got the jump on the Red Bulls, but as he squeezed in between the two RB9s he and Vettel brushed, puncturing Hamilton's rear right and causing floor damage which would ultimately lead to his retirement after just nine laps. In the background, Giedo van der Garde and Jules Bianchi collided at Turn 1, with the incident set to be reviewed after the race. For the first half of the race Grosjean was able to maintain his advantage over Webber and Vettel, with the trio easing away from a chasing pack led by Nico Rosberg and the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso. The group lost massive time through the first round of stops when Daniel Ricciardo, who started on the hard compound and ran a deep first stint, managed to jump into fourth and hold a string of quicker cars at bay for several laps. It was Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg - who jumped the Ferraris through the first round of stops - who eventually managed to break Ricciardo's resistance, but by then the top three were 27 seconds down the road and out of touch. That allowed Vettel, Grosjean and Webber to adopt wildly different strategies, with the latter opting for a three-stop plan in contrast to the two-stops of Vettel and Grosjean. Webber therefore held track position heading into the final 10 laps, while Vettel was able to go far deeper than Grosjean in his middle stint, and therefore had much fresher tyres on which to close a two-second deficit to the Lotus man. The crucial pass came on lap 41 when Vettel attacked at Casio and then dived down Grosjean's inside at Turn 1 for second. With Webber pitting one lap later, Vettel duly hit the front and was able to cruise home to extend his winning streak. That he did so owed much to Grosjean however, whose spirited defence kept Webber - now on the option tyre for a final 10-lap charge - at bay until the final laps, when Webber picked him off at Turn 1 to secure second. Behind, Alonso executed a great pass around the outside of Hulkenberg heading into Turn 1 to clinch fourth and keep the title race technically open. Kimi Raikkonen also picked off Hulkenberg's Sauber to seal fifth ahead of the German. Esteban Gutierrez held on to deny Rosberg - hit by a drive-through penalty for an unsafe pit release - in a fight for seventh, while Jenson Button and Felipe Massa rounded out the top 10. Massa also had to fight back from a drive-through for speeding in the pitlane, although his cause was also aided when Sergio Perez and Rosberg collided while fighting for 10th, sending the former to the pits with damage. Paul di Resta beat Jean-Eric Vergne to 11th, while a third drive-through - this time for Ricciardo after he went off-track passing di Resta at 130R - meant the Australian was restricted to 13th ahead of Adrian Sutil, Perez and the Williams of Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas. Kind Regards Shaky-Schumi |
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2013 FORMULA 1 AIRTEL INDIAN GRAND PRIX
[hidden link - please register] Fri 25 October 2013 Practice 1 06:30 - 08:00 Practice 2 10:30 - 12:00 Sat 26 October 2013 Practice 3 07:30 - 08:30 Qualifying 10:30 Sun 27 October 2013 Race 10:30 |
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drivers standings
1 Sebastian Vettel German Red Bull Racing-Renault 297 2 Fernando Alonso Spanish Ferrari 207 3 Kimi Räikkönen Finnish Lotus-Renault 177 4 Lewis Hamilton British Mercedes 161 5 Mark Webber Australian Red Bull Racing-Renault 148 6 Nico Rosberg German Mercedes 126 7 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 90 8 Romain Grosjean French Lotus-Renault 87 9 Jenson Button British McLaren-Mercedes 60 10 Nico Hulkenberg German Sauber-Ferrari 39 11 Paul di Resta British Force India-Mercedes 36 12 Adrian Sutil German Force India-Mercedes 26 13 Sergio Perez Mexican McLaren-Mercedes 23 14 Daniel Ricciardo Australian STR-Ferrari 18 15 Jean-Eric Vergne French STR-Ferrari 13 16 Esteban Gutierrez Mexican Sauber-Ferrari 6 17 Pastor Maldonado Venezuelan Williams-Renault 1 18 Valtteri Bottas Finnish Williams-Renault 0 19 Jules Bianchi French Marussia-Cosworth 0 20 Charles Pic French Caterham-Renault 0 21 Giedo van der Garde Dutch Caterham-Renault 0 22 Max Chilton British Marussia-Cosworth 0 |
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constructors standings
1 Red Bull Racing-Renault 445 2 Ferrari 297 3 Mercedes 287 4 Lotus-Renault 264 5 McLaren-Mercedes 83 6 Force India-Mercedes 62 7 Sauber-Ferrari 45 8 STR-Ferrari 31 9 Williams-Renault 1 10 Marussia-Cosworth 0 11 Caterham-Renault 0 |
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2013 FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
1 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 53 Winner 2 25 2 2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 53 +7.1 secs 1 18 3 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 53 +9.9 secs 4 15 4 3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 53 +45.6 secs 8 12 5 7 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 53 +47.3 secs 9 10 6 11 Nico Hulkenberg Sauber-Ferrari 53 +51.6 secs 7 8 7 12 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 53 +71.6 secs 14 6 8 9 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 53 +72.0 secs 6 4 9 5 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 53 +80.8 secs 10 2 10 4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 53 +89.2 secs 5 1 11 14 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 53 +98.5 secs 12 12 18 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Ferrari 52 +1 Lap 17 13 19 Daniel Ricciardo STR-Ferrari 52 +1 Lap 16 14 15 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 52 +1 Lap 22 15 6 Sergio Perez McLaren-Mercedes 52 +1 Lap 11 16 16 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 52 +1 Lap 15 17 17 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Renault 52 +1 Lap 13 18 20 Charles Pic Caterham-Renault 52 +1 Lap 20 19 23 Max Chilton Marussia-Cosworth 52 +1 Lap 18 Ret 10 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 7 +46 Laps 3 Ret 21 Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault 0 Accident 19 Ret 22 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Cosworth 0 Accident 21 Note - Bianchi and Pic qualified 22nd and 20th respectively, but have 10-place grid penalties after accumulating three stewards' reprimands. Sutil qualified 17th but has 5-place penalty for a gearbox change |
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