All European races start at 8am here

I agree with ellis. He says Massa outclassed Alonso until that point. Alonso's pace was fantastic towards the end, but Massa was great throughout most of the weekend. There's no argument there.

Being great is one thing, outclassing is another.

Someone who really outclassed his teammate is Kimi.

All European races finish at midnight Sunday night. All American races are 4-6am Monday mornings. Europeans can never complain about early starts.

And don't get me started about those who were complaining about the early start in Europe.

Hehe yeah of all the places to live for F1, NZ wold have to be one of the worst!

Kimis team mate had 2 laps to setup his car with parts they fitted that morning. It is pretty unfair to judge Grosjean on that one.

And yeah I'd say Massa outclassed Alonso this week. He spent the entire weekend ahead of Alonso until that ridiculous strategy call screwed him.

So Lotus was giving away these
wants

9am here. Meanwhile, Australian GP used to be at midnight from Sat to Sun, what used to be an awesome time. Now it's 3 AM, what is awful.

lol Alonso didn't "take a gamble" or risk on strategy. They did the classic undercut. They pitted him early to give him fresh boots to get him ahead of Vettel and it worked perfectly. It's an old school tried and tested move. We then heard Massa on the radio asking to stay out and clearly they were going to try and move stops, but they pitted him a couple of laps later, to which Brundle said was pointless because it was neither 2 stop or 3 stop optimal..it was just no mans land useless strategy. It was a shocking decision, and Ted also said in his note book afterwards it was pretty clear what they'd done.

Either Ferrari made a decision so monumentally stupid that a brain dead monkey would've been confused by it, or they preferred Alonso and wanted to leap him ahead. In reality they could've pitted Massa first, Alonso straight afterwards and had both Ferraris ahead of Vettel. But they chose Alonso, and Massa comes out second best despite out classing Alonso all weekend until that point.

ISutil should've been pitted later, to give him less time on the super softs.
di Resta was stuck on the super softs in the first stint. But the only reason he was on them is because he was in Q3. He is in a FI, he is always going to be 8th at best. You might as well put him on mediums, the optimum strategy, and have him start 10th, but have a far better chance of making up the spots later. Both FI drivers drove very very well and got points despite the poor strategy.

Look at the strategy break down on that page. How is it the "classic undercut", it was nowhere near the optimum time to pit, he took himself out of sync because he was being held up. He hampered the ideal 3 stop strategy to even pit.

Yes because everything Ted says is gospel? There have been numerous occasions where he's reported something which is incorrect, that was simply his own opinion of things.

Given they knew the supersoft tyres would not last it was ideal to just get them out of the way as soon as possible rather than do Sutil's strategy. Particularly if you qualify in the top ten. Get them out of the way after a handful of laps and spend the majority of the race on best rubber. The race winner used the same strategy, the only difference is the pace of the cars.

Sutil was so far ahead due to a great start and not losing too much time making his way through the field. Given how little time [FP2 only] they had to test long run pace I doubt they knew which strategy was going to be the best. Hedging their bets and splitting it in midfidl was the best decision all things considered.