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Did feel like I was watching a race in about 1974 during that whole escapade.

8.
Very good, one of the best Hungarian GPs in last years.

I kind of like the clean racing. With the various pit/tire strategies being used this year, I think it adds enough excitement. This was even more true this week as a drying racetrack also added to the drama. I give it a 9 for good racing throughout the day, some mistakes and drama, and a welcome winner, if not predictable given the circumstances.

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I wrote the comment before the interview.
I still think that Hamilton needs to grow up in his head, you can't assume, after one interview where he apologised, that he suddenly got mature.
Also, he did screw up his own race by spinning and then acting like an idiot in front of Di Resta.

That amateur video of Heidfeld's car burning is quite amazing.
What's more amazing is the total lack of competence coming from Charlie Whiting who decides to bring a safety car out when it's not always justified and who, on this very dangerous situation, didn't seem to worry about the marshalls' safety (who had to extinghuish the fire, clean the track and get rid of the car)
Just like Bernie, Whiting is getting old, it's really time to let someone else younger take over.

Apparently he was hit up the arse which upset the balance for the rest of the race. That being said Ricciardo is improving all the time and seems to be within a tenth or so on raw pace now, pretty good effort! He passed Luizzi on track during the race as well, must have felt good.

I understand the remark about so little retirements. It seems the smaller teams will never be able to get any points. Drivers can make mistakes with the run off areas, the cars (engines) are way too reliable.

Maybe Charlie has something against the Safety Car this year, because IIRC we've only had it deployed in 2 races (Monaco & Canada).

I don't know how long it'll be before someone gets hurt because we had a car exploding and a car spinning in the pits.

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A 9,because i didnt see much of the race on my job,but the parts i saw it it was exceptional. But a bit more drama in case of collisions and crashes,like in Canada,would be ideal.

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Considering its a HRT, a collision should have probably improved the balance :P

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Liuzzi lost 13 seconds after lap 1 but Ricciardo did end up beating him by like 40-50 seconds, but add an extra pit stop to Liuzzi. FP3 he was almost 0.8 faster, in qualifying Liuzzi nailed in the lap on the very last of his efforts and managed to beat Ricciardo by 0.1. Ricciardo has been quite solid no doubt. Hes progressed everytime hes been in the car and I think now he can properly challenge Liuzzi, and will probably start beating him more often than not if it's only taken him 2-3 races. Hes just got to get used to everything in F1 like the tyres, DRS, KERS and being in HRT dealing with traffic where racing at the back you can lose lots of time which hes never done before until F1 since hes always been in the winning end in junior categories. I think im correct saying hes never spun an F1 car too? STR and HRT he hasn't from what i've seen but could be wrong. That's quite a good stat if true haha.

No zero votings this time...

Why HAM didnt get penalty in GP2 back in 2006 when he spun on 2nd lap of turkey race (u know the race where he made a great comeback to finish 2nd) and there were more than just 1 car coming to him and he was spinning around. But times have changed..

7. Not bad at all.

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Actually, now that I watched it again, Lewis blocked the racing line after his spin and made room by his move. When he made the U-turn he cleared the racing line and di Resta played it safe and threw himself off the track.

Plus di Resta had no idea Hamilton would be able to spin the car around in such a tight space. For all Paul knew, Hamilton could've skidded right into his path by applying a tad too much throttle. And that would've made for a scary accident at that angle.

Apparently there was no SC for Heidfeld's incident as deploying the SC would have resulted in more cars exiting the pitlane, closer to the incident.

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Closing the pitlane for a couple of laps, while under Safety Car, to let the marshalls do their job in safe conditions would have been possible, especially since there was no chance for any of the cars to run out of fuel. So, whoever made this declaration isn't really credible, in my opinion.

sure! but unfortunately i am not at home now (holiday) so you need to wait for it a bit

Yeah, that requires a SC by today's standards. Though I loved how the whole event had that refreshing old-school look to it.