sgd wrote:Wow look what I've found here:http://www.planetf1.com/features/race_f ... 9635.shtml
Overtaking Move Of The Race
Lap 71 Nick Heidfeld, BMW-Williams on Alonso
Considering Monaco is a place where you can?t overtake Nick made the most superb overtaking move coming out of the tunnel to get past Alonso.
Television cameras tend to straighten out the road there which curves down to the chicane, but Nick spotted his moment and came very late up the inside of Alonso ? who is NOT an easy man to overtake.
When Heidfeld made the lunge, you felt certain that he hadn?t left enough braking distance and that the BMW-Williams would go sliding, slithering on over the chicane. In fact he got the car stopped and turned in neatly ? it was a beautiful thing to watch. Textbook.
you read that??? TEXTBOOK!! and how was looking at that from just behind???
Notice they say nothing about the slower car! Nick put his move down to Alonso being distracted by it. I prefer to go by his version of events
As well, Alonso was wiser after Nick got him, and positioned his car differently. Basically he was "blocking". In a lot of other types of competitve motor racing, he would have been shown the "Bad Sportsmanship" flag. If then he had not moved over, he would have been served with a drive thru penalty
SGD, my modest attempts on race tracks have shown me it is not possible to conserve tyres and engine when pressuring closely, as Webber was. You are unsighted for the apexes, you have to brake harder, and in different places than you would normally, these cars are less stable in the slipstream, so wear the tyres more, the engine is getting cooked by the superhot air from the car in front. Nick drove a good sensible race, sitting in the box seat, and letting Mark do the work on Alonso. Had their positions been reversed, and Nick had to do the job on Alonso, their podiums would have been reversed...QED
