Rosberg interrupted by a series of unsuccessful races and won? Too me the news. Hamilton did not win? Nonsense! Catastrophically bad race by Vettel? So what? Bottas and Raikkonen again divided highway? Funny, but the Russian fans upset quite another — Daniil Kvyat on the last lap lost «legitimate» podium. Here is a disappointment so upset...
Return Mexican Grand Prix in the calendar of the championship, «Formula 1» poured out for the teams and participants in a very difficult race. Law Code before the race was incredibly slippery asphalt, efficiency turbo engine and aerodynamic packages significantly decreased, difficulty cooling the brakes because of the thin air (during the free practice rear brakes on the Mercedes Rosberg just lit up) — all this added hassle riders before the start.
Despite the fact that the fight for the world title in 2015 ended with another previous race in the US — the victory of Lewis Hamilton at the Grand Prix Austin brought Briton third league title — the severity of the fight for the remaining places in the championship is not removed. Starting from the second place of the championship participants continue to fight hard.
And the main battle that awaited fans gathered at the renovated circuit behalf of Rodriguez brothers, was to be a duel of Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel — the two contenders for the vice-championship title at the end of 2015.
But a special fight did not happen — Seb ahead of Nico only in the first free practice session, and all other races predgonochnyh Ferrari driver was invariably behind, while the representative of Mercedes showed the best time in the second Friday practice and Saturday's races, as well as in qualifying.
Vettel finished the qualification only third, behind even Lewis Hamilton. The British tried to get involved in the fight for pole position, but Rosberg was unstoppable and the fourth time in a row won the first place on the grid.
But in the case of Nico pole does not guarantee him victory — on the contrary, starting from the first position in the three previous races, he always missed first place in the stage.
Fourth place at the start of a booked Daniil Kvyat. The Russian was the «best of the rest» — if the first three show the time in the range of 1 minute 20 seconds, Danya was the first one who did not get into this framework. His time in the third session was 1 minute 20.398 seconds.
His teammate Red Bull Racing Daniel Ricardo closed the top five, and apart from him in the top 10 were two Williams driver Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa, a spokesman Max Verstappen Toro Rosso and Force India duo of drivers Sergio Perez and Nico.
Fun fact — the pole position has won the driver who does not have yet a record championship titles in F1, but the last three positions on the grid went to exactly the world champions — punished by the loss of 15 seats for the replacement of engine and gearbox Fernando Alonso, received 35 penalty point for the new CAT and elements of the power plant Kimi and Jenson Button — he received 70 penal sites, but did not take part in qualifying due to problems with his McLaren-Honda, and therefore was allowed to start from last position decision.
Start Mexican Grand Prix was held almost without incident. Nico Rosberg took the lead, his teammate Lewis Hamilton secured the second position and the third place went... no, Sebastian Vettel and Russian Daniil Kvyat!
On the starting line Danya calm dealt with the four-time champion of the world, and then the other pilot of Red Bull Daniel Riccardo and does Vettel led from the struggle for leadership — in the crush in one of the turns on the first lap Ferrari and Red Bull Seb Dan touched. The impact was not very strong, but it was enough to drive the Germans turned a broken one of the rear wheels. While Sebastien limped to the boxes and changed the tire, the whole peloton went forward. And what is most offensive, judges no one was punished for the incident!
After the turmoil at the start of the race went on as usual. Two Mercedes went ahead — but it did not surprise anyone. Daniil Kvyat quietly went to third — the Russians took advantage of the fact that it ranks fourth fellow Red Bull Daniel Riccardo did not leave alone Valtteri Bottas, and went into the lead.
And the pilots Ferrari, the fans in Mexico, which turned out to be almost more than the fans of Sergio Perez, quickly and clearly to break up the tail of the peloton.
By 18 range launched penultimate Kimi Raikkonen came in seventh place. In turn, Sebastian Vettel from the last position rose to 11th place, but it launched. This led to the loss of several seats, but — far worse — as a result of the German departure «okvadratil» set of tires. This could not but affect the behavior of the machine...
After a few laps in one of the turns faced Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen. Two hot Finnish guy has not shared the track on the last lap of the Russian Grand Prix — then fought for a place on the podium pilot Williams remained in a chipper, and his counterpart reached the finish line. Now it was the turn for revenge.
But the culprit of the accident, rather, he is Kimi. He tried to «shut the gate», but Valtteri was on the inner radius. As a result, Bottas, who simply had nowhere to go, rushed into the rear right suspension Raikkonen machine literally blew it... and continued to move! But Ferrari another representative country Suomi remained on the sidelines.
Toward the close of the race pilots Mercedes once again drew attention to themselves. On lap 47 Rosberg drove into the pits to replace the tires. After this command is called in the released leaders Lewis Hamilton in the pit lane to perform a similar procedure, but the Briton said that he's all right — why would he call in?
The team continued to insist on his decision and eventually persuaded the Shrew champion — he was replaced by rubber, passing Rosberg back to the first position. After the race, the media broke the debate — many thought that Mercedes gave victory to the German, «sweeten the pill» after an unsuccessful season.
52 circle was the last Mexican Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel for the accident — well, did not go for a race, even cry. Another departure from the track ended the broken car and go.
This resulted in the departure of the safety car, and during the ensuing restart Valtteri Bottas managed to beat Daniil Kvyat in the fight for third place...
Nico Rosberg brought the Mexican Grand Prix to win, Lewis Hamilton finished second in two seconds behind, but one in Russia is excited? But what Kvyat has not been able to regain third place and finished fourth in the Mexican race two seconds behind Bottas — that's a shame.
But we will not be upset. The main thing that Danya ahead of his teammate Daniel Riccardo, and continues to hold the lead in the fight against vnutrikomandnoy. And this is very important!
The next stage of F1 — Brazilian Grand Prix — will be held on November 15 at the track of Sao Paulo.
