Where were you before ...

Tatyana Grushina

23 ноября 2015 year

Season-2015 championship, «Formula 1» is nearing completion. The last weekend in Brazil was held the penultimate stage. This year, sometimes strange things happen — today one of the «battle» stage last season, is traditionally deadly dull Hungarian Grand Prix, but the Brazilian Grand Prix turned out to be utterly insipid.
In the last race if replaced Rosberg — Mercedes driver first started winning one qualification after another, and then began to win. No, in 2015 he won in the past — in the first eight races of the German three times up to the top step of the podium, but now it was just an overwhelming advantage. But that's where he was before?
For some irony Rosberg started the second winning streak of the season immediately after his teammate Lewis Hamilton won the third title. The Briton became the champion of the US Grand Prix, and the German won the first victory after a long break at the next stage in Mexico.

In the first practice session of the Brazilian race, many teams, including Mercedes — parts and solutions with an eye on next season. The most significant innovation in the first practice session has been established at the Red Bull Daniel Riccardo — minders from Renault equipped his car with a new engine. But already since the second workout with all the teams for future work switched to the search settings and preparation for the race.
At the end of training to name the main favorite of the upcoming Grand Prix it was difficult — in three sessions, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were the best, but it turned out by 2: 1 in favor of the former. The remaining competitors were quite far away — the third time in all the training showed Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, but his best result was second in the 0,625 times worse than Hamilton.

The Briton was determined to give battle in qualifying his comrade-in-arms, and at first even succeeded — Lewis was the best in the first and second segments. But freshly baked «master qualifications» from Germany at the right time inflated rate, the fastest time in the final sector and for the fifth time in a row won the qualifying races.

Lewis Hamilton was second — Britain seems to be so upset that even ignored a photo session at the end of qualifying. The third time — in full accordance with the position in training — showed Sebastian Vettel.

In the first five appeared as two hot Finnish guy Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen — from them now waiting for a collision in each race. Nico, Daniil Kvyat, Felipe Massa, Daniel Riccardo and Max Verstappen rounded out the top ten.

However, Riccardo and Bottas got penalties — the first for the replacement of the engine, and the second on Friday for overtaking under red flags, so as a result of Bottas started the seventh, and Ricardo is only 19 m. Place the Australian in the top ten on the grid took Carlos Sainz.
Before the start of the race organizers had to arrange the funeral ceremony just two — first, during the traditional parade of pilots riders wore black armbands in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack that took place on the eve of France, and then on the starting line a minute of silence the victims of motor vehicle accidents.

The first problems arose among the participants before the start. Carlos Sainz, got into the top 10 thanks to a penalty by Daniel Riccardo, was unable to overcome even the formation lap! His Toro Rosso stopped on the track and had to be evacuated in the pit lane. Mechanics urgently revived the car, the Spaniard started from the pits, but immediately afterwards stopped again and was finally — Renault engine lost power.
But it is unlikely to greatly disturbed anyone except members of the team Toro Rosso and Carlos Sainz Sr., because at this point the rest of the peloton started the race!

The first turn Interlagos track more than once was the site of accidents — fortunately, this time nothing happened, all the participants were able to overcome it without any problems.
Winner of the pole position Nico Rosberg took the lead, Lewis Hamilton kept the second position — two Mercedes routinely settled at the head of the race, pilots Ferrari staked out a third and fourth place — Sebastian Vettel was ahead of Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas from seventh place broke the fifth. Actually this can finish the story about the top 5, because in that order Rosberg, Hamilton, Vettel, Raikkonen and Bottas drove the entire race from start to finish. Bored? And how! Kimi and Valtteri never even faced...

Events on the track was negligible — only overtaking and one small touch machines. By coincidence, the names of the pilots, it becomes a hindrance to the opponents were the same. First, opponents take turns catching up and ahead of Pastor Maldonado — he started on the rubber Medium, lose their effectiveness, but the team is not in a hurry to entice him into the pits. Then came the turn of the racers McLaren — or rather turn riders to overtake Button and Alonso. The short list «to overtake all» were even Sergio Perez and Felipe Nasr.

And just all the same Maldonado «lucky» — he clashed with Marcus Eriksson, brought the case to contact machines and the result was a five-second penalty vykinuvshy Venezuelan of the top-10 finish of the race.
However, the fate of the villain this time was favorable to the pastor and returned his one point for tenth place — Pilot Lotus for him to thank the members of the team Williams, overheated right rear tire of Felipe Massa. For this race after the Brazilian had been deprived of the eighth position and excluded from the results.

Nico Rosberg won a second victory in a row. A couple of weeks in Abu Dhabi will be held the final stage of «Formula 1». Curiously, there will continue its series of German victories in qualifying and the race, or whether it was an accident? Let's wait and see.