Hamilton has been a bit unlucky the last few seasons really, a few car issues etc.
The race was pretty naff, unsurprisingly

I'd have an attitude like Hamilton's after all three pit screw-ups from the race. Unbelievable.

Yeah had a run of bad luck this year. However quite a few incidents last year with him bumping into other cars or changing racing line more than once which is just bad form.
 
Not saying he is the only one like this. Thought it was funny when Kimi was asked after the race if he was happy as this was his first time on the podium since 2009 and his reply was something like "No, I should have won!". Surely if he should have won then he would have won but he didnt, Vettel did! Doh!

That's Kimi!

So glad to have him back. Arrogant as hell but I love it.

DivaDan

That's Kimi!

So glad to have him back. Arrogant as hell but I love it.

 
Yeah, just a classical piece of the Raikonnen entusiasm there. That guy looks like his gran has just died even when he wins races :-D
 
But, It's still not sulky like Hamilton has seemed like for the 2 las seasons. He looks like a kid who has been told how fantastic he is for all his life, for the grow up and notise that there is people who can be better than him. Remember when he won everyting, then he got all the praise that Vettel gets now, he was good with the press, he was a great ambasador for the sport etc., and now, he get at lot of flac for how he handles media, and what he does of the racetrack. And, it seems like it gets into his head, and he dont know how to handle it, neither on or of the racetrack.
 
Kimi is just beeing Kimi, allways been the Iceman, allways will (or maybe, more the Icecreamman :-D)
 
Will bee interesting to see how well Vettel will handle media, and how media will treat him, if he don't do a great year this year (not that I'll put my money on that happening just yet...).
 
PS: I hope this was readable, since english is not my native language...

Vettel has a face like a smacked arse when things don't go his way(or get handed to him as it seems.) He always has to be right about everything. The karthikeyan thing was completely Vettels fault. Yet he was really critical of Karthikeyan's driving.

I genuinely despise Vettel.

DivaDan

Vettel has a face like a smacked arse when things don't go his way(or get handed to him as it seems.) He always has to be right about everything. The karthikeyan thing was completely Vettels fault. Yet he was really critical of Karthikeyan's driving.

I genuinely despise Vettel.

 
Agree on that one, but he still is media golden wonderboy, like Hamilton was when he was champion. Just wonder if /when media will turn against him. I've branded him as a sore loser who in his own eyes can't do anything wrong since the incident with Webber in Turkey a couple of years back.
 
PS: Since I ain't brittish, I'll just point out that I mostly watches BBC's F1 coverage, not norwegian (commentators are crap).

Aw I love Vettel haha!

Sazzarella
Not saying he is the only one like this. Thought it was funny when Kimi was asked after the race if he was happy as this was his first time on the podium since 2009 and his reply was something like "No, I should have won!". Surely if he should have won then he would have won but he didnt, Vettel did! Doh! 

 
That part had me totally cracking up!
 
I swear though, he makes me want to take a dull blade to my ears. So bland when he speaks. I do notice him blinking more, though. We made a game out of it in years past. It seems like he never blinked while giving the post race interview. lol. But yeah, his arrogance is amazingly funny.

He's just so, well, extremly finnish. If you take how we scandinavians look at our finnish brothers, and distill all the stereotypes, you'll end ut with Kimi (and a vodka bottle and a knife left over, never seen him with either...). We see the typical finn as a silent, dour person who never is quite happy with anything, and allways can se the negatives in any good situation
 
PS: To all you finns out here, I know you're not like that, I blame that image on finnish tv-dramas from the 80's.

He's blinking in Morse code! Haha.

And yeah he is very stereotypically Finnish. Like Mika Hakkinen when he just answered 'yes' to everything because he got bored. I do live the Finns. Mad men. Absolute mad men. Especially in rallying. Jesus.

Grönhol was just ace in rally GB some years ago, when he started to argue with the local police over the legality of driving a three wheeled car on public roads :-D
 
But, back to F1, anyone who dare to take a guess on this years world champion? My heart says Button or Webber, but my mind says Vettel or Hamilton, and since it looks like McLaren hos got quite a good package this year (if I see Bahrain as just a bad weekend for them), I'll go with Hamilton.

Button.

I reckon Hamilton feels under pressure after last year but I can see him leaving at the end of the season anyway...

Id say Vettel or Button. Im also hoping Di Resta does well cause he went to school with my bf

I'm hoping Di resta does well because he's a bloody good driver! He deserves to be up there. Wouldn't be surprised if he is mixing it up around 5th/6th a fair bit this season. Perhaps even a podium. Depends if the car will let him or if he can push for it. As long as he's consistent.

He was massively impressive last year, and has done a decent job so far this year, even if it seems like the car's not as good as it was last year. He's an interresting driver to watch out for in the future. Hopefully he'll go to one of the top teams soon, so we can really see where he stands.

Possibly a Mercedes next year if things go well.

Looking forward to Spain this weekend, forgot to put my pvr on record before work today, so are waiting for the training session now, and then I'll put the 'box on record for the rest of this weekends sessions, working 12h shift, so I'm unable to watch it live [:s]
 
So, who will you tip as the winner? I'll go with either Button or Raikkonen, they've both won in recent yers, and will be massively motivated after Bahrain. If I had to put money on one of them, it would be on Button.

I'm gonna say Alonso.

An ill go with Vettel haha. Is it on the BBC this weekend? I dont have fancy telly