Alonso had everything against him in order to gain some points on Vettel today. He was lucky to walk off with 3 points with the luck Vettel had today.
Vettel comes in to change tires early because he made two stupid mistakes that took out his front wing, and right after he comes out there is a safety car basically allowing him to recuperate all the time lost having one extra tire change than everybody else.
And then another safety car which put him right on behind the leaders and with a fresh set of soft tires as opposed to the rest in front.
If you add to that all the mayhem in between with drivers knocking each other out of contention in between vettel and the lead... as unlucky as Vettel was in qualifying he got it all back and more during the race.
Alonso was fortunate to finish in front of the McLarens (Hamilton looked like he was easily walking away with this one until his engine said different) and RBR's with his Ferrari.
What I found amazing is his strategic skills during the race, while Vettel was attacking Button towards the end of the race, Alonso was comiunicating with his pit crew about distance with Button so that he could give him the <1sec gap in the DRS zones to Button to defend gainst Vettel on each lap.
Also very funny at the end when Vettel passed Button, how the Ferrai italian engineer told Alonso in the radio, he said in a anoyed voice in italian to Alosno "Button fell a sleep and Vettel passed him"
He won't give up though, he is 100% determined to win this year even if the odds are against him (inferior car and only two races left) he will try to keep the moral high in his team till the last race, you could see it in his body language in the podium today.
To bad about Hamilton, he deserved the win today. I have no words to describe Massa's incompetence and a second driver. And Grosjean already had another collision and almost took out Vettel defending his positiuon a bit too hard IMO considering, what is wrong with this guy? Vettel is fighting for the championship title and there are only two races left.
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