That elusive first win for both Nico Rosberg and Mercedes AMG PETRONAS has arrived at 2012 Chinese GP. And it was achieved without weather or safety car intervention. People said Mercedes W03 is hard on tyres and will have difficulties in staying ahead even if started on pole. Eat your word people. Not only Rosberg is unchallenged pace-wise at the front, but W03 managed to make it work and stick only to 2 pitstops.
Speaking of pitstops, Rosberg team mate Michael Schumacher who was running second prior to his first pitstop, retired on lap 13 after the front right tyre was not properly secured during his stop. Jenson Button, who finished distance second was also delayed during his third pitstop. The pursuit ended there. Jenson and Lewis completed the podium, making it all Mercedes powered car on the podium.
To speak in term of Malaysia local content, PETRONAS involvement in F1 finally yield a win. And looking at PETRONAS adverts on TV, it can be seen clearly that they are banking a lot to F1 cars/team to make the advert more exciting. Well....
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Rosberg Mercedes 1h36:26.929 2. Button McLaren-Mercedes + 20.626 3. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes + 26.012 4. Webber Red Bull-Renault + 27.924 5. Vettel Red Bull-Renault + 30.483 6. Grosjean Lotus-Renault + 31.491 7. Senna Williams-Renault + 34.597 8. Maldonado Williams-Renault + 35.643 9. Alonso Ferrari + 37.256 10. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari + 38.720 11. Perez Sauber-Ferrari + 41.066 12. Di Resta Force India-Mercedes + 42.273 13. Massa Ferrari + 42.700 14. Raikkonen Lotus-Renault + 50.500 15. Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes + 51.200 16. Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 51.700 17. Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari + 1:03.100 18. Petrov Caterham-Renault + 1 lap 19. Glock Marussia-Cosworth + 1 lap 20. Pic Marussia-Cosworth + 1 lap 21. De la Rosa HRT-Cosworth + 1 lap 22. Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth + 2 laps 23. Kovalainen Caterham-Renault + 3 laps
After so much time Mercedes got the flag spot.And Michael got the 3rd position.This is a great news for Merc lovers.
ReplyDeleteI have some more updates for car lovers of India.
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Maruti Ertiga was recently unveiled by Maruti Suzuki India at the 11th Auto Expo and now this largest carmaker of the country is all geared up for the launch on 12th April 2012 in New Delhi.Maruti Ertiga price is in bracket of Rs. 7- Rs 9 lakh and is said to be competing neck-to-neck with the segment best selling cars Toyota Innova and Mahindra Xylo.