Monaco GP 2011 was absolutely beyond all excitement you can possibly imagine...! Sebastian Vettel said recently:" I´m not a god. I´m just a normal person." I agree with the first sentence but definitely not with the second one! I mean Monaco GP was really action-filled and somebody could say it took a bit of luck, too... But Sebastian´s performance was just mesmerising today, him taking his maiden win in Monaco!
Obviously Sebastian had a great start and managed to maintain his lead going to the first corner. Alonso in the 4th place took a perfect start aswell and passed Webber. Vettel´s pace looked very promising until he pitted the first time on lap 16. What happened at the pit stop? It seemed the tyres weren´t ready and it cost Vettel some crucial seconds before he got back to the track. And his team-mate suffered even more dearly at his pit stop! The team principal Horner stated there was some kind of a radio communication problem... Due to this pit stop incident Button managed to take the lead! Though Red Bull wasn´t the only team having problems at the pit stop. At this stage I was almost sure that Vettel had lost his chances to win the race...
The last 20 laps were hair-raisingly thrilling! Vettel had pitted only once, Alonso behind him twice and Button 3 times. It meant that Vettel´s tyres were the oldest and Button instead had the freshest tyres. They were all within a second from each other and every time the drivers came to the DRS zone I could hear my heart pounding... I was sure Alonso was going to try overtake Vettel and I was so afraid that he would crash Vettel´s car and destroy his race! But then there came the collision involving Adrian Sutil, Jaime Alguersuari; Lewis Hamilton and Vitali Petrov causing the red flag when there were only 6 laps to go.
And another injury following Perez´s crash yesterday! Vitali Petrov hit the barrier and couldn´t get out of his car without medical staff´s help. Luckily it´s been reported him getting only an ankle injury but still... These things shouldn´t happen!! But I was also so relieved that the red flag came out because it meant that Vettel was able to get fresh super soft tyres and at that point I was sure that either Alonso or Button couldn´t overtake the reigning world champion on the closing laps!
It took courage from the Red Bull team to make the decision to try the 1 stop strategy. Without the safety car and the red flag the battle for the win between the three rivals would have been absolutely thrilling and the outcome could have been different. But sometimes also a little luck is needed :)
I´m kind of running out of words when writing about Sebastian Vettel and his mesmerising performance... I guess 5 wins in 6 races and the 58-point lead says it all. But Sebastian Vettel being "just a normal person"... I don´t know about his private life but on the track he´s everything but "just a normal person"! His triumph on the track is purely amazing, undescribable really. And the way he´s able to maintain his concentration in difficult situations like the red flag incident yesterday at the qualifying and today after the collision... It´s something extraordinary.
I don´t get bored of seeing the young German winning race after race. I´m enjoying every second of those victorious moments! Seeing that finger and the wide smile on his face just makes my day!
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