Sutil: "I Had Hamilton Under Control"

Barrister · 2010-04-05 10:16:52

I like the competition among friends. http://www.downforcemedia.com/photos/828255287_Tqd3z-X3.jpg Source: http://www.planet-f1.com/news/18227/6074291/Sutil-I-had-Hamilton-under-control.

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Apr 5, 2010 | 06:16 AM

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Sutil: "I Had Hamilton Under Control"

I like the competition among friends.

Source: http://www.planet-f1.com/news/18227/...-under-control.

Apr 5, 2010 | 08:02 AM

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I concur, good for Adrian

Apr 5, 2010 | 08:13 AM

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Adrian did drive one heck of a good race. He never made any mistakes and held his ground. If he'd been in a top tier car, he would've made the podium, I'm sure.

Apr 5, 2010 | 08:43 AM

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I think Sutil drove one heck of a race, but frankly I'm not sure him holding off Hami was his doing or the McLaren falling off at the end of the race. We saw Hamilton put on an F1 passing clinic the entire first half of the race (hell -- 10 spots in 3 laps!), then it seemed like he couldn't make it happen no matter what he tried.

Apr 5, 2010 | 05:01 PM

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Very good point but bear in mind that both cars run Mercedes engines so Lewis had to force an error to pass Adrian and to his credit(Sutil) didn't have any. Lewis was impressive and Sutil even more so for showing mental strength

Apr 5, 2010 | 06:00 PM

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Yep, no mistakes by Sutil = impossible for Hamilton to pass.. Identical engines.

Apr 5, 2010 | 09:28 PM

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More importantly than same engines is that Sutil was running less wing on his car so he had much higher straight line speed. Hamilton couldn't get near enough at the end of the straights to pass.