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Port Elizabeth Express: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Majestic Maldonado lifts Williams TALKING F1
BY NATALIE LE CLUE
IN 1983 Swatch introduce their first watches, Microsoft Word makes its debut and five different drivers win the first five races of the Formula 1 season. Coincidentally, the fifth driver to win in the 1983 season was Keke Rosberg for Williams. It wasn’t too long ago that the future of the Williams team looked dire and where the next points were going to come from was as big a mystery to them as to everyone else. But what a difference a year can make! Not since the final race of the 2004 season had Williams tasted victory and after a torrid 2011 it seemed unlikely they would ever again but, as the saying goes “form is temporary; class is permanent.” They toiled away in the Grove-based factory under the leadership of Sir Frank Williams and in 2012 delivered an exciting car with great raw pace. Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado had only started 23 F1 races before yesterday’s Spanish GP but no amount of inexperience was ever going to
hamper what would turn out to be one of the most popular wins in the F1 paddock for some time. Maldonado, having inherited pole from the penalised Hamilton, didn’t quite lead into the first corner; but he kept his cool and bided his time. It was local hero, Fernando Alonso, who swept into the lead just as he had done twelve months earlier in front of his passionate supporters. Alonso controlled the race from the front; but no matter what the Spaniard did, it was matched by Maldonado. Before long the Williams driver seized the lead of the race and controlled it with all the guise and skill of a multiple Grand Prix winner. Seemingly under no pressure at all, Maldonado reached the chequered flag at the end of the 66 laps to become the fifth different winner this season. Ferrari’s determined push has paid off with an improvement in pace; both their one-lap qualifying pace and race pace are progressing in the right direction and with Fernando Alonso they are able to exploit it to the maximum. The expectation was for a strong performance from the Lotus team. Coupled with their starting positions it seemed their best chance yet to take their first victory. However, a lack of pace in the opening stage of the race and sub-standard work in the pitlane meant that Kimi Raikkonen was left twenty seconds adrift after the final round of pitstops. Raikkonen managed to reduce the gap to second-placed man, Alonso, to a mere seven-tenths of a second by the final lap of the race; but the
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challenge came too late from the Finnish driver. Third was still a good haul of points for Raikkonen and Lotus; but the feeling is that the decision- making on the pitwall has to be significantly sharper if they want to be operating at the sharp-end more often. What’s more, Lotus has done little to improve their pitstops since the Chinese GP and are currently giving away close to two seconds to their rivals. Raikkonen was followed home by teammate, Romain Grosjean, in fourth place. Kamui Kobayashi lived up to his fearless reputation as he dived past several cars to earn himself an impressive fifth-place finish. Elsewhere the so-called championship contenders had a relatively quiet day at the office. Reigning champion, Vettel, fought his way through the field after incurring a drive-through penalty for failing to reduce his speed under yellow flags; nevertheless the German fought his way back to finish sixth ultimately. Nico Rosberg managed seventh place while teammate, Schumacher, ran into the back of Bruno Senna going into turn one and earned himself a five-place grid penalty for the Monaco GP. Lewis Hamilton managed to stage a comeback from his qualifying penalty and wrapped up eighth ahead of teammate, Button, and Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg. There are some who believe there is no place for fairytales in Formula 1; but not even they would begrudge Williams, one of the historically great F1 teams, this wonderful victory and this most fitting 70th birthday present to Sir Frank.
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