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Originally Posted by loki78
How did he find himself in 10th to begin with?
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Mark polled poorly on the Saturday and was 11th on the grid, behind Alonso
who had some problems and was 10th on the grid and Vettel who was 6th.
Like at Spa, both Red Bulls were really struggling for straight-line speed both in
practice and qualifying.
It was a very clean start with no incidents at the first chicane, but Mark quickly
found himself down at around 14th within the first few hundred meters, where by
contrast, Alonso gained several places up the grid in the same amount of time.
Mark eventually overtook a few other cars, including Ricciardo, to get up into
the points and stuck to a one stop strategy.
But when you watched the live timing, I don't ever recollect seeing the Red Bulls
ever do a purple sector let alone a purple lap like they normally would in times past.
Button was also unlucky and had to retire toward the end with a mechanical
failure.
Singapore is in a couple of weeks time. It will be telling if the aerodynamics
of the Red Bulls help them there as they certainly have not done well on
the faster Spa and Monza circuits. If they don't do better at Singapore either,
then something is really wrong with the vehicles.
If you missed the race, it was a good one and it will be repeated on ONE Monday night at 10:30pm
