While Fernando Alonso mightily ‘Shanked his race, Y’all certainly cannot say that the Malaysian Grand Prix was boring! As I can only surmise that A-L-L of the Pitlane tyre change shenanigans were related to the unbelievable pressure to beat the three-second mark for pit stops, eh? Although obviously “Louise ‘JAGUAR” Hamilton
While Force India
And McLaren wasn’t left out of the tyre follies either, when one of its mechanics hadn’t securely attached ‘JENSE’s right rubber as Button wobbled down the Pitlane before being dragged back into his pit box for repairs before retiring P17, three-laps down; while teammate Sergio Perez had to make a last lap Pitstop for his tyres degrading too quickly - worrying that he’d run out of rubber prior to the chequered flag; Aye Karumba!
And while I’d thought it was double your pleasure for Mark Webber and Fredrico Suave with both joining the illustrious 200 Starts Club, apparently the ‘Aussie is two shy of the mark at present, and thus it was just Fernando Alonso joining the club in Malaysia.
Thus, what a most typically uncharacteristic move from Alonso, who apparently had visions ‘O grandeur upon his mind in terms of tyre strategy in order to outsmart his Red Bull rival Sebastian Vettel, eh? As Alonso’s 200th Grand Prix start went poof! In a cloud of carbon fibre sparks upon destroying his front wing’s endplate and subsequently retiring on lap-1; thus, it’s probably a good thingy that Ferrari & Fernando popped the bubbly’s corks prior to the race...