FORMULA 1: ROSBERG’S PLUNDERING WAYS CONTINUE, BUT……

In some developed countries you are obligated to tip waiters and waitresses. In Japan it is regarded as offensive if you do! We continue to exist in a never-diminishing-in-interest and still a remarkable world. A team which narrowly missed relegation regrouped and at 5000-1 odds, the team rose and transformed the impossible dream into victorious reality.

I have never watched the team play, but I must celebrate what they have accomplished and the lessons everyone will learn from their Shock and Awe will reverberate incessantly in future football conversations. Leicester!

Have you noticed anything different in the tone and demeanor of the current crop of F1 drivers on track? I am not certain if what my eyes have captured has been interpreted accurately by the department with responsibility for analysis! But based on the report I received, it appears as if the hallowed ground once occupied by ‘big drivers’ no longer exists.

The avoid at all costs, know your lane approach, that ‘lesser drivers’ would traditionally adopt when in the presence of the ‘elite drivers’ has been disposed of  like spoilt milk!

How else can you account for the carnage and dismembered carbon fiber components that somehow are now a prominent feature of F1′s Lap 1 activities. What we are witnessing is not a composed, joust for space. Instead, a banzai run with no prisoners in mind is on the cards each time the red lights depart and the force-fed demons are released.

Russia, a country which ignites passion of all different flavors dependent on your area of interest, did not disappoint on Sunday. Rosberg, glowing in the lucid beam of his pole spot, crouched and then as if KERS-propelled, leapt from the line and went in search of sunken treasure. His, was a dominant performance.

Who leads every lap in a F1 race? Rosberg simply checked all the available boxes on Sunday and like a proud eagle he soared. His plundering ways were on display and he stamped 4 from 4 in 2016 – P1 – champagne!

VETTEL

The aforementioned carnage appeared in HD at Sochi, at Turn 2 which is prominently marked THANK YOU SOCHI. Vettel, I am certain, has a different view! Vettel is still seeking clarity. He is still not certain if he was trapped in a WWE Sunday Afternoon RAW event! His involvement in Sunday’s activities ended abruptly, rather unceremoniously – battered by ambition from elsewhere!

HAMILTON

Lewis Hamilton, I have repeatedly declared, is my type of driver. He will hustle the paint off his machine if it will get him to the front. The ‘dirty air’ and other F1 realities will pose all the problems in the world, but give him a performing machine and he will absorb a Jamaican taxi-man’s mentality – he welcomes space in areas where an ant would hesitate!

On Sunday, Hamilton was a swashbuckler, a swaggering swordsman, a daredevil who only met fear on a typed page! His aim was evident, his mission was known. Hamilton accepted his task at P10 and inserted the best Russian vodka into the happenings. There was a Hamilton-lead bonfire on the  track at Sochi.

A fire that only a temperamental Mercedes machine could extinguish. After scolding a handful of his puerile colleagues and placing them behind him, Hamilton went after Rosberg the Bandit. It appeared as if catching Rosberg was a realistic first goal, but as the seconds fell (the gap reduced) his machine’s water pressure misinterpreted the script and did likewise!. Chase abandoned- P2 accepted – comforting points-haul, considering the circumstances.

Despite Rosberg’s cruise and his now 43 points advantage, he knows it is still not enough. Hamilton lurks!

Cecil Munroe Gleaner On-Line Writer