Right, so I've decided not to keep reporting the races like I have been, instead I might just have a brief post with more opinion and less statistics for each race. There are enough statistic based blogs and a list of laps times doesn't really provide much for anyone.
Turkey
Getting a wheel-to-wheel tap with Schumacher was clearly the defining point of Vitaly's race in Turkey, it cost him one place at the time and probably a few more due to a suspected slow puncture which he received as a result of the tap from Michael's wing. He went on to finish 8th, from 7th on the grid, overall a respectable performance given incidents and questionable Renault pit stops and strategies.
Catalunya
Once again, Renault displaying their lack of competitiveness in the strategy department, Vitaly showed in the first stint that he and the car were capable of finishing comfortably ahead of the Mercedes with the possibility of challenging Massa and Button. However, the slow pit stop cost him the places and then the extended time he was allocated to run on the Prime tyre cost him places to Heidfeld as well as the 2 Sauber cars. Overall an incredibly disappointing race and the team must seriously considering revising their strategy on both Saturday and Sunday as well as doing a few pit stop drills for good measure.
I may be being a little over-critical, perhaps on some things I'm wrong but what I do know is that there's no point building a car with every hundredth of a second in mind when you lose 3-4 seconds per pit stop due to lack of practice.
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