I had to look to see if there were any track changes that would have slowed cars down and, apparently not: "Minor modifications were carried out in 2012 to the end of the West circuit configurations, with the double hairpin bends smoothed out to create a slightly faster end to the lap. Otherwise, the layout has remained as originally envisaged by Tilke from its opening races."
The race was fine. Seems like the teams quickly found the best strategies for deploy/harvest after the first couple of laps. Ferrari needs to do something to shake the team heads up. Hell they may not realize that their strategy ppl are the laughing stock of F1 or something. Their strategy seems to be to use a two headed coin which is weighted to give the worst possible outcome. With Mercedes' pace they seemed to have in P3 and in Q, you need to knock them off of their game and push them into the outcome that you want.
Also wonder if the "cornering" modes with the aero actually is easier on the tires. There was a lot of talk about graining, but it didn't seem to get to the point where teams needed to come in for a second stop.
