1. Alonso isn't as good as everyone claims he is. He has gotten lucky at times such as the start of 2012 when everyone was scrambling to find a new exhaust blown diffuser setup, and the car wasn't blowing up every other race (McLaren, Red Bull).

Vergne drove him all the way across the back straight, if anybody was in the wrong it was him.

Even with a small field the Lotuses were actually working well today until Vergne kamikaze dived Grosjean.

And in other news, Maldonado finally drove hard without crunching the car and scored some points.

It's not the first.

It wasn't even the FIA this time, it was the owners of the track (Honda). In this case the FIA should have put their foot down and said that either the race happens early or the fans go home empty-handed. It'd suck for the fans but it would have hopefully prevented such a horrendous incident.

That was the RA302.

CLR, not the CLK-GTR/LM

This isn't the P1 its the 12C GT3. Also that time the 918 set was done on the Nordschleife, without the F1 track added.

The F1 got the cousin of this engine, but the two engine share few real similarities.

Exactly. While people bitch and moan about how unreliable the Wankel engine is, they ignore the fact that like other 75% of all other engines it just needs a competent owner who knows how to take care of it and it'll run beautifully.

Interestingly enough the earliest Dr.Porsche "people's car" prototypes were powered by radial engines.

Nor were the early 70s

I'm sorry, but I think this one is superior.

driver cooling

Not only that, but that engine also had roots in the 1978 935/78 "Moby Dick"engine.

The Sultan of Brunei strikes again.

Coming to LM with a brand new team and retiring from the lead with only 2 hours left in the race is hardly shitty.

The #20 car had been nursing a KERS/braking problem since the third hour of the race, so if the car had been on song it may have put less strain on the V4 and may have been able to hold on to the end and win with the issues the Audis had.