Formula 1 - Melbourne Grand Prix
The grand prix on Sunday kicked off the Formula 1 season in better than expected style with Giancarlo Fisichella of Renault taking and keeping pole position thanks to a heavy shower of rain just after his first qualifying session on Saturday.
Fisichella stayed out in front on race day to take the win - the excellence of his car underlined by the sister Renault R25 managing to come up from thirteenth position to take third thanks to a blistering drive by Fernando Alonso.
Red Bull Racing (née Jaguar) provided a neat suprise by bringing home both cars in the points - a wake-up call to some of the other teams.
With exception of Rubens Barrichello taking second, the usually-perceived strong teams of Ferrari, MacLaren and Williams had a slightly lacklustre day (although taking points) and BAR were very much down in the dumps and simply pitted before the end to ensure they would be allowed a fresh engine for the next race. I think the FIA might want to close that loophole.
For the full race report, go here.
The new rules made the race less intuitive to watch (I'm not even going into qualifying). With tyres having to last full race distance and engines being required to last two race weekends, it was sometimes hard to discern if the drivers were being sometimes conservative to save on tyre wear and, later, taking a couple of unnecessary risks as they knew they weren't in line for points and if they damaged the car they'd go to the pits and have a fresh engine for the next race. Yes, you, Michael Schumacher....
To keep up with all the latest news, I heartily recommend grandprix.com as well as the ITV-F1 website.
And don't forget Martin Brundle's Racing Lines for gems of his informative, humorous and sometimes rather scathing commentary....
P.S. The rookie Narain Karthikeyan managed to to go the full race distance to bring his Jordan home. Nice one.
Fisichella stayed out in front on race day to take the win - the excellence of his car underlined by the sister Renault R25 managing to come up from thirteenth position to take third thanks to a blistering drive by Fernando Alonso.
Red Bull Racing (née Jaguar) provided a neat suprise by bringing home both cars in the points - a wake-up call to some of the other teams.
With exception of Rubens Barrichello taking second, the usually-perceived strong teams of Ferrari, MacLaren and Williams had a slightly lacklustre day (although taking points) and BAR were very much down in the dumps and simply pitted before the end to ensure they would be allowed a fresh engine for the next race. I think the FIA might want to close that loophole.
For the full race report, go here.
The new rules made the race less intuitive to watch (I'm not even going into qualifying). With tyres having to last full race distance and engines being required to last two race weekends, it was sometimes hard to discern if the drivers were being sometimes conservative to save on tyre wear and, later, taking a couple of unnecessary risks as they knew they weren't in line for points and if they damaged the car they'd go to the pits and have a fresh engine for the next race. Yes, you, Michael Schumacher....
To keep up with all the latest news, I heartily recommend grandprix.com as well as the ITV-F1 website.
And don't forget Martin Brundle's Racing Lines for gems of his informative, humorous and sometimes rather scathing commentary....
P.S. The rookie Narain Karthikeyan managed to to go the full race distance to bring his Jordan home. Nice one.
posted by Scattergun @ 8:00 pm
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