2013 Formula One Australian Grand Prix

[zlep]

I'm not sure if it was discussed here, but did anybody see that Alonso used DRS when it was disabled?! Although he had no advantage it was not allowed to use and should be at least under investigation.

 

[Ketnix]

Ferrari is looking quite nice, both Alonso and Massa really doing well in it, in hindsight they probably could of locked up 2nd and 3rd.
Kimi drove a fantastic race, taking care of the tyres, and putting in the times when needed.
Mercedes didn't look too bad at all, that lockup while battling Alonso really resulted into having to go for 3 stops it seems. Not a bad effort indeed.
Sutil really impressed aswell, but he pushed way to early on that new set of tyres.

Great race over all, looking forward to Malaysia.

 

[the_sigman]

Ηulk's Australian GPs:
2010 - Retired in first lap
2012 - Retired in first lap
2013 - Did not start

He hasn't even completed 2 laps of the 174 laps possible

 

[Ketnix]

Wow, thats some wicked luck.

 

[Warren Dawes]

It didn't worry me much, the later start time was still ok.
Only downside was demonstrated on Saturday. By leaving it so late, any poor weather (a highly likely event in Melbourne) causing delays runs into daylight problems. Luckily it only happened during Qualy, but if it had happened a day later, the Event could have been seriously affected.

 

[Joo_Oo]

If you want to win, hire a finn .

 

[James Hemp]

I'm not sure if it was discussed here, but did anybody see that Alonso used DRS when it was disabled?! Although he had no advantage it was not allowed to use and should be at least under investigation.

I did. And the guy behind him also had the flaps open.

 

[wajdi]

It's too early to give an opinion only after on gp! last season, we had 5 winners in the first 5 gp! even the Mercedes had seemed very compertitive at the start of the last season and the RedBull, also, had a difficult start in the past year!
the real season will start only after 4-5 Grand Prix!

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

Wow Vetell was an absolute zero today. Apart from kamikaze move on Sutil (which thankfully Adrian saw coming), destroyed his tires too quickly and relied too much on pit strategy. Could be blow year for Red Bull.

Also, Pirelli tires are absolute joke. I wonder from what recycled rubbish they are made of. I will never ever buy these yellow-branded junk for my road car.

 

[Metalfreaky]

You do know that the FIA asked them to built exactly those tires? It's not like they are not capable of building other tires.

 

[Leon Charmant]

Wow Vetell was an absolute zero today. Apart from kamikaze move on Sutil (which thankfully Adrian saw coming), destroyed his tires too quickly and relied too much on pit strategy. Could be blow year for Red Bull.

Also, Pirelli tires are absolute joke. I wonder from what recycled rubbish they are made of. I will never ever buy these yellow-branded junk for my road car.

lol. So if you think Pirelli's F1 tires suck, then Pirelli's road tires automatically suck as well? Cmon man, that's absolute nonsense.

I think Pirelli have done a great job and the races will be more exciting because of it. It's just a matter for the teams to start understanding the tyres, that's all.

 

[Tom]

Could be blow year for Red Bull.

Yeah...because the first race is perfectly showing off everything we need to know about the whole season. Just like 2012. Oh, wait...

 

[Eckhart von Glan]

anyone already commented on thequite good performance of the five newcomers? I only watched bits and pieces and I am not 100% sure about results from top dozen down, but to me they looked very much in control of what they were doing, we've seen worse.

 

[Tristan Clark]

Great day today! Would rate that as one of the best F1 races I've seen live

First off Raikkonen's strategy was just phenomenal, and he really kept the tires together on what was a really long final stint! Looking forward to a big title challenge from Kimi. Also fantastic to see the Ferrari's on track together again, and Massa is heading back to 2008 form hopefully . Walking around the track afterward, I've never seen so many marbles on the edges of the circuit, and bits of the super soft tires were flying into the crowd like you wouldn't believe.

Couple of people were interested in some photos, so I've attached a few. Clearly not a photographer and my mobile probably doesn't have the best camera going around.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Great race, some nice battles in the field.

Hugely impressed by Lotus at the start, it looked like it weighed half as much as the Mercedes which looked quite poor on the heavy fuel load.

Ferrari looked mighty in the race as well. Both Red Bull and Mercedes did not really live up to the hype in the race though.

Also, not sure wtf Mercedes was thinking keeping Rosberg and Hamilton out for so long!
They lost several seconds because of that. They should have simply followed the leaders instead or at least the lap before or after the leader pitted.

 

[Kevin McDonald]

Edit: Source seems to have been erased.

 

[ufunacaoenn]

Did anyone else hear about Force India's team orders ? Supposedly ( according to Di Resta ) they told him to back off on the last lap and let Sutil keep the decision.

What decision?

No I didn't hear that but the distance between him and Sutil was very close so it is quite possible. Do you have any source about this team order?

 

[Jimlaad43]

Bernie has wanted to make Oz a night race since the success of Singapore. Personally, I used to enjoy waking up at 2am to watch the GP live (Weird I know). However, with Sky starting to take over shared packages in Europe (UK and Italy at the moment), it could go back to the silly o'clock times with terrestrial highlights earlier in the morning, 9-10ish.

For any Pacific coast North Americans, what time did the GP start for you. Just curious.

 

[Kevin McDonald]

Position I meant It was on the Sky Sports website half an hour ago and now it's gone, that's very strange. It was in the driver's reaction article.

 

[Shane Butler]

I loved Sutil's radio - "Pit this lap pit this lap pit confirm. Pit this lap pit this lap pit confirm." almost like a song Also Smedley talking to Massa - "You've got a free track, lets see what you can do". Fair play to Massa though.. he looked on it all weekend and he's bound to get a victory this season if his team dont tell him to move over for his teammate.