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myoozikk

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Well that was more like it!!!

Yay for jenson!!!

Webber is a fucking twat that's for sure.

Lewis was robbed twice, once by the pit, once by webber. Still the most exciting drive to watch by a mile.

Props to kubica for sure.

Alonso is a banzai shit as well, but does it properly instead on webber.

Massa meh! Got lucky.

Bahrain ftl.

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marsh

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Great race by button, I flinched when he went off on wet tyres and thought maybe he'd made a massive mistake. Hamilton not looking so cool under pressure right now, even though in fairness it's one a piece between him and his teamate. Webbers shit, the redbull is made from rolled up tissue paper and sellotape, Virgin are a joke, I doff my cap to HRT, Alonso is still a weeny bit dirty, and Schumacher has yet to show us his cards.

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MrPogo

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Perhaps Ferrari gave Felipe Baby the coded message and he chose to ignore it. Then Alonso just couldn't overtake comfortably enough not to risk taking out his teammate?

Either that or Ferrari observed the rules :P

There's no way Massa would be listening to team orders this early in the campaign (though they may well have given them!). Alonso getting past might have worked out better for the team, but Massa wants the drivers title. Every extra point he gives him in this stage of the season increases the odds of him being forced to relinquish the challenge later on in the year.

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Sidewaysbob

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Lady Luck.

That’s who you have to court in Formula One. Not the great God Dollar, not the Gods of Technology and Design. No it’s the beautiful mercurial and easily pissed off Lady Luck that needs to be paid off before you can go racing to win.

You might well have the fastest car in the pack, designed to within an inch of its life. You might well be a seven times world champion “Greatest of a generation”. But if you’ve not paid Lady Luck in full up front, you can forget it. Whatever you do, it’s all going to fall down around your ears on turn 12 in a shower of gravel. Or relegate to an afternoon of tooling around the back of the field fighting the new boy, looking at TV time counted in seconds of you being passed by the moneyed up hot shoe getting his five minutes of fame.

Vettel had this in the bag, Big Ron assertion that the Redbull was thirty on race pace looked wide of the mark as Vettel and Home boy Webber, locked out the front row on Saturday. Ferrari still behind them with the McLarens and Merc bringing up the rear. Hamilton lost a load of grip and time after getting pulled by the Local Rozzers for “over exuberant driving” on Friday night. Back in 11th was a long way from the front.

Sunday Morning and the teams are talking about Rain and home soon it was going to come. As the cars sat on the grid their answers came as the rain fell and soft tires got changed to Inters for the dash to the first corner. Albert Park is a temporary circuit so there is a lot of white line to get slippery on a cold March afternoon.

When the red light went out on Sunday afternoon, we got to see just who’d paid lady luck up front. Alonso got tagged by Button in corner one, has he got squeezed by Hamilton who made a blinding start. Mickey Schumacher got a load of wheel spin off the line and got caught in the midfield scramble, eventually coming out with a broken front wing and very little chance of a fun afternoon. Better than Alonso though who ended up facing the wrong way and the field streaming past. Even the two Virgins starting from the pits and the pace car went past. A long afternoon ahead of Alonso then. Thankfully Trulli in the Lotus had to replace something or other and wasn’t able to start. So Alonso was spared having to avoid the Lotus getting in the way.

Meanwhile up front Webber had managed to start a race and not hit Vettel or anyone else, plenty of time for that later. Vettel cruised off into the distance without a care in the world. It was a little hairy scary in the rain for a bit. The Sauber of Crazy Kobay lost yet another wing and took out Hulkenberg and Buemi. Schumacher pitted for a new front wing and spent the rest of the day looking at the back of various Torro Rossos, Virgins and Lotuses. HAHAHAHA Hahaha aha ah ah ah aa Seven times world champion this. Not some Jonny come lately no hoper with daddies money. This used to be the most feared driver in F1, not any more. Eventhe Virgin of Di Grassi showed Mickey that goal posts haven’t just moved, they’ve been taken off to the top field with different world first eleven.

So Lady Luck wasn’t happy with Mickey and then showed that she still isn’t in love with Vettel either. This time a break disc locked up and pitched the poor hapless German into the kitty litter. What has the guy got to do to catch a break here? Two easy wins snatched from his grasp by things he had absolutely no control over what so ever. Newey will get blamed for giving him a fast but fragile car, but he didn’t design the spark plug of break disc. It’s just random lady luck swigging out the bottle marked “hardy har ahr buddy” and flicking twigglets at the hapless fools going for glory.

Through all of this Button, had grabbed slick tires for a damp track, and got the jump on everyone to lead the race home. Everyone said he was mad to join McLaren and enter the home of Hamilton. But he drove a perfect race, called the perfect pit stop and finished 10 seconds up the road. Lady luck smiles sweetly and raise a glass of Vintage Tattinger towards the lovely Mr Button. A very timely win for the new Woking boy in his second race, this will do everything for his confidence and determination. He’s not going to give Hamilton an inch now is he.

Second up, Kubica in “Renault alright actually “shocker. He didn’t hit anyone and kept the two Ferraris behind him with no dramas what so ever. Does this mean Renault have a fast realisable car? Maybe. Kubica is fine when he shuts up and gets on with it. This might even encourage the money men to come up with a few more reddies.

Talking of Lady Luck and its Massa in 3rd and another podium for the bionic man. Podiums are the way to build a championship. Keep the score board ticking over, picking up points as the big guns cock it up.

4th and lucky to be there at all, Alonso looked faster than Massa but proved once again that the driver behind needs the driver in front to make a mistake if he wants a better result. Stuck in 4th is a good recovery from plum last. But he could have been second with a fair wind and nod from Lady Luck.

5th Nico, who gets this weeks, “was he in the race, I must have missed him” award. He got in some peoples way and did one of his trade mark fell asleep races. He beat Schumacher in qualifying and the race again. But he didn’t turn that into a charge for the line. Ross will be expecting better things from the lad.

6th and mighty pissed off with all of Australia, Hamilton. He got nailed by the local fuzz out looking to make a name for itself on Friday night. Then got punted not once, but twice by Webber, who lost all sense of race control and was out for blood. Hamilton drove a barn stormer of a race and should have been at least second to Hamilton at the chequered flag. But a pit call at the wrong moment. Webber getting all unnecessary cost the plucky English chap and chance of the shared glory. If was Webber, I’d not be looking to grab a glass of fizz of the McLaren boys tonight. 11th to 2nd would have been a dream for Hamilton. 11th to a battered 6th is poor consolation.

7th Liuzzi. Better than his more fancied team mate Sutil yet again. I might have to swallow my pride and start liking him at this rate.

8th Barrichello. See Nico, did you see him? I must have blinked. Still he did better than Schumacher, so he’ll be happy. And it’s another points payer for Williams. Picking up the pay check.

9th and he should be banned for a month for being utterly crap, Webber. Who let driving on home soil go completely to his head? He punted Hamilton twice. The second time for no reason other than he wasn’t paying attention. He spun, got in the way and was generally rubbish. He keeps doing this, hitting other cars that are racing, cutting up drivers for minor places and cocking around. He’s not all that and Hamilton is right, retire you waste of Bridgestone rubber.

10th and the last points payer, Schumacher. Oh how the once mighty have forgotten the phone number of lady luck. He doesn’t even send her a text message to tell her he’s going to be back in the paddock and they should hook up some time. Those two were once the toast of all the after show parties. Inseparable, falling out of night clubs in the wee small house, a cherry faces Lady Luck having the time of her life and showing Schumacher the ultimate prize through the mist of petrol and champagne spray. Now she sits on another’s pit wall pretending to ignore her once favourite and flicking the V’s behind his back. Sad times indeed for the square jawed one.

So there you go. Far more entertaining that Bahrain, and the championship doesn’t look like it’s going to be a Ferrari/Redbull benefit gig.

As long as the boys remember to pay Lady Luck up front and in full.

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morcs

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Can't understand why people are saying Hamilton is cracking and is being outdone by Button. By far the best drive today, he overtook Button don't forget! Not to mention Rosberg, Massa, sitting in turbulent airflow for a large proportion of the race. Compare that to Schumacher, who took half the race to pass Alguesuari!

The only thing I can think of was the qualifying thing, which is a mystery still.

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Sidewaysbob

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I thought i'd sold Kobay and Pedro and bought Massa in my fantasy team. But no i bought Vettel instead.

fuck fuckerty fuck fuck. stupid bloody Vettel and his can't finish for toffee bollocksness. If i go and change him he'll nail it and win, leave him there and it'll be just a shit

fuckery bollocks.

:P

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exwhyzed

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Can't understand why people are saying Hamilton is cracking and is being outdone by Button. By far the best drive today, he overtook Button don't forget!

All Button did today was take a gamble and it went his way. Hamilton and Alonso were far more impressive today I thought. It'll be interesting to see how Button/Hamilton plays out over the season.

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morcs

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I didn't realise Lewis finished 6th! I assumed that crash was terminal, saw a fair bit of bodywork fly off and it was in a gravel trap.

He's still 4th in the overall behind Button, the two Ferraris at the top.

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Sidewaysbob

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vitaly_petrov_italy.jpg

Okay, petrov might be rubbish. But he appears to have a rather minxy assistant. Weather it's his mum, girlfriend, random russian lass i have no idea. But she appears to be in some of his earlier GP2 pictures. Camera shy i'm guessing PR or manager. Whatever she is i wish to see more of her.

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Actually i think she may have scrubbed up since joing the F1 circus. She looks less MILF and more mrs mop there.

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dayte

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Now... that was an F1 race to remember. The commentators chuckling at Schumacher being passed by Di Grassi in a Virgin, struggling against someone half his age in a Toro Rosso, Button's stroke of genius/luck by coming in early, Hamilton's charge up the pack, Webber, Alonso, Massa, Hammy's early overtake on Button, Rosberg round the outside, then later on being overtaken by Webber after a mistake only to reclaim it on the next corner. Those few laps near the start with a 5 pack all split by less than a second were a joy to watch. The intermittent rain played its part for a few laps, and were it not for them we would have seen drivers having to use both compounds, effectively meaning that Hamilton's charging would have occurred only for half the race, whilst Button wouldn't have had to nurse the tyres at all.

I'd say the tyre wearing - time saved ratio should be tweaked just slightly - make them a little less durable so that true tyre savers like Button will deservedly win races by conservation, whilst giving tyre burners like Hamilton the chance to charge through and make up track positions over those who were failing on tyres (understeers, going off track) without pitting. Also completely change the rear wings of all the cars, which in the past couple of years have made the faster guy behind slow because of the diffuser/other gunk slowing them down. It's racing, not driving up to the arse of another car and eating dirt until that car does something interesting, i.e. Alonso-Hamilton.

Button won doing what he did best; as Martin said, metronomic stuff, consistent driving whilst nursing the tyres. But Hammy certainly provided the excitement in the race today.

Best bit - Engineer: "3.5 seconds ahead"

Alonso: "I DONNA WANNA KNOW!!"

I wonder if Hamilton would have passed Kubica if he hadn't pitted. Maybe Hamilton's style made it impossible for him not to pit? Still, felt unfair for him to be the best racer/overtaker by a mile and lose out whilst Button was just driving on a normal Sunday afternoon and taking all the reward. Oh, and a big fuck off to Webber for ruining the race.

Of course Vettel would be on maximum points now were it not for his jinxed Luscious Liz. Bring on Madame Maria!

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