Australian Grand Prix 2011, Albert Park Circuit - Race 1/19

The testing rules do need to be aggregated on overall pace, so the teams that are consistently not getting out of Q1 could really do with the odd test every few races to try and get the car on the go (a small 2 or 3 day test at a track before a race or something shouldn't be too hard to organise and help out teams that started on the low budget promise).

Still cant look at the HRT it looks like the unloved Lola but doing more races... Unless Bernie buys the team or something they really should take a long hard look at why they are even trying to qualify.

Hate the confusing risk of when the start is tomorrow, going to wake up my flat mate's friend who'll be on the sofa with some really early WOOOO!

Am predicting Hammy and Vetel to plow into each other on the first corner...
 
el_dazza said:
I'm still dribbling over that pole lap. That was so fast it was scary. Sod people's comparisons of Hamilton to Senna when he won the title, in terms of qualifying I think Vettel nudges it. His ability on a hot lap is just outrageous! :cool:
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He's in by far the best car with an average team mate. Stick Alonso or Hamilton in the other car and you would see fast enough who was the better qualifier.

Hamilton is so much better than Vettel in just about all departments that I'd be too embarrassed to use Senna and Vettel in the same breath.

And I'm far from a hamilton fan.
 
dannyjo22 said:
He's in by far the best car with an average team mate. Stick Alonso or Hamilton in the other car and you would see fast enough who was the better qualifier.

Hamilton is so much better than Vettel in just about all departments that I'd be too embarrassed to use Senna and Vettel in the same breath.

And I'm far from a hamilton fan.
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I wouldn't use either in the same breath ;)

Last year everyone said Button was insane to move to McLaren, where Hamilton would walk all over him. The gap was no where near as big as everyone predicted, Hamilton is still too aggressive and childish (Look at his interviews and his tyre wear) relative to Button, and Button seems to consistently make the smarter choices - Australia and Monza last year for example :)

I think Hamilton has great speed, but unless he grows up he'll struggle :( I'd even go so far as to say Vettel is more mature :eek: (Never thought I'd say that!) When his engine ate itself in Korea he was upset, but said "that's life" and got back on it, but I can't help think if that was Hamilton it would have been the teams fault :rolleyes:
 
The gap from Hamilton to Button is bigger than the one from Webber to Vettel.

Button won two races but just about everywhere else Hamilton had him beat. The tyre wear was better on Buttons car but not by enough that if I was team manager I would care. I'd rather have Hamiltons pace than Buttons tyre conservation up to this point in time.

Button was reliable and consistent last year but on pace and qfy he wasn't in the same league as hamilton last year.
 
Renault fan here

Really impressed by petrov shocked too, looks like it's a good car, such a shame kub isn't in the car too, really dissatisfied with heidfeld hopefully it was partly traffic although he didn't really say much about it he should be at least as good as kub, hopefully he can make up some places

And as always?. Good to see ferrari not doing too well always makes me happy

My main issue is the tyre grade colours
Pirelli can design some good tyres but yellow and silver on the same gp? Retarded.. personally I would have had red for hardest then yellow green and blue like a rainbow and each one different
Lol last year I had Pirelli tyres on my old car now I have Bridgestone.. advertising doesn't work on me
 
Nuts, this is your boss.

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I imagine this kind of flex is difficult to test. This view also seems to agree with what I've though all along, the flex or most of the flex isn't happening by putting weight on the tips and pushing down. So all the pictures looking from the front are not looking in the right direction...



 
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griffo_001 said:
Hamilton is still too aggressive and childish (Look at his interviews and his tyre wear) relative to Button, and Button seems to consistently make the smarter choices - Australia and Monza last year for example :)
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Hamilton had no real troubles last year with tyre wear compared to button and actually managed to look after them better on a few occasions.

And lets look again at buttons brilliant australia GP last year, sucked on the inters and was getting overtook by anyone and everyone (inc hamilton who had looked after his better) and was forced into a early stop after cooking his inters. On a quickly drying track another set of inters would have been stupid so dry tyres were the only choice. DBR screwed up by lapping on inters on a dry track too long giving button the win. So situation normal then, button getting a good rep for being the first too destroy his tyres and vettel and webber failing to capitalise on a hilarious car advantage.
 
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