Australian Grand Prix 2013, Melbourne - Race 1/19

Couple of questions:

Why do back markers like Marrusia have to give way to the leaders and not block them?

Why do upgrades come over the season instead of them all being tacked on from the outset and each team having their best car from the start? Or do they only create those upgrades based on the performances during the races?
 
I don't find Sky cringeworthy but I do feel they waste a lot of good opportunity with the sheer amount of time they have to play with.

I might be wrong, but I don't remember seeing any kind of preview of all the teams, drivers, rule changes, who's gone where etc in the race preamble. This should be an essential item for the first race. They should have had a bit of an intro on the 5 new drivers and what their racing credentials have been. Instead they had a rather fatuous 'interview' with them whilst playing beach volleyball.

They also spent rather too long on Max Chilton. yes he's a new Brit on the grid but there are lots of other drivers too. I get the feeling Paul Di Resta is trying to make himself look less dull too by helping Sky with some features and interviews.
 
I don't think Kimi will win the WDC. He did well today and may end up on the podium again, but my feeling is that over the next few races we'll start to see a two horse race again between Alonso and Vettel, with Vettel winning the WDC for the 4th time.
 
Merlin5 said:
Couple of questions:

Why do back markers like Marrusia have to give way to the leaders and not block them?

Why do upgrades come over the season instead of them all being tacked on from the outset and each team having their best car from the start? Or do they only create those upgrades based on the performances during the races?
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They're being lapped, if it was racing for position (like if someone lost a wing and limped back to the pits - putting them at the back) then they could block as much as they liked. They most likely wouldn't try too hard though, as they'd have to drive so defensively they would hurt their own lap times and their own race (which isn't with the red bulls, it's with the teams around them).

Every car has as many upgrades that they have thought of, tested and found to work so far. They'll think of more stuff as the season goes on, they test this stuff on fridays and if it looks good they race with it.
 
Skeeter said:
Does anyone else think today's podium contained the 3 title contenders?
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Pretty much. I'd like to say Hamilton was up there too but I don't really believe it, although I do expect a couple of race wins I don't think Mercedes are quite there yet. Button and McLaren have had a dire first weekend, it will take something special from their engineers to turn this one round.
 
Merlin5 said:
Team radio: "Well done Kimi, P1, great drive!"
Kimi: " Yes, yes, yes, yes. I know. You don't have to tell me".

:D
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I couldn't quite make out his actual radio message but I think it was along the lines of "yes we won, I told you the car was good, well done to the team", with that middle bit being a bit sarcastic in the way almost only Kimi can do when he's won :p

Interesting catching the end of the BBC coverage, Coulthard picked up on Grosjean being all over the back of button, then Vergne passing, then both dropping off 3 points and thought they'd gone off somewhere and was hoping for a replay. Brundle never spotted it, never mentioned it, Brundle misses so much of whats going on. Unfortunately the coverage itself was still rubbish, didn't see the Sutil out on the soft bit on BBC so not sure if they noticed him dropping 7-8 seconds somewhere, I'm still assuming he locked up, went off dropped time and then had destroyed his tyres. But the lack of replays of these bits that were fairly important and some of the only real overtaking for points positions was very disappointing. AS is lack of camera angles where Kimi got Hamilton, yeah, set up the camera so the trees block the corner, fantastic.
 
deuse said:
His cousin Dario Franchitti and Stewart all talk like that.
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It's a shame with Di Resta, when he first came into the sport he, naturally, was so positive. What I liked about him was how accessible and informative he was. Always giving interviews and explaining things in features. Now he follows the rest of the crowd and says as little as possible.
 
Kevin Clark said:
I don't find Sky cringeworthy but I do feel they waste a lot of good opportunity with the sheer amount of time they have to play with.

I might be wrong, but I don't remember seeing any kind of preview of all the teams, drivers, rule changes, who's gone where etc in the race preamble. This should be an essential item for the first race. They should have had a bit of an intro on the 5 new drivers and what their racing credentials have been. Instead they had a rather fatuous 'interview' with them whilst playing beach volleyball.
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You missed all that. The previews of who went where was in the F1 Shows earlier this year.
 
i do sometimes think that Sky are trying too hard to cater for the casual fan when most casual fans will be sticking with the BBC and the more hardcore tech types would be watching on Sky.
 
Oh yeah something I've got to mention, really liked Mclaren's piststops today with Jenson and Jenson releasing the clutch as the car was being dropped off the rear jack ! haha that looked awesome. Just build a decent car boys!
 
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