Australian Grand Prix 2015, Melbourne - Race 1/19

Just caught up with this.

Rosberg is stuffed if hamilton is back on form in qualifying.

Mercedes seem to be even further ahead! Expected them to maintain the gap and testing showed their pace, but that is just impressive and ominous for the rest of the field. Yes mercedes let their drivers race, but i see less of that happening this year.

Alonso has been well and truly stitched up. McLaren are embarrassing at the moment. Hamiltons decision to leave just looks more and more inspired year on year.

Is there a new safety car? Looks like a line of C63s and possibly an AMG GT parked there? I assume the new GT would replace the SLS.
 
Watched qualy. Few observations.

1. Teeny bit of a yawn about Mercedes domination
2. The McLaren livery is horrible
3. Oh dear, what happened to McLaren?
4. Can't believe Verstappen is only 17!
5. Yay F1 is back!
6. It's on too early!
7. That is all
 
dannyjo22 said:
Jacques to BAR was worse but I suppose they could be excused being a new team but I doubt it will last as badly as that did at Mclaren. Alonso should have 5 or more world titles. He just cannot pick teams at the right time.
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Whilst he'd never admit it, I think turning down Red Bull back in 2008 haunts him to this day. It's not that he has "only" two world titles per se that really bothers him, it's that he feels he could have been in Vettel's shoes and have six by now.

As for disastrous moves, how about Maldonado from Williams to Lotus last year? Made all the more comical by the fact he's hopeless and did everything in his power to get out of Williams.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Give me a break. She's had three seasons in GP3 where her highest finish was 13th I believe. Based on merit, she has no business being near an F1 team and there are plenty of other drivers out there, both male & female, who are more deserving.

She's there for PR reasons and personally I think it's doing a massive disservice to all women in motorsport. Women already face an uphill battle in the top echelons of motorsport due to the ingrained prejudice of many and their perception that it's a "man's sport". For Lotus to do something so blatantly cynical harms the image of all women in motorsport and just portrays them as little more than eye candy in race overalls.
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Lol. Is your sarcasm detector broke :p.

Of course she's there as some PR eye candy. Same as Suzie Wolff.
 
Those new breathing techniques in the cockpit really helped Nico out today...

Quali was exciting as usual, I also used the weekly pass option of Now TV and the quality was great for slightly non-HD.
 
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Irish_Tom said:
The sky go app on iPad was shocking during quali… buffering, picture break-up, sounds lag.

Not good.
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I had this, albeit on my Nexus 10. I was just going to watch the whole thing in bed on the tablet to save getting up and getting dressed for an hour or so, but the drops in video quality (and they were big drops!) were too much to bare so I had to man up and get up. Oddly, though, my audio remained the same despite the video issues.

On my, admittedly smallish, 1080p screen in the living room, Sky Go looked great. Much better than SD but perhaps a peg lower than, say, Netflix HD. Stream was flawless throughout.
 
Kulealshi said:
Those new breathing techniques in the cockpit really helped Nico out today...

Quali was exciting as usual, I also used the weekly pass option of Now TV and the quality was great for slightly non-HD.
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I was thinking that this morning, that's the kind of crap you wait to spout after you qualify on pole, not in the pre-season bigging yourself up before it all starts.
 
Seriously though, what on earth are McLaren playing at recently?

Also, it is going to be horrible to see one of the best drivers on the grid fighting to even get in the points this season :(
 
Made the good move of going back to bed after qualifying. Glad I didn't opt for the replay instead of getting up. SkyF1 getting a load of hate at the moment for showing the top 3 just before the first session of Q1.

Glad F1 is back, but I'd forgot how dull the engines sounded.
Hoping Monisha Kaltenborn is turfed out after this weekend, selling 3 seats for 2 cars is a slimy move.
 
I think Ron still thinks he's in the old days where testing and development were unlimited, you worked with a single engine company and developed the car as fast as you could afford to spend money.

These days, not having several customers multiplying your limited testing time is a severe disadvantage. Whilst the new car may have more potential for development than the old one, I don't know how McLaren are going to realise that potential when it seems to be such a slow and limited process with the setup they have with Honda at the moment.

I expect to see McLaren struggling for a quite some time, and even if they make miraculous steps forwards, I don't know how they will jump past any of the significant teams who are also making progress, but starting from a better base.
 
el_dazza said:
I wonder if Manor will be quicker than Mclaren..
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Quicker in way of leaving the Melbourne paddock? Possibly. They aren't allowed to race with no FP1/2/3 running on top of not making 107% in qualifying.

Hope there's no financial penalty for them after this. That would make me sad and I can't see the FIA doing anything in that regard so there's two less cars on the track for the rest of the calendar.
 
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