Australian Grand Prix 2016, Melbourne - Race 1/21

He has far more humour than ros and is generally quite jockey.
Until he loses it, then he's sour face.
Ros just has no funny bone at all.
 
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Glaucus said:
He has far more humour than ros and is generally quote jockey.
Until he loses it, then he's sour face.
Rose just has no funny bine at all.
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Probably right, but I can't actually recall the last funny thing he said.

Shame to see a merc 1-2, i am hoping the season will be more open, and the first race generally isn't telling in that regard. Alonzo smashy probably helped, but it would be nice to see variation for a few races to begin, as we had several seasons ago.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Probably right, but I can't actually recall the last funny thing he said.

Shame to see a merc 1-2, i am hoping the season will be more open, and the first race generally isn't telling in that regard. Alonzo smashy probably helped, but it would be nice to see variation for a few races to begin, as we had several seasons ago.
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It's not really about him saying something funny, I've never heard Rosberg do a good interview, whatever he's saying he just says it without personality, without emotion. Like his attempt to gee up the crowd with his first words, he comes across as so insincere, hollow.

He could be horribly shy and awful anywhere near a camera and anywhere around F1. He might be great away from F1, but everything I've seen of him anywhere near F1 he seems like he lacks any personality at all.
 
haha, quite like Gene, we got through turn 1, we got through lap 1, we stopped the race then got 6th.... crashgate 2 :p

They did rather luck into the 6th and created a Trulli train, but that is the thing, Manor and Haas have enough pace that if they are out of position at a track like this they can make themselves very hard to pass. Manor last year would lose those positions in three corners, now they can fight for what they gain on the start or through lucky situations.
 
The sky agenda, to everyone, so do you think you'd have died today if that awful halo was on the car, go on, please tell me the halo is evil.

Fuel spillage/big fires is something that used to happen regularly but a huge huge amount of regulation went into preventing happen which is why outside of refuelling we really don't get flame balls coming out of broken cars anymore. Chance of fire while stuck upside down in a car is dramatically lower than being injured due to something hitting a driver in the head while right side up. Halo may even help when a car flips over. There will always be risk, you make decisions to reduce the biggest risks, sometimes that will increase another risk marginally, that doesn't make it the wrong choice. If you have a 30% chance of dying if something hits your head at 200mph and a 0.4% chance of dying in a fireball and halo reduces the risk of dying from head impacts to 5% and increases the chance of dying in a fireball to 0.6%, then it's a an obvious choice to make.

As Button said Alonso was fine so being stuck inside the car for a few minutes wouldn't have done anything to him, had he been unable to leave the car because he was unconscious then the car would need to be flipped over carefully anyway to get him out.
 
Good race that, too bad the red flag stopped the momentum the Ferrari's seem to have had.

Mercedes almost exclusively using the mediums in testing paying dividends here with all that knowledge, whereas Ferrari didn't even bother using them.

Bahrain should be interesting, can't come soon enough!
 
The main issue was they didn't run mediums at Australia, different track surfaces mean tires last a different number of laps. They weren't confident in what they'd do here, nothing else. Sky are just dumb, Merc used 60 pairs of mediums in Barcelona, but Ferrari probably used 45+ sets of mediums, they didn't lack for medium testing information.

What Ferrari didn't have was enough information about merc's pace advantage this year compared to them. They didn't know if running slower tires would let Merc by them, they didn't know if their pace on supersofts would allow them to pull away or if they could run mediums with good pace to the end of the race. They chose the aggressive option then weren't nearly fast enough compared to Merc on the medium.
 
Awesome race, the pack seems to have caught up which should make for an exciting season :D

Ferrari still has work to do but they should be able to take the fight to the Mercs this season :D
 
The_Abyss said:
McLaren have picked up seamlessly from 2015. What a disappointment - they seem to have made no progress relative to other teams. The Honda is still desperately short of power.
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Yep. They appear to have made progress, but only the same steps forward that everyone else has also taken, meaning the net result is still them being crap.

Haas look to already be a step up on them. I don't think McLaren will be taking the fight to Force India or Toro Rosso so it will be a case of hoping they can atleast beat Sauber and Manor.
 
Didn't find that race too bad. Quite a shunt for Alonso. :eek:

Verstappen needs to cool it. Yes, he would have been better in front of Sainz, but there's no way those equal to him will just let him though. What a **** up by Ferrari though, what were they thinking?

Things I liked seeing:
  • Renault was keeping ahead of the Toro Rosso's with DRS for a few laps - Renault has a decent pu now?
  • Haas - looks like they have something to work with, entered F1 using their head (if you can say that.. :p)
  • Kimi's "couldn't give a ****" attitude - "I've broken something" *catches fire, walks off*

Things I didn't:
  • Honda's PU is reliable.. still behind on power
  • Hulk still deserves a better car, although FI are starting to a decent job - Williams level car?
  • Timing of the red flag - Seb had a decent lead and would have forced Merc to pick up its game - Hamilton also dropped positions due to pitting before it
 
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ust finished watching the race.

Was shaped up beautifully before the red flag.

Glad Alonso is ok. Mighty crash.

What the heck happened to McLarens race pace... no different to last year. Great.

Looks a lot more interesting at the front now, Ferrari should have won but messed up on strategy.
 
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