Poll: Australian Grand Prix 2017, Melbourne - Race 1/20

[Flibster]

Kvyat does a 1:26.711

Promptly beaten by Vettel 1:26.638
He's gone back to his cruise, cruise, cruise - fastest lap please.

 

[Mr Jack]

It's a notoriously tight track though. Might be different in China or Bahrain for example.

It might. I'm not holding my breath, though.

 

[utajoker]

Bottas givenup up or ham got pace to hold him. Off?

 

[Flibster]

Renault's PR people have been busy over the winter.

https://twitter.com/RenaultSportF1/status/845884212376940545/photo/1

 

[Concrete]

Well that was . . dull.

 

[Mr Jack]

Vettel wins. Well done to him and Ferrari. I foresee a grumpy Lewis on the podium and in the press conferences.

 

[deuse]

That was the most boring race in 15 years.
I feel sorry for people who paid sky to watch it

 

[KiNgPiN83]

Well that was . . dull.

That was pretty boring... lol! I kind of wished I'd stayed in bed now. Haha!

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

"Just the tonic formula 1 needed"

What Brundle? That's the dullest race I've seen in a long long time. Perez had a couple moves and there was the double overtake on Alonso. That was utter **** though.

 

[UTmaniac]

Well at least it wasn't a predictable Mercedes win, half expected to hear Vettel start his old Crazy Frog chorus!

 

[el_dazza]

Pretty sporting congratulations from Hamilton there.

 

[Irish_Tom]

Good work Seb and Ferarri, it was a bit of a snooze fest though (in that I literally snoozed through it).

I wonder whether Hamilton had an issue (was there talk of floor damage?) or whether the Ferarri really does have the race pace over the Merc.

I get the feeling that even if Hamilton had got past Ves after the pit stop (or stopped later) that Seb would have passed him at some point.

 

[Stumble Bum]

Yawnfest

 

[utajoker]

With how little overtaking there was I bet ham would have held vettel off if he had stayed in front.

Track position will be priority over this season I think

 

[deuse]

Why does crofty big crap up? Is he always like that?

 

[UTmaniac]

Might be my bad memory, but only on-track overtakes I can recall are Ocon and Hulk passing Alonso (just before he retired with suspension issue).

 

[Mr Jack]

I get the feeling that even if Hamilton had got past Ves after the pit stop (or stopped later) that Seb would have passed him at some point.

I doubt it. Whoever had race position would have kept it.

 

[Mr Jack]

Might be my bad memory, but only on-track overtakes I can recall are Ocon and Hulk passing Alonso (just before he retired with suspension issue).

There was some passing earlier in the race. Just not much, and not near the front.

 

[Concrete]

Wonder what dig Stewart will have at Hamilton today...

 

[.:MBK:.]

nice touch getting mic pickup on the Ferrari team singing