Poll: Australian Grand Prix 2018, Melbourne - Race 1/21

Rate the 2018 Australian Grand Prix out of ten

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Jesus Christ. How hard is it for these aerodynamic specialists to come up with rules that allow cars to overtake? Surely the first rule of good racing...
 
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Only now finished watching the race, was away all weekend.

I thought it was poor, and taken in isolation doesn't bode too well for the season ahead. Max overdriving his car, from the first lap onwards. Merc quicker than anyone else. Nobody really able to overtake due to not being able to follow closely enough, Honda still lol (glad I saw it in pre-season testing, even if the BBC and others were starting to fawn over them), Bottas still worse than Rosberg on a bad day.

And we didn't even have amusing radio from Alonso!

4/10.
 
I gave it a 2 only because I'm pretty sure you could have a worse F1 race. Like, in theory.

Australia is always a poor start to the season so I guess I have to hope it improves when we get to a decebd track. I think I'll skip the rest of the early races.
 
Race decided by a random element, I’ve so fallen out of love with F1. I’ve got better things to do with my time than waste it watching this.
 
Bit of a dull race, would have had the extra hours in bed in hindsight.

Good bit of luck for Vettel, it wont happen every race and Hamilton has had the same luck previously.

Merc is clearly the faster car so far, quali and race pace.

I don't think we will ever see race wins by 20+ seconds again because as soon as there is a few seconds gap, it is just managed to put the minimum on the engine as possible. Why win by 30 seconds and your engine go pop the next race because you pushed too hard.

I suspect Hamilton could have pulled a big gap but would have put more wear on the engine than was required.

Something needs to be done with the state of overtaking though. Bottas had the fastest car and made up about 7 places in total over the whole race.

Gave it a 6 just because i'm glad F1 is back.
 
Finally got to catch up the race and lol at some of the usual conspiracy/whining in here.

For me...

Kimi, peed a potential win away, again.

Bottas, poor. Verstappen, average. Force India, pants. Haas, LOL

Alonso, awesome as usual.
 
Tried to avoid hearing the result until I could watch the highlights. But sports news came on the TV and I heard "Britain's Lewis Hamilton.." before I quickly managed to mute it. I thought, that's it, I know the result now, Lewis has won it. Either that or they were about to say he'd retired from the race. Wasn't expecting that Vettel had won it.
 
RoboCod said:
Kimi, peed a potential win away, again.

Bottas, poor. Verstappen, average. Force India, pants. Haas, LOL

Alonso, awesome as usual.
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How did Kimi have a potential win? His only way of winning was if Ferrari had pitted Vettel first and forced Hamilton to pit early to cover for the undercut but Ferrari were always going to choose the strategy with the maximum chance of Vettel winning over anything that favoured Kimi. Kimi drove the best weekend he could.

Bottas, yeah, poor as usual. Verstappen got jumped at the start and then was the only driver I can recall who wrecked his race by his own unforced error. He threw away an easy 4th place. I don't know how you can describe that as average. I thought Force India did pretty well. They have the lowest budget of any team and they beat out Haas, Toro Rosso, Sauber, and Williams and got both cars to the end with Perez keeping pace with Sainz. That's a decent result for a team like Force India.

Alonso drove a great race. Only Riccardo did better in my eyes.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Really, how often do people state these completely daft things. In tracks you can't pass in general and everyone struggles to pass, the Merc struggles to pass and people insist the Merc but no one else is a car designed only to lead and sucks in dirty air. At all the tracks that have good overtaking the Merc has exactly on trouble at all but it's entirely ignored because it doesn't fit the narrative people literally made up.

RBR supposedly has the best aero, people don't talk about it struggling to overtake due to dirty air, yet Ricciardo struggled to pass a obviously slowly Kimi. Every car struggled to pass today because it's a pretty awful track for racing.

Some tracks suck for overtaking, they suck every year, Monaco, Australia, Spain, etc.

Everyone got stuck today, it's a generally awful track. The people seem good, the atmosphere seems good, the track itself looks visually good, fast laps look good in qualifying, but the racing is terrible. It's similar to Monaco in that respect, it looks great in qualifying but the race is usually terrible.
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well said.
 
Watched up-to the virtual safely car and turned it off, it was dire up-to that point and that was final straw.

As an F1 fan I have to explain this to others and it's embarrassing.
 
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