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

Rate the 2018 Australian Grand Prix out of ten

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I really don't think it was a terrible race, I would genuinely give it a 7.

Each race has to be taken in isolation, and in context. This is the first race of the season, in a place where overtaking is hard, with new cars, and as such the racing was a little predictable, but the screw up with the VSC meant a window of opportunity was opened up by Ferrari gambling on a strategy that paid off.

There was intrigue with the Haas situation, clarifying of the status quo in terms of performance, Kimi looking more racey than he has in years, williams imploding (I still think stroll wont make it to the end of the year). I think the cars are sounding great, and we ended up the day with Merc not winning.

I actually think its a pretty solid setup for the year.

I believe there is a lot of rose tinted rearward gazing going on in F1 in general. There are "boring" races in every season (even the "GREAT" seasons), and these add up to the tapestry of what a season of F1 is. Australia is always about seeing whats been done in the build up, who was sandbagging, who blows up, and who got it mostly right and can capitalise on the events.

Still, it's cool to bash F1, so yeah, its crap.
 
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ThestigGT999 said:
watch the red bull try overtaking the haas or the alonso train at the end
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You're as easily entertained as Crofty then :D

Trains where there's no chance of overtaking aren't all that entertaining.

I've just watched the highlights and the Max vs K-Mag 'battle' only featured when Max spun. It can't have been that entertaining then. They also jump from lap 47 to lap 58 and Vettel crossing the line, so absolutely nothing of note happened in the final 11 laps of the race yet it's still a 10/10.
 
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If only F1 forced aero regs that allow cars to follow closely we would be setup for an enthralling year of constant battling and overtaking.

The top three are actually quite close this year in race pace terms at least, Haas are the upset team this year and McLaren are finally showing life.

Yes the sport as a whole needs to be cheaper, but this year F1 has potentially so many good stories for the season. Shame it's all spoiled by the technical regulations, halo goes under that bracket too - has no place in motorsport imo.
 
I give it 9/10.

There was no gambling at all from Vettel. He always plays that game with the intent of much fresher tyres towards the end of each race.
 
Outcast said:
Bring back Ground Effect
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Daft idea, it would solve nothing, create more problems, and become an area that would be exploited more heavily by the big teams initially.

The ground effect era was a dangerous, and boring era where some cars dominated. To implement it today would require the use of G-suits, HUGE run off areas, and track redesigns, and spectators further from the action.

Its so easy to say something like that, and not fully understand the implications.

Its not constructive, its boring, and adds nothing. Perhaps add your reasoning behind it, and it might be taken more seriously.

What F1 does need is a period of relatively static regulations, to use the law of diminishing returns to bring the field together. Perhaps force some sort of information sharing to the lower teams from winning teams, perhaps the winning team should have to share the launch spec of the championship winning car to the lowest 2 teams.

Make it a more level field, and allow the lowest teams to benefit from the disproportionate budgets in some way. Might go some of the way to helping?
 
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Shimmy said:
If only F1 forced aero regs that allow cars to follow closely we would be setup for an enthralling year of constant battling and overtaking.

The top three are actually quite close this year in race pace terms at least, Haas are the upset team this year and McLaren are finally showing life.

Yes the sport as a whole needs to be cheaper, but this year F1 has potentially so many good stories for the season. Shame it's all spoiled by the technical regulations, halo goes under that bracket too - has no place in motorsport imo.
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Exactly, engines should be powerfull enough to easily break traction,mechanical grip should be far greater than aero grip and run offs need to be fixed so there's a good chance of not carrying on like the old days.
Then remove the stupid drs, would rather see a trillion train than that crap.
 
Malt_Vinegar said:
Daft idea, it would solve nothing, create more problems, and become an area that would be exploited more heavily by the big teams initially.
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It would solve the problem of 'dirty air', i.e. the loss of downforce following another car, almost at once.

Malt_Vinegar said:
The ground effect era was a dangerous
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Kinda. But it was a dangerous time in GP racing for lots of reasons that didn't have anything to do with ground effect as well.

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and boring era where some cars dominated.
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I'd dispute that some. If you take the ground effect era as beginning with the Lotus 79 in 1978 and ending at the close of '82 (flat bottomed cars were mandated for '83) then you've got the aforementioned 79 winning just 6 times in the 33 races it entered, the Ferrari 312 T4 (a sort-of ground effect car) that won 6 races in '79 before the T5 was utterly outclassed the next year. That year you'd got cars from Williams, Renault, Brabham and Ligier winning. Then in '81 Williams, Brabham, Ferrari, McLaren, Renault and Ligier won races. And then there was '82 during which Renault, McLaren, Williams, Ferrari, Tyrell, Brabham and Lotus all took wins.

Compare that to 1984, after ground effect had been banned, and you've got McLaren winning 12 races out of 16.

;)
 
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