Australian GP 2009 ( finally! )

[Ray]

Boy Brundle can be quite the dickhead. He's quite rude to nearly everyone he talks to, no tact in that mans body.

[shir0]

formation lap...

sheesh...do those front ploughs...err...wings, look too wide now...

[WhiteBlue]

What a race!

Oh no!!!! Vettel an Kubica are taking themselves out.

[Jersey Tom]

Incredibly dumb by Seb Vettel. Clearly way way slower than the BMW. Should have backed completely out and let him by rather than fight him off on shot tires.

Not Kubica's best judgment either, but jeez. That was unnecessary.

[shir0]

W O W !

[megz]

Good job to the Brawns! terrible race from Ferrari (whom I support for Kimi ) Good job from Buemi and the suprise 4th/3rd (lol wut) for Hamilton.

[WhiteBlue]

Well done Brawn and Button. Rubens really got lucky there with Seb and Robert colliding. A compensation for the bad start.

[Vasco]

Damn that Brawn GP is a real speed demon!!!! Awesome race by Vettel, Kubica and even Hamilton........WOW this is gonna be an interesting year. My only concern is the use of KERS when blocking an overtaking move, we saw that with Alonso and Glock and this probably robbed Glock off a podium finish.

[myurr]

Some amazing drives there. Button obviously, on a day when it would have been easy for him to make a small mistake and he just controlled everything so smoothly. Lights to flag.

Can we have some apologies from all those saying that Hamilton is useless and needs to drive a slow car. From the back to 4th in that car was incredible. Benefited from the safety car, but he beat Renault and Ferrari on track.

Trulli and Glock, both incredible drives to get up there. Similar story to Hamilton.

Kubica and Vettel, until they're stupidity at the end, were worthy of a mention.

Finally there's Barrichello. First corner brain fade (but no penalty, despite a worse infraction than Hamilton in Fuji last year!?) but a solid drive from there on in. Was unlucky on the start line where if it had gone smoothly was likely to have had a much cleaner race.

[woohoo]

Vettel!!!!
Way to go to wreck your race and someone elses too.

Kubica had the speed, had the line, and had made maneuver, there was nothing he could/should do there.

Was an interesting race untill then though.

[myurr]

My only concern is the use of KERS when blocking an overtaking move, we saw that with Alonso and Glock and this probably robbed Glock off a podium finish.

Well Alonso could argue that he was having to put up with a less optimal ballast distribution in order to have KERS.

I actually thought it added to the action quite nicely. We had different drivers using KERS in different places. Hamilton showed that KERS vs KERS works when he overtook Piquet. Looking at the graphics the McLaren KERS solution does seem better than say the Ferrari one - Hamilton had the full charge to play with each lap, the Ferrari system never seemed more than half charged (although we never really saw the start of the lap in car with the Ferrari).

[Vasco]

Honda racing must be feeling like a bunch of idiots now!!! Buahahahahha!!!!

[ISLAMATRON]

bullshit.... Kubica's fault... cant drive into someone next to you, whether it be on the racetrack or the highway.

[joseff]

...and I thought I'd seen everything in F1. Well done Brawn GP!

Takeo Fukui: Time to eat your balaclava

[Jersey Tom]

I'd put the blame way more on Vettel than Kubica. Vettel knew Kubica was going to go for position, and he knew (or should have known) there's no way in hell he could defend it till end of race. Absolutely no way. He could have been smart and backed off as Kubica was coming up on him into the corner, in which case he'd be on podium right now. Instead he stuck with it. Dumb dumb dumb. But yea, BK was also partially to blame.

Certainly apparent that the season will shape up to be interesting. Will have to see how car developments shape up.

Don't think I'd consider Honda's management idiots. Switch from Honda engines to McLaren is a big one for BrawnGP. Had Honda stuck around and powered the cars I don't think they would have been quite as quick, though still certainly better than they had been. Still a huge capital expenditure.

Not very impressed by Bridgestone's performance. On the one hand I'm sure FIA made a significant stipulation on the compounds to be brought.. and the difference was definitely there. But the balance from front to rear... that rear tire sucks.