2013 Australian GP - Albert Park

[Joie de vivre]

Ferrari is really fast and I'm glad that is, someone has to stop those bulls. But I can't figure out what is wrong with merc, I mean they seemed very fast and oohh we must not forget the infamous fric system ... bs! the lack of df is obvious. the start was disaster, falling behind a second lap by lap. I'm also glad about the lotus, looks really good in the right hands

[myurr]

SS tyres at this track was a ridiculous decision.

Need to take the conditions into account. It's also the same for all drivers. Don't forget Sutil was only that far up the grid due to everyone else running the super softs early in the race. It was their call to pit with 9 laps to go - they could have tried to stretch the mediums for another few laps and then maybe it would have worked out for them.

[beardRage]

Kimi has been bottoming out a lot this race. Tons of sparks. These SS tyres are a joke period, only useful for qualifying.

[1158]

SS tyres at this track was a ridiculous decision.

Need to take the conditions into account. It's also the same for all drivers. Don't forget Sutil was only that far up the grid due to everyone else running the super softs early in the race. It was their call to pit with 9 laps to go - they could have tried to stretch the mediums for another few laps and then maybe it would have worked out for them.

Very true. On Fri SS were lasting for 3 to 4 times as long as they are today. Though hard to say if they were being pushed as hard as in the race.

[myurr]

Raikkonen's sets the fastest lap!! Vettel is nearly 2 seconds off the ultimate pace, 1 second when Raikkonen just cruises.

[zgred]

[zeph]

Yeay, Kimi!

Alonso will be disappointed, but Ferrari should be happy that they managed to steal so many points from RBR.

[nhojekim]

I think ferrari has the best race pace…..

[beardRage]

How much of that was him cruising and how much of that was his tyres falling off? Lol

[NathanOlder]

Both Red Bulls going backwards was good news. Vettel over 20 seconds off the pace. 10 behind the ferrari on the same strategy!

[myurr]

Mercedes race pace was actually pretty good, and they looked after their tyres better than everyone except Ferrari and Lotus. Poor pace on the opening lap or two though, and their setup seemed to make them easy to pass. Poor strategy choice though in trying to go for the 2 stopper but failing, probably still would have been 5th so no harm done but would have been closer to the leading pack.

Bodes well for Hamilton, hopefully he should be able to mix it with the leaders more often than not and may even steal the odd win as long as they can keep developing the car.

[mx_tifoso]

Finally a good start by Ferraari in the CC!

And congrats to Kimi, this is why he came back to F1.

[zeph]

Both Red Bulls going backwards was good news. Vettel over 20 seconds off the pace. 10 behind the ferrari on the same strategy!

Yeah, that surprised me, too. Didn't they say that they lost telemetry with Vettel's car?

[Traction]

Well done Kimi...superb race but let's see if Lotus can repeat throughout the year. Lotus looking good for the first race.

Alonso superb in second in clearly the dominant car on the track, the Ferraris are looking faaaast

Well done Seb for third....tyres getting wasted early not helping and RB not looking as good in race pace as in qualifying so for a third..well done. Sometimes up to a second slower that the Feraris must be a worry for them.

Did SV ever get telemetry back during the race. Perhaps without it he needed to be more conservative?

[zgred]

New finger in the town