Race Report: Australia

Hey bloggers.

Hope you are having a lovely day.

Just a quick race report for the Australian GP.

Now for race reports I want to make them as short as possible, mainly so you don't get bored but also so you get all the facts in more bitesize pieces so the race report will be a breakdown of what happened and when.

Other then me writing tons and losing you after two lines.

This is how most race reports will look.

(Only they will be posted more quickly then this one :))

The Podium

1. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)

2 Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
3. Vitaly Petrov (Renualt)

Retirements

Lap 9: Pastor Maldonado (Willams) Transmission Failure

Lap 19: Michael Schumacher (Mercedes) Puncture damage
Lap 19: Heikki Kovalainen (Lotus) Water Leak
Lap 22: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) Accident damage

Lap 48: Rubens Barrichello (Williams) Transmission

Incidents/crashes/Disqualifications

• Michael Schumacher and Jaime Alguersuari having a mini crash on the first lap
• Sergio Perez managing to only pit once when everyone else did two or three stops
• Jenson Button getting a drive through penalty for cutting the corner when fighting with Felipe Massa
• Rubens Barrichello and Nico Rosberg having an incident on lap 22.
• Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi getting disqualified for there rear wing being too short.
• Paul Di Resta (A British driver) ending up with points as a result of the saubers being disqualified.

Overtake move of the race.

Jenson Button using the DRS button to get past Massa.
(That button will most likely come into effect more in Malaysia)

Man of the Race

For me it's a joint honour.

Both Vitaly Petrov and Sergio Perez deserve it.

Petrov proved to his team and the world that Renault need him and that he is just has good in the car has the absent Robert Kubica

Sergio on his debut race, managed to only stop once on tyres that fade quickly and he didn't put a foot wrong, even though his points were taken off him due to an infringement. I think we will see more to come of this young driver

Loser of the race

Rubens Barrichello.

For a man with 19 years experience in F1. Barrichello made some massive schoolboy errors, especially with overtaking. I hope this is just a blip in an otherwise maturing F1 driver.

My thoughts

Now every F1 fan expects a thriller of an opening race, especially after the dullness of Bahrain last year.

Now Australia is a great track but the race was OK but not memorable.

However this race I think is going to lead a fantastic season of F1.

The race was mainly though a tale of two halves
The rookies shone (Perez and Di Resta). The oldies seemed to forget there marbles (Schumacher and Barrichello)

Some teams amazed (Sauber) and some fell into a heap (HRT and Mercedes)

and above all Red Bull dominated and the rest of the pack have to catch up.

I have a suspicion that it will though.

:):)

Championship lead.

1. Vettel 25

2. Hamilton 18
3. Petrov 15

Team standings.

1. Red Bull 35

2. McLaren 26

3. Ferrari 18

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