2012 Australian Grand Prix Thread - Official

pretty dissapointed with Hamilton p3 it was all about the poor start by Hamilton and that was that :(
but p3 isn't a bad start
and a poor decision to bring both cars in
also did vettel adhere to the delta time once the SCD came out?

oh well

thankfully we only have a week until the next race

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Well, Button the best driver.
Red Bull the fastest car

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Maybe the other way around McLaren faster than RB and Vettel the best driver as he managed to beat one of the McLarens

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

What on earth happened with Rosberg?

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Usual Rosberg stuff, going backwards during the race.

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Originally Posted by truefan72

also did vettel adhere to the delta time once the SCD came out?

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he was rather slow on teh track before going for the pit road, so I guess he did.

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Originally Posted by ioan

What are you dreaming about there? What 2 seconds?
Lewis was getting slower and when he pitted Seb went faster and used his tires better than Lewy. Seb was ahead of Hamy before they caught up with the SC.

I fail to see how the SC influenced whether Seb was going to overtake Hamy or not? Maybe you can elaborate on your philosophy.

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Before rapunzel pitted under SC, he did a S2 that was 5-6 seconds faster than anyone else for whatever reason. If I remember correctly, he did a 29,9 in S2 (very slow time, but others were even slower due to yellow flags), whereas Hamilton and others were doing something like 34-35 seconds.
Before pitting Hamilton had been 2 seconds in front of Vettel and now was on new tyres and in this idiotic era the first one to pit gets the advantage usually.
So rapunzel was not gonig to get past Hamilton.

Final results?

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Originally Posted by truefan72

i think rosberg overtook on the inside of the track on turn 8

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He should have been happy with his 7th place.

I would totally forgive Maldonado for that mistake. He drove a really good race and just tried a bit too hard to catch Alonso. I wonder if Frank Williams will be so understanding ;)

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Originally Posted by ioan

Maybe the other way around McLaren faster than RB and Vettel the best driver as he managed to beat one of the McLarens

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Rapunzel was not even better than Webber today pacewise. So racepace wise there is no question - Red bull is the fastest car.

I wonder if KERS was working for Mark today or did Helmut "cock" Marko make sure it wasn't working today either. Could not have old Webbo beating the golden girl of the team.

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Originally Posted by ioan

What are you dreaming about there? What 2 seconds?
Lewis was getting slower and when he pitted Seb went faster and used his tires better than Lewy. Seb was ahead of Hamy before they caught up with the SC.

I fail to see how the SC influenced whether Seb was going to overtake Hamy or not? Maybe you can elaborate on your philosophy.

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Hamilton maintained a 2 second gap over vettel for most of the race and judging by the fact that Webber could not get past Hamilton despite drs advantage I think it is safe to say that Hamilton would have stayed 2nd

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Originally Posted by ioan

He should have been happy with his 7th place.

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What a moronic thing to say.