What a boring race

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Originally Posted by Josti

And well the location, just dreadful, boring circuit that has absolutely no appeal for a season opener. Looking forward to Australia.

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Well not all the places on the Earth look the same, so I'm not sure what to make of your comment.

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

It was the track as much as anything. Bland featureless desert with a stupid twisty middle bit, all because of Bernie's desire to kiss Arab backside.

Barely any overtaking, poor camerawork and directing, Legard and Brundle sounded asleep, I can't be bothered to write any more!

Roll on Australia :D

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I agree. It would be nice to start the season somewhere a bit more special.

Hope you're right about Australia!

Not a very interesting race. A handful of overtaking moves, the only crash in the entire race wasn't caught on camera and the only point of real interest was Vettel's exhaust at the end. Hopefully Melbourne will be an improvement.

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

Didn't see too much difference compared with last season. Fewer pitlane passes perhaps, but other than that I think the Schumacher/Button/Webber "battle" illustrated the real issue. Unless the car in front has a problem (like Vettel did) passing is almost impossible with or without fuel stops.

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At least after a third of the race/first pit window you couldn't make a good prediction for the finish.

it should be no refuelling and no tires or refuelling and tires right now almost everybody burnt cautious laps till the middle of the race. it doesnt pay to risk at the beggining of the race just ask sutil kubica and the hulk

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Originally Posted by ioan

Well not all the places on the Earth look the same, so I'm not sure what to make of your comment.

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The fact that Bahrain is quite a characterless circuit, which they thought would be cleverly put away by adding silly colours everywhere.

Wouldn't you much rather see a populair event like Australia as the season opener, one where you can actually see people on the grandstands.

I come away with 3 main points from this "race"

1) The top ten starting on different tyres made zero difference! Bridgestone has always been very conservative in its tyres so there seemed little difference between Rubens on the hard and the cars agead on the soft - so what the hell was the point?

2) The first corner. Now that (on a race track where overtaking is at its easiest) the field has discovered that passing is impossible I expect Melbournes first lap to be a lot more frantic as its the first, and only, passing chance in this era of racing.

3) The pitstops. I was expecting fireworks, but everyone seemed very methodical. After all the talk of 2.5s stops the best I saw was 4.0s.

Overall very anti climatic. :(

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

I said before that no refuelling will make the races boring, just like they were in the beginning of 90s and in 80s, complete processions.

So what happened today? All leaders pitted within a 3 laps for new tyres and that was it, no action on track.

BORING.

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I agree but I blame the track more than anything else. Let's hope Australia is different.

The problem is that the teams have decided to go for one stop strategies which kill the incentive to overtake. Why risk making a move on the guy in front when you might flatspot your tyres and live with the consequences for the next 40 laps?

Hopefully we'll see some more excitement as teams get used to new strategies and try taking some risks, but I'm not holding my breath.

I think the new section was pointless but the circuit still had a couple of overtaking spots - as it was proved by Kubica and others.

However, once a driver started pushing and closing the gap, the tyres were overheating in the other car's wake. In the BBC post race interview, Schumacher also complained about the restrictive tyre rules, which backs up Ioan's position.

Blaming the circuit and the refuelling ban is too easy. The core reason for the lack of overtaking hasn't changed: it's very difficult to follow another car closely because of the aerodynamics and tyre behaviour.