2012 Australian Grand Prix Thread - Official

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Originally Posted by Robinho

Just a note, but Michaels gearbox broke going into the corner, which caused the off, not the other way round

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Oh, well, I guess... they (speed channel usa) were trying to point out something with his gear changes going into the corner but also could it be case of michael using an excuse? To me it just looked like vettel pressured him to brake too late and he went off the same way others did only his car really bounced and dug into the grass / ground. personally i think that is what screwed his gear box and he doesnt want to admit it.

also, replace nico rosberg with keke rosberg might see better results LOL, and to that extent i wonder if ralph schumi would have done a whole lot worse than michael the last few years!? I mean i am a big michael fan but he has really disappointed me. i never in a million years thought nico rosberg would beat michael schumacher so much. im thinking michael should have never tried a comeback now. its tainted his greatness reputation in my mind now. nico is really failing to deliver as well. i was pumped for mercedes after qualy but seems it was just a fluke, car not so great in race and drivers still lackluster making too many mistakes. =/ in reality when you look at results nothing has really changed much from 2010 or 2011... (the whole f1 running order)

Turn one is a 3rd gear corner and Schumacher said on the radio that 3rd gear had gone. So it makes sense that losing 3rd gear in that corner would result in a mistake.

Schumy said after the race, he was losing drive and he went off to avoid a spin.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

Did they? I, for one, absolutely expected them to have been exactly where they were in Melbourne.

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A few journos were talking up how they thought Caterham was poised to score points.
I was hoping they would finally take the next step; but I guess they still aren't ready.

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Originally Posted by N. Jones

A few journos were talking up how they thought Caterham was poised to score points.

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True, they were.

Well the Caterhams were about 2.7sec per lap off the pace in the race, which ain't bad. They've cut the gap to the front by at least 1sec I think.

btw did anyone notice that Petrov was beating Kovalainen on merit in the race?

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Originally Posted by Kevincal

Pretty good race, Jenson, wow, who would have thought he would make hamilton look slow... This has to be a big blow to Lewis' confidence. Another race like this and it will be back to disgruntled LH.

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It's not really that bad. At this level you get punished for small errors.

On a positive note Button & Vettel weren't able to romp away with huge margins. The 10s deficit to Button was because of being caught out by Perez.

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Originally Posted by rjbetty

Well the Caterhams were about 2.7sec per lap off the pace in the race, which ain't bad. They've cut the gap to the front by at least 1sec I think.

btw did anyone notice that Petrov was beating Kovalainen on merit in the race?

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He wasn't, Heikki didn't have KERS, DRS started working only on lap six and he also had a steering issue all through the race which lead to his retirement in the end.

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Originally Posted by Kevincal

Pretty good race, Jenson, wow, who would have thought he would make hamilton look slow... This has to be a big blow to Lewis' confidence. Another race like this and it will be back to disgruntled LH.

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Lewis certainly was not slow, but he did look disgruntled and understandably so. McLaren appear to have a quick car which could be a championship winner and yet, like last season, Jenson appears (early days) to have the upper hand.

I was watching a documentary about Alain Prost at the weekend, and he was talking about how McLaren was his team before Senna arrived. I'm not comparing drivers but the generally accepted view is that this is Hamilton's team, or at least it was until Button came along. JB has, by his personality and performances, made himself very much a part of McLaren. That must have had an effect on Lewis, as well as being beaten by a team-mate, which he's not used to.

Interesting times at Woking :eek:

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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1

I was watching a documentary about Alain Prost at the weekend, and he was talking about how McLaren was his team before Senna arrived. I'm not comparing drivers but the generally accepted view is that this is Hamilton's team, or at least it was until Button came along. JB has, by his personality and performances, made himself very much a part of McLaren. That must have had an effect on Lewis, as well as being beaten by a team-mate, which he's not used to.

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And does Button not do quite a lot of the set-up work?