What happened to the Ferrari’s in Australia?
Ferrari promised from Bahrain that they were going to be one of the cars to beat this season and then they seemed to fade in Australia. How much of this was due to the weather and how much of this was due to Alonso’s first lap spin?And was there anything else at play?
It seems that the Ferrari team are playing it safe this year – they aren’t taking extra risks like coming in for tyres or changing to early – I’m not saying that it was the wrong decision but I think it is why we hardly saw the Ferraris all race apart from Lewis Hamilton’s onboard camera. They had a solid race, they finished 3rd and 4th after all but they had promised much more – it seems odd that they couldn’t pass the Renault of Robert Kubica but then if the paddock is to be believed you need a 3s advantage to overtake in F1, not something that you often have.
The weather didn’t really affect the Ferrari’s other than they saw Jenson Button come out in front of them, if Webber and Hamilton hadn’t pitted that might have been a different story though. Alonso did a good job of keeping them behind him for a good few laps though he’s had a lot of practice at driving a wide car at Renault.
The fact that Alonso ended the first lap almost dead last and still managed to finish fourth is something of an achievement, he was also close to getting past Felipe Massa at various points of the race, I wonder what he could have put together had he not had to fight from the back? It seems that he might have got second place but I’m not sure he could have beaten Button because of the way that the Englishman took the lead.
So in short it was a solid conservative weekend for Ferrari – expect more in Malaysia this weekend.
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