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Mar201028

Rob

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Button wins in Australia for McLaren

Jenson Button gave a masterclass to the other drivers, he was the bravest man on the tyres and his smooth style meant that he could finish the race on the same tyres that that he drove 4/5ths of the race on. While all the other drivers were fighting and struggling on the worn tyres Jenson Button serenely drove on at the front on his way to his first victory at McLaren.
The race itself was a much better show than in Bahrain and it seems clear that it would have been even if there hadn’t been the rain at the start. The track lends itself more to overtaking than Bahrain though Michael Schumacher will probably disagree given the amount of time that he spent behind Jaime Alguersuari.
The Red Bulls suffered from mechanical failure again as Sebastien Vettel had a brake failure on his way to retirement and Mark Webber misjudged a [...]

Mar201027

Rob

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Australian GP Qualifying, Sebastien Vettel takes pole for Red Bull again

The qualifying session for the Australian GP started with traffic problems as the new slower cars tried to get out of the way of the fast cars on the shorter track. The weather was also threatening for the whole session as the teams scrambled to avoid being caught out. It was the Red Bull team that put down a marker though with Sebastien Vettel taking pole and Mark Webber locking out the front row in an ominous fashion .
Session 1
The first part of qualifying saw the elimination of all the new cars though the Lotus cars performed the best of those. Vitaly Petrov joined the new cars that were knocked out of the session as he struggled to get to grips with the Albert Park circuit.
Session 2
The second session saw all the teams getting times in to make sure that they avoided any weather problems, the only real surprise is [...]

Mar201026

Rob

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Australia Practice 2 – Lewis Hamiton and Jenson Button take McLaren to the top

The second practice session in Melbourne was affected by the rain as the teams hit in the garages for some of the session and practised pit stops. The session ended with all the teams trying to put in some times but it was Lewis Hamilton and McLaren that came out on top closely followed by Jenson Button.
Mark Webber showed the pace of the Red Bull by taking the second slot and Michael Schumacher took the fourth spot and finally beat Rosberg in the times. Vitaly Petrov underlined the fact that the Renault seems hooked up at the Australian circuit by posting the fifth fastest time – even if they are running light that’s better than last time out.
The Virgins and the HRT Cosworths/Hispania Racing cars didn’t really make an appearance either – finishing the race is going to be an uphill struggle for both these teams this weekend. Lotus however [...]

Mar201025

Rob

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Virgin hoping that they’ve finally solved their reliability issues

The Virgin team are confident that they have solved the reliability issues that meant that their car hasn’t run for more than 18 laps or so yet. This means that they have addressed the hydraulic problems that they have had since the launch of the car and the transmission problems that they had at Sakhir.
Virgin impressed at Bahrain by qualifying fastest of all the new teams and then disappointed on race day by not managing to make the first set of stops. The hydraulic issues that put out one of their cars out in Bahrain seems the same as the one that they claimed to have solved after the pre-season testing where they had these issues – it seems that the fix didn’t work and they now have a ‘robust’ solution to the problem, let’s hope that’s true.
They also had transmission issues in Bahrain and these would seem separate from [...]

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