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[Tony_sa]

indeed, they're insisting on tightening up the grid which goes hand in hand in preventing teams making advantages, in which other sport are the rules changed so much? Not to mention the refuelling ban next season.

TBH I dont enjoy F1 like i used to. i dont bother to watch many of the races either.

[racechick]

Yep pretty boring race. Vettel drove perfectly, but thats what he's good at if he gets to the front and he did have the bast car today(why does that guy annoy the pants off me )

Lewis did well as a rookie round a tricky circuit without KERS for some of the time. Nice to see Kovi make a move in anger even if it was only for 11th. Brawns looked nothing, it wont be an impressive champion methinks.
Fisi faired a little better and Kimi drove well. Trulli ace! Thats about it I reckon.

[NocturnalTendencies]

Qualifying was far more exciting than the race; hats off to Vettel though; that kid shined.

P.S. I hope his manager hints to him that he should keep his post race interview comments down to a minimum of 10,000 words. </sarcasm>

[RJP Kimi]

Overtaking was good at Australia, Malaysia and thats about it.

The double diffusers ruined the overtaking, back at the start when only 6 cars had them, the cars could follow a lot closer. But the diffuser just ruined the clean air again

[Gilles 27]

Overtaking was good at Australia, Malaysia and thats about it.

The double diffusers ruined the overtaking, back at the start when only 6 cars had them, the cars could follow a lot closer. But the diffuser just ruined the clean air again

i agree, the double diffusers loophole means that we have not seen the desired effect of the regulation changes this year, largely because the regulations were not well constructed enough to avoid the teams immediately finding ways round them

[cap-dude]

Strangely enough, Australia is always extremely good for overtaking. One glance at the track and you'd think its impossible, but there's 3, maybe 4 very realistic places to overtake.

But maybe that's just because its early in the season and there's less little aero bits on the cars, that are affected by turbulence. Who knows.

[Gilles 27]

I think the low grip levels, the high rate of driver error owing to it being the first race and the setup compromises that result from opening the season at a street circuit contribute to the overtaking at Melbourne. we shall see if Bahrain is as good for this next year...

[Juliet P]

I fell asleep during the race :

I Fellasleep with all the jibbering at the end.
Woke up and thought, "Why, what, why are they on about Rosberg getting a penalty??"
Thats all they were saying at the point I woke

I fell asleep during the race too - woke up just after Algy's accident and annoyed everyone in the chat by asking what the hell had happened!! Sorry guys...

[headless]

Strangely enough, Australia is always extremely good for overtaking. One glance at the track and you'd think its impossible, but there's 3, maybe 4 very realistic places to overtake.

But maybe that's just because its early in the season and there's less little aero bits on the cars, that are affected by turbulence. Who knows.

Its like happy hour

[Amanda]

I fell asleep during the race :

I Fellasleep with all the jibbering at the end.
Woke up and thought, "Why, what, why are they on about Rosberg getting a penalty??"
Thats all they were saying at the point I woke

I fell asleep during the race too - woke up just after Algy's accident and annoyed everyone in the chat by asking what the hell had happened!! Sorry guys...

No problem. You sure you didn't drop off twice? I think we lost you for a while a second time

[FerrariFan63]

When are we going to get some exciting racing again? Even the MotoGP was boring.

[EwanM]

When are we going to get some exciting racing again? Even the MotoGP was boring.

lol remove the double-deck diffusers and the kers and get the cars back to a mid 90 spec.

Sure you won't get overtaking after overtaking (F1 never has had that) but you might get some improvement.

Moto Gp has been very poor for a while.

[Denthúl]

When are we going to get some exciting racing again? Even the MotoGP was boring.

lol remove the double-deck diffusers and the kers and get the cars back to a mid 90 spec.

Sure you won't get overtaking after overtaking (F1 never has had that) but you might get some improvement.

Moto Gp has been very poor for a while.

I was looking over the total overtaking moves per season over the past thirty or so years and whilst they did decline every year, it was a reasonable amount as regulations got tighter. However the really big drop was when manual gearboxes were phased out and we ended up with semi-automatics instead. You see a massive drop-off from around 1993 onwards.

[EwanM]

When are we going to get some exciting racing again? Even the MotoGP was boring.

lol remove the double-deck diffusers and the kers and get the cars back to a mid 90 spec.

Sure you won't get overtaking after overtaking (F1 never has had that) but you might get some improvement.

Moto Gp has been very poor for a while.

I was looking over the total overtaking moves per season over the past thirty or so years and whilst they did decline every year, it was a reasonable amount as regulations got tighter. However the really big drop was when manual gearboxes were phased out and we ended up with semi-automatics instead. You see a massive drop-off from around 1993 onwards.

That's a good point. However do you reallly seeee F1 going back to manual gearboxes? Im not against them, infact i've love it - but look at most motorsports around the world. The main classes rarely use them nowadays

[Denthúl]

When are we going to get some exciting racing again? Even the MotoGP was boring.

lol remove the double-deck diffusers and the kers and get the cars back to a mid 90 spec.

Sure you won't get overtaking after overtaking (F1 never has had that) but you might get some improvement.

Moto Gp has been very poor for a while.

I was looking over the total overtaking moves per season over the past thirty or so years and whilst they did decline every year, it was a reasonable amount as regulations got tighter. However the really big drop was when manual gearboxes were phased out and we ended up with semi-automatics instead. You see a massive drop-off from around 1993 onwards.

That's a good point. However do you reallly seeee F1 going back to manual gearboxes? Im not against them, infact i've love it - but look at most motorsports around the world. The main classes rarely use them nowadays

Correct. However, because a lot of those also use spec cars (to some extent at least) the need for mistakes is lessened by the fact that nobody's car is a second a lap quicker/slower than anyone else's. It's more down to the driver than the car.