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[killem2]

I felt the first race/qualifying was quite exciting.

Tires - These don't seem to make much of a difference. Sure they pit stop more, but so does everyone else. Unless you are sergio perez . Seems like a pointless exercise.

DRS - I actually love these things it keeps the final laps from being just a "cruise home" people really have to watch there asses on this.

KERS - If it would be a flawless system for all the teams, I'd support it more, but it punishes new teams more than experienced teams.

[Hammer278]

I disagree on the tyres. I believe they add to the excitement, for example Alonso and Webber in the closing stages after their last pitstops. Webber was all over Alonso due to him having softs and Alonso on hard. There is a definite difference between both compounds, a much bigger difference than Bridgestone had.

Australia I think we can agree, is a bit of a funny circuit, its not really very telling in regards to car performance, etc when in relation to the rest of the season. (Good news for Ferrari fans)

DRS I think looked a bit weak here, but it will be very effective (too effective) from Malaysia onwards IMO.

KERS is old news...we had it before, and for the teams that can't develop it...get the hell out of F1. End of story. I'd prefer this system being enforced, not optional. It is a technology which saves energy to be recycled again, and it could lead to something for road cars who knows.

[FRAFPDD]

Tyres- Australia is a good track to judge them on, weather and layout wise, two most important factors. Some cars are hard on them and some easy, stops pit strategy dead cause you HAVE to come in when they start going off, Hamilton was catching Vettel in seconds/sector at one point. This said most tracks are not road circuits therefore the track rubbering in and being a bit more abrasive will have a definite effect on tyres, especially hot tracks like....Malaysia.


DRS- standing by this as a good idea as proved. Jenson was the only one who couldnt do it BUT, jenson was for some stupid reason using half his kers in the windy bits of the track, so when they hit the straight he was right behind Massa despite Massa using KERS all the way down. Jenson was still faster in top speed desite this and always entered turn 1 right behind Massa, this is all not to mention that australias straight is one of the shorter ones and the entry to it is dodgy for the follwing car.

KERS- indifferent to it, its a cool factor to have but slightly eradicated when everyone has it, red bull dont have it/choose not to, and that could come into play, i mean, you cant just say, Mclaren have KERS and Red Bull dont if Mclaren start overtaking Red Bull, its RB's fault they didnt incorporate it properly.

[vlad]

Get a grip!

[scotty]

Liking them so far. I don't really class KERS as anything new, but i'd like to see it be made more powerful and have a duration/power ratio adjuster to mix it up a bit.

The DRS was a pleasant surprise. It just effectively cancelled out the dirty air rather than made things too easy. Plus, it was great seeing the drivers trying to maximise it's use in qualifying, i think it adds a great new dimension to doing a very quick lap.

Tyres are fine. I love unpredictability.

[nish2280]

Liking them so far. I don't really class KERS as anything new, but i'd like to see it be made more powerful and have a duration/power ratio adjuster to mix it up a bit.

The DRS was a pleasant surprise. It just effectively cancelled out the dirty air rather than made things too easy. Plus, it was great seeing the drivers trying to maximise it's use in qualifying, i think it adds a great new dimension to doing a very quick lap.

Tyres are fine. I love unpredictability.

I agree about the DRS, specially in quali. it brings back a level of driver ability and difficulty in setting a perfect time that we have lost over the years and resulted in lap times being based PURELY off car performance.

[Jensonb]

The tyres are looking good, but DRS and KERS are looking as pointless as I expected. DRS only works if you use it with the KERS.

[f1ea]

i like the new tires. i think the tires alone would have sufficed....

kers sounds cool from a sloganary point of view, but once everyone has it and it stops failing it will add very little. if it helps sell F1 as eco friendly, good. But renewable this... green technology that.... blah blah blah. Sell that to communist hippy vegetarian chicks......... us men, we like our power to come from burning stuff.

the wing thingy seems cool... i dont like it much, but at least it gives something to compensate the trailing car's loss.
in Q i dont see any fundamental reason to allow its use, but it does make it exciting and more on the edge. And on the race i dont know how will anyone use it vs Vettel as by lap 2 when its useable, he'll be 1.5 secs away.

In general, i like the new tires and dont care much about the other 2...

[caladria]

I really like the Firelli tyres - the first round of pit stops was completely tyre and driver driven, and it threw up all sorts of traffic related problems that no amount of clever strategy could avoid. Which meant that the front runners had to try and drive their way past the middle of the field. And when you add to that the variation that Perez was able to get out of them, well, if a few others can turn up and do that with the tyres at odd moments during Grand Prix they could really throw some spanners in the works.

KERS - If everyone's got it and everyone's using it at the same points then there's not much difference between having it or not. The only difference is that those drivers that are a bit heavier are going to have more trouble balancing weight out if there's less wiggle room.

DRS - I don't really get why this is only available at a certain specified point in the track - surely if it could be deployed all the way round the track then we'd get more overtaking manoeuvres? It didn't seem to do an awful lot where it was deployed in Australia, but I'll guess we'll see as the season goes on.

[Jensonb]

Trouble with KERS is it's borderline a spec part. If they allowed open season on developing it...That'd be another story.

[F1er]

I mentioned before that Rubens would have problems multitasking all those gizmos

due to being old

[EvilGiraffe]

Besides the tires, I see only gimmicks.

And perhaps some of you are more aerodynamically minded than I am, so would you please explain to me how effective the DRS is when you can only use it (in the race) when you are within a second of someone and already running in his slipstream. It seems to me that running behind someone rather nullifies the effectiveness of the DRS, but like I say, I don't claim to be in-the-know about this kind of stuff.

[Jensonb]

Besides the tires, I see only gimmicks.

And perhaps some of you are more aerodynamically minded than I am, so would you please explain to me how effective the DRS is when you can only use it (in the race) when you are within a second of someone and already running in his slipstream. It seems to me that running behind someone rather nullifies the effectiveness of the DRS, but like I say, I don't claim to be in-the-know about this kind of stuff.

It's not ineffective, but your point has some merit. As it is, it's more functioning as a way to get past the dirty air than it is providing an out and out speed boost.

[Big Azza]

As far as I know - KERS is mandatory for all teams. The Red Bull car has KERS on it. But for some reason the drivers are under orders not to use it. I think it has something to do with a secret design in their car. I wonder if the button works?

[Bubbie]

I think I want to see more races with the doodads before passing judgment. I would like to see DRS be able to be deployed other places on the course.

For me, if KERS is optional that would be great. I liked a couple years ago when it was optional and you had the teams with it being able to use it against the teams without and vice-versa the teams without having better braking and balance. They (car, ballast and driver) still need to weigh the same don't they?