Or not the World Champion? Sebastian Vettel at the wheel of the new Red Bull RB7 wanted him to repeat since the first round, inflicting the runner, Lewis Hamilton, a separation layer and dethroned his team-mate Webber. That the blond German, already evident in the pre season test of F1, was in great shape, already knew.
But Italian fans were hoping that the Ferrari, not far as performance, but also solid (after testing in Spain) could in the end, thanks to their reliability, impose on the lot. But in fact the others have proved reliable (no break between the cars of the top teams), and so Alonso had to settle for fourth place, with Massa still further back.
Lewis Hamilton and McLaren were a bit 'in Melbourne as a surprise after disappointing test in Valencia and Barcelona. But the team responded well. Perhaps decisive discharges who left the central area to go back to back, in a more traditional. This new solution has worked just fine, although there is no denying that Hamilton has brought us to bring to its goal, the second position, the car that seemed to limp to the end that he was pulling and sparks like a comet ..
. Maybe he could go to the podium mate Jenson Button, but English has lost a lot of time behind Massa, who started very well, until when he decided to overtake in a curve, well beyond the lines that surrounded the track. And this has triggered the drive-through that has penalized. Pleasant and unexpected third place in the Russian Vitaly Petrov who no one expected on the podium.
Said the Ferrari, Alonso and disappointment, which by the way the street has lost a couple of places. The Spaniard chased furiously, as usual, finding out that Ferrari is also very fast even with the hard tires. But all this was not enough. Maybe he could get on the podium, but take Vettel seemed an impossibility.
Massa had early problems with Button, then the hard tires could not handle it well. He fought with Buemi finishing in ninth place, which later became the seventh for Sauber removed the disqualification of the two charts of an irregularity rear wing. Even worse the performance of the Mercedes, with Schumacher just outside Alguersuari hit by hit by Barrichello and Nico Rosberg, who then had to stop for the failure of the transmission, the same trouble that has plagued the Venezuelan Maldonado.
At the end of the race, the paddock, the first controversy erupted, with McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh accused of impropriety that the pilots of the Red Bull would not use the Kers ... Or rather, who had mounted a small and light weight, just to show that they had, though in reality they would use in the race.
And this would go against the idea of having to write poetry on the development of this thing that really, at present, seems to give more trouble than good. Under the magnifying glass also the Pirelli tires, which actually proved to work well, at least for what they were designed. All were afraid of having to make a huge series of pit stops, but there was someone like Perez who made a one-stop, two, three or four.
In short, the management of the two types of tires available, the soft and hard, have joined the race strategy. How to use mobile wing that looked like an accessory rather difficult to use and gave the expected effects, and quickly. Certainly those who expected a race full of overtaking was once again disappointed.
It 'was a nice race with good fights, without the intervention of the safety car, with few contacts and no dramatic incident. It was a test run, finished better than expected. For all, except for Ferrari. 
But Italian fans were hoping that the Ferrari, not far as performance, but also solid (after testing in Spain) could in the end, thanks to their reliability, impose on the lot. But in fact the others have proved reliable (no break between the cars of the top teams), and so Alonso had to settle for fourth place, with Massa still further back.
Lewis Hamilton and McLaren were a bit 'in Melbourne as a surprise after disappointing test in Valencia and Barcelona. But the team responded well. Perhaps decisive discharges who left the central area to go back to back, in a more traditional. This new solution has worked just fine, although there is no denying that Hamilton has brought us to bring to its goal, the second position, the car that seemed to limp to the end that he was pulling and sparks like a comet ..
. Maybe he could go to the podium mate Jenson Button, but English has lost a lot of time behind Massa, who started very well, until when he decided to overtake in a curve, well beyond the lines that surrounded the track. And this has triggered the drive-through that has penalized. Pleasant and unexpected third place in the Russian Vitaly Petrov who no one expected on the podium.
Said the Ferrari, Alonso and disappointment, which by the way the street has lost a couple of places. The Spaniard chased furiously, as usual, finding out that Ferrari is also very fast even with the hard tires. But all this was not enough. Maybe he could get on the podium, but take Vettel seemed an impossibility.
Massa had early problems with Button, then the hard tires could not handle it well. He fought with Buemi finishing in ninth place, which later became the seventh for Sauber removed the disqualification of the two charts of an irregularity rear wing. Even worse the performance of the Mercedes, with Schumacher just outside Alguersuari hit by hit by Barrichello and Nico Rosberg, who then had to stop for the failure of the transmission, the same trouble that has plagued the Venezuelan Maldonado.
At the end of the race, the paddock, the first controversy erupted, with McLaren's Martin Whitmarsh accused of impropriety that the pilots of the Red Bull would not use the Kers ... Or rather, who had mounted a small and light weight, just to show that they had, though in reality they would use in the race.
And this would go against the idea of having to write poetry on the development of this thing that really, at present, seems to give more trouble than good. Under the magnifying glass also the Pirelli tires, which actually proved to work well, at least for what they were designed. All were afraid of having to make a huge series of pit stops, but there was someone like Perez who made a one-stop, two, three or four.
In short, the management of the two types of tires available, the soft and hard, have joined the race strategy. How to use mobile wing that looked like an accessory rather difficult to use and gave the expected effects, and quickly. Certainly those who expected a race full of overtaking was once again disappointed.
It 'was a nice race with good fights, without the intervention of the safety car, with few contacts and no dramatic incident. It was a test run, finished better than expected. For all, except for Ferrari.
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