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CarGuru > Formula-1 > [SPOILER] Random Melbourne thoughts 7 March 2005 12:16:17
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[SPOILER] Random Melbourne thoughts

Pete Fenelon 6 March 2005 21:19:06
 
Not a classic race by any stretch of the imagination, and a serious
disappointment in many respects - particularly that we didn't really
see anyone charging to make up the grid positions they lost due to rain
in qualifying. Anyone hoping for Michael and Kimi carving through the
field.... probably tuned out.

Can't say the cars looked significantly slower or that the new aero rules
seemed to make it any easier to overtake. Seems that all the rule-changes
have succeeded in doing is making the aero treatments on this year's
cars (the McLaren in particular) grotesque, with every car besmirched
by excrescences and looking like it's carrying a deformed tea-tray in
front of it - almost an inverted echo of the March 711, albeit
much less elegant, and some of the rear wing endplates are ugly
enough for the first F1 Ensign.

The "wooden" tyres seem to favour a very cautious technique with
conservative/classi­cal driving styles favoured over understeery/pointy
"late-in and get the power on ASAP" kart-like technique. Which might make
life hard for a certain multiple champion..... Rubens was always more
of a "classicist" in his driving technique than Michael, and he made the
'04 Ferrari work today ;)

So, as ever, relatively little passing on track and a lot in the pits.
Strategy, yada, yada, yada.... I guess it proves that however you tinker
with the rules you get about the same standard of racing - i.e. mediocre -
while there's still way too much downforce, electronics, and refuelling.

The Renaults both looked formidable and Fissi actually looked like a
true top driver; he made this win look easy (and richly deserved). I
suspect he'll regard it as his first "proper" GP win. This is clearly
the Great Leap Forward that Renault have been promising but not delivering
for the last few years, but I think this is a bit of a temporary happy
hour for them before the '05 Ferrari appears. Get some 10s and 8s on the
board while you can, then concentrate on being around when the red cars
trip up.

Most encouraging sight was the performance of Coulthard in the Red Bull.
I'm not and have never been a great Coulthard fan, he seems like a nice
guy but he's slipped too comfortably into the role of No. 2 driver in the
past; now a team (and a team that's been right to the brink) is looking
to him to provide some leadership - and he put in a solid performance
in a car that looked predictable and quick (and has a stunning paint
job!). They're not going to win anything this year, but I think if
Coulthard can keep putting the car in that sort of position - which seems
to be entirely possible given that Williams seem to have abdicated their
position as a front-running team and McLaren didn't look too stunning
either - he and RBR will regard the season as a success. Klien continued
to be quietly, unobtrusively competent.

Kimi and Michael (until his "incident") looked completely
disinterested. No chance of points, no reason to try hard? Rubens
demonstrated that the 2004 Ferrari is still quick if you want it to be.

Williams - Webber was aggressive and tidy in what's clearly not a quick
car. Heidfeld was virtually invisible until his encounter with something
orangey-red that "didn't see him". This is going to be a very long season
at Grove.

Ah, the Heidfeld-Schumacher­ incident. Avoidable error on the part of
Schumacher, IMHO, trying to chop Heidfeld. Had he not parked it I believe
he should've been black flagged. I can't see how Heidfeld could've been
in his blind spot...

What I saw of the rookies didn't impress me much. Friesacher seemed to
be all over the place on the rare occasions we saw him, and painfully
slow (how much is the awful car and how much is his lack of testing
miles?); and both Monteiro and Karthikeyan had offs. I'm reluctant to
blame that all on the drivers given the "high quality" of recent Jordan
chassis, although Tiago was doing a good impression of a mobile chicane
in front of Webber...

Also conspicuous by his absence from any fireworks was Jacques
Villeneuve. 4th to 14th, are we taking bets on whether he'll complete
the season or will there be a catastrophic toys/pram exit situation?

BAR were very quiet and the car seems to eat rear tyres. And it wasn't a
good race for Toyota either; Trulli seemed to go in reverse for most of
the race, clearly flattered by getting a good run in first qualifying.

I found it hard to distinguish the Sauber from the Red Bull on a lot of
longer shots. Any chance of Petronas changing their colours? ;)

Retaining fuel stops without tyre stops is absurd. If we must have
either, let's have (zero or one) tyre stops, although if Ferrari have
really cocked up over fuel tank size it'll add some amusement to the
rest of the season.

Terrible camerawork, of the "place the camera at the end of the straight
and film head on" variety, but some good in-car footage. Must try
harder. Nice to hear pit radio though.

I'm looking forward to a proper Christian Horner/Trevor Carlin battle in
'06 or '07 (by which time I hope Midland can build a half-decent
car). It'd be good to see some new blood at the top of the sport on the
managerial side.

Now, Button's "pit stop" at the end of the race... how many times are we
going to see *that* little trick this season, before the FIA jump on it?

Oh, and someone tell the commentator that the plural of "Grand Prix" is
"Grands Prix", not "Grand Prixs". I know it's a subtlety lost on many
people, but there should be *some* respect for heritage.

Driver of the day: DC, for doing what DC always did in a strange new
environment, followed by Alonso for a seriously mature performance.

All in all, Melbourne was about as good as could be expected.

pete
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pete@fenelon.com "Send lawyers, guns and money...."
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Chanchao 7 March 2005 12:16:17 [ permanent link ]
 
On 06 Mar 2005 17:19:06 GMT, Pete Fenelon <pete@fenelon.com> wrote some stuff
about "[SPOILER] Random Melbourne thoughts", to which I would like to add the
following:
All in all, Melbourne was about as good as could be expected.

Brilliant analysis..!! Thanks for writing & posting, I really enjoyed reading
it..!

Cheers,
Chanchao
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