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Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix – Boring!

// March 18th, 2007 // No Comments » // Formula 1

Well I made the effort and got up at 2.30am to catch the first Grand Prix today. What a boring and uninspiring start to the season. OK, it was a good result for Lewis Hamilton and he showed great promise for the rest of the season, but nothing else stood out as remotely entertaining.

Kimi won it easily from the front, Alonso got past Hamilton in the pit stops and everyone else just sort of lined up behind them… a long way behind them.

I think I saw about 4 overtaking moves, one of which ended up with Coulthard flying across Wurz’s car, a moment of excitement, but other than that nothing else.

And that new tyre rule, you have to use both soft and hard compounds during the race, they are getting desparate if that’s the sort of rules they have to come up with.

Come on F1, make it exciting to watch again!

F1 Season starts this weekend

// March 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Formula 1

Finally the F1 season kicks off again this weekend with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. I’m a bit of an F1 fan but I must admit to not being too excited about this season. There just don’t seem to be any drivers that stand out or have any character.

OK, most people didn’t like Schummy, me included, but at least things happened when he was racing, some good, some bad, but it brought a bit of excitement. There are some great drivers, Kimi, Alonso, Massa and of course our own Jenson Button, but none really stand out as having much of a personality. Button is the driver I would like to do well, and I was so pleased when he won his first GP last season, but will his team give him the car and support he needs to win again? We shall see.

Let me know what you think about the coming season. I shall be posting my thoughts about the races I watch. Speaking of which, it’ll be an early start Saturday to watch the qualifying on TV and again on Sunday for the race. Hopefully it’ll be worth it!

Just found two other blogs all about F1 with a quick google, so I’ll be keeping an eye on them over the season too. They are:

F1-Blog and F1 Fanatic, they both look to be well informed and updated regularly so they will added to my daily blog read. I’m not going to have to time to do anything else soon with the amount of great blogs I’m finding.