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Yeah, DRS was spot on. I thought adding the 2nd zone would take away a brilliant overtaking spot as the passing would either be way too easy or not happen there at all (as you wouldn't be able to counter-attack after being overtaken in T1), but it seems with cars not spending a lot of time on the rev limiter on this track the DRS has a really small effect here. Actually, it creates even more chances to overtake around the lap as drivers use most of their KERS to defend in a DRS zone leaving them vulnerable later in the lap. Hope the FIA gets it right next week too.

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Sector Times (Race)

1st sector

Fastest time: 29.749 sec (Webber)
Alonso: 30.174 sec (8th)
Massa: 30.688 sec (15th)

2nd sector

Fastest time: 23.470 sec (Webber)
Alonso: 23.975 sec (13th)
Massa: 24.349 sec (15th)

3rd sector

Fastest time: 35.746 sec (Button)
Alonso: 36.010 sec (5th)
Massa: 36.890 sec (15th)

It was not only Perez where he lost many time after his stop. He was already a few seconds more behind Button after his stop.

He pitted one lap later, so Button had fresh tyres while Lewis was struggling.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

How Di Resta scored a point is beyond me.

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I shagged a couple of loose balls for her in warmups.

Pastor Maldonado happened, that's what

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

About the Rosberg incident. Does this mean that you can cut corners when you are on your in-lap?

Speed trap:

1 4 Lewis Hamilton 313.8
17 3 Jenson Button 300.7

Big difference there

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

But you can explain that, because Button never used his DRS.

Exactly.

Race analysis
http://www.f1zone.net/news/australian-g ... 009/13072/

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

Apparently McLaren got their fuel calculations wrong and had to go into severe fuel saving mode. If that's true then a) that's rather silly and b) the car is looking even better.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/98176

And c) they lied to Button on the radio just before the race-start.

pleasantly surprised by the Marussia cars. Glock finished only 1 lap behind (helped by the SC but still), Pic almost made it to the end. Yes they are the slowest bar HRT but I had expected worse.

Surprised there hasn't been discussion about Vettel jumping Hamilton due to this SC delta time rule.

It basically makes the SC a complete lottery depending on when the race director decides to launch the SC and where each car is on the lap. Like we saw today, pitting just before a SC period is no longer an advantage..

I think they saw a marshal by the side of the track, which must be covered under double waved yellows - it wasn't covered. Vettel actually looked very very serious about it too, and rightly so I suppose. But it was good it was reported - shows how much these guys have in reserve. They just finished 1-2, and they were still thinking about the professional side of it.

I thought that was a good race.. it'll sound mean, but I'm happy Maldonado wrecked at the end, that was pretty crappy the way he just went right into Grosjean. I was surprised there was no steward involvement in that.

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Gael

Yeah, I thought that sucked a bit. I also think the rule about letting the lapped cars through is really stupid. The guys at the front are warming their tyres up and weaving all over the place. It hardly looked safe when the lapped cars were overtaking, and then we had another lap or two behind the Safety Car. Why not just make the lapped cars go to the back of the queue? Is that too simple?

But the SC was even more of a lottery before. This is actually a fairer way of doing it. McLaren actually over-thought the situation - had they not pitted both cars at once in a panic reaction to the suddenly slow Caterham, then they could have pitted Lewis at the same time as Vettel and lost no time. They thought they were being smart, but didn't take into account the unrestricted pit lane entry.

Yeh I can't think of a better way of deploying the SC. It will always harm someone..