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2016 FORMULA 1 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX
Albert Park, Melbourne


Entrants



1996 - Martin Brundle crashes heavily at the start, Damon Hill wins the first one for his championship campaign


2002 - Rubens Barrichello starts on pole position but Ralf Schumacher triggers a multi car crash, Michael Schumacher wins


2009 - Jenson Button gives Brawn GP the first pole position start and victory, on their very first start

Timetables
all times are local

Friday 18 – Sunday 20 March 2016

Practice 1 Friday 12:30 – 14:00
Practice 2 Friday 16:30 – 18:00
Practice 3 Saturday 14:00 – 15:00
Qualifying Saturday 17:00 – 18:00
Race Sunday 16:00 – 18:00

Mercedes show is back again

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

worst series on the planet

excited to see how Haas runs, hope they can run the weekend without any major issues

also random question, are we going to post in the V8 thread or a separate thread as far as the support races go?

Glad it's Melbourne.

F1 is a bit like someone you no longer fancy. After a few months away you always come back for a bit.

Ah, finally I'm allowed to speculate about the weather. It looks very typical for F1: showers for Friday and when it counts, it's dry and sunny.

Well, hopefully we don't need additional factors to make an interesting race. It's interesting to see how every team actually relate to each other in terms of pace. Besides, melbourne is always difficult with wall being ever so close and a quite plenty of gravel traps.
Yet, last year the race was one of the worst one in F1 history. It can't be that bad again, can it?

It's going to be a race weekend.

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"Indy doesn't give you a second chance. You have to earn it."

Cars will drive around at various speeds and one of them will reach the finish line before the others.

There will be champagne. And a speech.

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"Indy doesn't give you a second chance. You have to earn it."

And in the end, the Germans win.

Not enough place on the podium for all the Germans.

As long as Lewis doesn't start with a win, it's good. I'm curious how the 'relaxed' team rules at Mercedes will pan out. Will they have two teams of strategists? If not, it will result in favouritism real fast.

hope we can see a 2002 re enactment involving both Mercedes

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

As much as we all bitch about it, having bad f1 around to moan about is better than no f1 at all.

Last year wasnt great, but it did give us fun races like Hungary, USGP and a couple of others.
(And 2 flipperzzzz )
And there was always Max and a few midfield guys to look to for enjoyment

So yeah, F1 might be bad but it's not off season bad

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

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I prefer the off season if the season is as shit as last year.

Max tho.

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/paulhadsley

don't care unless he's driving for wins.

Max will be the only reason for watching...

and see Kimi fail again
and see McLaren fail again
and see Mercedes win again
and see Helmut Marko whine again
and see Renault fail again
and...

OK might some more reasons to watch

Altough she treats us like shit, we I still love her, Formula 1 .

Speak for yourself.

Wet races tho

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/paulhadsley

You almost got one of these before any wheel turned

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123226

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/paulhadsley