Rate the race: Australian Grand Prix
What did you think of the Australian Grand Prix? Rate the race out of ten for how much you enjoyed it and leave your comments below.
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What did you think of the Australian Grand Prix? Rate the race out of ten for how much you enjoyed it and leave your comments below.
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Toncho said on 16th March 2008, 10:26
Ok thanks for that.
Massa should be paying for driving a FE and no the other way round. ROS made a great race I wonder what he could do with a top car. For me the possitive surprise was Honda, close to the podium and the negative Renault, with no pace at all (ALO’s best was more than one sec slower than KOV).
milos said on 16th March 2008, 12:59
I had different seat on each day, today I was facing William’s garage :-)
I am skipping Sepang this year, staying on down under for few days holiday , and will watch Malaysian GP will watch back home from my sofa or in a bar :-)
I must say, this was the best GP I ever been to, the organization was simply amazing, the atmosphere great, I sure will be back… It would be great shame if this race goes …
Robert McKay said on 16th March 2008, 13:40
It’s a funny thing to say, but it’s actually quite good to see a race almost purely of attrition. We get precious few of them nowadays, between the bulletproof reliability of the cars and th electronics bailing them out previously. Still, I think to a large extent that was a special case, I don’t neccessarily think that race sets the tone for all the GP’s this season!
George said on 16th March 2008, 14:28
Can’t wait to read Max’s take on all the damage. No doubt he’ll come up with a cockamamie excuse top slow down the cars for safety reasons as well as "saving money".
But I loved the race and all the unexpecteds, especially surprised by Kimi losing the car at least twice.
Number 38 said on 16th March 2008, 16:38
I want to meet the 18 voters who think this was a 10/10 PERFECT race. And maybe the next 146 who think it was "great’ or "fantastic", they must be NASCAR fans accustomed to crashes and safety car sessions. Kubica, Kovalainen and Bourdais were clearly the stars of the show although none were awarded the credit they deserve. It’s good to see fresh names running at the top.
EILEEN lOWERY said on 16th March 2008, 16:49
Could we possibly have the graphics slightly bigger. Many of us are elderly but very interested – the small graphics of lists of drivers positions etc – especially in qualifying are a strain for a lot of flokd to read. Please give ths some thought. Thank you Eileen Lowery
Loki said on 16th March 2008, 18:32
Albeit it was a great race to watch, constantly eventful down to the last lap, there’s no way I could give it a high mark as the lead was practically uncontested…that was all that missing – but it’s something important, if albeit a bit rare these days, to be watching in racing.
TommyB said on 16th March 2008, 18:45
Drama from lights to flags. People who have voted it not very good are idiots. 9 or 10/10 in my opinion.
Robert McKay said on 16th March 2008, 18:55
"I want to meet the 18 voters who think this was a 10/10 PERFECT race. And maybe the next 146 who think it was "great’ or "fantastic", they must be NASCAR fans accustomed to crashes and safety car sessions. "
I voted great, and I’m not a NASCAR fan. Look, I can understand why you would say that. It was a crashfest, it did have a feeling of "first day back at school", it was full of driver and team error. But there was plenty of drama, excitement, lots of passing and close battles and it’s great to see cars that are a handful.
When I think back to last year, the only really exciting races were the wet ones, and the dry Canadian race which people have commented on as being very similar. We could have had a 58-lap procession and talked about the pitstop strategy and how the cars couldn’t make much progress being in the dirty air of the one in front, like the almost ALL of the races last year, but we got this instead. No, it wasn’t F1 at its "purest", but I think the (dry) races you are thinking of really are vanishingly rare these days, so for today I’ll take this and like it.
It couldn’t and shouldn’t be like that every weekend, but it won’t, so let’s just enjoy the fact that it was a bit different from the norm – we’ll probably be complaining about the drama free race in Malaysia next weekend. If you’re waiting for the perfect race you’ll be waiting for a while in this sport.
keithR said on 17th March 2008, 0:12
superb performance from LH, to get pole and then maximise it to dominate the race.
The Glock incident should not be happening in modern F1. That’s a track issue. That ‘launching hump’ he hit should not be there! Thank goodness it didn’t costs lives.