Australian Grand Prix – rate the race
Plenty to talk about after an historic start to the Australian Grand Prix. Rate the race out of ten and leave your comments below:
Australian Grand Prix - rate the race
- 1 - Terrible (2%)
- 2 - Rubbish (1%)
- 3 - Boring (1%)
- 4 - Often tedious (1%)
- 5 - A bit dull (1%)
- 6 - Not bad (5%)
- 7 - Good (17%)
- 8 - Great (30%)
- 9 - Fantastic (30%)
- 10 - Perfect (12%)
Total Voters: 2,136
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Nayanesh said on 29th March 2009, 14:13
Great race!But it was a shame that Vettel and Kubica
couldnt finish the race.Excellent day for Brawn GP.
Terrible one for Ferrari.
Vettel does not deserve any penalty.
Peter Smith said on 29th March 2009, 14:28
Hamilton potentially better than Moss – Clarke – Senna -
Schumacher – Watch this space ! .
TommyB said on 29th March 2009, 15:14
Hamilton showed he could pull it off with an awful car. Shame some people can’t admit how talented he is
Hasel said on 29th March 2009, 16:48
Ok i admit im not a Hamilton fan, almost a critic of his but i was impressed with his driving today but his end result did involve a lot of luck don’t you think? 5 drivers who were in front of him retired, two crashed out, Mark webber was involved in an incident in the first corner which pretty much screwed up his race, Trulli went off which let Hamilton by and Nico was struggling on the soft tyres which was why Hamilton got past. Thats ten places he was gifted.. Yes he was good when he fairly overtook someone but then again he did have kers which we could see made it easier and 4 of his passes were on the force india’s and the two torro rosso’s and lets be fair his Mclaren is better than their cars with or without Kers. He did drive extremely well today but i don’t think it was on the same level as Moss, Clarke, Senna or schumacher.
Tony Wade said on 29th March 2009, 14:42
I did not like the new ‘play by play’ announcer (Brundle great as always). The new guy’s commentary contained all the standard ‘sports-speak’ cliches and indicated he didn’t seem to know more than he was told, although I understand he has done this before?
Anyway, I thought he was crap.
Race was great and good to see the established order is being stirred up.
beneboy said on 29th March 2009, 16:22
I thought he was ok to be honest.
He made some mistakes but who doesn’t when commentating live ?
At least he kept calm and corrected himself whenever he did and he wasn’t like listening to the teenage-esque James Allen.
I gave the race an eight.
Lots of action most of the way through the race and plenty going on throughout the field.
Great to see Button at the front of a race and the Brawn team have done well although the Executives at Honda must be absolutely gutted; they’ve given away the team just as they’ve become competitive. If Honda have kept an option to buy the team back I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Honda badge on it again by the end of the season.
Lewis did well, kept out of trouble and ended up in the right place at the right time. The Ferrari boys yet again throwing it all away.
Just a shame Vettel & Kubica came together at the end, they raced well and should have been on the podium.
Pink Peril said on 30th March 2009, 1:37
Only one race in, so I’ll reserve judgement until later but he sounded more like a ‘cricket’ commentator to me, than a racing one.
But boy was I glad I didn’t have to listen to James Allen when Jenson won !
sar said on 29th March 2009, 17:42
great start to the season! what happened between vettel and kubica was purely a racing incident! such a shame for the both of them! in response to the hamilton worshippers, all the drivers are capable of achieving what he did last year with the right setup and circumstance . do you not think it would be wise to wait a few seasons before comparing him with senna? i’m not saying he’s not a great driver just that the hype is somewhat boring! it would be great to see button get so lucky!
Carolyn Ann said on 29th March 2009, 17:47
I thoroughly enjoyed the race. Lots of uncertainty, and lots of overtaking. Not enough of that shown, though. On the downside, the cars are thoroughly ugly, the TV coverage was ridiculous, and the mid-race safety car period was amateur hour.
The TV coverage was pathetic – when is Ecclestone going to catch up to the 1990′s? For a race series that thrives on TV, it’s astonishing how its coverage hasn’t really improved since the 1980′s. (I know we’ve had that discussion, before.)
Carolyn Ann
Gman said on 30th March 2009, 2:57
Very good race overall. Hamilton’s race to the points from the back of the grid was one of the best parts, yet few people seem to mention it. The Brawn GP deal was all very good, and while it was unfortunate to see Kubica and Vettel crash out, it shows that drivers will still battle for position- Bernie, are you reading this?