04-01-2009, 02:03 PM
G.Irish Wrote:Did any of you see the race?
I mean damn, there was WAAAAAYYYYY more passing than I've ever seen in F1 outside of wet races. Even though the cars look somewhat dorky now, the action on track is infinitely better. I was all ready to tune out of F1 this year now that Honda is gone (hell, I was tuning out last year), but this looks like it's going to be worth watching this season.
It'll be interesting to see how things end up with the new regs. The Brawn GP car looks really good right now but I doubt they have the resources to stay ahead of the bigger teams for the whole season. Ferrari, BMW, and Red Bull will all get much better I think. Maybe even McLaren (whom have looked terribly disappointing thus far).
I've been following Formula 1 for about 5 years and I have to say that outside the odd wet race this was by far the most entertaining race I've ever seen. It seems like basically every teams except Force India is competitive. I think you're right about the Brawn cars coming back to the field sooner or later, they've had a good deal more development time on this car since they canned last year so early. Also, if the rest of the teams put those diffusers on (or Brawn is forced to remove theirs) they will lose a significant performance advantage on the others.
The dark horse this year has to be Seb Vettel and Red Bull. He was pretty much keeping up with Button until he had to switch to the weak tire (IMO that large of a performance gap is dangerous and needs to go) and the Red Bull doesn't have that diffuser yet. When Newey gets that on the car you can bet it will be fast, and boy can Vettel drive. If Ferrari and McLaren don't get their acts together Vettel has to be considered one of the favorites for the title.