AND ITS LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO.
First race of the new era is in the history books. The curse of the Australian drivers unfortunately continues, Ferrari once again proving their strategy team don’t have a clue (not surprising) and plenty of on track battles.
Im still on the fence about the new generation of cars but im sure teams will improve but its could be another period of Mercedes domination
Watching the race was difficult. It was not clear what was occurring without knowing what the energy levels were for each car. ScarDuck14 your point about the overtakes being a function of alternating battery deployments is the clear example. As a result it was very hard to follow what was going on and how to understand what the strategies were. It made watching the race not very satisfying.
F1 Mario Kart hopefully overhauled already after China GP... !!
Btw Ferrari usually not the best at strategies, I would have tried to cover at the 2nd lap of the first VSC (with Norris quite far and quite slower) but probably there was no way to resist to Mercedes which was around 2-3 tenths faster even with 13+ laps tyres in a 45 laps stint! And probably they also managed it... Simply another planet.
PS: expecting Lewis to get his first Red podium in China, one of his favourite tracks, and maybe a possible contender for the Sprint Race...
It's a weird one. First dozen laps were more fun to watch than most of last season. But I kinda wish I was a casual F1 fan. Then the overtaking would have made for a exciting watch. But knowing every overtake was inevitable due to battery deployment. Makes me sad 😔
