My money is on Hamilton this year. It was last year, and it will be all of this season. The guy has talent, exciting to watch, and has a great attitude.

Can't wait for the rest of the season.

-Markus-

 

Wow, I almost cried when Kimi went off trying to pass Heiki. This race was chaos. I really hope Kimi and Ferrari can pull it together for the next race.

 

15 cars didn't finish.. this is starting to get interesting.

 

Yay Hamilton!

 

Hamilton looks like a man possessed this season. I wouldn't be surprised if he wins 10+ races.

 

What a crazy race...I'm a big Kimi fan, and I almost lost it when he over shot Kovalainen trying to pass him. Only 7 cars finished the race, looks like all the teams have reliability issues to work on.

I was also hoping that Sebastian Bourdais kept his 4th place position. Great first outing for him.

 

All I can say is I am VERY happy to see the TC taken off these cars and turning this back into a drivers championship! It would have been a different turn out if Kimi could have been in the knock out round but I think Hamilton would still have poled and won! Just look at the the driver input from inside the car video Hamilton hands down has the smooth input to the car. Kimi was very close until he started to push to hard to make up positions. All the young drivers are on top because they have the least amount of time with the TC in F1!

 

Look Ferrari development always comes late in the season which is why they always start off weak in the early parts. Kimi had said he wasn't happy with his setup most of the weekend, not to mention his issue in qualifying kept him off the front of the grid. Every team sooner or later has bad race weekends and that is all that happened with Ferrari. Kimi was pushing too hard to catch up combined with no TC and made a mistake...it happens.

This doesn't mean a whole lot with regard to the rest of the season. In fact if anything this is an indicator that the Ferraris are FAST and they have the best driver out there in terms of experience and precision except for maybe Alonso depending on who you ask. I still think Kimi is gonna win the championship but it will be done so in typical ferrari catch up at the last minute style.

 

4 pics from practice:

Formula1 - Australian GP, 2008 - a photoset on Flickr

 

I am pretty sure Mclaren/Hamilton is going to take Ferrari to the wood shed this year to make a point!