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Eelmine aasta kiireim ring 1:30.945 Hamiltonilt, see aasta 1m 28.997s Ricciardolt.

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The Australian GP - Preview 2016-03-20 00:00:00 (This report was created at 2016-03-17 13:58:39) The Australian GP has been a happy punting ground in past seasons. Through the winter and the pre season tests it was possible to glean some pointers as to who will start the season strongly but more to the point, who has a car that will suit the nature of the Albert Park Circuit. It is not a run of the mill F1 circuit and certainly not like the Circuit de Catalunya were the teams recently completed eight days of testing. It is a semi street circuit, a temporary facility with fast evolving conditions and its ‘point and squirt’ nature puts a premium of stability under braking and good traction out of the 16 corners. There is also the matter of reliability. Being the first race of the season has meant that there is a tendency to see more retirements than would be the norm through the rest of the season. This season however it has been hard to get any sort of closed season edge. Testing was remarkable for only one thing, the mileage that the teams managed to cram into eight days. The level of reliability across the board was very impressive, not least from the reigning champions Mercedes who had just one mechanical failure while covering a huge number of laps. Even the new boys at Haas racked up a decent number of laps and despite problems in the second test, it was fair to say they were more reliable than most new teams have been in the recent past. We learned that not a lot has changed over the winter. With relatively stable technical rules it is normal to see the field bunch up and that seems to be the case this year but it is Mercedes who are still looking like the class leaders. It is pretty obvious to all concerned that another season of the Silver Arrows qualifying on the front row and finishing 1st and 2nd will be enough to further deplete the public’s interest in the sport. As a result the powers that be have introduced a few changes to the regulations which are designed to ‘mix things up’. It will be the interesting to see how exactly the changes will work, or indeed, if they work. First up is a new ‘musical chairs’ type of qualifying were a driver gets eliminated every 90 seconds until there are just the two cars out on track for the pole position shoot out. The hope, and it is no more than that, is that mistakes, traffic, unfortunately timed yellow flags or the weather will at least occasionally cause one or two of the top teams to drop out of qualifying early and we may get a Mercedes going out in Q1 and having to come through the field if they are to fight for a win. The reality is yet to be established but the idea is to increase unpredictability. There are new restrictions on radio communications between pit and driver which is designed to force the driver to make his own strategy decisions and to rely less on being told how to manage the tyres, fuel, engine modes etc. Again this is designed to make life more difficult for the driver and increase the chances of making a mistake. Lewis Hamilton has always struck me as a driver who has relied heavily on advice from the pit lane, it showed a lot when Button was beating him at McLaren as the more experienced driver trusted his own judgement, so it will be interesting to see this works out. Tyres have long been used to ‘spice up the show’ and this year we have a new ultra soft compound to add to the mix, a new tyre construction designed to make the tyre lose a lot of performance once it starts to wear beyond a certain point. This should mean that one stop races are unlikely and the driver will have to manage the tyre wear (without the help of the pit lane) in a manner that will get him home without ‘falling off the performance cliff’. Pirelli have come out with a statement today in which they say that “the tyre wear is not exactly as we would like” which doesn’t sound good, but we have come to expect Pirelli to balls things up. There is no doubt that some cars will be able to work their tyres better than others, running the faster softer compounds for longer and perhaps making a stop less than the competition. That will become more apparent as the season goes on but there is a school of thought that Ferrari will benefit from the tyre regulation changes and Force India have a habit of designing cars that are gentle on the tyres. The teams are now allowed to use three different compounds during the weekend. Pirelli will nominate two ‘compulsory’ compounds and the team can choose a third. This should allow for different strategies to be implemented and a car that is able to be gentle on tyre wear can opt to run a softer option than its rivals. Ferrari did have a problem ‘lighting up’ their tyres last season so a switch to a softer compound could help them close the gap to Mercedes. So we go into the first race of the season knowing only that Mercedes are still the favourites with Ferrari hopefully closer. We do not know just how the new changes are going to impact on the grid and the way the race is run. An element of unpredictability has been injected to the race weekends which hopefully mean a few surprises on the podium and a bit more on track drama along the way. But does this mean we can start looking outside Ferrari or Mercedes for race wins? Probably not. The basic requirement for winning races remains having a fast and reliable car and the big two teams have just that. Would Lewis Hamilton still be able to win a race if he was starting half way down the grid? If his car still has the pace advantage it enjoyed last year then of course he can but it will make things more difficult and more entertaining to watch. Whether the changes make finding winners any easier is open to question. There is a greater chance of a few surprises throughout the season but there will be a steep learning curve trying to figure out who those surprises may be. In terms of driver form at Albert Park it is Jenson Button who is the winning most driver in the field but the winter testing showed us that while McLaren Honda have improved, their lap times were not suggesting that they will be up there fighting for podiums. Lewis Hamilton has two wins, a 2nd and three 3rd places, only slightly better than Kimi Raikkonen’s two wins, a 2nd place and two 3rd places. Vettel and Rosberg both a win race here, both had 2nd place while Vettel has two 3rd places to Rosberg’s one. The drivers with the best course form are also in the fastest cars and even with the new ‘mix it up’ regulations it would be a real surprise if the winner didn’t come from one of those four. The weather forecast for the weekend is mixed and not ideal from the team’s point of view. Friday is forecast to be cool and showery between 9am and 11 am, drying up before more rain between 3 and 4pm. Luckily for the teams that is outside of the free practice times so they should have dry running. However, if the late news comes in that FP1 will be wet, consider a flutter on Carlos Sainz e/w for FP1 (currently 50/1) or Toro Rosso to have the fastest FP1 car(25/1 with Ladbrokes). He is very good in the wet and the smaller teams are likely to be prepared to go out in the wet and try and steal a few early headlines. Saturday remains cool but any rain should be gone in the early morning and FP3 and qualifying should be dry. Sunday is fine, dry, warm and sunny so the track surface will be both warmer and well rubbered in compared to their practice runs so predicting how the tyres will work might be a little tricky. The new tyre rules have seen Lewis Hamilton being the only one of the fancied drivers to go for a slightly different choice with one less set of the medium tyres and one more set of the soft compound. This has been described as ‘aggressive’ and Mercedes are the only team to have chosen different compounds for their drivers apart from Haas and Sauber. At least it is a talking point and something to keep an eye on. The Australian GP has thrown up plenty of surprises in past years. Early season unreliability is one reason but that does not seem likely this season, with the exception of maybe Haas who are bedding in a whole new car and team this weekend. The weather can play a role but that looks to be fine for race day. The final reason is that the layout of the track encourages first lap carnage with too many cars trying to get through a tight right hander. If we get a cleanish start the scope for a surprise or two will be greatly diminished and of course this season we have no Pastor Maldonado to start the mayhem, although to be fair to him, his first corner crash was not his fault last year. Clearly being at the front of the grid is a big advantage here as they will have more space in that first corner. The general consensus going into the first race of the season that not a lot has changed since the end of last season and the pecking order will be similar as it was at the end of 2015. Toro Rosso will be quicker thanks to a more powerful engine and a very tidy car for 2016. Renault (nee Lotus) will be slower thanks to a less powerful engine. McLaren will have closed the gap to the midfield while Manor will be quicker thanks to now having Mercedes power. It is Ferrari’s big task for 2016 to improve qualifying pace. Being 0.6 off Mercedes in qualifying for most of last season meant they were always on the back foot and racing in the dirty air. The 2015 car was pretty competitive over a race distance but this year’s car has to be able to get onto the front row at least, if not pole. Testing suggests Ferrari have closed the gap, down to a couple of tenth’s if Niki Lauda is to believed, which is only going to get pole position if both Mercedes drivers make mistakes, but it is doable. Interestingly, it is Ferrari who has spent the most PU development tokens over the winter, using 23 compared to 19 for Mercedes, 18 for Honda and just 9 for Renault. Vettel can drag the very best out of a car and at least we should see Hamilton and Rosberg pushed harder. Raikkonen didn’t have an answer to Vettel’s qualifying pace last year but he has a Ferrari that is set up much more to his liking now that the front suspension has been modified. That may still not be enough to overhaul Vettel but at least his times in testing were as good as anything his team mate was doing. The veteran Finn is not going to be in F1 for very much longer and this season maybe his last chance to go for race wins. It is easy to forget how quick he used to be and it is not beyond the realms of reality that Raikkonen could enjoy something of an Indian summer for his career. Winning the WDC seems farfetched but I do expect more podium finishes in 2016. Each way betting in F1 was effectively killed off by the domination by Mercedes Last year and it is rare to find a bookmaker offering e/w terms for the first three rather than just the front two as has become the norm. Ladbrokes are at least doing something different from the rest and are going 1/5th the odds the first three. The odds are lower of course but at least Raikkonen becomes backable in the outright market. It is a track he likes and has enjoyed good success on in the past and he now has a car that will allow him to be closer to his true potential. He finished 2015 with a podium in the equally ‘stop-go’ Abu Dhabi circuit and if there is to be a ‘surprise winner’ this weekend then Raikkonen looks reasonably well equipped to provide it. 1 point e/w Kimi Raikkonen to win the Australian GP @ 14/1 with Ladbrokes We have twelve drivers who are odds on to finish in the points so value is a bit thin on the ground there. Of the odds against candidates there might be some value in Alonso or Button in the McLaren Honda. They are not yet ready to compete for major points but they are probably the 7th best team in terms of pace going into this race. They will need some attrition ahead of them, rather than being the attrition as was the case last year. Honda will have a further revised power unit (PU) for this race and the lack of any really long straights should help mask any remaining weaknesses with their energy recovery systems. One problem for them is that the car showed poor traction out of corners at Barcelona and that is bad news for a point and squirt circuit. Renault were late in getting their car ready for the start of testing and it is fair to say that they did have some reliability issues and the car lacks the refinement of many others on the grid. They are happy to admit that 2017 is the real target for them. There is little point spending resources on this year’s car when there are big regulation changes due next season. Their car in Melbourne is a different colour to the one that was tested at Barcelona and that is the only change. Most other teams will have several upgrades fitted since then. Sauber is once again skint and lost their chief technical director at the start of the week. The car looks not very different to last years and a long and difficult season beckons. New boys Haas were relatively impressive in testing but in the second test they hit problems, especially with the brake by wire systems and this is a track were your braking needs to be spot on. A point’s finish would be a great story but there looks to be too much reliability ahead of them to open that particular door of opportunity. Manor are said to be 5 seconds faster than they were last year, but that will still make them favourites to qualify last. Reliability should be better but the same applies to everyone ahead of them. The midfield group of Williams, Force India, Red Bull and Toro Rosso is interesting. Williams are a team that I suspect may struggle with the new qualifying regulations and restricted radio communications. Operationally and tactically they have been found wanting in recent years. Whenever one of their cars comes into the pits I automatically have the Benny Hill Show theme music in my head. Not even being able to put on four tyres of the same compound on their car at one race last year was sensationally poor, but no great surprise. Testing saw that they have a strong, reliable package but it didn’t look particularly stable under braking on the medium tyre. Once they put on the soft rubber they looked much better so it will be interesting to see if Williams over perform in qualifying, relative to their race pace. Williams still have Mercedes power and being 3rd in the constructors for the last two season’s means that they should be favourites to win the midfield battle. However there is no doubt that Force India were at least a match for them at the end of the 2015 season. The Indian owned British team have been punching above their weight for years and are stronger than ever despite their owner’s business collapsing. VJ Mallya will not attend the Australian GP. He is wanted for questioning by police in India and there must be some concern that extradition is a possibility when travelling overseas. Surely it is only a matter of time before the team has to find a new owner and that remains the cloud over Force India. That said the F1 team has thrived under Mallya’s stewardship and it has improved year on year on a modest budget so I expect they will be competitive once again. Joining the midfield rumble will be Toro Rosso. This is a team that used to be called Minardi, the Manor of its generation. Toro Rosso have invested and grown into a team that might even be able to hit a podium finish and certainly the target of reaching 5th in the championship looks realistic. They have last year’s Ferrari engine and that will have no development through the season. They will lose out to the rest of the field as the season goes on so they need to hit the ground running a score heavily, early. Their car has won fulsome prise from rival teams and even Red Bull is looking at their sister team with an envious eye. Verstappen gets the headlines and is an exceptional talent but Carlos Sainz is no slouch either and may prove to offer better value through the season. The final group in the midfield will be Red Bull, who is now reduced to using a wrist watch for an engine. Well it’s a Renault PU badged by a watch maker. Red Bull lost a lot of respect and some credibility last year with their incessant whinging about how shit the Renault PU was. They really believed that Mercedes or Ferrari would supply them with a 2016 spec engine without stopping to think that actually, why on earth should they? Red Bull has the best designer in the business in the shape of Adrian Newey so who is going to give the quickest chassis a winning PU? Of course the answer was going to be no and Red Bull were found out. They are only a car builder, not an engine maker. They are not as big as Mercedes or Ferrari and never will be unless they invest in an expensive engine manufacturing programme. So after publically divorcing Renault last year, they had to go crawling back to them and ask for another engine. It is a shame that Renault didn’t say no but there you go and we will have to listen to more complaints every time Red Bull under perform. That said the Barcelona tests showed that Renault have made progress and are moving in the right direction. There will be more power introduced for this weekend before an upgrade in Span and another planned for the summer. Red Bull hopes to be challenging for podiums nearer the end of the season but they may have a relatively quiet start. Their long run pace was very good in testing but they may struggle with power in qualifying mode. Betting on a top 6 finish doesn’t look much better than finding value in the points finish market. If we assume that Mercedes and Ferrari will be fast and reliable, then there are only two more positions to fill and eight candidates to do so. You can make a good case for all the midfield drivers. Perhaps Massa has a few question marks over him as he has not enjoyed much luck here and has just a single podium from all his time in F1, many in fully competitive cars. To have seven DNF’s from thirteen starts is not good for the frame of mind. The Red Bull duo may underperform in qualifying due to a lack of peak power but they can recover over a race distance. The Toro Rosso is being touted as the season’s dark horse but sadly they are being priced as a major player. They had two top six finish’s (both Verstappen) last season from 38 starts so odds of 7/4 Verstappen and 5/2 Sainz more than fully reflect the improvement that is expected. Force India’s drivers, Hulkenberg and Perez, are 15/8 each. At the end of 2015, Perez in particular, was a regular in the top 6. From their summer upgrade onwards he had five top 6 finishes from the last nine races. Hulkenberg had two but he was rarely that far off. Perez has a great gift of being able to look after his tyres and that will be important with this new generation of Pirelli’s. The question is, is he best backed now, or after qualifying? Last season saw the Perez post upgrade qualifying average at 8.11 and a finishing position average of 7.0 which reflects a car with better race pace than raw pace. With such a close looking group in the midfield, even a small difference in time could mean dropping four or five places on the grid. He is worth backing for a small stake now but we may revisit him again after qualifying. 2 points Perez to finish in the top 6 @ 15/8 with Skybet (7/4 generally) There may be an update tomorrow after the free practice sessions but this looks like a weekend were the main interest will be post qualifying. Australian GP - Race Day Update 2016-03-20 00:00:00 (This report was created at 2016-03-19 17:37:22) We finally got some idea of the true form of the various teams on Saturday after rain had made Fridays practice sessions largely irrelevant. And the news is...there is no news. The pecking order was very much as expected with perhaps only Toro Rosso being that little bit better than expected. That and Mercedes looking to be even more dominant than winter testing had suggested, which is not good news. Last year Vettel was 1.43 off the pace of the leading Mercedes in qualifying. This year he is 0.838 so yes, Ferrari can say they are closing the gap, but they still are a long way off. The two drivers insist that they are closer than the times suggest and Mercedes continue to talk up their nearest rivals in the hope that no one notices just how big their advantage is. If they really rubbed Ferrari’s face in the dirt who knows, we may see rules getting changed to try and slow them down. Ferrari only did one run in Q3 in order to save an extra set of super soft tyres and perhaps they were a little conservative on their Q2 runs in order that those tyres will be in good condition for the start of the race. That said we are only talking about a few tenths given away so that gap is still comfortable for Mercedes. Raikkonen made the point that he was struggling to get his front tyres up to working temperature and that warmer conditions would have suited them better. That sounds like the same old story from last year but it does suggest that the two teams race pace will be closer than in qualifying. In FP3 Vettel was just 0.2 off Hamilton’s pace and that may be more indicative of the relative race pace of the two teams. However, if Ferrari are really going to take the fight to Mercedes, it is in qualifying were they need to find more pace. Toro Rosso are the third quickest at this circuit and they may be should have had both cars on the third row. Sainz couldn’t match his Q2 lap but starting 7th is good enough. The big question is whether they can keep that sort of pace up in the race, something that was not the case last year. The team are optimistic that they can as the 2015 Ferrari PU can be run more aggressively than the 2015 Renault PU they struggled with last season. Sainz was very quick in FP3 (4TH) and nearly a second a lap faster than Massa in the Williams. But for a small mist in Q3 he would be ahead of Massa on the grid and it would be far from a surprise to see Sainz finish in the top six tomorrow. 3 points Carlos Sainz to finish in the top 6 @ 11/8 with Paddy Power William’s will be a little disappointed to only get Massa into Q3 with Bottas struggling and only managing 11th place. However, the Cock up Kings have excelled themselves again. Somebody forgot to lodge the required pre qualifying paperwork regarding Bottas’ car to the stewards. This may very well mean that his times will be deleted and he will have to ask permission to start from the pit lane. A decision will not be announced until tomorrow but if you have backed Bottas, be prepared for more disappointment. Operationally, the Williams team is a basket case. I was hoping we may get some dozy match bets to be offered with Bottas in them but the best is probably Ricciardo to beat Bottas @ 11/20 (1.52) with Sportingbet which isn’t that good bearing in mind the first lap risks here. Red Bull was also disappointing with Ricciardo starting 8th and Kvyat blaming traffic for his Q1 exit. The truth is that the times are very close between Toro Rosso, Williams and Red Bull and just dropping a tenth can cost a couple or rows on the grid. Ricciardo said before qualifying that he thought they would be stronger over a race distance than they would be in qualifying so expect him to move up that very competitive midfield. Force India are delighted with 9th and 10th as this the best place to be in terms of having a free call on which tyres to start on and thus it opens up more strategy options. All the cars in front will be starting on used super softs and it would be no surprise to see Force India doing something different, certainly a longer first stint and possibly a one stop strategy which should move them up the order. We don’t just how long those front running drivers will run before making their first stop for fresh tyres but nobody is expecting them to last very long. This may offer Force India a chance to lead the race. The Mercedes had a 1.6 second a lap lead over Force India in FP3, so they may struggle to open up a big enough gap to cover the length of a pit stop, usually around 20 -25 seconds depending on the circuit. If they have to stop before lap 10 and Force India are running longer on soft compound tyres the Perez or Hulkenberg could indeed find themselves ‘leading’ the race. The earlier the pitstop, the more likely that would be. 1 point Nico Hulkenberg to be race leader after 10 laps @ 12/1 with Betvictor 1 point Sergio Perez to be race leader after 10 laps @14/1 with Betvictor Force India are a tempting 7/4 to have both cars in the points, which would be greatly aided by any punishment handed out to Bottas. However I do not want to put too many eggs in the Force India basket on a circuit that can your well planned bet parked by the side of the track on lap one very easily. McLaren were reasonably pleased to fill up the 7th row but that was exactly were many expected them to be. Ahead of Renault, Sauber, Haas and Manor so they are either leading the back of the pack battle or the back of the midfield pack. The times suggest they are still some way off the pace of the midfielders. Post qualifying sees Hamilton now the 1/2 favourite which is hard to argue with. Rosberg is optimistic he can turn around in the race but on the evidence of the last couple of years is that he can’t so long as Hamilton doesn’t have a problem or cocks up his strategy somewhere. Kvyat is the obvious ‘out of position’ car on the grid and he can be backed at 5/6 to finish in the points. His car has the best part of two seconds a lap advantage over the cars in front all the way up to the McLarens who are still likely to be 0.7- 0.8 slower. His problem is that his car makes up the time in the corners and it is hard to pass in a corner so his progress could be slow. He will also find himself in a lot of traffic in what can be a very messy first lap in Melbourne.

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