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[[chris tuna]]

The Australian Grand Prix will air live on Speed on Sunday, March 27th at 1:30 AM eastern.

[TopEnd]

So who is everyone picking to win? Looks like the Mclaren's are lacking speed so I'm going to go with Vettel

[CharlieTuna]

 Beer-powered Lobster Kung Fu!  (with DUCT tape, so you know it's badass)

[BakedTuna]

So who is everyone picking to win? Looks like the Mclaren's are lacking speed so I'm going to go with Vettel

Only caught the first part of knockout Qing but it looked like Hamilton either had been sand bagging or figured something out.

[TopEnd]

They apparently figured something out, Hamilton qualified 2rd Button 4st

[TheHotstepper]

And the poor HRT boys went all the way to Australia to be told they're too slow and aren't allowed to race... that's an expensive double-DNS 

[BakedTuna]

How far off pace were they? Last I had seen they were like 17 secs a lap. F1 should allow more testing for the teams within their first threee years. Decreasing each year until year four where they're treated like an established team. The lack of testing hurts the new teams the most.

[TopEnd]

I think HRT ended up 7 seconds off

[TheHotstepper]

Testing might have helped - had they finished their car in time. They were the last to reveal their car and were still assembling it in the garage in Australia. If Bahrain wouldn't have been cancelled I doubt they would have even showed up for it.

[BakedTuna]

Testing might have helped - had they finished their car in time. They were the last to reveal their car and were still assembling it in the garage in Australia. If Bahrain wouldn't have been cancelled I doubt they would have even showed up for it.

good point, they did this last year too what they don't have any money in the budget for a calender?

[TopEnd]

I can definitely see this being HRT's last year. Who is going to sponsor a car that can't even qualify? I'm sure this is only the first of many missed races

[BakedTuna]

Would love to see them go to cigar cars without the front and rear wings 1500 cc limit skinny tires let the engineers show me how they can do great things with very little to work with. Make the drivers show how they drive with the mechanical grip not just the wings and tires hold them in place on track. The speed is relative, a pass at 130 mph can be as exciting as one at 190.

HRT will probably die due to lack of testing combined with 107% rule. But how many other teams are ready/able to jump in to that atmosphere of new teams being almost guaranteed to fail. But with all the money that is there(in F1) it will be hard to convince those in power to make radical changes.   

[DudeTuna]

Malaysia is up this weekend.
http://planetf1.com/grand-prix/malaysia

If you want to stay up late you can get live timing from http://www.formula1.com/ You have to register to use it and you need a valid email.

[DudeTuna]

How far off pace were they? Last I had seen they were like 17 secs a lap. F1 should allow more testing for the teams within their first threee years. Decreasing each year until year four where they're treated like an established team. The lack of testing hurts the new teams the most.

HRT are losers. They skipped the testing and they knew the 107% rule would be back in effect this year. There were two other teams that had a shot at getting in last year when they decided to add more. Both had more backing, but Mosley picked HRT.

[TunaRag]

At least the Belgian managed to get in the starting grid... in last place...
He finished 4 laps behind, which isn't TOO bad, is it?