The F1 season starts again today. Hopefully it's much better than last year when the McLaren and Ferrari spy case and the fall-out between Alonso and Maclaren dominated the news. I always thought the ruling on the spy case was biased to favour Ferrari. Even though the real culprit was somebody from Ferrari but somehow the council seemed to think otherwise. On the other hand Renault doing similar thing on McLaren didn't get penalise at all. But I guess all these 'scandals' are also part of the plot to make this sport more lively.Just watched the qualifying...as ever fantastic. However it was very early (4 am) here as the opener is in Melbourne. Here's the resut:
1) Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
2) Robert Kubica (BMW)
3) Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren)
4) Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
5) Nick Heidfeld (BMW)
2) Robert Kubica (BMW)
3) Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren)
4) Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
5) Nick Heidfeld (BMW)
Hamilton was on pole position. Hamilton who? you might say last year is a superstar now. I wrote a blog exactly last year but not predicting anything on this guy.
But everybody knows now how he became a 'McLaren boy' for 10 years being geared up to be a future star. On today's pole it's also good to see BMW back up there. The driver's line up this year is as ever formidable. Ferrari has the same drivers. Hamilton is partnered by Kovalainen. Alonso jumped boat, most likely to obscurity, back to Renault. The former Dutch Spyker team is now owned by an Indian billionaire and renamed it as 'Force India'. Just waiting for a Russian billionaire to get his hands itchy and buy Ferrari and called it Chelski F1 team.
