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A pre-season full of talking points was swapped for a brand-new set of talking points after the running of the opening grand prix of the 2013 Formula One (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/f1) season. The consistency of the regulations from last year to this year and the triplicate dominance of Infiniti Red Bull Racing (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/infiniti+red+bull+racing) meant that no one would have been that surprised if the relative order of things remained the same. But teams found so many ways to switch things up that, in typical pre-season fashion, no one was ready to make any bets on in-season performance, and a couple of surprising players suffered the ignominy of getting it really wrong: McLaren (http://www.autoblog.com/mclaren) knew it was in trouble from the very first test, while Williams (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/williams) drivers applauded their car (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/22/williams-fw35-revealed-in-barcelona-w-video/) as the best in years, only to have Pastor Maldonado (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/pastor+maldonado) call it "undriveable" on the very first day of practice in Melbourne.
And then there were those Pirellis, the Italian company talking up the fact that its super soft tires would only go off so quickly that it would force teams to pit at least twice during the race.
Even then, no one could have seen the first round of pit stops beginning on Lap 5.
Nevertheless, someone had to win the 58-lap race - and that someone did it in what is becoming his usual style.Continue reading Recap: 2013 Australian Formula One Grand Prix is all about the rubber [w/spoilers] (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/17/recap-2013-australian-formula-one-grand-prix-is-all-about-the-r/)
Recap: 2013 Australian Formula One Grand Prix is all about the rubber [w/spoilers] (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/17/recap-2013-australian-formula-one-grand-prix-is-all-about-the-r/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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A pre-season full of talking points was swapped for a brand-new set of talking points after the running of the opening grand prix of the 2013 Formula One (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/f1) season. The consistency of the regulations from last year to this year and the triplicate dominance of Infiniti Red Bull Racing (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/infiniti+red+bull+racing) meant that no one would have been that surprised if the relative order of things remained the same. But teams found so many ways to switch things up that, in typical pre-season fashion, no one was ready to make any bets on in-season performance, and a couple of surprising players suffered the ignominy of getting it really wrong: McLaren (http://www.autoblog.com/mclaren) knew it was in trouble from the very first test, while Williams (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/williams) drivers applauded their car (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/02/22/williams-fw35-revealed-in-barcelona-w-video/) as the best in years, only to have Pastor Maldonado (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/pastor+maldonado) call it "undriveable" on the very first day of practice in Melbourne.
And then there were those Pirellis, the Italian company talking up the fact that its super soft tires would only go off so quickly that it would force teams to pit at least twice during the race.
Even then, no one could have seen the first round of pit stops beginning on Lap 5.
Nevertheless, someone had to win the 58-lap race - and that someone did it in what is becoming his usual style.Continue reading Recap: 2013 Australian Formula One Grand Prix is all about the rubber [w/spoilers] (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/17/recap-2013-australian-formula-one-grand-prix-is-all-about-the-r/)
Recap: 2013 Australian Formula One Grand Prix is all about the rubber [w/spoilers] (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/17/recap-2013-australian-formula-one-grand-prix-is-all-about-the-r/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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