The Australian GP Thread **Spoilers here please**

Bring it on!! Praccy tomorrow (probably won't be too interesting so I'm not that diappointed about missing it because of work. Suffice to say both Saturday and Sunday shall be spent in front of the telly. Let us pray that the race is a good one.



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yup
thursday was peoples day
free entry to the track
77 000 people turned up
Ralf @ motor show
Ferrari boys played Volleyball on St.Kilda beach
Rubens bet Michael

Schumacher riding a motor bike round the city
will keep u all updated



GPGSL WDC Season 4

Since this has already been stickied, I might as well edit the thread header, so everyone knows that spoilers go here, and they can also be found here.

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

bar are using their old front wing

they tested it at Jerez and Valencia and it performed better than the 05 wing.

so big mistake there :/ from BAR.

just looking at pics of their barge board system it is very mclaren like (from Brazilian GP) and very interesting.

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

Odds for fisichella to win 33/1, worth a flutter i say!

And the first man onto the track in 2005 is..........................

........................Jacques Villenerve!

YAY the season is go!

And F1.com live timing kicks in

Liuzzi leading right now, second clear of De La Rosa - big boys coming out now though!



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Friday Practice 1 session results:

1 37 Vitantonio Liuzzi - Red Bull Racing 1:25.967
2 35 Pedro de la Rosa - McLaren-Mercedes 1:26.480
3 38 Ricardo Zonta - Toyota 1:27.265
4 10 Juan Pablo Montoya - McLaren-Mercedes 1:27.425
5 14 David Coulthard - Red Bull Racing 1:27.573
6 12 Felipe Massa - Sauber-Petronas 1:27.971
7 7 Mark Webber Williams-BMW 1:28.269
8 16 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:28.366
9 3 Jenson Button BAR-Honda 1:28.632
10 15 Christian Klien Red Bull Racing 1:28.834
11 8 Nick Heidfeld Williams-BMW 1:29.172
12 2 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari 1:29.227
13 17 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:29.285
14 11 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-Petronas 1:29.332
15 39 Robert Doornbos Jordan-Toyota 1:29.370
16 4 Takuma Sato BAR-Honda 1:31.364
17 18 Tiago Monteiro Jordan-Toyota 1:32.348
18 19 Narain Karthikeyan Jordan-Toyota 1:38.175
19 9 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes
20 1 Michael Schumacher Ferrari
21 6 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault
22 5 Fernando Alonso Renault
23 20 Christijan Albers Minardi-Cosworth
24 21 Patrick Friesacher Minardi-Cosworth


Red Bull going well, allbeit a shakedown-like session. And Minardi didn't do a single lap! The other drivers with no times did 2-3 laps.



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difficult to draw anything from that - especially as 4 of the top drivers this weekend only did installation laps.

Good session for McLaren i guess - and Sauber and Toyota close together



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Pretty rubbish session really. Thats the problem with these rules for longer lasting engines and tyres, teams just wont run in the early sessions. I think it is particularly bad cause its the first race of the year. Im going to the Hungarian GP so i hope by then at least all drivers run on the first Friday session.

Oh well lets see what happens in session 2.

Oh man RBR also looks strong in FP2

Oh!
Practice 2 at this moment!
Nice to see Red Bull doing well!
poor minardis!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/04/2005 04:41AM by juliooo.

Minardi are out as of right now. Mr. Stoddart was just on the TV here in Melbourne, and said that the stewards had not allowed their car to race as it is now. He said that there were two courses of action:

- Prepare the car overnight for the 2005 spec (do they have an aero package ready????)

- Take it to the courts.

The second one sounded like what he was going to do. He said Minardi have their case ready and that it is "watertight".

So if we do see Minardi this weekend it will be sometime tomorrow with some sort of warped aero setup.

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"Well I'll tell you kids, I'd rather walk!"

- Liam Gallagher, after being banned from Cathay Pacific Airlines for life.

McLaren is flying :D

My GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

MASSA IS FLYING! LOL

GO GO GO!

Way hay! A good end to the first day of the new season, McLaren 1-2 i am liking this so far, just hope it keeps up for the rest the weekend!

Now its time for bed and some much needed sleep. lol

Yeah...I'm so excited!!!! And I hope i can keep it again for the rest of the season.

Renault looked like not that well after all. What looks weird to me is the fact that their car is unreliable, and they did plenty of laps, and they're not saving their engines, That's my thought. McLaren were in really good shape and a dissapointing Webber, well, i was expecting that. Oh, and how can i forget Red Bull. Amazing performance. Ferrari......Question mark-? A shame what happened with Minardi, but I agree with Those 3 teams who said no, "Rules are rules...", anyway, if Stoddart would had kept his mouth close, anything of these would be happening

I know this is just the first practice, but i'm just judging for what i saw, Story can change tomorrow or even on sunday again.

this year is looking better so far


i know these sessions dont mean much, but i just looked last year's results and Ferrari went 1,2 in every session except saturday praccy 2 (schumacher won that as well)

schumacher went fastest in every session

Yeah. Good on Red Bull topping the first session. Hopefully Webber will find a bit more pace tomorrow.

well it seems all normal so far :D

BAR goin well :D

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL