So, with a new season of Formula One we have had everything, before the cars leave the grid in Melbourne. Honda are gone, the newly Virgin approved Brawn GP are in (and are making a stir), Kers are in, groves in the tyres are out, rear spoilers are much slimmer, defusers, moveable front wings and new aero[dynamic] qualities. The only thing that hasn't changed is practically the drivers, which is normally the only thing that does.A certain Sir Richard Branson was due and turned up this morning in Melbourne and would you believe it, in the time since the friday practice and the Saturday qualifying and Sir Branson turning up, "Virgin" Signs seem to have turned up on the Brawn cars.
But it doesn't matter now after Brawn ended up 1 and 2 on the grid, with Button and Barrichello, for the first Grand Prix of the season. In the same qualifying season Lewis Hamilton ended up finishing 18th in qualifing, and Toyota being excluded from qualifing putting them back 19th and 20th.
All the changes are meant to make overtaking easier and with all the changes someone will and has found lopeholes in the rules and start to use defusers and etc, before everyelse. And of course that leads to arguments and hangbags between the teams, before bringing in the technology themselves.
All the new rules and Kers and blah blah blah, should mean a better season and already this weekend we haven't seen the usual domination and boring same old teams that we have seen in the last decade or so, it's shaking things up (and also the timing of the races, because Bernie Ecclestone wants the times to be "kind" to us in Europe, I'm not complaining, but that means the Australian Grand Prix will start at 5pm local time, just a bit late without floodlights).
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