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The first race without M. Schumacher and the F1 continues where it left off in 2005: Raikkonen vs Alonso. Coupled with Massa and Hamilton, this looks to be a battle between McLaren and Ferrari once again. Granted that BMW looks good, I think these two teams will be at the centerpiece of the battle.

Ferrari is, without any doubt, a class of its own at the moment. No one could even come close to Kimi and if it wasn’t for mechanical problems in the second Ferrari, this would’ve been 1–2 for them. Alonso was as good as to be expected but my impression of the day is immensely happy Lewis Hamilton in the 3^rd position. Fantastic race debut for him with just two minor mistakes.

A good start of the season, things will only get better.

I once thought that footballer’s pay of $350k per week is absurd amount of money. I don’t know what to say about Raikkonen getting $1M a week.

I mean, come on…

I followed F1 races through this no-posting period and there was plenty of interesting things to see. First, Ferrari resurected themself. First they win in Imola, then they win the European GP – Schumacher masterfully drove both races and defended from Alonso. I might also add that Alonso is amazingly cool-headed driver – he tries few times, sees that is not possible and decides against the risk. He has shown last year that he is great driver and now he shows a lot of common sense.
Not that I like that in a driver – I’m there for excitement, not reason :). Current shitty points system really drives the driver towards such behavior. I much prefer the MotoGP points system.
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Surprisingly eventful race down under, with 4 SC periods. It was amazing to watch how drivers experienced and novice made error after error, all ending up in spectacular crashes.

Alonso demonstrated relentless Renault pace, not allowing one bit of doubt who will dominate the field. Four times he built the time advantage and four times it was shattered by Safety Car coming out to the field. Fisico was out of the win racing early by stalling on the race start.

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Renault is very impressive and things already don’t look too good; meaning – it looks like repeat of the last year. Kimi was hit in the first lap by Klien and this was the end of his race. The switch from Sakhir to Sepang ended up in lots of over burned engines so both Williams, Red Bull cars died, plus some others.

Ferrari surprisingly did not order Felipe to let Schumacher through :) and Fisico and Alonso did not even hinted that something like that might happen. It would be shame not to mention BanzaiMan – he managed to pass Liuzzi in that junk of the car that he has. It does not matter that Liuzzi passed him back – Sato still did it. :)

First 1–2 for Renault in 24 years, 100% rightfully won, simply – hats off.