Tuesday, March 22, 2016

2016 Australian GP review - bonus



So yesterday I posted a review but it felt like I left out a few important things.

For example Romain Grosjean was 6th in the final results with Haas. A great result if you ask me!

The last time when a completely new team has been 6th in the first race it was also in Australia but in 2002. The Finn Mika Salo was 6th with Toyota which gave the team only 1 point back then. It was still as good as Grosjean's result on Sunday. Brawn GP won their first race in 2009 but the team was basically Honda with a new name and engine supplier.

It was a pity that Haas' other driver, Esteban Gutierrez, couldn't bring the car to the checkered flag. Who knows how many points they could have gotten combined. Haas is definitely a team I will watch closely this season. They might even be a top team some day!

I am probably remembering other things as well later but now I can only remember the things that I have already said and also what Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel did after the race.

Vettel mocked the Mercedes drivers by throwing Lewis Hamilton's cap at him. This was of course because the media did a big thing about Hamilton throwing the number 2 cap at his teammate Nico Rosberg last year. Vettel is really making this sport as funny as it used to be with Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Gerhard Berger and Mika Hakkinen who used to be very funny drivers.

I shall probably start doing this in the future as well if I notice that I have forgotten to mention something in my review (to do a bonus post like this one). Last year I just edited the original review but I don't think that people came back to read it again so this is probably a more effective way.