It’s an interesting aside that, while it appears
Super Aguri has made three or four steps forward,
Honda, which of course helps the Leafield team, seems to have gone backwards with its ‘A’ team. The RA107 looked truly awful in Australia and
Jenson Button and
Rubens Barrichello both really struggled. It’s not going to be easy for them to turn that around, but that’s what they have got to do. I feel sorry for Jenson, because you can see he really wants to show his stuff, as he did at the end of last year, but he’s just got to hang in there at the moment and try and keep his chin up.
Red Bull Racing, like Honda, needs to do some work as well. But, saying that, there were some flashes of hope in Albert Park, not least
Mark Webber putting the RB3 seventh on the grid.
For sister team Toro Rosso, it was always going to be an uphill struggle after it got ‘its’ new car so late, but at least Vitantonio Liuzzi managed to get it home and the miles he did should help.
Finally, I come to Spyker. For them, Melbourne was a tough event. Last in qualifying and last in the race says it all really but, with the team bringing out a ‘major’ update this weekend, things can only get better. Mike Gascoyne seems to think it will make a big difference and I guess we will see just how big this weekend.
So, to sum up, I can only reiterate that I am expecting it to again be a Kimi-Fernando show in Sepang and it will be fascinating to see precisely how round two unfolds.
Will Kimi take victory number two with the Scuderia?
Can Alonso get his first win with McLaren?
Or will Felipe out do them both?
All will be revealed on Sunday. Set that alarm clock again.
Enjoy the race...
MB
