Pushing The Limits

    ©Getty Four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel won the season opener in Australia by almost 10 seconds from Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas. This was Ferrari’s first win since Singapore 2015 and their first win at Albert Park since Kimi Raikkonen’s 2007 victory.      ©Getty At the beginning of the weekend there was lot of talk about Ferrari’s pre-season pace and whether it was genuine. Their pace on Sunday stood testimony to the fact that Ferrari are indeed looking good this year. Vettel took his 43 rd victory with the help of a smart strategy. Hamilton’s early pitstop put him behind the RedBull of Max Verstappen which allowed Vettel to stay out and open a decent gap , allowing him to re-join in front of Verstappen after his pitstop. The other Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen finished fourth ahead of Vertsappen and Felipe Massa.     ©Getty Home-boy Daniel Ricciardo who hoped to finish on the podium almost didn’t start the race as he got stuc

F1 is back and a Formula 1 race is nothing short of an emotional rollercoaster for fans.Here is how we feel -  1. When you remember that its race day          2. Adrenalin rush during the start  3. Then you see that people crashed into each other         4.  The safety car comes out                                         5.   The race restarts and y ou begin to pray that nobody crashes into your favourites             6.  Your reaction to a bad pit-stop 7. When Max Verstappen begins overtaking ! 8. When you finally hear Sebastian Vettel say "Honestly ! Blue flags!" 9. And you hear Kimi Raikkonen say two words. 10. then the tyre and Fuel saving begins 11.  everything comes to life again  12. The chequered flag comes out and its podium time ! 13. Suddenly you realise that you have to wait 2 weeks for the next race. (Post inspired by  carthrottle  )

(If on desktop/laptop move your mouse over the text to darken it) 2017 seems to be worse than 2014 for McLaren. Reliability issues seems to persist.Having done 5 engine changes (F.I.V.E) over the span of few days,McLaren know they are in deep trouble.The MCL32 has already stopped so many times on track that someone actually created a " Has McLaren broken down  " website.   Rookie Lance Stroll had his share of crashes during testing . He ended up in the barriers a fair amount of times. Felipe Massa was forced to sit out one day of testing because of Stroll's crash. The Maldonado references came and yet again someone created a " Has Lance Stroll crashed yet  " website.  Fernando Alonso has be absolutely savage about the Honda power unit. When asked if he was able to go flat out in turn 3 he said " With our lack of power , every corner is flat out" He also said " The team are ready to win , expect Honda. We have no reliabi