OK ... after a LONG, COLD winter here in the Last Frontier, relief has arrived: the 2007 Formula 1 season began this past Sunday/Saturday -- depending on your time zone. The first race was Australia. The most exciting thing about this season is that it promised to be the most closely contested in many years, acording to all the pundits, anyway. Why, you ask ? Well, just consider: Many driver changes, Schumacher retiring after SEVEN world championships, rules changes which (will hopefully) begat real competition, and the possibility that the fruit from months of testing over the winter will be a bumper crop.
The results were somewhat predictable: Ferrari/Raikkonen first, McLaren/Alonso second; the huge surprise (except maybe to McLaren) is that the rookie F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, all of 20 years old, qualifies fourth, and finsihed third. BMW-Sauber/Heidfeld finshed fourth - which is a big improvement over last year. Renault, who won the Manufacturer's Championship last year, had a despicable race, and leaves Down Under searching for answers.
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How did the earth-friendly Honda do?
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