So that’s what it was. The Formula One season started off this morning in Melbourne. If you didn’t watch the race, STOP reading now and come back once you’ve watched it. Needless to say it’s a vintage race, one of those races to watch in the future.

Right back to everyone else who has watched the race, man that was one of the best races I’ve watched in a really long time. Not only because two of my favourite drivers were on the podium and that Williams is finally getting back up there and mixing it up with everyone else, but also because it seems like this year will be really great fun all the way around. Crucially the thing that has changed and that’s really made the difference to the watch-ability of the races is the fact that traction control has now been removed. What this does is makes it brilliant for people to watch because the drivers no longer have that crutch of a computer sorting things out for them, both at the start of the race but also throughout the race correcting things for them and making sure their mistakes aren’t penalised all that much. That is something that was apparent with this particular race. I mean only 7 friggin cars finished the race, from a total of 22 cars. That’s pretty impressive to be honest and there was no RAIN. Like I said vintage race.

I’m a bit sad to see Sebastian Vettel not get a chance to go all the way which would have been pretty cool and I’m really nervous with William’s choice for the second driver, Nakajima really doesn’t seem like he’s all there to be honest. he’s better than that idiot Piquet Jr, who’s completely all mouth and has absolutely no idea what he’s doing, but for my money Vettel would have been the ULTIMATE team mate for Rosberg at Williams and it would have been really good if they’d sorted that out but alas Toro Rosso know they’ve got a bit of a wunderkid on their hands so I doubt they’ll be giving him up any time soon.

So fantastic start to the season, and after nearly 3 years Williams is back on the podium where they belong and hopefully this will mean many more of this sort of result.