Byline: JONATHAN McEVOY Motor Racing Correspondent reports from Melbourne
WHO said Formula One is boring? You might have got a processional race last time out in Bahrain and cursed the regulations that militate against overtaking, but get yourself along to St Kilda, Melbourne, and watch the 'hoons' go by.
Hoon is Australian for boy racer, the brake-smoking, tyre-burning scourge of pedestrians and police alike. So yesterday, while this city -- and the motor racing world -- held its breath over the entertainment level at tomorrow's Australian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was acting up like a hoon. His car was impounded in this bohemian district for his skidding antics.
Replica Gucci WatchesYou doubt he slept much last night, racked by guilt for being 'silly', as he phrased it. The law will take its rightful course -- and, my goodness, are they strict here about this sort of thing -- but at a human level this correspondent feels more sympathy than censure towards the miscreant.
Reflecting on this same race last year when he fabricated evidence to the race stewards, he arrived in town determined to show he could act in the right way. He appeared matured by the experience. More able to control his wilfulness.
But, embarrassingly caught out within hours of setting the fastest time in practice -- ahead of secondplaced McLaren team-mate Jenson Button -- he let himself down.
What would his dad, Anthony, with whom he severed his professional links, make of this? He would have read the riot act. For Hamilton, the furore might provide the spur to win the race. That would be some tonic for fans in Britain who were turned off by the processional yawn in Bahrain.
Thanks to regulations banning refuelling and introducing narrower front tyres, as well as the continued downforce/overtaking problems caused by double diffusers, the sport now faces a D-Day tomorrow more significant than Hamilton's relatively trifling misdemeanour.
Some hope a great race will set the season alight. But perhaps that Blancpain Replica Watches is the wrong idea. Maybe the sport needs an appalling race without rain, a safety car or a quirky track to help out. Such factors would merely disguise the inherent weaknesses in contemporary grand prix racing.
If the race is as boring as hell then perhaps the teams might bang their heads together to improve the show. They might put aside their selfish interests to think of the watching world. Radical reform, rather than tinkering, is needed. They could go back to refuelling. They could increase grip by making the front tyres wider so as to give cars more stickability when they close in on a car in front which throws up turbulent air. They might also do some of this before the season is over.
But should Melbourne be artificially thrilling then the impetus for improvement will be lost.
Some of the groundwork has already been laid. The teams have met to examine what can be done, with another summit meeting planned after the next race in Malaysia. Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren's team principal and the chairman of the teams' association (FOTA), is an advocate of a rootand-branch rethink. He said: 'The underlying problem is that we have a high quality of driver who doesn't make mistakes in cars that don't want to run astern because of the wake effect and we spend two days putting them in rank order (through practice and qualifying) so that the fastest driver-car combinations are at the front and the slowest at the re
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