40 The track in Melbourne is in the main a fast flowing track. There are some tricky corners, like 3, 4, 9 and 15. The layout of the track below indicates the DRS activation zones for 2013. The layout hasn’t changed this year and this gives you an idea of what the drivers will face.
it can be slippy and dirty off line. Drivers will need to be wary of this when overtaking, even on the straights.
As for the weather, that’s just as hard to predict. Australia is coming out of its’ summer around this time and going into early autumn. There is every chance that It’s an incredibly challenging track for it’ll be a scorching hot weekend, but at drivers with turns that require pin-point the same time it may just rain. When it accuracy when braking. It’s easy to over- rains in Melbourne, it rains hard. shoot a corner. There are plenty of overtaking opportunities for those drivers All I know is that like every Formula who master the distances leading into One fan around the world, I can’t wait corners. However this year, with the new for this season to start. I am sure my race cars, I should imagine this course will be previews will be more in depth over the anything but straightforward. coming season. For now, sit back and enjoy! As some of the track is on standard roads,
Australian Grand Prix Results 2013 Driver Car 1 Kimi Raikkonen 7 2 Fernando Alonso 3 3 Sebastian Vettel 1 4 Felipe Massa 4 5 Lewis Hamilton 10 6 Mark Webber 2 7 Adrian Sutil 15 8 Paul Di Resta 14 9 Jenson Button 5 10 Romain Grosjean 8 11 Sergio Perez 6 12 Jean-Eric Vergne 18 13 Esteban Gutierrez 12 14 Valtteri Bottas 17 15 Jules Bianchi 22 16 Charles Pic 20 17 Max Chilton 23 18 Giedo van der Garde 21 19 Daniel Ricciardo 19 20 Nico Rosberg 9 21 Pastor Maldonado 16 22 Nico Hulkenberg 11
Team Lotus-Renault Ferrari Red Bull Ferrari Mercedes GP Red Bull Force India Force India McLaren Lotus-Renault McLaren Toro Rosso-Ferrari Sauber Williams-Renault Marussia-Cosworth Caterham-Renault Marussia-Cosworth Caterham-Renault Toro Rosso-Ferrari Mercedes GP Williams-Renault Sauber
Grid 7 5 1 4 3 2 12 9 10 8 15 13 18 16 19 22 20 21 14 6 17 11
Fastest Lap 1:29.274 1:29.560 1:30.409 1:30.239 1:29.759 1:29.732 1:30.710 1:30.894 1:30.198 1:30.395 1:29.926 1:29.498 1:31.415 1:30.652 1:30.454 1:32.261 1:32.210 1:32.636 1:30.881 1:32.259 1:32.915 No time
Race Time 1:30:03.225 +00:12.451 +00:22.346 +00:33.577 +00:45.561 +00:46.800 +01:05.068 +01:08.449 +01:21.630 +01:22.759 +01:23.367 +01:23.857 lapped lapped lapped lapped lapped lapped retired, 39 laps retired, 26 laps retired, 24 laps retired, 0 laps
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0