And since I have changed TV providers over the winter, I cannot judge if the cars look slower because of the rules change, or due to some artifact of being able to see a reasonable picture for the first time ever.
Hard to say at this point if the results were a function of "new rules" lottery or "wet session" lottery.
Mercedes at the front, more or less what I expected.
Expected Vettel to do better, with or without his team mate's performance.
Alonso 6th... Not what we expected. Neither was Raikkonen being out after Q2. Raikkonen sounded kind of vague as to what happened -- "playing around with the switches or something". At this point it does not look like Ferreri were sandbagging in testing...
The displays on the steering wheels are quite elaborate this year. (See caviar above about a reasonable picture.)
Ricardo did his job well -- run with the big boys when Vettel ran into trouble. The rain might have masked power problems with the Renault, we will have a better idea about hat over the next few events.
Odd that Williams didn't figure more in Q3.
Hope for a dry race tomorrow.
