2010 Season Opening.

Yup, the much anticipated 2010 F1 season opening was officially done with last weekend - March 14. So, what's the verdict ? Me found it to be a tad underwhelming....

We actually had to decide whether to forgo 'Alice in Wonderland' - just to ensure we could catch the qualifying. It turned put the qualifying was at 7pm - Malaysian time - giving us ample time to surrender to the kids pestering for a piece of Alice.

The 3D was full house, so we had to settle for normal screening. Overall the movie was okay - but the kids sure loved them. I read somewhere - somebody writing that after Avatar - nothing is worth watching in 3D! Hik..hik...

Anyway, back to F1 - the race somehow failed to pump my adrenaline. It could be that with refueling ban, the cars are all loaded with gas - all of them look huge - I mean, humongous. And they are slow - with capital  S. Somehow (at least to me) they seemed to be driving like there is a safety car in front! That's how fast the were going (again - via my untrained eyes).

With the cars full on fuel, overtaking looked impossible. The start of the race - when the 5 red light went off - was normally the pinnacle of the race - where the drivers will try to overtake each other and at the same time trying not to ram into others. But with heavy cars, the status quo of qualifying were preserved - except for Vettel's RBR - whose machine suffered mechanical issue.

It used to be that the teams will try to outdo each other with cleaver strategies. Some of the front runners were very light so that they can try to gain a few places up and try to preserve that, followed by a  strategically placed refueling. Since the cars are lighters (and narrower - as the fuel tank are much smaller), overtaking are abundance.  That's what makes great race...

And I miss the pit stop blunders. I mean, the actions in the pit stop is part of racing. You can see that though the  teams must've perfected the pit stop - exercise,  sometimes things do go wrong - it proves that we are simply human! 

F1 will be very predictable and awfully boring - if there is no adrenaline rush. Full stop.