A race under the Tropics at five in the afternoon? Well, that's thunderstorm time, as everyone knows. Well, nearly everyone... Regardless, Jenson Button drove the Brawn GP to another indisputable success, and there are many big, well established teams which must be working frantically at either designing a new car (which is mission impossible at this point) or desperately lobying the FIA to have the diffuser cars banned next week in Paris. They may well succeed, but the political price they will have to pay will be a heavy one. On another subject entirely (entirely?), the Hamilton storm: from a basically nonevent in Australia (unintentionnally trading places, and then reversing, under yellow), the stewards of the meeting somehow managed to create a trap, into which Hamilton fell. It must be said that the political and business pressures have forced the emergence of a form of dual personnality: torn apart between his own mind and judgement, and the interests of his Team, the driver often has no choice but to become a kind of Corporate Parrot. And this is especially true in the case of McLaren, obviously obsessed with their public image (it just got worse) and terrified by the power of the FIA's sporting authority. You have to feel sorry for Lewis, who is only human after all. Whatever happened to racing in all that?

They said it couldn't be done, but Ross Brawn proved them wrong and won the Australian GP for his race machine's debut. But then, he is the man who always knew how to extract the maximum from a given set of regulations, be it in the Benetton days or the Ferrari ones... Well done to all, and a special bravo to Jenson, who has shown throughout trying times, which would have discouraged many, that he is well endowed with the legendary British fighting spirit and has lost none of his talent. On a different note, let us express our bewilderment regarding the $50 000 fine given to Sebastian Vettel for "causing a collision and forcing a driver off the track". What the whole world saw as a race incident was obviously seen as "unsafe driving" (F1 is supposed to be a riskless activity? Obviously...). This is neither the first nor the last time that the stewards of the meeting decide to impose such unnecessary punishment, and Sebastien was also given an additional ten place grid penalty for the Malaysian GP for continuing on three wheels . Well, the stewards were obviously not around when a certain French-Canadian driving a Ferrari drove an entire lap around Zandvort, on three wheels, during the 1979 Dutch GP. In those days, the words that came to mind were "daring", and "determined"... Rejoice, the world is turning into a safe place!