AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

Weekend overview is as follows: Charles won again! And Max had a second DNF.

There's only been 3 races so far, Max has won one of them, and the other two he has had to DNF for mechanical issues. I am so upset for him.

But the good news is that, of the 3 races, 2/3 have been won by Charles.

Other major stories from the weekend include: scooter Seb, Seb later being reprimanded for using the scooter, and the best wipe out of a marshal I've ever seen.

Other on track stories include: Alex Albon had a great race for Williams and actually got him a point. Charles and Max did great racing while Max's car was working.

Okay, let's dive deeper into these HILARIOUS and ICONIC Free Practice moments of Seb riding a moped around the track with his helmet perched on his head and later getting reprimanded by the stewards for unauthorized use of scooter. By far my favorite thing I've seen in a long time.

Here is a video so we can always remember these important scenes of Scooter Seb:

My other favorite television moment was when the marshal had the best wipe out ever during Free Practice 2. I loved it so much that I got videos of both the international and F1 TV commentary and they're both amazing.

Nothing can compete with that footage, but here are the rest of my notes.

Free Practice 1

- they made the Alpine cars much less pink and focused on the blue more which is much better

- Someone impeded Hamilton or Hamilton impeded someone, I’m not sure

- Seb is back for the first time! First race of 2022

- Sergio loses a front wing end plate and they have a super short red flag

- Red flag for Seb’s car smoking and it was another situation where he grabbed his own fire extinguisher and did everything him self and helped the marshals wheel it away. Classic Seb

- Hilarious footage of Seb riding back on the moped alone with his helmet up on top of his head and waving at everybody and that’s the seb they love

Free Practice 2

- risk of rain for this session

- Potential for Porsche to take over the Red Bull power trains and collaborate with Red Bull

- SEB GOT CALLED TO THE STEWARDS FOR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A SCOOTER HAHAHAHAHH best day ever

- Red flag so someone can go get Lance Stroll’s piece of body work

- HAHAH THE MARSHAL WIPES OUT when running back with ten minutes left of the session and it’s the FUNNIEST thing because he really wiped out badly and then the crowd cheered. It’s with 9:37 minutes left of the session

- Now a discussion that Hamilton has been breaking the rules about wearing jewelry in the car and no one ever said anything about it when he was number one but now that he’s midfield at best they bring it up and I love it

- Charles has a LOT of porpoising

Free Practice 3

- this underwear meeting discussion is hilarious

- HA Seb got a 5000 euro fine for the scooter incident hahahahah

- Aw Oscar Piastri is in the commentary box!

- They didn’t put a new part on Charles car because they didn’t also have the new part for Sainz so they are waiting til next race when they can have it equally…

- Yellow flag for Hamilton in gravel and brushing the wall

- Red flag for Seb going in gravel and hitting the wall, but he’s okay. Goodness Seb, what a year HES having so far

- Mick Schumacher slowed down to a stop to see if Seb was okay in his crash as he was going by, WHAT A SWEETHEART

- Lots of spinning for everyone, no one is happy

- Red flag with three minutes left for Lance Stroll crashing so now both Aston Martin’s crashed this session and it could not have gone worse for them

- Kevin apparently had tummy issues earlier in the day

- Lando has a power unit issue but still finishes top of the session

Qualifying

- They may not get Seb’s car repaired before the end of Q1

- HUGE CRASH of STUPIDITY between Latifi and Stroll and it’s like how many times has Latifi already crashed this year. Truly any necessary incident which is representative of how dangerous stupidity can be

- They just get Seb out in time to be in Q1 because they have extra time to work on the car

- out in Q1: Albon, mag, Vettel, Latifi and stroll

- Stewards noted that Perez may not have slowed enough for the yellow flags

- Max may have impeded Hamilton on a fast lap a little bit

- There’s a rainbow over Melbourne!

- Out in Q2: Gasly, Bottas, Tsunoda, Zhou and Lil Schu

- This is the first time Bottas has not made it to Q3 in like 100 races

- It is SO SUNNY because of the delays and how they scheduled it later in the day and everyone gets on the radio at the end of Q2 complaining they can’t see and it’s super dangerous

- Max has a piece of tape on his helmet as a little visor

- Red flag for Alonso crashing on a really good lap

- The red flag ruined Sainz’s lap and we think Charles lap still counts though

- CHARLES ON POLE!! Then Max in second and Perez

- Sainz got unlucky and made a mistake so he’s starting ninth hahahah

Race

- this had over 400,000 people weekend attendance and is the largest sporting event in Australian history

- Worried about reliability issues for Red Bull and last minute changes for Max

- 2/58 SAINZ SPINS AND BEACHES HIS CAR IN THE GRAVEL and his race is over on lap 2. Apparently his hard tires just were awful starting. SCARY when he went into the gravel because he just overdid it trying to get ahead as he was dropping back and went straight across traffic as he spun into the gravel

- 10/58 Sergio passes Hamilton into third!! WOOOO

- 11/58 Seb into the gravel from not braking early enough but he keeps going so that’s good

- 12/58 Max reports front left graining

- 17/58 Kevin was trying to get past Yuki and has a scary off track excursion in the same place as Carlos but handles it way better

- 19/58 Max pits first and a good stop

- 20/58 Sergio is really struggling with its tires and Hamilton is catching

- 24/58 SAFETY CAR FOR SEB WHO CRASHED AGAIN after the worst weekend of his life and now he’s back on the scooter like earlier in the weekend

- George benefited from the safety car and managed to pit at the same time and pop up into third

- Yuki was driving erratically under the safety car and almost caused Lil Schu to crash into him

- Charles has a problem on restart and Max NEARLY gets past him but Charles retains the lead

- This is a wild restart with everyone all bunched up

- 36/58 Perez gets past George for third

- 39/58 NOOOOOOO MAXY’S CAR OVERHEATED AND STARTED ON FIRE AND HE HAD TO PULL OVER AND RETIRE NOOOOOOOOOOOOO 2 DNFS in the first 3 races

- Stroll pushes Bottas off track but no further action

- 5 second time penalty for Stroll for weaving on the straight

- A couple of excursions into the grass for Perez and Schumacher but they’re ok

- Charles trying to plan his run for fastest lap but Ferrari says no not to do it even though Martin says Charles is right to be thinking about that

- Typical Hamilton complaining on the radio

- Concern that they haven’t pitted Albon yet who has had a great race but pits on the last lap

- CHARLES WINS! This is his fourth win!!!! WOOOOOO

- Sergio in second and Russell in third! Hamilton is only fourth hahaha

- Charles also got fastest lap after Ferrari almost lost it for him by telling him not to and when they told him he got fastest lap, he said "I wanted to do it :)"

- Alex Albon actually got 10th even after the pit stop so one point for him in the Williams! Latifi is like last so