Published March 12th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
Australian Grand Prix
Well, the AGP has been run and won, but who cares really. Aside from the fact that I had to go into work and therefore missed the entire race, I watched most of the F1 practice and qualifying sessions and thought they were boring as hell. Of course, this is the pinnacle of motor sport, where the cars are faster, high downforce, fast lap times, the whole shooting match. But these things have traction control, launch control, and fully automatic transmissions. All they need is ABS brakes and pretty much any monkey could drive one.
I did however see a couple of races of the Porsche Carerra cup, and liked what I saw. Real racing, evenly matched cars, overtaking, and a bit of slip and slide action.
Then of course there was the V8’s. I saw race 2, and the end of race 3 (what there was of that). Big supprise of the weekend was Russell Ingall’s performance. He could be one to watch this year, and lets face it, if you want to win a championship, and you can’t score a drive in a TWR vehicle, then Stone Brothers’ would be the next best bet.
Caltex Havoline Racing’s Russell Ingall has led all the way to score the first win for the BA model Ford Falcon in race #two of the non-championship V8 support event at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park.
Looking forward to the Adelaide 500 in two weeks time!