Talk:Opening race of 2014 F1 season brings 'fascination'

Broadcast notes
I caught the 'highlights' show on BBC Two at around 15:00, which shows basically 100% of the race. "Double quotes" are exact and 'single quotes' are paraphrases. What was happening when is my own observations; non-attributed details and quotes are from the commentary team. Here's my notes, typed into Notepad as the race went on:

First start aborted with an amber light Second parade lap; race length reduced by one lap (57 laps instead of 58) First corner crash, a Williams and a Caterham - yellow flag "Engine is not running smoothly" - team radio on lap 1, Vettel's car Perez for Froce India with tyre puncture into pits on lap 2 Lap 2: "Lewis [Hamilton] we need to retire... save the engine, save the engine" Lap 3: "Lewis just stay out, stay out, just keep on rolling" Williams team has new, lighter livery Lap 5: Yellow flags remain Replay of crash on lap 1: Kobiashi in Caterham locks up, rams Massa from behind Another angle: Kobiashi hit Raikonen, damaged wheel/suspension, then rammed Massa New points system on driver's racing licences for transgressions this year, similar to UK public roads 'might apply to Kobiashi' Massa, Kobiashi both retire Lap 10: Botas hits wall, back-right tyre loosens and sheds over several seconds, wheel rim broken, tryre sheds in middle of road Commentators suspect safety car will be out; be a "brave marshall" who recovers tyre without safety car Botas pits, back on-track for lap 11, tyre still there with yellow flags waving<Br> Lap 12: Wheel rim also on track, Safety Car deployed (no overtaking, stay behind car)<Br> Lap 12/13: Cars take advantage of safety car to pit; Ricciardo, Button (1st to do so), Rosberg "all the leaders"<Br> Lap 15: Safety car remains<Br> Ricciardo teamate Vettel retired with engine trouble<Br> Vettel: "Going to be a long season"<Br> Racing resumes at lap 16<Br> Lap 19: Vettel remains on-scene monitoring the race; Coulthard: 'learning'<Br> Lap 20: Ricciardo (3rd place) radio - "We do not need to save fuel"<Br> Commentators have discussed teams are now seriously considering not starting with less than max fuel allowed<Br> Fuel limit rules are several years old. FIA 'never imagined' being able to do races with >100kg fuel<Br> Hamilton (retired): "One of the cylinders, I think, was not firing"<Br> "Its tough for everyone but that's the way it is", "we're not the only ones"<Br> "My mistake[... should have braked earlier, and I apologise to Felipe [Massa]" - Kobiashi<Br> Lap 29: "Stop the car, stop the car, engine oil pressure" - Other Caterham, debut of Eriksson, pulls up and retires (yellow flag)<Br> "He cannot do a start like that, Every time" will cause a crash - Massa on Kobiashi<Br> First-lap crash will be investigated after the race<Br> Lap 31: Maldonado pulls up, retires (Lotus)<Br> Lap 32: Yellow flags, "car will be easilyy recovered"<Br> Lap 33/34: Small piece breaks off nose of Button's car in pit<Br> Last year was worst-ever for Williams team<Br> Random thought: Damn, those Williams cars are VERY white now<Br> Lap 41: Debutant Kvyat in 10th, "looking to score points on his debut" (first ten cars score points)<Br> Lap 42: Interesting aerial shot, can see busy traffic on a road running parallel to racetrack (track is clearly street circuit, with road markings for normal traffic)<Br> Lap 45: We see another new addition, a red flashing light on the rear of Verne's car, indicating electrical power not being used ie may slow down, warning to car behind<Br> Lap 45: Grojean (Lotus) pulls over and retires; yellow flag<Br> Lap 52: Bottas hits 5th place<Br> "More cars running than we expected with four laps to go" 14 cars running<Br> Kvyat will be youngest-ever points scorer, slightly younger than Vettel when he scored points on his debut<Br>

Finish line:<Br> Nico Rosberg (his 1st win in Australia)(100th win for a Mercedes-engine'd car)<Br> Daniel Ricciardo (first ever podium finish)<Br> Kevin Magnussen (his debut!)<Br> Jensen Button <Br> Fernando Alonso<Br> Valteri Bottas<Br> Nico Hulkenberg<Br> Kimi Raikkonen<Br> Jean-Eric Vergne<Br> Daniil Kvyat<Br>

First Aussie on the podium since Australian GP became a World Chapionship event<Br> "Fascination throughout the field"<Br> "Such a pleasure to have such a fast car" - Rosberg<Br> BRS (Talk)   (Contribs) 17:58, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Watching BBC News right now, I was distracted and had missed the point of Hamilton's retirement during the race. It was lap 4. BRS (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:05, 16 March 2014 (UTC)