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Sometimes what you see playing out in front of you in grand prix racing can be confusing, and to properly make sense of it requires a bit of time to dig through the numbers.
I have done just that and comparing each team's performance with Melbourne last year throws up some surprises. While the performance of each car in the race painted a promising picture for a team such as Ferrari, for example, when you look at the outright pace of each car, things don't look very good for the Scuderia at all.
But we'll come back to that later. Firstly, taking each team's fastest weekend lap from 2014 for either driver - and comparing that to each one's fastest lap from 2015 - we get the following picture:
