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Mark Hughes: F1's Inside Line

"The cooled tyres created a huge variation in how the cars performed – and position changes were rife"

Lewis Hamilton's performance diverted attention away from an inconvenient truth in Australia - namely that nothing much was happening on the track. Some cynics might say, 'What's new?', but actually if you compare it to last year, it is new. One year ago the Australian Grand Prix produced several very tense battles through the field, with seesawing variations in performance and lots of incidents.

Up front, Fernando Alonso was pretty dominant, but first he'd had to find a way around a very defensive Jenson Button, something that had taken several crowd-on-their-feet attempts, and for a time in the early stages it looked like Fernando had a real fight on his hands from Kimi Raikkonen, the McLaren cutting dramatically into the Renault's lead until its front wing endplate support fractured.

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