Whether he'll drive again will be how his hand recovers from the partial severance it suffered. I wish Robert Kubica the best of luck as well in his recovery and his coming back in 2012.

Get well soon Mr Kubica, hope you pull through.

With the new season about to start I thought i'd bring the thread back to the front page.

It's looking like it's going to be Red bull v Ferrari to start the season with McLaren struggling in testing for the new season.If Hamilton or Button don't win it this year i'd like it to be Webber as I think his chance to win the title could be closing and I like him even though he's an Aussie

I'm not happy that a team with the history of Williams had to drop a good young driver in Hulkenburg to get a driver that will bring money to the team,it shows how far down the pecking order they have gone that they have to get a drivers money to help fund the team.

It's good to see the Lotus Renault team are bringing back the old JPS black and gold colours form the past,bring back a few good memories from watching F1 on tv as a kid with my dad.

Webber won't win it this year. He's not going to get a fair crack at Red Bull no matter what platitudes Horner might trot out in interviews, they'll be focused on Helmut Marko's love child retaining his title.

Be interesting to see how much the changes at Ferrari post-season have influenced the way they do things.

McLaren have taken a massive gamble going to Australia with a virtually untested floor and exhaust system. It could be a masterstroke, or it could blow up in their faces spectacularly. Another season of being off the pace and you wonder whether they will be able to retain two very ambitious drivers.

Sadly I think the gap back to the rest will be bigger in 2011 than it was in 2010, with Renault and Mercedes the best of the rest scrapping for points in the midfield.

Not a great GP to start the season but i've watched worse.Vettel never looked troubled but Hamilton did well to finish 2nd.Petrov finishing 3rd makes me think how well Kubicka would have done this season.Webber failed again in his home race.I think Button could have been on the podium if not for his 'incident' with Massa.I'm sure there will be a lot better GP's to come this season.

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Another easy win for Vettle today,it's starting to look like the days of old when Schumacher dominated the season from start to finish,McLaren and the rest need to do something quick or the drivers championship will be over by July this year.

Another race and another Vettle pole and win.I had high hopes that this season would be exiting but it looks like it's over already.In contrast to the boring F1 season the Indy 500 has just finished with the leader crashing on the final bend and Brit Dan Weldon who was in his 1st race this season passed the leader on the final straight to win.

Was it just me or was Hamiltons attitude today simply that it was a destruction derby and he should overtake anyone no matter how difficult the manoeuvre or position he was in. Then after smashing the hell out of half the opposition around him, proceed to blame everyone else but himself in the interviews afterwards ?

Agreed that the weekend didnt run smoothly for him (and I backed him, so I was on his side today), but thats F1 pal. Just get on with it.

Think he was griping at prettl well anything, had a pop at his engineers yesterday, and today they apparenrtly "did a great job" Not sure if that was related to advising him, or taping his car back together after he kept driving into things/cars.

another stupid rule shown up today, a potential good finish ruined by repairs and new tyres allowed to be replaced on the restart

the soft tyres also lasted too long today, vettel went for 60 laps and could still go too fast to be overtaken

be interesting to see if the red bull is still the fastest after the illegal parts are removed from all cars for silverstone and beyond

I could not believe that Hildebrand crashed coming on the final straight !!! Poor bleeder and still he got second place and for a rookie he did fantastic. I was hoping Danica Patrick would have won it but maybe next year. The Indianapolis 500 is, for me, the best motor race in the world. I think Dan Wheldon had tears of disbelief as well when he crossed the finishing line. Hildebrand looked gutted the poor lad.

Wow!!!

Long evening watching the F1 but worth it for that finish. Great race by JB.

Be interesting to see what the stewards inquiry say about his 2 crashes though.

Doubt anything will happen. The incident with Lewis had a lot to do with the conditions as visibility would have been poor and Button admitted he couldn't see Lewis. If that was a dry race, the collision wouldn't have happened. As for the Alonso incident, that was Alonso's fault, Button had him and Alonso tried to shut the door on him and paid the price. Great race by Button though after everything that happened. Vettel still has a lot to learn still, as the only 2 times he's been put under any sort of pressure so far this year, he's lost the lead and race win.

Great win by JB. His pace at the end was literally unbelievable.

Vettel is a great driver but whenever another driver gets near him he seems to make mistakes or at least look like he'll make a mistake. When he's out front on his own then he is excellent.

Lewis needs to reign it in and just drive normally. He is a great driver but he seems like he just doesn't really care about preserving the car this year and is trying ridiculous moves all the time.