Button dominates in Melbourne
Jensen Button showed why he's the defending world champion on Sunday with an inspired win at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. Taking tyre strategy responsibility and saving time spent on wets on a drying track, the Englishman called in for new slick rubber earlier than his team wanted him to do (six laps in!). It turned out to be a wise decision and Button was able to control the race after Vettel's retirement.
Once again the Red Bull's proved fragile, as Sebastian Vettel suffered a broken wheel rim whilst leading the race, and his team mate Marc Webber found himself in the sand-trap after a collision with Lewis Hamilton, eventually coming home ninth. The Australian misjudged his braking and accidentally took out Hamilton's McLaren with two laps to go. Fortunately Hamilton was also able to finish after cracking race, pulling himself up through the field from eleventh in the grid, with only a wrong pit stop call and the Webber collision hindering him.
Michael Schumacher and the Mercedes team are still finding their way, with the German finishing tenth after being caught in the opening Kayobashi/Hulkenburg fracas at the first corner and having to work his way up the field. I wouldn't be quick to write him off just yet as he did post the fourth fastest race lap...
