And Kimi Raikkonen takes the chequered flag at 2007 ING Australian Grand Prix. Reigning champion Fernando Alonso finished second in his McLaren, followed by the rookie [and Fernando's teammate] Lewis Hamilton walking on the podium in his debut race.

If you thought Formula 1 racing were boring, think again. The race can’t get any more interesting and spectacular, with David Coulthard deciding to take “Aerial Route” literally on Alex Wurz. With Heikki Kovalainen thinking of Albert Park as Park, in literal sense, and driving his Renault in grass quiet a few times. With Takuma Sato finishing ahead of Jenson Button but behind Reubens Barrichello. With Felipe Massa managing to finish at 6th place after starting from 21st place on the grid [and thus proving my predictions for grid positions wrong]. With Williams managing to finish ahead of both of the Toyota’s.

Let’s look at what happened in some details.

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This is the last episode of Road to F1′07: Story in Images. This series has covered many things, from unveiling of cars, to testing rounds, to Red Bull Racing movie shoot, to BMW-Sauber’s ice stint at Moritz to charity tennis event by F1 drivers at Marlboro, and we hope you enjoyed the series as much we toiled getting it together. As always, your comments & suggestions are most welcome. Enjoy the last episode.

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Finally, Honda F1 Racing unveiled their new “Go Green” livery at London’s Natural History Museum. Below are some images from the launch:

For more detailed writeup, checkout Yes, This Is Honda’s New Livery at BlogF1.

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“We’re not on the pace of the top teams, which is disappointing,” Jenson Button told the Daily Mail, he addedd “The positive thing is that there’s a lot more (car development) coming in Bahrain.”

Brackley based Honda launched the ‘RA107′ amid renewed promises of a title challenge, but so far it has not featured regularly near the top of the winter times. Button, 27, was third quickest at Bahrain on Thursday but later spent time at the side of the circuit with a broken throttle.

As reported on homeofsport

Hmm .. should we say so much for the another promising year from Honda ?? Or we’ll give then benefit-of-doubt and wait till the season starts with Australian Grand Prix.

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As reported on sportinglife

Spyker technical boss Mike Gascoyne said: “I agreed with Flavio [Briatore, team principal] when he replaced Button with Alonso. I think Alonso had the spark that made him stand out. Fernando won the championship last year when the car wasn’t at times the quickest - does he [Button] have the race craft and the ability to do that? That’s a question mark. Fernando you knew could do that, and Raikkonen the same.”

Some strong words against Jenson ? We have many times said that he [Jenson] is an over-rated driver, driving for an under-performing team, who [team] at the start of each season make bold statements but never comes even close to that.

So should we take our words back since Jenson had won 1 race ? We don’t think so. We still believe he is over-rated and we still believe Honda is an under-performing team. We wish they would prove us wrong this year [hopefully].

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