2012 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX (Melbourne) - The Bar-B!!!

As it has been our 'tradition', Down Under is typically the good ol Bar-B.

What a feast..... great start to the season. Just a reminder, here's what we had.

Starting the fire took a bit of effort but once it got going....

And then, the calorie inducing stuff!!

The Pork ribs and Prawns.....

The obligatory corn on the cob..

Beef.... certainly not from a certain 3-character organisation... !

Always popular and delicious... chicken

The pork ribs after being marinated for about 2 days!!

Fish wrapped in banana leaf....

Of course, there's always squid

This is what it looked like inside that banana leaf

A bit of a desert while celebrating Mr.C's belated birthday....!

2012 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX (Melbourne)

We're back .... !!

And so is the Ice Man and 4 other world champions!!  In addition to that, a whole bunch of new drivers that you don't even know how to say their names!! But back we are and a longer season as well.

As always, we start from Down Under and our little league starts again.

So the results as follows :

2012 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX (Melbourne)
Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	3	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	58	34:09.6	2	25
2	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	58	+2.1 secs	6	18
3	4	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	58	+4.0 secs	1	15
4	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault	58	+4.5 secs	5	12
5	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	58	+21.5 secs	12	10
6	14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	58	+36.7 secs	13	8
7	9	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	58	+38.0 secs	17	6
8	15	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	58	+39.4 secs	22	4
9	16	Daniel Ricciardo	STR-Ferrari	58	+39.5 secs	10	2
10	11	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	58	+39.7 secs	15	1
11	17	Jean-Eric Vergne	STR-Ferrari	58	+39.8 secs	11
12	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	58	+57.6 secs	7
13	18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Renault	57	Accident	8
14	24	Timo Glock	Marussia-Cosworth	57	+1 Lap	20
15	25	Charles Pic	Marussia-Cosworth	53	Oil pressure	21
16	19	Bruno Senna	Williams-Renault	52	Accident damage	14
Ret	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	46	Accident damage	16
Ret	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham-Renault	38	Suspension	18
Ret	21	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham-Renault	34	Steering	19
Ret	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	10	Gearbox	4
Ret	10	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1	Accident	3
Ret	12	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	0	Accident damage	9
DNQ	22	Pedro de la Rosa	HRT-Cosworth
DNQ	23	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth

2012 FORMULA 1 QANTAS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX (Melbourne)
	Choice						Points	Previous	Total	Pos	Pos +/-	Diff 1st	Diff Nxt
TC	LH	15	JB	25	SV	18	58		58	1
EDS	LH	15	JB	25	FA	10	50		50	2			8
VF	JB	25	RG	0	SV	18	43		43	3			7
C&AL	LH	15	JB	25	MS	0	40		40	4			3
DF	LH	15	JB	25	RG	0	40		40	5			0
NF	LH	15	JB	25	MS	0	40		40	6			0
R&SW	LH	15	JB	25	MS	0	40		40	7			0
CCK	JB	25	RG	0	MS	0	25		25	8			15