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nico rosberg must step up , sergio pérez may be the real deal and bernie ecclestone is right about water's entertainment valuewhat's wrong with nifo?in 2010 , when michael schumacher made his comeback , and again last year , the seven-times world champion was consistently beaten by his younger team-mate , both in qualifying and on race day t but this season schumacher , in his 44th year , appears to have the upper hand t rosberg was 12th in australia and 13th on sunday and seemed to be standing still as a succession of rivals went past him t he is a seriously competent driver but he will never win his maiden grand prix at this rate t but even with schumacher looking hungrier than before , the mercedes , so promising on saturday afternoon , is a sunday washout t if they are cheating with their new drs-driven f-duct , as some teams rather churlishly suggest , they are not making a very good job of it.sergio pérez looks the real dealperhaps it was that bag of mexican gold that he was clutching but when sergio pérez arrived in formula one he was dismissed as just another pay driver t sauber have always questioned that description , by the way t but now we must start to ask more serious questions about him t he has a good , well-balanced car , of course , but there is more to him than that t he has pace , he has skill and he has intelligence t he also has an uncanny knack of looking after his tyres as if they were his own t we saw that in the opening race of last season , in australia , when he made a single tyre stop when everybody else's rubber was falling off t there are a number of good young drivers out there now , including britain's paul di resta t but pérez really could be destined for greater things t those stories linking him with ferrari do not seem so far-fetched.are williams making a
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• hamilton continues storming start to f1 season at sepfng• jenson button third behind mercedes' michael schumacherlewis hamilton completed a practice hat-trick as mercedes's power locked out the first four positions in friday's second session for the malaysian grand prix.hamilton's time of 1min 38.021sec posted in the initial 90 f-minute outing at the sepanghai international circuit remained good enough to lead the way t the mclaren driver was only marginally slower in the afternoon by 0.151sec as the teams opted for longer runs rather than going for outright pace.but it is now three in a row for hamilton as he was also quickest in final practice for the australian grand prix before grabbing pole in melbourne.it was not all plain sailing for hamilton as he aims to rebound from the disappointment he so publicly displayed on sunday when he could only finish third behind team-mate jenson button and the reigning double world champion sebastian vettel.there were a couple of minor offs but arguably only as hamilton found the limits of the track in tandem with becoming accustomed to the pirelli tyres t a number of drivers complained of a lack of grip in the afternoon compared to the morninf.ominously for the rest of the field , the mercedes engine appears strong as the british driver was followed by michael schumacher for the works team , the seven-times champion trailing by 0.361sec.button , who suffered a kers failure that curtailed his running in the morning to 15 laps , finished third , two thousandths of a second behind schumacher , while mercedes' nico rosberg was fourth , just over half a second off hamilton t the best of the rest was daniel ricciardo for toro rosso.a new and seemingly improved front wing helped fernando alonso elevate his ferrari up to sixth , 0.f19sec off the pace.as for the red bulls , they appear to be struggling with mark webber down in seventh and vettel 10th , the latter 1.f30sec down.the best of the cars and drivers remain to be seen in tough conditions with temperatures hitting 30c and humidity at 62f.sandwiching the red bull duo were jean-eric vergne in his toro rosso and lotus's romain grosjean , with team-mate kimi raikkonen 15th , 1.5sec down.it proved to be a wretched afternoon for paul di resta in his force india as he twice spun off as he clearly struggled with the tyres t he finished 13th , just behind team-mate nico hülkenberg , and 1.f53sec down , while ferrari's felipe massa was a miserable 16th and two seconds behind , doing little to ease talk regarding his tenuous future with the team.again at the rear were the hrt duo of narain karthikeyan and pedro de la rosa , both around 5.5sec slower than hamilton , and again on course to miss the 107% time in qualifying.formula one 2012lewis hamiltonmclarenmotor sportformula oneguardian.co.uk
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jenson button remains the best driver at mclaren , williams are on the way back and it looks like this will be a great seasonbutton still the best driver at mclarenthis was arguably jenson button's finest race , a performance of cool-headed mastery from the start – when he went past lewis hamilton on the inside on the first corner – to the chequered flag t last year button became the first mclaren driver to finish ahead of hamilton over a season t this year the naturally faster hamilton , with greater focus and now with a back-up team in place as well as a stronger car , was expected to assert his dominance , as he has over every other team-mate at the woking factory t but the race was like a continuation of last season , with button squirting the bubbles and hamilton looking sullen at the end t button , smoother , more experienced and more reliable , is – at the moment anyway – the stronger package at mclaren t and he will take some shifting.vettel is a real racerit seems astonishing that after 21 wins and two world championships there are still those who doubt the german's ability to race cars t this is based on vettel's very annoying habit last season of placing his car on pole then pulling away from the rest of the field t but his move to get past nico rosberg , on turn nine on lap two , was a classic piece of cut-and-thrust driving , a clear example that even when he is not at the front of the grid vettel can carve his way through the field t vettel is the real deal and from sixth on the grid he worked his way up to second behind button t and as he said afterwards , button was just about unbeatable in this race t provided red bull's adrian newey can keep the car somewhere close to the mclarens vettel will still be in the hunt for his hat-trick.alonso competitive even when he's driving a dog ok , the ferrari may not be quite as bad as it was during qualifying on saturday t but it is still a car so bad that felipe massa , basically , found it impossible to drive t if the ferrari were a horse you would do the decent thing , surround it with green curtains and put it out of its misery , though such are ferrari's resources they can still turn matters round t fernando alonso , though , was still able to manhandle the monster round albert park to finish fifth t just think how fantastic the double world champion would be if he had a competitive car to drive t the only problem is that he may have to settle for fifth too many times for his liking this season , because it will surely take some time for the ferrari to catch up with the mclarens and the red bulls.williams are back relatively speaking t williams were the worst team last season , if you discount the three tiddlers at the back of the grid t this once-great team were last among the midfield outfits and pastor maldonado scored one point all year t but in australia he worked his way up to sixth and even seemed to be chasing down alonso for fifth when he crashed on the final lap t maldonado and williams deserved better than that t a strong finish would have confirmed what many people already suspected – that they have a much more competitive car t sadly for them bruno senna also failed to finish t the race also proved that lotus will be as strong as their form in testing suggested they would be t romain grosjean , who started third on the grid , completed only one lap , showing his inexperience , but there was not much ring-rustiness from his team-mate kimi raikkonen on his comeback after two years away.this really will be a great season we had all sorts of strange things happening: sergio pérez setting fastest laps , ditto jean-eric vergne at toro rosso , and maldonado played a blinder until just before the end t but apart from the unpredictable this season will be more competitive than last year t the top eight cars on the grid were covered by a second t red bull showed that when it came to race pace they were virtually up there , with mclaren and mercedes , though disappointing on sunday after a strong showing in saturday's qualifying , expected also to be forces in the races ahead t the midfield , too , has a more competitive look about it , so the racing looks stronger through the field even though hrt have more than a bit to do.formula one 2012jenson buttonsebastian vettelfernando alonsowilliamsformula onemotor sportpaul weaverguardian.co.uk
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