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Originally Posted by mb_ (Post 8610528)

Rosberg was saying how he wanted to get rivals to get closer for more entertainment then Seb was saying something about them having an open garage for Malaysia and Nico invited him over :lol

FIA post-race press conference - Australia

Full interview:
Sebastian Vettel mocks Nico Rosberg over post-race comments | Formula 1 | Formula 1 news, live F1 | ESPN.co.uk

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Sebastian Vettel poked fun at Nico Rosberg's suggestion he wants to see the field close up after Mercedes' dominant one-two at the Australian Grand Prix.

Australia confirmed Mercedes has carried over a huge advantage from 2014, with Vettel 34 seconds adrift of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in third. In the post-race press conference Rosberg was asked for his opinion on the huge gap enjoyed by Mercedes.

"I hope we can have a good fight," he replied. "That would be awesome. I think the next couple of races we're going to be leading the way for sure, and we're going to try and keep it that way, but we know it would be good if they can come a bit closer, as long as they don't come too close…"

At that point, Vettel piped up from the other side of Lewis Hamilton. The exchange went as follows:

Vettel: "Be honest, do you really hope so!? [Laughs] Seriously? Seriously, they finished 30 seconds ahead of us and you hope that's it going to be closer. So you hope you slow down, is that what you're saying?"

Rosberg: "I hope you can give us a challenge because it's important for the sport and for the fans and I do think about the show. Half of me, or a part of me, thinks about the show because I want to give people a great time watching or on the track. So if you do come a bit closer, that would be awesome.

Vettel: "That's fine. My first suggestion, if you don't mind, could be that your garage becomes public for Malaysia and everyone can have a look. Is that what you're suggesting? No, I'm joking."

Rosberg: "You can come if you want. We can invite you."

Vettel: "Thank you for the invite, I'll come. Engineer's room? Debrief, I'll be there."

Rosberg looked far from amused with the comments from his fellow countryman and tried to get his own back later in the session when Vettel said it was disappointing to see his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen retire on lap 40.

On hearing that, Rosberg replied: "You find it a shame that your team-mate didn't finish?"

Referring to Rosberg's frosty rivalry with Lewis Hamilton last year, Vettel laughed and replied: "I don't how much you like each other but Kimi and myself we get along! So I think it is a shame ... At the moment where we are we want to make sure we catch you guys. To do that we need both of us so yes I honestly think so and I honestly didn't want to see the second car not finish today."

Part of it

Furthermore:

Nico came off as a plug here.

Although it is interesting to see the differences in mind sets here. Both Nico and Lewis know that they'd still have a very good chance at winning the Constructors title at the end of the year essentially by finishing each race with one car. They really are that fast this year. Sebastian on the other hand knows - and fully shows here - that Ferrari needs to salvage every single point they can grasp their hands on if they're to stand a fighting chance for the Contructors. Unfortunately they dropped a handful of them this weekend.

What a fucking shitty race.

You know it's a shitty race when the highlight of the race was a battle between Perez and Button for last place.

Only 11 cars finishing the race, with the 6th place finisher getting lapped, that's damn embarrassing.

Two years ago the F1 governing body announced the huge rule changes would make for better racing, closer competition and reduce costs.
It seems to me that it has completely backfired.

Caterham folded, Maruissia is on a life-line, Sauber is just scraping by, and *surprise* the team with the highest budget is blowing away the rest of the field.

I hope Malaysia shapes up completely differently, or I'm going to write off this season.

yeah it was a terrible start to the season... a whopping 15 cars on the grid...

I don't think i've ever seen it so small...

Sauber did quite well with both cars in the points - and that pass by Magnus Ericsson was quite nice! That's definitely an improvement over last year IMO, and if Williams and Sauber can keep up the progress I would be a lot happier watching because it means that there's more fighting going on for the spots below Mercedes at least.

I do wish McLaren-Honda did better, but we can only hope. :(

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Originally Posted by Raid3n (Post 8610776)

yeah it was a terrible start to the season... a whopping 15 cars on the grid...

I don't think i've ever seen it so small...

Don't forget about the USGP at Indianapolis in 2005 when only 6 cars started.

Honestly at the moment i'm finding NASCAR more enjoyable to watch than Formula 1.

The only thing keeping it interesting for me is the mclaren-honda saga... hopefully they can make a decent run at the end of the season.

History sure repeats itself, this is like the early 2000s again when schumacher was dominating and there were only 12 on the starting grid

the mercs weren't even running at their fastest, look how far off the qualifying pace they were at even by the end of the race they were lapping about 6-7seconds slower

like last year at australia, rosberg said he had the power to lap the whole field but was told to take it easy

Supposedly Massa has questioned if Mercedes is giving them the same engine because there's such a gulf in performance

It is time the teams and F1 start seeing things from the point of view of the fans and bring in the budget caps. Once and for all. Another season of MB dominance will do more harm than good for the sport's long term future. Usually all of F1's problems can be blamed on Ecclestone, but this time around it's the major teams that need to smarten up.

I agree. The last race in Australia was such a snooze fest and if Mercedes reliability holds up, they might have both titles wrapped up before the European leg ends.

I think writing off a season after a single race that is a bumpy street circuit is a bit of a knee jerk reaction.

Lets be honest, the Merc is going to take this season again, but the fight for 2/3/4/5 will be an interesting.

Rosberg invites Vettel to the Merc Friday debrief:
Rosberg: Seb you are officially invited to Mercedes debrief | GRAND PRIX 247

Rich

So there will be no grand prix held in Germany this year, the last time this happened was in 1960 when the drivers refused to race there over track safety concerns. there was no official german gp in 2007 but it was held there as the 'european' race

Nurburgring rules out German GP in 2015 | F1 news | Motorsport.com

the nurburgring tried to come to an agreement which would still have had them hosting at a lo$$ but Bernie refused

20 more minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way more interesting so far. Go vettel! Nice to see him racing like this again

Alonso holding a points position and than mechanical failure and done for the day :okay: fucking Honda

FUCK YOU TSN SPLIT SCREEN

Buttons car down now also, GG Honda.

Blue flag blue flag blue flag

Toro rosso in front of the red bulls lol

that was a good race!

and the radio of Ham and Nico :lol

It's been awhile since we've had such a good race

GO SEB! FORZA FERRARI!

Nice to see another manufacturer on the top step of the podium and an entertaining race at that too. Great battle between the two Williams in the closing laps.

Holy fuck dat Verstappen pass on Ericsson