Miss Australia did we?

I don't see a tyre issue there.
Button's issue was losing time on Friday. F1 is very competitive this year and you cannot afford to lose set up and development time like that. If you do, two or three TEAMS will take your place in a flash.
Look at the three drivers who dominated this race for a perfect example of this. Hamilton, Alonso and Vettel.
Only one of them finished on the podium.
The other two make
slight tactical mistakes and that was enough to allow a Lotus-Ranault and a Sauber onto the podium.
The margins are super close this year.
I can easily see both Lotus-Renault and Sauber winning this season and if the cards fall right I can see Force India winning as well.
To those, you can add the teams that have already won so far.
That's a lot of drivers ready to take advantage of
any slip by
anyone.
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