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After a short off-season and an intense winter testing programme, Formula One’s much-anticipated 2015 campaign gets underway this weekend with the sport’s now traditional curtain-raiser, the Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit. The temporary track is a tricky test for new machinery and drivers alike. As with street circuits, the rarely raced surface initially provides little grip and evolves steeply over the weekend. It’s therefore important for drivers to feed performance in gradually as the surface ‘rubbers in’ and they come to terms with the latest developments to machines that are almost fresh off the drawing board. And with the barriers close and expectation high at the season start, Melbourne’s grand prix is always one of the season’s most unpredictable. With a number of key driver moves and team developments occurring towards the end of last year, the new season also throws up a host of intriguing questions. Will four-time champion Sebastian Vettel be the man to revive Ferrari’s fortunes? Will a new look McLaren team, propelled by Honda power, become a force to be reckoned with? And which team, if any, will be able to challenge the might of last season’s dominant outfit, Mercedes? The winter test programme appeared to confirm that the Silver Arrows are once again the team to beat, with defending world champion Lewis Hamilton and teammate Nico Rosberg in ominously imperious form during the three four-day tests that took place in Spain over recent weeks. However, testing isn’t racing. It’s a chance to establish a platform, build reliability and to perhaps shield the true performance potential of a new car before the action begins in earnest. That ‘phoney war’ ends here in Melbourne, where the real battle begins. It should be another epic contest.

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