After today's race in Australia straight away people have started to say that the F2003 GA should be wheeled out as soon as possible as the other teams have now catched up and is now on the pace of the 2002 car.

But looking back at the race you have to look at the fact that the F2002 when it wasn't stuck behind the slower cars of Raikkonen, Frentzen etc then the F2002 was the fastest car on the track. Catching the Mclaren and Williams wasn't a problem for Schumacher and even despite going off and damaging the side skirts and floor board he was still able to keep up behind Kimi and Juan Pablo.

The race conditions today really mixed things up and bought the field closer to each other than it would normally of done if it was dry. Ferrari were on the wrong tyres from the start and when it came to changing there tyres to slicks they left it far to late and by the time Schumacher had come in then Montoya was on the back of him.

Going back to qualifying Mclaren were running a very light fuel load as we saw them both pit within the first 4 laps of the race, yet they both qualified towards the back of the grid. Ferrari ran a heavier fuel load and were able to do a long stint at the beginning of the race so the huge gap in qualifying on Saturday seems even more impressive than it actually was made out to be.

Both Williams and Mclaren struggled with the Michelin tyres during the race and certainly the Williams still isn't fantastic judging by Ralf Schumacher's performance today so the first race in Australia still doesn't show who really are top dogs this season and who has the car to beat.