A New Beginning: The Midfield Revolution

As the gap has been narrowed to allow smaller teams on smaller budgets a more competitive edge, we find ourselves in the superbly fantastic position of having a top half of the grid for the Australian Grand Prix made up of mid-field runners.

And it is these also rans who rarely get the chance to showcase undiscovered talents and are, for the most part left to languish behind the big spenders such as Mclaren and Ferrari and scrap meticulously for the occasional point here and there.

For those who always felt a field of identical cars, with effectively no team advantage would be a good thing, we now find ourselves in the position of being presented with something in most ways similar, but ultimately just as satisfying.

Mclaren struggled majorly in qualifying for the debut race of the season, and Ferrari took no major advantage in their rivals lacklustre performance, resulting in a top five consisting of three single race winners, a multiple but faded winner in Rubens Barrichello and also a shining future promise in the form of Nico Rosberg.

And so Button, Barrichello, Vettel, Kubica and Nico have set the scene for arguably the most intriguing season opener in the last ten or so years.

For here we have a batch of drivers not lacking in speed and dedication, and depending on their actions of keeping the Ferrari duo at bay, a five some who can ultimately set the tone for what stunning scenes could follow:

A season of such awesome unpredictability and remarkable events that could put an end to the constant harsh critique of those who deem the sport dreary, dull and consistently predictable.

We could if we are extremely lucky begin a season of multiple winners, of celebrated heroes emerging from the shadows and more importantly a season where previous form goes out of the window, leaving clean slates to be etched into the history books.

Hamilton, Massa, Kimi and Alonso are all shining examples of the post Schumacher world of Formula One, a collection of examples that brought Formula One an army of new supporters and brought those who had begun to doubt the sports merits back to the forefront of spectatorship.

Now the likes of Vettel, Kubica and Rosberg can also provide a similarly tasteful spectacle, and portray to the world a sense of dramatic competition, intense rivalry and legendary performance on track.

Such a creditable start to the season would also encourage the previous seasons fore runners the inspiration to force their cars back to the front of the pack and give us the most open season of quality racing that the sport of F1 has seen in a long time.

And hopefully this could lead us away from the expected dominance we could see later on in the season, where an elite few who rely more on the armour beneath them as opposed to the armour within them taking race wins that come as easily as taking candy from a baby.