2013 F1 Season has endured a wet and chaotic start with torrential rain in Melbourne causing Qualifying for the 2013 Australian GP to be abandoned and the remaining two stages to be rescheduled for sunday morning.
with only one of the three qualifying segments completed before race organisers called a halt to the frustration as heavy rain pormpted a series of delays after just twenty minutes of track action, British motorsport fans face the prospect of a midnight start on Sunday morning with the race taking place six hours later at 6am.
The delayed Qualifying one session did at least produce thrills and spills galore, with nearly half of the field sliding off the sodden track and Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa, Charles Pic, Giedo Van der Garde and Esteban Gutierrez all hitting trouble in form of an Albert Park barrier. While both Massa and Hamilton were extremely fortunate to escape relatively unscathed from their collisions and avoid an early exit, both Caterhams suffered front wint injury to add to the insult of being out qualified by the two Marussias. Gutierrez's leery crash into the barriers did at least brint temporary relief for the beleaguered Williams team offering a reprieve for fellow rookie valtteri bottas as he snuck through tothe second stage to qualify, but there was no way through for team mate pastor maldonado and no punches pullied eithere from the angry south american afterwards. 
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