Good thing about these early starting races, is that I can watch them live before work! 
Anyhow, the race was not bad, quite bland until the last round of pit stips, where the Mercedes drivers closed in on the Red Bull's, and then all the shit that happened afterwards.
First let's get the team battles out of the way.
Red Bull tried to tame their firey Red Bull, but it just wasn't happening. Vettel felt he was faster than Webber throughout the whole race and was getting held up, made his move on Webber giving us a great battle. As soon as this happened, you knew the mood wasn't great at the team due to the odd radio messages. Webber was cruising around saying he was 'saving the tyres', while Vettel felt that Webber was just 'going to slow'. Vettel shouldn't have done what he did if he acknowledged what was going on, but even so it wasn't as if Webber backed down, Webber fought hard in defence, and the next lap tried to overtake Vettel, in my opinion Webber was slower on the day. Vettel wasn't allowed to fully unleash, Webber drove a great race, both probably could have taken the victory today. Neither go away pleased with the result, but it gave us a good battle 
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Now on to Mercedes, I personally feel Rosberg should have had 3rd today, as do many of you. I found it refreshing that Rosberg was arguing back with the big bearboss (Ross Brawn). Can't say it's Rosberg's fault that Hamilton's side of the garage underfuelled if that was the case or whatever the fuel issue was for Hamilton. They two had a battle for a while with Rosberg getting past Hamilton into the final corner, with Hamilton re-passing him in the final corner. After that, they were told to hold station, must have been painful for Rosberg to do a Massa for 10 or so laps and kept pushing the big man for the move. Following Hamilton to the end, and the team rightly so should in Rosberg's words 'remember this one'.
Now on to the race winner. Pulled a sneaky one didn't he? 
Probably was the fastest out there today, but was let down by the strategy. Looked fiesty once he fell back, and pulled a brave manouevre on Webber down the pit straight, even though Webber defended hard, Vettel was lucky it wasn't Schumacher that was defending at that part of the track
. Pulls aways from his main rival from the championship (Alonso). Looked sorry, did he mis-read the situation? Judging by his reaction I wouldn't rule it out, neither the opposite.
Woop woop! Let's have a party! Mark Webber actually had a great start for once, and since 10 races he's finally finished ahead from where he qualified. He looked up for it in this race, had a Ferrari-like start, had the optimum strategy. Seemed slower than Vettel in the stints ahead. Might have been caught off guard by Vettel coming at him, but he seemed to have chosen his line early on, defended and raced hard against him, and tried to get past next lap after flipping him the finger. At the end, it was Vettel flipping the index finger up at the end. (or did he? didn't notice ).
Hamilton was lucky to have third, kept the Red Bull's honest, but again, had fuel problems. The car doesn't look too bad, was looking strong compared to the lead McLaren, even with his team-mate until the end. His first podium for the team, but not in great circumstances judging by his mood on the podium. His girlfriend talked some sense, "wonder why they hold the race at 4pm". But in hindsight, if they started the race earlier, it would have been a wet race.
Rosberg hard done by? I think so. Drove a controlled race, looked to be biding his time behind Hamilton for most of the race, his chance came at the last stint, but was told to hold station, 3rd should have definitely been his as he clearly had the pace, but could have also challenged for Mark Webber's second if he was let through. Took one for the team, Britney needs to MAN up!
Massa was anonymous,he and Alonso where my favourites for the race, but just did not have the pace. For once he had an average start, and then was too cautious going into Turns 1 and 2, some may say because he didn't want to hassle Alonso 
. Confused on the pace of Ferrari, they looked like the all round car in Australia, front two rows in qualifying, yet Massa only managed 5th racing himself.
Starting from 11th, 6th must feel like a good result for Grosjean, especiallly after the bad start in Australia. Once he cleared Perez and Hulkenberg he was on his on, leading those from 7th-9th with a little gap.
The three place grid drop for Raikkonen didn't help his race. Started in 10th from the dirty side, lost places, and just got frustrated first behind Perez, then a ding dong battle with Hulkenberg. Once in clear air, he had the pace. Starting further back was a problem for Lotus last season, seems like it's going to be the same again this season.
Hulkenberg started his season off with a great start in Malaysia, hooked the revs up and got as high up as 6th in the race. But once on the dry tyres he started slipping back. Might have had a wet setup, but got some needed points for Sauber, who look to be the only serious challengers to Force India at the moment.
A so-so race for Perez, gets his first points for McLaren, looks all over the place at the moment. Did McLaren make the right decision? Only time will tell.
Vergne gets Toro Rosso off the mark with a point, even after a clash in the pits with Charles Pic. Nearly got 9th in Australia until he went off in the last lap, he's looking strong. His team-mate though, is having the lion share of the problems.
Bottas misses out on a point by a second.
Bianchi is proving that the three drivers he's competing against are shit, while he's good.
An Alonso DNF is quite rare, but we've seen 3 in 11 races. Seemed to be too fiesty at the start, damaged his front wing and oddly stayed out, surely he could have felt the car behaving strange. The team should have called him, they seemed ready in the pits when he went off. I originally thought it was Webber who took Alonso's front wing clear off, replays show it just came off and went under the car. What could have he done in the Ferrari?
Thought Button did well today, was unlucky with the pitstop. McLaren's pitstop woes started again?
The less said about Force India's pitstops the bettter. Missed oppurtunity for them, they looked very strong in the dry, but come out with no points.
Williams look as if they are in a battle with Toro Rosso.
A three week wait for the next race in China, with weather usually unpredictable there, will we finally see a non-affected rain weekend?!