The Brawn GP team celebrated their 1-2 finish at the Australian Grand Prix by announcing redundancies across their outfit totalling some 270 jobs. But on the bright side, Jenson Button revealed that there is more to come from the team.

The title protagonists from last year have admitted that their Melbourne woes are not a quick fix, with Ferrari fearing that it will take time to catch the Brawn cars, and McLaren lowering expectations for Malaysia after Lewis Hamilton's Australian podium.

Jarno Trulli has been handed a 25 second penalty for overtaking behind the final safety car at today's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, dropping the Italian down the order and promoting the reigning champ Lewis Hamilton onto the podium.

The good news just kept on coming for Brawn GP, as the new-for-2009 publishing of the starting fuel loads of the 20 cars revealed that not only had they bossed the field in qualifying, but they had done it with more fuel than most.

The aftermath of the qualifying session in Melbourne saw penalties and protests lobbed around, and when the dust settled, both Lewis Hamilton (gearbox change) and Toyota (illegal wing) were moved to the back of the grid.

The FIA have confirmed that Formula One's increasingly tedious diffuser row will be settled once and for all (probably) in Paris's International Court of Appeal on April 14th, shortly before the third round of the 2009 season in Shanghai.

Red Bull's team principal Christian Horner claims that he expected the three F1 teams at the heart of the diffuser legality row to dominate the running at the Australian Grand Prix all along, a view not entirely shared by everyone at the team.

Both Ross Brawn and Jenson Button are looking forward to the season opening race, despite the ongoing (and dull) diffuser row, though neither are allowing themselves to confirm the team's position as pre-race favourites.

The cars of the Williams, Toyota and Brawn GP teams have been passed as legal to race in the Australian Grand Prix, after the race stewards rejected the protests lodged by three of the other teams on the grid.

Both Red Bull and Toyota will be plenty competitive in the race at Melbourne this weekend, if the most recent views of their respective drivers are anything to go by. But then they would say that, wouldn't they. The crazy scamps.