Well, Mates, the British G.P. was what they call an "interesting" contest.
For some reason (and none of your guesses seemed convincing to me) Ron Dennis's boys couldn't find enough speed OR strategy to put enough space between them and the red ones to nail the season shut.
I can guarantee you that if the situation had been reversed and Ross Braun were still running things, not even two time WDC Fernando Alonso would have found his way to the podium, let alone the soon to be youngest WDC in history! It would have been blood red with bottom step taken by one of the BMW lads, probably Nick. Result 18 points to Ferarri and, maybe 6 for McLaren.
But, alas, Ross (the most feared man in Maranello since Mr. F. himself) is on vac. Result: one of the most beautiful and most expensive pieces of machinery in the world embarrassed itself on the starting grid and had to be launched, humiliatingly, from the back markers like an errant Spyker.
True, little Massa tore up the track, but hey; he's only driving a car that is three or four times better than everything on the grid save the McLarens! If he HADN'T made it to fifth, and I were managing the scuderia, he'd have been FIRED. Heikki could have made it to fifth in that car! Hell, even Ralphie could have!!
On that subject, I have to say, had Michael (or Lewis Hamilton) been in Felipe's car, he'd have been on the podium.
I was certainly gratified in that I picked Lewis to get the pole and Kimi to get the win
Of course, I expected Lewis to be slightly FASTER than Kimi in quals (as you know if you watched, had Kimi not overdriven the last corner, HE'D have taken the pole by a couple of tenths if not more!) and I thought Kimi would get Lewis on the first lap. As it was, Kimi had to do a Michael to get out front.
I haven't got my points back from pole n 8 yet, but I think I'll do O.K. I know I had Nick and Kubica in the top six or seven
Fernando drove a fine race. But I rather think the situation calls for more than that. Ah well, though, two time, back to back WDC both years beating Michael Schumacher. None of his mates will ever be able to make THAT boast!
So. Drive of the Day. Kimi, natch. He won, by the by.
So now we can see how goofy the so-called point system is: Kimi and Felipe each have five podiums; Fernando has six podiums and Lewis has 8. But each driver (except Kimi) has two wins. And Kimi has three. Cut to the WDC points chase.
Is there something goofy here?
Cheers and on to Germany.
Jim Watt
My Racing Gods: Fangio, Vukovich; Senna & Mears --all racers all the time; graceful winners & generous in defeat, but never giving up!!
