Okay, not the most exciting race I've ever got up at some
ungodly hour for, especially one I spent the previous night watching England being
beaten by Wales, for. I was particularly bleary of eye and in fact I missed the
only interesting bit, the first 200 yards of the race, as I managed to sleep
through the alarm.
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| Musshed get up ... the race will be amazing.. mush get....up ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
So yeah, I missed Hamilton motor past Nico when the lights
went out. Much the same as I slept through the first 40 minutes of qualifying. Don't
get me wrong I really love Suzuka it's one of the world's great tracks and the
fans are up there with their Italian and British brethren. But it starts at six
in the morning and there was a lot of Rugby on Saturday night and a bottle of
Port might have been opened.
Well done Wales by the way, you beat the English fair and
square, I can't really complain. But don't expect me to wake up early the next
morning and have a ready supply of bon mots for you. I'm getting too old for
all of this I'm afraid.
Errrre yeah good point, motor racing.
From what I remember .. I missed the start, Hamilton over
took Nico and some people banged into each other. Okay .. And I joined the race
as Nico went into the pits in third or possibly fourth. Then I think some other people went into the
pits and Nico was second and Vettel was third.
I might have drifted off for a bit, then Alonso was making everyone
in the entire world aware that he thought the Honda engine was a pile of dung
and just about good enough for a GP2 car, which seems about right, if a little tactless
at Hondas home circuit, maybe.
Then the race was over and Hamilton had got the same number
of wins as Senna (41, one less than Vettel stat fans) which seemed to make him
quite happy.
Then I watched Big Ron turn up on Sky to play down Alonso
getting all angry about the rubbish Honda engine and the media's ongoing
attempts to crucify McLaren for getting things very wrong.
I got up to go and walk the dog at that point. Watching red
faced loon's texting in to "Crofty" to stick the knife into McLaren
was too much, a company makes a mistake and some of the more unhinged members
of society seem to feel like it was some sort of personal insult to the fans or
something. The only thing more baffling is the FIA website. I really urge you
to go and see just how appalling it is, just try and find the current drivers
championship standings .. I defy you to
do it in less than 20 minutes.
Ho and indeed hum. Yay, Lewis won, anyone think Hamilton
isn't going to win the title now? Thought not! Sure there are five races to go,
but barring some sort of season ending injury he's pretty much home and dry
now, Nico hasn't got his game face on at all. He didn't get pole though, Nico managed that
before Kvyat smeared his car down the road in the dying minutes of
qualifying. Hamilton was going faster (I
think as I say I was kind of bleary eyed for that too). But it meant nothing as
Lewis just steamed past when the lights went out and then he drove round really
quickly and won. Easy peasy.
Nico was second, again, because he's a number two driver.
Vettel was third because he has the next best thing to a
factory Merc engine.
Kimi was forth because even he can get the next best thing
to a Merc engine past the best customer Merc engine.
Bottas was fifth with the best customer Merc engine.
Hulkenberg managed to avoid hitting Massa this time and made
a much better start than his team mate, he was sixth.
Grosjean was seventh and has announced he's off to new boys
Hass F1 (Ferrari number 2 factory squad) next year. Because he knows that if
Lotus are quite prepared to give Maldonado a new contract then winning isn't what
they're racing for anymore.
Maldonado eighth blahdy blah blah. Imagine what a good driver
could do with that lotus!
Ninth for Verstappen who could be amazing in a well
funded Merc engined car, I imagine when
Redbull do finally throw their toys out of the pram and flounce off because no
one want to give spoilt attention seeking children an engine next year. There
is going to be more than an unseemly fight by the big boys for Verstappen's signature.
There's going to be a blood bath. Maybe that's why Big Ron was all smiles
despite Alonso, maybe he's already got the kid signed and Honda are ready to unveil
an almighty engine any minute now.
Yeah Sainz was tenth and he isn't Verstappen, he's the guy Verstappen
doesn't get out of the way for.
Oh Hamilton got the fastest lap and Stevens got beaten by
Rossi again, so he was last. Imagine (once again) you are Will Stevens and you
have been beating your rubbish team mate for 6 month, then an upstart Yank gets
parachuted in with a massive pay-check and whip yer ass two races running. That's
got to hurt, hasn't it?
Two weeks to Sotchi, a race I am really looking forward too
... (no, no I'm not)
Love and hugs.
Julian.
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