Justin: There you have it. One picture, one man, plenty of flash photography. One amazing drive!
It was a rather strange race in Korea, lets be honest. You had the guys with plenty to lose saying on their radio that the conditions were awful, you had Button (who had plenty to gain, but seemingly he didnt want to race either) saying it was awful as they were running behind the pace car...the only guy saying "lets race" was Lewis. He obviously knew the Mclaren's were the best car in the wet, or were supposed to be anyway...Button suffered big time with setup issues and tyre temperature issues and he trundled round in the midfield for most of the afternoon. Thats the way you lose world titles matey. Red Bull's go out, Lewis and Fernando are there to capitalise....where was Jenson eh?
Red Bull....well what can you say eh? Mark Webber still, in my eyes, is the man most deserving of the title this year, as he has been consistently the best, where everyone else has had peaks and troughs. He made just his second driver error mistake this year (if you can count Heiki slowing down and Webber piling into him as all Mark's fault) and paid for it with a costly second DNF...just when he didn't really need or want one. At least the straight talking Aussie faced the music and was upfront and honest about it being his mistake....he didnt hide away like Lewis did a few races ago. Bah. Anyway.
Having said that about Webber though, given my leanings towards Alonso, you have to say he is almost as equally deserving of the title now, given he has driven a champions run-in over the last 4 or 5 races.....thats win, win, 3rd, win....the guy is driving like a man possessed.
Vettel has been far too inconsistent to be deserving of the title this year for my tastes. He has had one or two failures, and far more prangs of his own doing. I found it quite amusing when his engine let go - lets be honest, we dont want a whinging little boy as our F1 champion.
I bet Webber breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Vettel go up in a cloud of smoke.
Hamilton's error when he ran wide, after he had jumped Alonso due to Alonso's dodgy pit stop, proved costly as the Red Bull of Vettel fell off the track and gifted Alonso the lead and victory.
It has been a vintage year, but it's been a weird one too.....as the race in Korea finished in essentially the same fashion as the season opener in Barhain....Vettel falling off and Alonso inheriting the win.
Still, to be first in f1, first you have to finish. Red Bull didnt learn that last year, and they still arent learning that this year it seems.
The first 3 were covered by just 3 seconds when Vettel retired, so who knows what would have happened!
My driver of the day goes to Michael Shumacher. We have had a right go at him this year, but the wiley fox was the only guy out there testing braking zones when they were sat behind the safety car in the rain (MB picked up on this).....then when the race was on, you saw him almost immediately making overtakes where we previously saw him sort of braking, sliding and nearly running off the track. He still has it.
I have to say, Massa and Alonso seemed quite at ease with each other before the podium celebrations and even on the podium. Part of all the fuss must be media stuff, but they seemed genuinely matey....does this mean that Massa is off then, and all the tension has thus lifted?
Onto Brazil next......team orders is the hot topic. Mclaren will surely ask Jenson to help out Lewis given he is 42 behind Fernando and all but out of the race. It has to be said, Lewis drove like a champ on Sunday, Button certainly did not.
The question is, will Red Bull ask Vettel to help out Webber as the latter is just 11 behind Alonso and has a much better chance of claiming the title than Vettel, who is a full race win behind Alonso and 14 behind Webber.
Alonso could even clinch the title in Brazil....then again, given the twists and turns this year, he could easily retire handing momentum back to the chasing pack.
Cya in Sao Paulo baby!!!
