"Semi Live" Blog Part 3 - Race!

Justin: 6am and all is well after a nice kip on the sofa.

The funniest piece of pre-amble occurs when DC goes with Martin Brundle on the grid walk. They encounter the Mercedes crew guarding the back of the car...DC quips "what makes you think anyone would copy your car?" - pure class.

I feel too tired for a live note taking session!

Regarding JB's tyre choice. People seem to think the soft options will go off after around 12 laps.

Brundle made a point of waiting to talk to Alonso as Fernando said he wanted to talk (first time in ages). Alonso was very frank and honest about startline problems they may have, getting away etc.

That's the problem with little sleep.....I did indeed drift off a bit for some of the race. Ie after the stops Button was behind Lewis and Lewis had gearbox issues. When I awoke Button was 15 seconds ahead of Lewis!

The soft tyres went much longer than predicted.

Has to be said, it was a pretty dull race in terms of the top 5 finishing more or less where they started from. The top 3 were keeping each other honest enough on fastest lap times.

Lewis may have given Fernando a run for his money if it hadn't been for his gearbox playing up.

Neither Webber or Vettel were on camera for the last half an hour, aside from the final lap, as they were out on their own.

It's a good result for Webber after a rubbish start, and champions luck once again intervened getting rid of Kubica early on with a three wheel car! Webber had the same sort of fortune in Belgium when Kubica was jumped in the pitlane.

Lewis has a gearbox change penalty (probably) for Korea too after his gearbox issues today.

Lewis and Jenson are now 28 and 31 points behind Webber and with just 3 races to go it's looking more difficult for either Mclaren to win the drivers title. But we have ruled out people before only for it all to change in the next race.

Webber is on 220 with Vettel and Alonso both on 206. Onto Korea we go!

Has to be said, there isnt as much detail in my race blog this time out as I was shattered....but, it was an almighty effort to do live quali and race notes throughout the night I feel. We blog with passion here at I Was Having A Blog.