Malaysia - Much improved from Australia

Justin: First things first, welcome back to my co-blogger. I cannot wait for the annual "I Was Having A Blog" live event on the Monaco GP weekend. Excellent.

Also, I noticed that he has stuck his neck out to predict Vettel winning the title. Whilst I would point out that it isn't much of a neck sticking out moment, given that his main rivals aren't exactly hot on his heels, I would agree it would be hard to bet against him at this moment in time. Even I said it was a Vettel or Alonso title this year, and with Ferrari fannying around trying to work out what has happened to their car, Vettel is waltzing away at the moment.

After the race, Vettel himself said "Ask Jenson, we know, as he did in 2009, that it is important to get maximum points from the races before others catch you up".

Malaysia was a damn good fun race all round really. As a well seasoned blogger predicted, me, the race was a vast improvement on the season opener in Melbourne.

Vettel did not dissapear into the distance, though Lewis was held up for a while by a lightening fast starting Nick Heidfeld. Webber had KERS issues from the start, ie he didnt have any, any thusly got swamped from the start and went back to 10th for a short period.

In fact, my driver of the day award goes to Mark Webber....just about shading it from Nick Heidfeld. To have no KERS from the start and battle his way through the field and 4 pit stops, a field of cars with KERS, is a mighty achievment to come 4th.

We know too that Vettel had KERS problems, but he used it for at least half the race.

One does have to wonder about the situation at Red Bull. The difference between Webber and Vettel this year is frankly astonishing, given last year they were pretty much equal. Does a world title win make one guy so much faster? Does a world title loss make the other guy so much slower? Does the world champion utterly crush all hope of the nearly man by dominating in such a way? Or, are there darker forces at work? Vettel does seem utterly dominant....but....it's not like Webber is ever the guy to give up or fold totally in the face of adversity. I just don't believe he and he alone is that much worse than Vettel this year. Ok, I could be stirring...but Lewis believes the Red Bull car is illegal, so why can't I speculate on my suspicion that Red Bull are favouring their champion?

Jenson Button had a sterling drive through to second, helped in part by a ropey pitstop for Lewis. A charging Alonso came up behind Hamilton late on and "they touched" (alonso's words). Hamilton was rather slow, Alonso rather fast....and a coming together looked inevitable frankly.

Lewis had a good old moan and whinge after the race and blamed his team for his weekend's shortcomings....really, just when will he grow up a bit? He does this a lot.

Schumi picked up some points, as did Sauber with Koboyashi.

Petrov flew...literally!

Onto China we go, except for the Ferrari team leaders who have buggered off back to Italy to look over data and try and improve their car. Good luck lads!