Racing for 2nd?

Justin: Once again, what an amazingly, erm, amazing race in Turkey. One does wonder though...at this point in time at least, it seems like those behind Vettel are squabbling for second place. Vettel all but disappears and leads from the front whilst the rest produce a hell of a race behind to see who is second best.

It also must be said, that Vettel is fine whilst leading from the front, but he hasn't had to produce a drive from the back to overtake loads of people yet. Last time he tried that he ended up nerfing his team-mate in Turkey last year and Button in Belgium!

Let this blogger go on record and say that Vettel is the fastest guy in the fastest car on the grid, but he is not the best driver. There is Alonso then Hamilton in that bracket. Anyway, I digress.

The Turkish GP was awesome, yet Vettel's win was never really in much doubt.

I have plenty of points to raise from this GP:

1) Rosberg battering Schumi
2) Mclaren fighting
3) Alonso on the podium again
4) Vettel

Rosberg qualified third on the grid, compared to Schumi's 8th with over a second between them. Schumi had a mare of a race in which afterwards he actually admitted one (of the many) coming together was all his fault. This is extremely rare, for him to admit something was his fault....ask Hill and Villeneuve! Then he went on to admit that he wasn't getting much joy out of racing right now. EJ asked DC on how he came to decide it was time for him to retire and DC just said he realised he wasn't enjoying it as much anymore. I'd say it was 50/50 as to whether Schumi quits at the end of the year. He needs better races, fast. Rosberg is making him look slow and stupid frankly.

Some fantastic fighting between Button and Lewis early on, and indeed later in the race. These two are utterly professional and once again showed how team-mates can fight on the edge without taking each other out...it was truly edge of the seat stuff and made the hairs on my neck stand up. Fantastic!

Alonso drove a sterling race to bring his improving Ferrari home in 3rd. Massa actually had a fairly good race too, but pit-stop misfortune and on track banging sent his day downhill.

You'd have to say at the moment, it's up to Webber and Alonso to take points from Vettel. Vettel stands some 33 points ahead of 2nd placed Lewis...which is kind of depressing. As Martin Brundle pointed out in his blog, with that title table in any other year people would be switching off through fear of the title being decided by half way through the season. F1 is more popular than ever now as races are fun and have plenty of stuff going on.

I'm still not sure about DRS....ok it's technology, which F1 is all about...but, let them use it wherever they want. As Webber pointed out, he isn't a fan because it was way too easy passing a guy as good as Fernando with DRS etc.

Someone has to halt Vettel soon. The 5 guys who fought for the title last year are the top 5 guys again this year. Game on then...someone step up and start winning.

Schumi should really just bugger off and retire me thinks.

EJ needs better shirts, though JB liked it!

Oh and the funny GP moment for me was the two Renault guys gesturing at each other whilst banging wheels.

Onto Spain we go!