Spanish Fighter

Justin: Yes, that's right, another Alonso themed blog...well to start with anyway. My co-blogger knows how excited I get watching racing so you could only imagine the jumping up and down along with the Murray Walker-esque "heeehhhheeeyyyyyyy"...as Fernando stormed into the lead from 4th on the grid at Barcelona. As Martin Brundle pointed out, quite rightly, when reviewing the start from the onboard camera, it was quite stunningly brave, reactive and instinctive racing from Fernando as he darted this way and that full throttle behind the Red Bulls. The Spanish crowd roared above the noise of the engines as he led the field away.

After 18 laps of leading the race he was relegated to 2nd by, you guessed it, Vettel and by the end of the race Fernando was lapped and down in 5th. Ferrari have relegated Aldo Costa from his Technical Director position after just 5 races of vast underperformance compared to what they expected from this year.

To my mind this leaves Ferrari somewhat up shit creek without a paddle (magic paddle??). Fernando is now a whopping 67 points behind Vettel in the title race...I say race, but thats to assume there are actually others in the fight with Vettel.

We'll have to see what Monaco brings as Fernando usually goes well there, aside from funking his car into the wall in quali last year..ehm.

Elsewhere you have to ponder Mark Webbers state of mind at Red Bull. I thought he'd landed Vettel with a bloody nose at least when he put in a great quali lap to get pole. The annoying thing about Vettel is that he is sometimes rather nice and he was pretty gracious when commenting that him not having kers shouldnt be talked about as Mark basically did a better job.

Webber ended up 4th, behind a storming drive from Button who dropped to 12th early on then went onto a 3 stop strategy which saw him surge up the field for a podium.

Schumi had a pretty good day at the office too, finishing 6th and keeping his young team-mate well behind him...he was due I guess.

I sort of drifted in and out of the race from around half way through as Alonso faded...come on it was Spain so I was rather down.

Let's have a look at Vettel and who can challenge him seriously.......at this point in time...

- Webber has the same car but is nowhere near him and needs to find something quickly.

- Button has the next best car but is being slowly left behind in the points race by Lewis and hasnt won a race for a year.

- Alonso has the 3rd best car currently and it is showing. 67 points adrift. Then again you could say he had the 2nd or 3rd best car for some parts of last season and he turned it around...BUT...Ferrari are in utter disaray right now.

- Lewis is the only guy who looks like winning a gp and challenging Vettel....but even he is having issues keeping pace with him...

Vettel's nearest challenger is 41 points behind.....

Blog closed, I am almost depressed right now.