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Justin: I don't think I'll be the only one who thinks that the Malaysian GP was a chaotic, frantic and ultimately fantastic race!

There are so many things to talk about that I don't know where to begin.

Ok, here we go...

BBC Highlights coverage
I found myself very annoyed at two points during the race. When Button came out of the pits near Hamilton after the first stops, we didn't actually see anything of this at all!! DC was urging the race director to switch to footage of those two, but frankly when they did cut to it whatever had happened was already over. Secondly, when Alonso made his move on Perez around turn 1 and into turn 2 we were watching footage of cars in the pits!!! One wonders if Sky have control over this? I'm not sure they do as such, it's probably more the BBC being shit. I found through reading The Guardian over the weekend that the new BBC show The Voice cost £25 million to make. One can't help but think that that is where the money saved on live F1 went. What a load of bollocks! Oh...and is Eddie only doing live races now??

Anyone who bothered watching the F1 forum after the race will know that Jake and DC now appear to be homeless on there now, roaming the paddock for stories, as opposed to having set up shop in a team home and letting people come to them. I still love the BBC coverage obviously, but I really wish they had them all live still.

Perez
Beautiful drive by a fantastic young driver. To put his drive into context, it was Sauber's best ever result. It's easy to say he would have won too, given how quick he was compared to Fernando's bucket of crap dry weather running Ferrari. Still, Fernando wouldn't have made it that easy for him. Perez has been rumoured to be in the running to replace Massa if not this season then in 2013. One can easily see why.

Senna
Erm, did anyone else notice that he drove from last at the restart to finish a fine 6th?? Proof, finally, that the boy can drive!

Kimi
His comeback continues to go well with a fine 5th position. I must state though, that he didn't seem that impressed with anything in his interview after the race!

Schumi
Is anyone else almost excited by Schumi's pace this year? He out-qualified Nico by getting third on the grid to Nico's eighth. He looked rather quick too until he got nerfed by Roman.

Roman Grosjean
Qualifies well then punts people off. His racecraft is severely lacking, which given he won GP2 last year, shouldn't really be the case. Has he been found out? Well, dare I say it, my co-blogger and I pointed out that the only thing he was famous for was replacing Piquet Junior and being shite that year.

Vettel Vs Webber
We all pondered what Vettel would be like if things didn't go his way. I refer you to his post race interview when his usually grinning face didn't appear at all, perhaps just a glimmer as he exited the interview. He reminded me a bit of Hamilton, stroppy schoolboy, toys out of the pram etc etc. Calling people idiots etc. Ok, we accept that the HRT was being lapped and should have got out the way....but Seb, you pulled an identical move to the one you made on Mark in Turkey 2010 and that was all your fault...."I'll just move over and pretend you aren't there"...

Speaking of Mark, a pretty good performance from Aussie Grit again. He seems to be more on top of things than Seb at the moment (ie not having the best car for once), as the title standings show us. More than anything, I bet that is eating Seb up inside.

JB vs Lewis
Apologies to my co-blogger, but regarding his last blog about the Aussie GP where he said in brackets it was pretty unlucky/unfair what happened to Lewis being jumped by Seb with the safety car. So what? Bad luck happens in F1. Need I remind you of the whole incident in Valencia 2010 where luck dictated that Lewis stayed second where Fernando dropped to ninth because of Lewis overtaking the safety car? Good luck, bad luck.

I'm getting pretty tired of people saying Lewis seems calm, more focussed, it's a new him after last year etc. So what? I still think Button will emerge from this inter-team battle in front this year. When he is on it, Lewis is clearly faster. But, he isn't on it as much as he should be really, and Button is a far more complete F1 driver. I was reading a blog on the BBC earlier and someone wrote about how if Button punts someone it's a one off, but if Lewis does it everyone says "not again"...well, just look at 2011 for Lewis!

JB can scrap the Malaysia weekend...nerfing into the HRT....ooppss. Still, after all that he is only 5 points behind Lewis in the title chase.

Two poles and two thirds for Lewis. To his credit, he does look like he has his eyes on the long term prize....ie, two thirds isnt the end of the world, it's not that bad at all really.

Fernando Alonso
You knew I'd save the best for last. The Ferrari has no right at all winning a GP. In dry conditions it's probably the 5th best car, perhaps even 6th??! It seemed to suddenly come alive in the wet in the hands of Alonso. He was doing fastest lap after fastest lap to push out a margin between himself and Perez - DC couldn't believe what he was seeing. Compare all this to Massa's race and you would have to say that Massa's days are surely numbered - even though everyone at the team backed him before the race.

Utterly relentless.

That's 28 wins now and moves him ahead of Sir Jackie Stewart in the all time winners list. As Andrew Benson stated in his BBC blog, that race and that win was certainly befitting of the occasion.

If Alonso can pick up points like this whilst the Ferrari is...difficult...one can only imagine what he will do once they start to hopefully improve the car.