Round 13: Belgium

Justin:

Welcome back old friend. Whilst in my last post I said I needed a break from F1, a month is long enough!

Ok, once again there was no real racing for first, right at the front. This has been my bugbear for a lot of races this year.

But, there was absolute mayhem and carnage on the opening few laps which distracted from Rosberg scampering off into the distance.

Max, Kimi and Seb nerfed into each other on the first corner and Max and Kimi kept coming across each other during the race too. The first corner incident really was not the fault of Kimi at all. Seb had to turn into the corner, but perhaps didn't see Kimi. He definitely didn't see Max.

Now, we'll give Max the benefit of the doubt for his first of many cock ups during the race. But, whilst a lot of people are blaming Seb...did nobody see that Max was actually fully on and over the kerb and he sort of just went straight on into Kimi?

He later moved over on Kimi at 200mph, after Kimi had made his move. Dangerous driving Max. If Kimi is bothered enough to be vocal about it after the race, then, well, you know it's a shit move mate.

The supidity of youth me thinks. Max later said he was pretty much driving angry after the first corner incident and said something along the lines of "better push him off than let him by".

Jesus christ. Calm down young man. That attitude will get people killed.

Elsewhere, I don't believe Rosbergs race was as easy as made out. The red flag restart will have required upmost concentration.

Great drives from Hulkenberg, Hamilton and Alonso (the latter two sailed through the grid as they started on medium tyres as everyone in front of them pitted due to safety cars and general utter carnage).

In all the mayhem I totally missed that Button had been punted out too!

So, nine points in the title race - Let's see a straight fight between the Merc boys in Monza please.

One last thing. Even if a driver I despised was the winner, I would never boo them if I was at a Grand Prix.

I couldn't believe it when Rosberg received a lions share of booing. Totally unnecessary.

Why boo him? It may have been the fact that the whole crowd wanted a Max win, but even still it's a bit harsh. I wouldn't put it past some of the Lewis fans too you know. There were a lot of Brits there.

Talk about football crowd mentality!

Oh, and K-Mag is fine. Yey. Typical F1 driver. 200mph crash, does his ankle in and is racing 5 days later. Most footballers fall over like they have been shot, then get up two minutes later totally uninjured. Pft.

Hungary and Germany were really quite dull races if you think about it

Maybe you don't need to think about it....

Nigel Mansell tweeted  after Germany "World Championship lost maybe in Germany. Wow I cannot tell you how many times I got forced wide or knocked off track. Very different now."

If it wasn't lost there, the race was run at the start where Lewis got a flyer and Nico bogged down.

There was fun racing further down the field, but for me, for it to be a barnstormer, you need racing for the win. Hungary and Germany were totally lacking this.

Whisper it, but I am glad of the month long break now.

For the record, I don't think Nico did much wrong with his move on Max. He is only acting as Lewis has acted towards him many a time.

Belgium next. Ah, Spa 2012. Then a certain blogger is off to Singapore soon enough after that and Monza! Yeah.