It was a fascinating race today, despite the urge to fall asleep because of the procession. No, the fascination was not so much with the winners of the race and the other “contenders” - which I have reported on in my race report - but on the people farther down the pack.
I struggled against a personal choice for the winner of the final available point. In the final laps they were barking down Sebastien Bourdais’s back for that point. As a Bourdais fan who recently bemoaned his poor results this year, I wanted to see the Frenchman take the point. But what a great thing if Giancarlo Fisichella had been able to pass him in the last laps and award Force India the first point of its time in Formula One? And a great payback that would have been for the disaster here last year when Adrian Sutil should have finished fourth but got rammed out by Kimi Raikkonen.
Then there was the Vettel/Webber business. Sebastian Vettel ultimately had a weekend to forget. And it was bad for his chances as the best of the non-Brawn contenders. But I was pretty pleased to see Mark Webber doing so well in the other Red Bull after all he has been through this year with his broken leg, and his mighty fast young German team mate.
The BMW Sauber and Toyota saga continued, of course, with those teams yet again having a hard time. Timo Glock got up there in the final laps, but Jarno Trulli, a few races ago, as a former Monaco winner, might have had reason to think he could visit the victory podium again this year. So much for that.
Let’s just hope that the Brawn walkover does not continue at the same pace in the next few races, or this season’s title race really will go down in history, as Jenson Button said after the race in refering to the team’s great performance, but for more reasons than Button meant. The team already has more than double Red Bull’s points tally, and there’s no point in even looking at where Ferrari and McLaren sit by comparison
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