Chinese GP – Pushed Beyond the Limit
Straight into the points today, with a rant to follow (sorry!):
Lewis Hamilton – Bernie, how on earth do you write these scripts? Talk about bad luck! Imagine if Lewis did manage to lose the championship in the final round.. Imagine it was lost to Kimi Raikkonen in a Ferrari…? Anyway, Lewis seems to be a driver that’s particularly hard on his tyres. He’s lucky he didn’t race last year where the tyre war produced even less durable tyres. Kimi and Fernando did a good job to keep the pressure on him till he went beyond the limit.
McLaren – Terrible job. Whoever was responsible for Lewis’ strategy got so focused on holding out to be sure they swapped to the right tyres that they forgot to keep an eye on the state of his current tyres! If they kept their eye on the big picture Lewis would be World Champion right now.
Sebastian Vettel – BRILLIANT! What a fantastic comeback after such a low point just a week earlier.
Kimi Raikkonen – Did a great job in pressuring Hamilton. Looked in complete control maintaining the gap between himself and Alonso at the end of the race.
Fernando Alonso – Full marks for effort. Looked like he might have even been able to catch Kimi at one point but I think it was more to do with the Ferrari driver taking it easy then bringing the pace back up.Â
Vitantonio Liuzzi – I always have trouble remembering this guy’s first name when I write a post about him.. Shows how newsworthy he’s been in the past, but this race he did a super job like teammate Vettel!
Jenson Button – Great race from the former golden boy. Although you’d have to say, 5th place is at least where Honda should be every race.
BMW – Hmm.. I wonder if their poor showing is a sign they’re already putting all their energy into next year?
Felipe Massa – I think Kimi has kindly donated the “bad luck curse” to Felipe perhaps? 
Expect him to be on hot form for his home GP though.
