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Malaysia a full runthrough

It was not quite the race that McLaren and Lewis were hoping for after their domination in Australia. It was however an interesting race, as it showed that the season is not going to be the two horse race that we have had in recent seasons.

Ferrari shone all weekend, and where pretty much unbeatable, Felipe was looking fast, as was Kimi, and the Ferrari with it’s minor changes to improve cooling looked strong.

The race started under a little cloud, the McLaren team had been penalised five grid spots for both of their cars, this was because Lewis and Heikki had impeded Heidfeld and Alonso’s fast laps at the end of the Q3 session.

This put the two lower fueled McLarens into eight and ninth place, in and around heavier fueld cars. This did however show us that both the McLaren and Lewis are quick away from the line, the Brit lined up ninth on the grid, and finished the first set of corners in fifth, Mark Webber did well getting the Red Bull into fourth as well.

Spa not really all that good

Well, ok it was a good race, for a number of reasons, however it was for the most part quite dull.

Kimi took an easy win, with his team mate Filipe coming in second.

The Ferrari’s were completely dominant throughout the race, with the McLaren’s just not capable of keeping pace.

The revised circuit showed that they have not damaged it, and only the pit lane entrance is disliked by the drivers.

Among the notable happenings in the race were Kubica having a great drive for 9th spot after having an engine change relegate him to starting 14th.

There was a little rucas at turn one between the two McLaren drivers, it looked quite a hard move from Alonso at first, but after seeing replays it was a fair move. What was most impressive was that both of the drivers kept there foot in until the last moment going up the hill at Eu Rouge, where Hamilton on the outside backed off and let his team mate through.

Turkish GP

Massa made it two in a row at Turkey this weekend, by beating both of the McLaren’s and his team mate.

He actually made it look fairly easy in the end, Kimi got close a couple of times, but really didn’t seem to have the edge over his Brazilian team mate.

The race was quite a boring one as a result, with the only real action taking part on lap 43 with Hamilton’s front right tyre exploding, and him having to nurse the car back to the pits for a change. He did a good job and did not damage too much of his car, and still finished 5th.

The Turkish people did not turn out in the numbers that they have in previous years either, perhaps they thought F1 was dead now there is no Schumi to go and watch?

Kimi drove a decent race, managing to get into second spot before the first corner, as it seemed the Ferrari’s were capable of running the softer tyres on the longer stints, giving both of the scarlet cars a slight advantage off the start line.