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I really wish Hamilton wasn’t British. According to the British Press, ‘Lewis Carl’ blew the race when he jumped the lollipop man at his first stop and ‘lost precious seconds’ – well maybe, but all 39 that he finished behind Kimi? I don’t think so! Let’s keep it sensible. From the moment Lewis Carl carved him up in his now familiar style down the start straight and into the first corner until his first stop on Lap 16, Kimi’s Ferrari was all over him like a rash and it was only a matter of time before Kimi would be rightfully leading the British Grand Prix – irrespective of any mistaken lollipop lurching. Hamilton is making a habit of the weaving start and maybe it’s time to go back to the good old side-by-side grid so that the pole sitter doesn’t start with two car lengths advantage. In the old days there would be four cars on the front row and three on the second, the cars have got wider but surely as they are normally three abreast halfway down the start straight then they could line up that way on the grid. Meanwhile, whilst Kimi was rammed up Lewis Carl’s diffuser, Massa was storming up from the very back where he’d started after stalling the motor on the dummy grid. There was probably a total of 25 overtaking moves in the whole race – 17 of them by the storming Massa as he scythed his way up to an eventual fifth place. In modern day Formula One where it’s almost impossible to overtake this was an incredible performance and showed that without doubt, if he hadn’t stalled it, there would have been a Ferrari one-two although in which order we can only surmise. Once again the Beemers were the third best and it was Kubica who finally halted Massa’s charge, though only finishing less than a second ahead of him in fourth place. It is surely only a matter of time before we see the Beemers also challenging the Ferraris for the lead and I’ve already patented the headline ‘Pole on Pole’ in readiness - ironical that it'll be for a German-owned team. Despite Lewis Carl being ‘robbed’ Il Fenomeno (as the Italians have dubbed him) still leads the championship on 70 Points from Alonso's 58, Räikkönen's 52 and Massa's 51. There’s been quite a bit of criticism of the points scoring system recently and it does seem a bit crazy that the guy who’s won the most races is only third in the title race although on the old fashioned scoring system the positions would be just the same but a little closer – Hamilton 54, Alonso 42, Räikkönen 40 and Massa 37. The Championship points system favours reliability and surely soon Lewis Carl is going to break down. Lollipops apart he doesn’t seem to make any mistakes - so falling off seems unlikely. Just as the Italians say, Hamilton really is a phenomenon and you cannot deny the astonishing fact that this guy has now started in nine Grand Prix but has yet to experience finishing off the podium. But I do wish the British Press would give the broader picture, the German Sebastian Vettel finished in the points in his first and only Grand Prix in the United States and he’s three years younger than Hamilton, but this raised not a flicker of interest in the UK Press. As with Kubica last season these two young chargers have given a real wake up call to the not inconsiderable membership of the Formula One ‘Comfortable Cruisers Club’ and we reasonably could expect to say goodbye to a few old faces before the end of the season. There’s a queue of revved up young turks who don’t want big wages waiting in the wings with an eye on the old boys. It really is the eighth wonder of the World that some people get paid millions to drive a Formula One car whilst millions of others would do it for free. The ninth wonder is that Coolthud, Fisichella and Barrichello look to have been re-signed for next year! The Espionage Saga rolls on and on, who sent McLaren the secret stuff on the Ferraris? Did somebody deliberately drop a spanner in the works of the Ferrari Wind Tunnel to stop it working for two weeks, or did someone just leave a panini on the cockpit top? And what was the ‘white stuff’? Whatever it was, it looked like it had turned from Ovaltine in Monaco into Speed by Silverstone!
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