Sepang

Well now, this looked mostly like good old F1 from a few years ago. All the cars were on rails and no such destruction derby as last weekend. Only Massa showed his ballet skills as he spun off.

So what happened to Hamilton? He was being towed by Webber for the best part of the race, and when it was already too late, started showing his speed. I just wish the race had lasted for 10 or so more laps, would've got interesting. Webber and Alonso could also have started to battle in a few laps time.

Of course, the reason Hamilton dropped behind Webber in the first place, was the catastrophic first pit stop. The first thing that came off the right front tire was a heapload of black smoke. Then they got the bold open, then they dropped the power drill (why would you do that??), and finally got the thing to work and the tire back on. 20 seconds all in all. Yes, I have at times thrown the wrench down with great vengeance and furious anger when I can't get those darned bolts off, but I am usually not expected to change four tires in 8-10 seconds either.

Next up Bahrain in two weeks, with a final straight that's over 1km long. Can you spell s-p-e-e-d?