Back To Business

After all the ruckus mid-week it was back to one of the world’s greatest track to race! Ahh Spa, such an awesome circuit. Even the on-board stuff looks amazing. Allegedly this was a ‘boring’ race according to ITV-Sport. Granted it wasn’t a classic, but ironic that a Hamilton win isn’t classed as boring eh?

The first half of the lap was worth the watch. Alonso showed no mercy to his team-mate. It was surprising to hear Hamilton whinge about it and claiming that Alonso tried to take him off track. This is all coming from the guy who has ruthlessly cut across people on a start line. He needs to learn that you have to give as good as you get. It was tough by Alonso, but what do you expect at this stage in the championship? To lie over and say ‘there you go have the position’. Alonso had the racing line, stayed on the racing line through the first corner. Side by side towards Eau Rouge. That was balls from both of them. If it’s anything to go by then the clashes between the pair of them when they are on the track are going to be well worth the watch from here on out. Neither is going to give each other any quarter.

Raikkonen just... jusssst stays in the hunt. It isn’t easy for him and realistically has to haul in five plus points on both McLaren’s over the final three. Given McLaren’s awesome reliability it’s not going to be easy in the slightest from him. But like I said before, the way the pair are looking it’s possible they could run each other off the road before the end of the season!

Honourably mention of the weekend goes to Adrian Sutil who showed the race craft that many knew he had with the revised Spyker, albeit on a different strategy, mixing it in the midfield. Things are looking up! Also to Clint Bowyer in NASCAR, with the Texan getting his first career victory at a great time as the Nextel Cup enters the 10 race Chase for the title. Good time to break the winless duck! Eyebrow of the weekend has to go to Alex ‘The Hoff’ Hoffmann in MotoGP, who decided midway through the race he didn’t have the motivation to fight for 15^th place. He’s out of a job today.