Since Hamilton made a mistake in Q3 and weather playing games it was sure that race on Sunday would be amazing. Most surprising result was Heikki on Pole alongside Mark Webber in Red Bull, Massa was down to P9 alongside Kubica. Usually the starting row 5 and 1 are swapped.

Race started with Hamilton and Kimi in row 2 and wet conditions. Hamilton took the advantage in the beginning and climbed up to 2 positions but Heikki drove well to keep Hamilton away. Conditions were very tricky on back of the grid with all the rubber from tracked washed out because of overnight rains. Webber lost him place in first lap itself and for rest of the race he was trying to climb up again. Heikki had a spin and Hamilton took advantage of it to get into lead.

Alonso was one of the first to pit in and surprisingly did not take a new set of tyres (still I don’t understand why) and had to struggle throughout the race after that. Kimi and Hamilton pitted together and it seemed Kimi will take the lead but a brilliant stop by McLaren ensured that Hamilton maintains the lead.  Just to get track position Kimi did not take new tyres but that strategy backfired for Ferrari.

Tricky Conditions

Honda was looking extremely bad, they did not have any grip and car was very unstable. Before the race Button had said only rain can help us, and exactly same happened but for another Honda drive, Rubens who drove brilliant to get that last place on podium. Another struggling team was Williams and nothing went right there way, Nakajima has to be content with P7.

Big question before the race is, will Kimi use the ‘free engine’ rule and take the new engine for Silverstone? It seems he will be using a new engine; that brings to another question, is McLaren quick enough to chase Ferraris? Seems McLarens are quick and can challenge Ferrari but only problem would be if BMWs squeeze themselves between Ferraris and McLarens it would be very hard to overtake them. BMWs have great straight line speed and I feel Silverstone will suit them perfectly.

Renault sounds promising and according to reports they have improved their car significantly during the testing. Force India has introduced a new spec car and it is much improved version and hopefully one of the drivers will get into Q2. Williams have been disappointing lately after a brilliant start to the season, but I am expecting Nico to perform better.

David Coulthard has announced his retirement; it would be his last home grand prix. He was very entertaining driver, sadly after he moved out of McLaren he did not get a better performing car otherwise he could have won more races [Current record 13 wins and 62 podiums]. We will surly miss him from the track.

Question : Which Formula1 team has participated in 382 races without scoring a win?