Messing about on the water TO FINISH

Sarah so kindly organised for a weekend away with the uni scotland gang!

Thank you, Pirelli!

Not a Martin, but a DC one!

A strange story for me...  Sunday morning, I was leaving my friend's house at 9.30 who I had stayed the night with and we heard some noise from upstairs and she said oh, her boyfriend must be watching the Grand Prix.  Grand Prix, Grand Prix? There wasn't a Grand Prix this weekend... was there?  It was only a weekend after the last one wasn't it?  And I had heard nothing on 5Live about it.  But then I hadn't been listening to the radio this weekend, being with friends. Quick check on the iphone and discover yes, it was the Chinese Grand Prix!!!  Got to be the first time in years that I didn't even know a grand prix was going on!!

I decided to try avoid news, wasn't too hard, being a busy weekend with friends.  Back in my room at 10.30pm on Monday night, and to iplayer I go.  Oddly, and initially disappointingly, the race wasn't on there.  There was the 5Live race commentary, and there was the TV highlights show.  So I went for the highlights package which turned out to be brilliant as I didn't have much time and it only showed the best bits!  I managed almost the whole hour of the programme, before it started to buffer so I took my glasses off and went to sleep and saw the final 6 laps this morning.

And it was a good one!  Loads of overtaking thanks to KERS, DRS and Pirelli tyres, with a 3 stopper turning out to be quicker than a 2 stopper.  The team looking good changed so often during the race.  A bad bit for McLaren was when Button came into the pits and stopped at Red Bull!  Oh Jens!  In the end it was a great Hamilton win, Vetel second, Weber third, Button fourth.  good times that I almost didn't know about!

Haha - Jake has just said it's 3 weeks till F1 is back in Turkey.  Take note!

Last of the Late Breakers!

I was a little apprehensive this season when it transpired that Martin Brundle was now the lead man in the commentary box with DC as his side kick.  Would he still be able to make such great off the cuff comments while having to give the full run down of what was happening.  But with this post title classic comment I knew a post was on it's way!

Race number two of the season, Malaysia.  Bahrain was canelled/postponed (we shall wait and see which) after unrest in the country.  Australia was then promoted by default to season debut two weeks ago.  It started at 6am which I felt was quite late relatively even with the lost hour, but racing was in fact so uninteresting that my eyes closed just about every lap.  Vetel (world champion) win, with Hamilton a better-than-pre-season-testing-suggested second.

Here we go again at an even more civilised  hour.  After a natural wake up, I have in fact spent some time on internet during pre-show and then even vacuumed out the car before making it back to my room for the warm up lap.  Having been enjoying watching, and now blogging, while also starting a little room tidy - still more to be done.  Also need to go shower before end of race.  Think I may go now, while the little spitting of rain (in Malaysia) is over.  Current standings on lap 22/56:  Vetel, Hamilton, Alonso, Button, Heidfeld, Massa.

Back from shower - Lap 28:  seems that most people have now done a second pit stop.

Suddenly realised I could paint toe nails while watching - Spring has very much arrived here!  So will not be blogging necessarily much now.  Will just say though, that it's a good race with ever so much overtaking back and forth!

Lap 45: It's all turned to custard for D'Amrosio.  thank goodness we got that one out the way.  Oh Martin...

Lap 47:  Hamilton and Alonso just touched.  It really is a good one, without major incidents!

Ended with another win for Vettel and Button second!