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!