Red Bull Racing itself was a bit dismal in Hungary and, after what they managed at the Nurburgring, it was a shame for
Mark Webber and
David Coulthard, as both are very good and very capable of scoring if they are given a decent car.
The other points last time out went to Toyota’s
Ralf Schumacher, Williams’
Nico Rosberg and Renault’s
Heikki Kovalainen, who were sixth, seventh and eighth at the flag. Those teams will again be battling for the scraps left by the ‘top three’.
Kovalainen’s team-mate,
Giancarlo Fisichella, didn’t have such a good race in Budapest and, in the end, he was twelfth. That coming together with
Anthony Davidson didn’t help his cause either – and, with Ant looking very racy in his Super Aguri-
Honda, I did feel a bit sorry that ultimately he went home with nothing. Guess that is just the way the cookie crumbles at times.
Super Aguri’s main rivals at the back of the grid, Spyker, will introduce their new car this weekend and that may make things a bit closer at the back.
It was alarming to hear during the break however that the Silverstone-based outfit may be sold on again. Such reports can do nothing for staff morale and really it just destabilises everything they are trying to achieve. I hope it doesn’t happen – there have been enough changes there over the last few years, with the team going from Jordan to Midland and then to Spyker.
I guess it illustrates though that the decision to sign Sakon Yamamoto was more to do with money than anything else. Certainly, in Hungary, there was no evidence that he deserved another go at
Formula 1.
I know he was thrown in the deep end, but to spin off just four laps in really just isn’t good enough. Maybe he will deliver this weekend and I will have to eat my words. Whatever happens, I’d like to think the B-spec Spyker will give them some sort of boost.
