Hi folks...
Well there aren’t many races left now with just the three flyaway events in Japan, China and Brazil and it is all getting very, very exciting now the season is coming to a close.
Lately the pendulum has been swinging backwards and forwards between
McLaren and
Ferrari, as we saw in Italy and Belgian, but I think in Fuji the advantage will remain with the Scuderia.
Fuji has some big long straights and it is very much a power circuit and that should suit the F2007. I think McLaren may have to wait until Brazil until things go back in their favour, as Interlagos should be more favourable for the MP4-22. I could be proved wrong of course, but that’s the way I see things shaping up.
The last race was pretty dull and that was a shame as everyone was really looking forward to returning to Spa after
Formula 1 didn’t go there in 2006.
One man that clearly won’t have cared about the race being less than thrilling though was
Kimi Raikkonen.
Kimi put in a flawless performance to take the victory and he looked very pleased with his day’s work. It is probably the happiest I have seen him on the podium for a while and he had ever right to be content because his drive was just outstanding.
It was interesting to see
Felipe Massa end up having to play a bit of a supportive role and I don’t think he was at all happy about that. He did try and make some inroads at the end but clearly he had to drop back and settle for the runners-up spot.
Throughout the weekend Ferrari seemed to have the legs on McLaren and as it went on, Ron Dennis’ team seemed to drop further and further behind. McLaren just weren’t in contention.
Indeed I was surprised at just how big the gap was between them. I really thought it would be smaller and we might have been in for a great race and a bit of a dog-fight, but it didn’t happen.
Of course events in Belgium were all overshadowed by the spy row and what happened with that on the Thursday prior to the race weekend. Maybe a few people at McLaren had there minds elsewhere and were not quite as focused as they should have been.
