Monday 30 August 2010

Belguim grand prix

I don't just talk about football I also comment on the F1. Mark Webber had pole position with Lewis Hamilton in 2nd. Jenson Button was in 5th with Sebastian Vettel in 4th. I've said these names because they are the main championship contenders well, there is Alonso so he was in 10th. The start saw Webber stall so Hamilton jumped into the lead. Kubica, who was 3rd on the grid, took 2nd and Button took 2 places up to 3rd. A few laps in and the first rain shower came but, it didn't last long so the leaders decided not to switch to intermediates and just servived on sliks. Webber, who was down in 7th after his stall, was climbing fast and was now 5th behind his teammate Vettel. It stayed like this for a while then an incident occurred. Vettel tried to pass Button on a straight. He lost the back end when he was getting into position for the pass and when he corrected it slammed into the side of Button forcing Button to retire and nocking his front wing off forcing him to pit and that put him 20th and ruined his chance of points. Webber was now in 3rd and soon caught up with Kubica. With ten laps to go it started to rain and Hamilton almost crashed because of it. He came into the corner to fast and ran into the gravel trap just managing to keep it out of the barrier and managed not to get stuck in the gravel so came out in 1st but his lead was cut from 10 seconds to about 2 seconds. The front runnerstried to stay out on sliks but it was to wet and they had to come in for inters. Some of the back markers put on full wets but there was no standing water so ended up destroying their tyres. What had sparked the back markers to change to wets was Alonso spinning into the barrier but it wasn't anything to do with him not being on wets he just ran to far over the cirb and lost it. The last laps of the race were nail biting but Lewis hang on for the win with Webber in 2nd, a bit of a let off if after his stall at the start if you ask me, and Kubica in 3rd. After this race the top 6 of the championship table looks like this.

1st Hamilton 182 points
2nd Webber 179 points
3rd Vettel 151 points
4th Button 147 points
5th Alonso 141 points
6th Massa 109 points

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