Massa took a well deserved win today. He drove a pretty smooth race and didn’t really put a wheel wrong more than a couple times. His pit strategy seemed designed to prevent a repeat of what happened in Malaysia. With all the Ferrari folks and even Schumi saying Massa was OK, you knew they would do all they could to help him, or at least not hinder him. Having said that, though, Massa did everything he could to help himself and never gave the team an excuse to favor Kimi, so a big hand for Massa. Kimi had some fast laps so he wasn’t off the pace, it is seemed that Fillipe was the better driver today.
It is a shame that Kubica could not capitalize on his popular pole position, but there is no question that leading up the European season, that car has the pace and that barring bad luck, they should get a win at some point this season.
I knew Lewis would disappoint. He had no choice really, because every driver I pick to win on my fantasy team fails. It’s rather consistent. But, you have to wonder now with two bad races in a row what he is thinking and what we should think about him. There really was no excuse for him today, he lost that race when the lights went out. It will be interesting to see how long before the non-Spanish press starts to cool on him and praise Alonso if this inconsistency continues. Of course, it does not hurt to remember that a) he was not that consistent last year really and b) he is barely old enough to vote. If he stays with McLaren, he should be a champion someday, but perhaps his path has been a little too easy and he needs a little more seasoning.
In other observations: it is nice to see Toyota being a bit racy because frankly wasting all that money is a sin if you don’t get results. They would get better marketing impact from donating that money to Darfur or some other struggling nation. Has Honda caught the scent? Is that car improving? Finally, someone please make DC quit. No-one was a bigger fan than me, but he looks lost this year. Was Button over-optimistic? Hell yes, but the fact is he was alongside and DC did not have absolute rights to that part of the track. If Button was too hot, better to let him go off on his own. Turning in to him did DC no good at all.
