2010 F1 Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai

Man..... what a race! Everything was topsy-turvy. Starting from FA being itchy-fied & can't wait to start to SV & LH racing in the pitlane. For that little incident, both of them got a slap on the wrist, being told that they are naughty boys & should behave themselves in the future.

The rain did come (& go & come!) & with it a serious number of pitstops that I don't care to count! True to the 'Chinese spirit', it's all about gambling & this time, it's about what tires to use.

Eventually, McLaren made the right gamble & won. It's probably fair to say that FA could have won as well had it not because of his trigger-happy foot.

This is turning out to be quite a season & Boh-rain is now but a distant memory. However, I suspect that the next race in 3 weeks could very well be a processional race as Barcelona has never been known to be anything but. I suppose we'll find out soon enough.

In the meantime, even our little league is being shuffled around like crazy. Results as follows :



 

2010 Chinese GP Results
Position	Driver	Points
1	Jenson Button	25
2	Lewis Hamilton	18
3	Nico Rosberg	15
4	Fernando Alonso	12
5	Robert Kubica	10
6	Sebastian Vettel	8
7	Vitaly Petrov	6
8	Mark Webber	4
9	Felipe Massa	2
10	Michael Schumacher	1
11	Adrian Sutil	0
12	Rubens Barrichello	0
13	Jaime Alguersuari	0
14	Heikki Kovalainen	0
15	Nico Hulkenberg	0
16	Bruno Senna	0
17	Karun Chandhok	0
Ret	Jarno Trulli	0
Ret	Lucas di Grassi	0
Ret	Pedro de la Rosa	0
Ret	Sebastien Buemi	0
Ret	Kamui Kobayashi	0
Ret	Vitantonio Liuzzi	0
DNS	Timo Glock	0

Current Status - 2010 Chinese GP
	Choice	Points	Total Points	Previous	Total	Position
CCK	SV, FA, JB	8+12+25	45	126	171	1
C&AL	SV, FA, LH	8+12+18	38	118	156	2
VF	SV, MW, FA	8+4+12	24	130	154	3
R&SW	SV, FA, JB	8+12+25	45	102	147	4
TC	SV, FA, NR	8+12+15	35	111	146	5
NF	SV, MW, FA	8+4+12	24	105	129	6

   

2010 F1 Petronas Malaysian GP, Sepang

Where was the rain???!!!

I'm pretty sure that was on everybody's minds but alas, it wasn't to be. The rain played a big role in messing up the order for qualifying & frankly made Ferrari look pretty dumb. Nevertheless, Red Bull finally made good their early 'threat' from the first two races, by literally wiping out the field with their 1-2 win. Looks like, it not just full of bull! It was only inevitable that SV will win a race eventually. Interestingly though, he has 2 poles so far in this season & he didn't win those races, but when he DIDN'T get pole, he wins! Go figure!

LH was pretty impressive coming from behind with the exception of the weaving bit with Petrov. I didn't think that it was necessary for him to do that so since he would have easily have overtaken Petrov eventually anyway. According to the rules (or driver's code) it does state that a driver is allowed 1 'move' but LH actually did 4! However, apparently he did get a Black & White flag for 'unsportsman-like behaviour'.

Anyway, can't say that it was the most exciting race, but it was a fairly good race nonetheless. Feels like the initial negative impression of Bahrain (or Bo-hrain) is slowly disappearing. Now we look forward to the Shanghai GP & perhaps the local chinaman (or woman) has something up their sleeves to make it an even more interesting. Maybe to provide all race cars with 'made in china' tires & see how long it can last!

The results of the 2010 F1 Petronas Malaysian GP, Sepang as follows :

2010 Malaysian GP Results
Position	Driver	Points
1	Sebastian Vettel	25
2	Mark Webber	18
3	Nico Rosberg	15
4	Robert Kubica	12
5	Adrian Sutil	10
6	Lewis Hamilton	8
7	Felipe Massa	6
8	Jenson Button	4
9	Jaime Alguersuari	2
10	Nico Hulkenberg	1
11	Sebastien Buemi
12	Rubens Barrichello
13	Fernando Alonso
14	Lucas di Grassi
15	Karun Chandhok
16	Bruno Senna
17	Jarno Trulli
Ret	Heikki Kovalainen
Ret	Vitaly Petrov
Ret	Vitantonio Liuzzi
Ret	Michael Schumacher
Ret	Kamui Kobayashi
Ret	Timo Glock
DNS	Pedro de la Rosa

Current Status - 2010 Malaysia GP
	Choice	Points	Total Points	Previous	Total	Position
VF	MW, NR, MS	18+15+0	33	97	130	1
CCK	SV, NR, JB	25+15+4	44	82	126	2
C&AL	MW, NR, LH	18+15+8	41	77	118	3
TC	MW, NR, RK	18+15+12	45	66	111	4
NF	FA, LH, NR	0+8+15	23	82	105	5
R&SW	FA,MW, NR	0+18+15	33	69	102	6

I realise that I should put down what we also did especially in term of food, just for the record.
Anyway, the 'menu' today was excellent. As always we attempt to keep to the theme of the race location, & today of course, was very own home ground.

We started off with some tea treats like the usual kueh & goreng pisang (which was pretty good actually).

As for dinner, we had the good ol' Nasi Lemak, although it was anything but typical. The petai, beef & chicken were simply delicious. My all-time favourite... acar was mmmmmm!! Excellent stuff!

All in all, a good race, fun time, lots of good food as always.... and end up being super stuffed!