2010 FORMULA 1 TELEFÓNICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (VALENCIA)

First off, congratulations to my better half, Susan (Half Marathon) & Mr.Chew (10km run) for having completed their respective events at the 2010 Kuala Lumpur Marathon. And Mr.Tan, if you're reading this, a super congratulations to you for completing the whole marathon!!! (For the uninitiated, a full marathon is 42.2km, half marathon 21.1km all completed on foot!). We are really proud of all of you & as cliché as this may sound, they have certainly proven that all things are possible if you put your mind to it (still, I can't imagine running at a god-forsaken hour for 5-6hours!) If it's any consolation, it would have given you a closer look at all the potholes in the roads of Kuala Lumpur! (As proof of their participation, click on their names to see the photo & details of the event  Mr.Chew - I hope i got yours right!).

Coming back to other events of the day, all I can say is verdammt noch mal (Bloody Hell!) !! The Germans truly showed who were the meister and in all honesty, quite deservingly so. Starting off with F1, Sebastian V was never going to go wrong being in front unless his partner was beside him because Mr.Webber decided to take flying lessons! 

However, kudos to Mr.Webber for not playing the blame game on Kovalainen as too often top runners tend to do. Then again, it was probably because it was him who ran into Kovalainen! Nevertheless, it was a spectacular crash & thank goodness for the strict safety standards in F1, he literally just got out & walked! But the drama doesn't end there. Mr.Hamilton did a pretty sneaky thing (or as he said "marginal") & overtook the safety car as it came out. Although that earned him drive-through penalty, by virtue of having got ahead of the safety car, he easily could get in & out ahead of everyone else. So... naughty move Mr.Hamilton, but I guess in F1, it's always about being 'marginal'. Mr.Schumacher also was a victim of the Safety Car fiasco. For some reason, the lights turned red as he was about to exit the pit-lane. So, with all this going ons, looks like another re-look into the whole Safety Car rules, which no one really understood to begin with! 

So, it's was 1-0 for Germany as Sebastian V crossed the line before both the Brits.

The next event featured the much anticipated World Cup tie between the Germans & English. We all know the result now & ironically, the Germans once again beat the English & the Italian! I still maintain that if the 2nd English goal was allowed, things would be quite different. So, just as in F1, that there will be a rethink at the Safety Car rule, in football, there's now considerable pressure to at least allow goal-line technology. Although FIFA reasoned for not using such technology is the lame excuse of  'maintaining the beauty of the game' in allowing such incidents to happen, I believe it's more the fact that they did not use it first before the Americans did for their 'football'!

In the end, it was truly a day for the Germans, Gratulation!!


Anyway, apologies for the long post, but it was after all quite an eventful day! 


The results for the race as follows :

2010 FORMULA 1 TELEFÓNICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (Valencia)
Position	Driver		Points
1	Sebastian Vettel	SV	25
2	Lewis Hamilton	LH	18
3	Jenson Button	JB	15
4	Rubens Barrichello	RB	12
5	Robert Kubica	RK	10
6	Adrian Sutil	AS	8
7	Kamui Kobayashi	KK	6
8	Fernando Alonso	FA	4
9	Sebastien Buemi	SB	2
10	Nico Rosberg	NR	1
11	Felipe Massa	FM	0
12	Pedro de la Rosa	PR	0
13	Jaime Alguersuari	JA	0
14	Vitaly Petrov	VP	0
15	Michael Schumacher	MS	0
16	Vitantonio Liuzzi	VL	0
17	Lucas di Grassi	LG	0
18	Karun Chandhok	KC	0
19	Timo Glock	TG	0
20	Bruno Senna	BS	0
21	Jarno Trulli	JT	0
Ret	Nico Hulkenberg	NH	0
Ret	Heikki Kovalainen	HK	0
Ret	Mark Webber	MW	0

2010 FORMULA 1 TELEFÓNICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (Valencia)
	Choice						Points	Previous	Total	Pos
C&AL	SV	25	FA	4	LH	18	47	357	404	1
NF	SV	25	FA	4	LH	18	47	337	384	2
VF	MW	0	SV	25	FA	4	29	344	373	3
CCK	SV	25	MW	0	FA	4	29	331	360	4
TC	LH	18	MW	0	FA	4	22	334	356	5
R&SW	SV	25	FA	4	LH	18	47	303	350	6