Barring shunts and random penalties, we should see lots of finishes of Raikkonen, Massa, Hamilton, then Kovaleinin/Kubica/Heidfeld in various orders.

McLaren is too messed up from the scandal fallout and the loss of their most experienced driver to challenge Ferrari, so Ferrari will cruise to a dominant season. 2004 all over again...

with Kimi maintaining his momentum at the top of the heap. Notice how much more emotion he is showing now? He and Massa were cutting up during the post race interviews while Hamilton talked.

otherwise it will be very boring except for Ferrari/Kimi fans.

Last year was great with it going down to the wire.

that looked real bad when he was wedged under there and all you could see were the corner workers frantically waving for help.

And if Webber can maintain his current amazing (compared to the past) reliability then he will be in contention for 5/6/7 in a lot of races.

I was standing at the corner of the first crash on the first lap but missed the second one. My ears are still ringing (earplugs are for p$ussies)

and insurance doesn't cover them.....

but looked like they were just waving frantically rather than any real signals.

Great race for Weber too. I think Coulthard is showing a bit of angst lately, don't expect him to hang on to his ride next yr. Massa actually managed the whole race without goofing. I loved the post race interviews when he and Kimi joked.

yesterday though.

He's contracted to Red Bull for a couple more years I think. Not sure what Webber's contract length with RBR is.