I watched the qualifying and the actual race of the Malaysian GP this weekend. The race was nothing spectacular, but I must say, it kept me interested throughout. Yea, I lost a bit of interest after the unfortunate incident for Kimi, but in general, it was a good race to watch.

What a start by Alonso! It was unbelievable how he shot ahead of the pack and ended up #3 after the first turn. Button’s starts have sucked so far, and Honda better do something about it.

The Ferraris seem to be holding up better than last year and even though they don’t have the capacity to truly race with Renault, the fact that they are in the mix again means that it will only take one or two mistakes from Renault to let Ferrari get back in the game.

And speaking of Renault mistakes, or lack thereof, what a fantastic job done by the team yet again, isn’t it? They had another superb pitstop just when they needed it, and they came up trumps with their engines when everyone else’s seemed to be blowing up here and there and everywhere. Congratulations to the team and they truly are the champions today.

And my final thought is on Kimi. What has he done to deserve what he went through pretty much all of last year and how he has started this year. Last race he has the mishap in the qualifying which put him back at the end of the grid, and this one, he seemed to be making his moves to get up in the positions, when I believe Klein hit him somehow and he lost it and the race was over for him. Very very unfortunate. I just hope his bad luck ends, because it will be quite a race to watch if Kimi and Alonso can duke it out at the top …