Lacklustre weblog entries again, eh? None last night 'cos it was taken up with eating Malaysian food with some friends, and playing Gran Turismo 3 on my brother John's PS2. There were four of us playing (one of whom was the bloke who'd invited us round for dinner), so we had two drivers in two teams and swapped after four laps. Which was fun.

I only mention it because it was complete coincidence that it happened to be the Malaysian Grand Prix at 7am this morning! GMT, that is. Not in Malaysia. It wasn't half as exciting as the first race. The highlights were: Montoya and Michael Schumacher colliding at the start, Montoya inexplicably getting a "drive through the pits" penalty for the incident, Sato hitting his teammate's Jordan, Bernoldi in an Arrows overtaking Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button almost finishing third.

The Brits didn't have much luck, all in all. Poor Jenson had problems on the last two laps which lost him his well deserved third place, and David Coulthard... Well. He's never really had good luck. He'd be world champion by now if he didn't keep breaking down! At least his teammate Kimi broke down too, so it wasn't just him. *sigh*

1) Ralf Schumacher - Williams
2) Juan Pablo Montoya - Williams
3) Michael Schumacher - Ferrari
4) Jenson Button - Renault
5) Nick Heidfeld - Sauber
6) Filipe Massa - Sauber

I like Ralf Schumacher, which is weird, because I don't like Michael. So it was nice that he won. I couldn't help but wonder what they talked about on the podium. If only I could lip read in German! And in some ways it was comforting to have two Williams drivers on the top steps of the podium. That hasn't happened since Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve, Portugal, 1996. Apparently. Just like the old days, then...

posted by Fiery Fred @ 10:59 PM