Not sure if Gascoigne is much better (only started watching 10 mins ago) but anything is better.

I want HAMO HAMO! to win but I’d more than settle for Vettel to win and Button to fall over and scrape his knee

Apparantly EJ wasn’t going to be able to do this race due to another commitment (or something like that). Anyway, much better without him, but sadly I fear he will return next week.

Mike seems good so far

Hora – why anti Button?

I never rated him. Maybe the press coverage at the time (and now) doesnt do him any favours but to continually tout his ‘smooth driving style’ after 100starts doesn’t do it for me. Hes a good driver and like Brundle and Coulthard he’ll go onto take a new longevity record but beyond that sorry he leaves me cold.

Crasha Massa has more outright raw talent.

I wondered where Eddie had got to yesterday and only realised that it was Gascoigne in his place.

Eddie may rub people the wrong way but Coulthard is so anodyne that Eddie provides a bit of bite and controversy.

Nice procession in the race so far!

Apparantly EJ wasn’t going to be able to do this race due to another commitment

He’s gone to the footie this weekend.

Any chance we might get some racing soon? Red flag last race, safety car start this time. I love the odd wet race, but seems to me were in places in the wrong seasons, and the wrong time of day, for the sake of TV timezone and cramming these places into the calendar.

Oh at last, SC lights out! Let’s go then..

Funny, I thought he had been hampered by duff machinery in the past. I would rate him ahead of DC in his heyday, and given Button’s only win before this season was Hungary in the wet I reckon that says a bit about his driving style – on camera he looks very smooth. The Hamilton circus just really irritates me!
But then I prefer Motogp and superbikes……

Good call by Renault to get Alonso fully fuelled just before the SC pulled off.

Button is a great driver when everything is going well – but he simply does not have the ability to get that bit extra out of a car that is not working well

great win by Vettel, about the only driver to keep it pointy end first throughout the race – and still faster than everybody. Best season for 10 years.

Button over hamilton any day, he deserves it as he has hads to plug away with struggling teams rather than being placed in the best car from the outset, no wonder he was successful at the start, what other rookie driver got a drive on the best car.

Its a cracking start to the season. I’m loving seeing all the middle of the road teams up at the front for once. Their sponsors are getting great coverage, so hopefully it will firm up their commitments for the following seasons during these difficult financial times.

Sorry, should have kept quiet about the result 🙁

loddrik, cars change from season to season and need constant development. Hamilton didnt just suddenly ‘appear’ at Mclaren. He also had the car setup to how he liked it, something that irked Alonso who wanted different brakes etc etc.

Ps. On a more extreme note- People used to complain that Damon Hill only won as he ‘had the best car’. People didnt realise that he was actually quite a good test driver (if late to the game) and developed the williams car.

Button is a great driver when everything is going well – but he simply does not have the ability to get that bit extra out of a car that is not working well

Notes TJ down as some-one who knows nothing about F1

Nickc – its only an opinion – but one shared by many. When it isn’t going his way he can’t find that bit extra like the true greats like Schumacher or Senna could. Both of them won world championships when they weren’t in the best car.

Button laps superbly and consistently – but I can remember many many times when things weren’t going quite right for him and he couldn’t find that magic little bit extra

Remember last’s years Honda? A car so bad that they invented the “Earth Dream” shite to try to disguise the fact that it was anything at all to do with Honda?

Trust me, knowing what I know about that car, there’s not many drivers on the grid that could have driven it as well as Button or Barrichello (for that matter).

Button can certainly push with the best of them
The 3 or 4 laps that he put in in Malaya after Rosberg & Truli pitted were a mark of the man
When he eventually pitted & then emerged again I couldn’t believe how much time he’d taken from them
Great tactics from Brawn too in that race