
Well it wasn’t the all-British front row that we’d hope for, but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton stuck his car on pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP, the last race of the year.

Well it wasn’t the all-British front row that we’d hope for, but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton stuck his car on pole position for the inaugural Abu Dhabi GP, the last race of the year.

They said that Jenson Button would, at best, limp to the World Drivers’ Championship title at the next race in Abu Dhabi, but he proved the critics wrong with a breathtaking drive at the Brazilian GP.

If today’s first practice at the Brazilian GP is anything to go by, then this weekend’s race could prove to be nearly as manic as last year’s.

Interestingly, if Bernie Ecclestone’s plan of awarding gold medals to race winners had been in place this season, Jenson Button would have wrapped the Championship up after the Singapore GP the other week.

The Singapore GP qualifying couldn’t have gone a lot worse for championship contenders Brawn, with points leader Jenson Button and challenger Rubens Barichello ending the day a long way behind both rival Red Bulls.

Finally, some actual on-track car action to distract from the ridiculousness that was the Renault Crashgate incident. We could do without any more ‘Gates’ from now on please, F1 people.

Forget Button and Barrichello and Vettel and Webber. Forget about RaceFixGate. This weekend’s race at Monza is about one man: Giancarlo Fisichella.

Talk of who’s going to take the World Drivers’ Championship is hotting up. Brawn’s Jenson Button is still leading the pack on 72 points, and even after his non-finish at the Belgian GP the other weekend, he’s still clear by 16 points.
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