Monza 2009 - Welcome back!

It's so good to see Jenson back on the podium. Finally. I really, really missed that.
It went pretty good from the start. Jenson had some rather bad starts this season but today it worked and it's always especially nice to see him overtake a KERS-car.
For a while it looked like he could catch up on Rubens but it didn't quite work out and unfortunately he was on prime tyres for the second stint which seemed to be the slower ones.
I wasn't too sure about the strategy after the qualifying yesterday because the 1-stopp strategy put them in the middle of the start chaos again but with almost only KERS-cars in front of them it did make sense.
For the last 14 or 15 laps I was so scared that Hamilton would be able to catch up to Jenson because with KERS he sure would've been able to overtake him and losing 4 point to Rubens would have been really bad. And then Hamilton crashed and I went from "OMG! Please tell me he didn't crash into Jenson" to realising that his second place was safe in about the time it takes a formula 1 car from naught to sixty.

So, the good news is that the BrawnGP is working again and they left the Red Bull far behind. The bad news is that Jenson lost 2 points to Rubens again. And that's why I'm not completely happy with the result, as much as I wish I could be. Seriously, this championship is killing me. I probably won't be able to relax during a race and just be happy about a podium finish until Jenson is world champion.

( picture and results )

Monza 2009 - Welcome back!

It's so good to see Jenson back on the podium. Finally. I really, really missed that.
It went pretty good from the start. Jenson had some rather bad starts this season but today it worked and it's always especially nice to see him overtake a KERS-car.
For a while it looked like he could catch up on Rubens but it didn't quite work out and unfortunately he was on prime tyres for the second stint which seemed to be the slower ones.
I wasn't too sure about the strategy after the qualifying yesterday because the 1-stopp strategy put them in the middle of the start chaos again but with almost only KERS-cars in front of them it did make sense.
For the last 14 or 15 laps I was so scared that Hamilton would be able to catch up to Jenson because with KERS he sure would've been able to overtake him and losing 4 point to Rubens would have been really bad. And then Hamilton crashed and I went from "OMG! Please tell me he didn't crash into Jenson" to realising that his second place was safe in about the time it takes a formula 1 car from naught to sixty.

So, the good news is that the BrawnGP is working again and they left the Red Bull far behind. The bad news is that Jenson lost 2 points to Rubens again. And that's why I'm not completely happy with the result, as much as I wish I could be. Seriously, this championship is killing me. I probably won't be able to relax during a race and just be happy about a podium finish until Jenson is world champion.

( picture and results )