Love the blog! keep up the good work!!

So his complaints were somewhat justified.

very impressed by webber, thought his race was over after the drive through but credit to him, he was untouchable! and great to see another winner. it looks like he was maybe a little delicate at the start of the season – and is now a full match for the highly rated vettel. this year finally has some interest back, especially with mclaren and ferrari finally starting to look strong. without the puncture, hamilton could easily have been in with some decent points.

A very good lesson in how to handle the press from Ross afterwards, that will no doubt go into many training courses.

Of course it is quite possible that Rubens is being sidelined whenever there is an opportunity to get Jensen ahead, that happens to penalise Rubens.

It is a team sport and that is very probably the best solution for the team. Sorry Rubino but that’s life, you still get paid to be the fall guy!

Team rules should be officially allowed then we can see proper strategy with number two drivers placed to hold up the opposition.

(2) @ conspiracy theorists: apart from the huge unlikelihood that the fuel hose blunder was choreographed with all the risks of severe disciplinary action that this would entail (i) if you were going to do this, surely you’d make sure that it the act lasted long enough to allow Jenson to pass Rubens (it did not ); and (ii) Jenson would likely much rather Rubens take points off Vettel at this stage for the purposes of the championship race, given the growing superiority of the Red Bull car – I’m sure Jenson is perfectly secure that he can show Rubens the way in equal machinery.

(3) If Brawn were trying to favour Jenson over Rubens, why did they not get Rubens to move over sooner when Jenson was stuck behind him before the last set of pitstops, having been lapping much quicker.

(4) As Brawn says, Rubens just did not have the pace. He was miles off Webber’s pace and his fastest lap (11th) was 0.4secs off Button’s. Rubens only lost say 4 secs with the refuelling gaffe, but was caught up by Jenson despite Jenson having to work his way through the field, while Rubens was in clear air for the whole of the first stint. He may have got in front of Webber at the start, but that’s about all he did of any note in the whole race.

(5) If Rubens had any decency, he’d just get his head down. He’s upset that in what is very likely to be his last year of F1 he’s got a title-winning car but is being battered by the pace of his teammate.

Brawn shouldn’t sweat too much as they should do very well in hungary with the predominant medium/slow corners and hotter temperatures. The start stop nature of the valencia circuit should level the playing field and both brawn and red bull should watch there backs for the KERS cars and the improved Mclaren.

Red bull will murder everyone in spa, but hopefully the weather will mix it up.

oh yeah, i like the site update. much more elegant.

Wouldn’t have helped though… Brawn struggled on their tyres (whichever set they used).

Have Brawns in-season developments actually made their situation worse re: tyre-degradation?