Finally. The message has got through that racing without KERS is like walking into a gunfight without any bullets in your gun. Before the season started I thought it was crazy for any team to race without KERS. They probably wont use KERS at Spa, but I'm glad they are at least thinking about it.
RedBull havent qualified particularly well and if Webber wants to win the title, he will certainly need a car that can either consistently qualify in pole OR a car equipped with KERS.
It looks like the McLarens are genuinely quick, now that both drivers are showing pace. As for Hamilton - I've said it before and I'll say it again - he is the real deal and has a good chance to attack and break all the records that were set by MS. Even better is the fact that he is British. Traditionally, the Brits tend to be a little soft when it comes to being ruthless and this is where they let themselves down. However, Hamilton doesnt suffer from this problem.
Bearing in mind that McLaren and Ferrari have got their KERS devices working beautifully, it will be interesting to see if these 2 teams use KERS next year. It will be difficult for McLaren especially, to give up the KERS device, given the advantage that it gives Hamilton.
Its good to see that Brawn have stopped going backwards, though what is worrying is that over the last few races, Button has generally been slower than Barrichello, with Button getting ahead in the race, when the team "tinker" with Barrichello's strategy or hold him up in the pits. I still feel that Button has done enough during the first half of the season, to hang on. I'm not a fan of playboys, but I do hope he wins the title this year.
Badoer should be extremely embarrassed by his poor showing. At first I thought his lack of speed wasnt a big deal. But something that Coulthard said, showed just how bad he was. Coulthard stated that most drivers' warmup laps would probably be faster than Badoer's fastest laps. Badoer will probably hang on to his seat for the rest of the year though.
Ferrari NEED a shot in the arm. They are lacking a talisman and a talisman is VERY important. Previously, they had MS. Mclaren have Hamilton. When Renault won, they had Alonso. Next year couldnt come soon enough and if I were them, I would do everything possible to bring Alonso to the team before 2010. To think that if Ferrari wanted, they could have Alonso driving in place of (the embarrassing) Badoer.
Toyota continue to flounder and I'm shocked that they havent yet announced their departure from F1. For those not in the know, Toyota have the biggest budget in F1, ever seen. And as we are seeing, their results are not correlating to their spending levels. The bosses back in Japan will not be happy at what has and is happening in Toyota F1.
For Hamilton fans (like me), tomorrow's race should be great as he is in great shape to win it.
I hate that dumb argument. It's not a question of whether any of us could do better, but it's clear other qualified drivers could. Just look at Grosjean and Alguersauri. The testing ban only came in 8 months ago, up until then Badoer was testing all the time.
Still testing is totally different to race craft, of which he has almost none. At least he's used to starting at the back of the grid i suppose, just this time in a red car and not a black one (Minardi were black then weren't they?)