Sky's coverage got off to a jaunty start with a really good interview with Nico Rosberg. This is unusual because it wasn't a feature about Lewis Hamilton.
Then it rained. If anyone was wondering why this is late published, it took us two sittings to get through the entire race.
Grosjean crashed out just getting his car to the grid. Button must be pleased as this bests his top failure of crashing on the parade lap when he drove for Williams. Put out to Pastor's team are basically an indicator of who would do badly this race/season.
The rain delay meant that there was lots of shots of rain falling into puddles (if this is popular, I say again, Knockhill GP) and sponsor logo close-ups. Wet races used to be the exciting ones.
Then Hamilton got water in his eyes. Angus also does not like getting water in his eyes. I wonder how the person who washes Lewis's hair tricks him?
On Lap 7, Verstappen performed his first overtake, showing no fear.
Lap 11 saw Vettel aquaplane and then have problems with his wheel gun. Where was all this bad luck a couple of years ago? The next big aquaplane was Ericson on lap 14 and Verstappen had to avoid, a hairy moment as he was now on inters. By lap 20, I couldn't take any more as Raikkonen spun on the pit straight. Clearly getting old and becoming a mother has affected me more than I'd care to admit. This brought the red flags out and Massa got a snack bar. Hamilton gave his jacket to a shivering flag girl.
Everyone went racing again. Kvyat and Palmer had a near miss which led to the Russian swearing and shouting: "that's a big one", whilst the Brit kept his stiff upper lip and reported some damage.
There was a red flag on lap 28 but I don't know why. The fans didn't either and they booed and pointed their thumbs downwards. I started another bout of fast forwarding. Boulier cryptically told us: "Don't trust the messages on the radio."
Eventually the racing got back underway with a few mishaps here and there before Massa spun on lap 48. This guaranteed him his moment in the sun (rain). He was crying (and posing for photos). Croft commented that: "This is not how Felipe Massa would have wanted to end". As a Williams supporter, me neither but when has he really brought us any points? The teams came out to in to the pit lane to give him a cheer. Do the successful drivers ever get this response?
FoM is clearly trying to appear to a younger market, broadcasting images of Gutierrez having a row with his boss and stomping off.
In the end though, Verstappen brought the show to Brazil. How much longer until we hate Verstappen the way we hated Vettel and Schumacher?
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