It was because although we did see a bit of racing and some passing, most of it was undone by the tedious strategy element. So Hamilton’s pass on Massa was undone by his extra fuel stop, and many of Kovalainen’s passes were lost when he pitted.

It was like watching Alonso in last year’s French Grand Prix again, when he put that cracking pass on Heidfeld but, once the pit stops had run their course, he was stuck behind the BMW again.

On a side note, I must mention that I went with my family to a Mother’s Day dinner at a country inn later in the afternoon and, upon entering the dining room, was shocked to encounter a near double of Bernie Ecclestone across the room! I later asked the gentleman if he had ever been compared to Bernie by others before and, depsite speaking with an apparent British accent, he claimed to have never heard of him!!

Nice to see the Ferrari’s aren’t scampering off into the distance and Lewis keeping them both honest. More of this please!

Pretty quiet race from BMW, didn’t hear much of them at all.

Risky strategy by Hamilton and McLaren didn’t pay off quite as they expected – I reckon they should have used the soft tyres for the penultimate stint, and gone back to the hards at the end to push using the better car balance.

Kovi’s comeback was scuppered by that last splash&dash – drive of the day otherwise.