Hockenheim 2012

Hooray, Alonso has done it again.

Clinched pole yesterday after some rain and stuff, and now he's won the race. Only person to win three times this season, so yes, of course I'm proud.

Massa had a terrible race though, 'cause he had this collision and his nose came off (car nose, not that thing on his face) and he had to pit early. Grosjean too. Then Hamilton suffered a left rear puncture and the race pretty much ended for him. Action came back when he tried to unlap himself and attacked the frontrunners, making Vettel very angry because it prevented him from taking on Alonso in first place.

Then after a lot of drama and generally being an ass (and helping Ferrari while he was at it, so no complaints there), Hamilton retired.

Button drove a great race, but then got re-overtaken by Vettel towards the end, so ended up third. Although there is some controversy because Vettel had all four tyres off the track when he did so. Stewards are probably arguing about it right now.

Massa ended up twelfth, totally and disappointingly out of the points zone.

Kimi fourth. To quote him, he said, "If Vettel gets a 25 second penalty, I not only get a podium, I also got to avoid the podium interview." Man, you gotta love the guy.

Oh, news just in. They've awarded Vettel a 20 second penalty, so I guess Kimi really did get what he wanted, and Button's in second place now. Kobayashi goes up a place, and Vettel ends up between him and Perez.

Germans probably won't be too happy about that. Schumi's race wasn't too good either. Ended up seventh after qualifying third (Webber got a five-place grid penalty).

Tsk tsk.

Upcoming week has five quizzes and a Batman movie.

It feels quite wrong to talk about The Dark Knight Rises openly now, because of the recent shootings in Colorado. I don't know how to feel, but we shouldn't really associate this with the movie itself. I wish we could freely appreciate the movie as the work of art it is, and not be reminded of how it provided some sort of incentive for this man to shoot innocent people in a movie theatre. Sad.

And the Bruneian helicopter crash two days ago was really depressing, too. So many dead at once, in such a small country with such a small population. We're all shocked.