Brief Summary
Drivers I thought had good race, despite result.
It was interesting Lewis's overtaking for the first time he has really had to put it to the test, I think less will doubt his ability at overtaking in future, From tenth he found himself 4th place after the first two corners although as he made did it he got a puncture, thanks to Kubica, or Heidfeld rather. this threw way back but he returned back into the action next lap only to find himself in a 5 car pile up in the gravel at just one lap later, still he was the only one of them to keep the engine ticking over and therefore got pulled out and put back onto the track, still this meant he was a lap down and as the safety car came out, In the end his race was ruined by the decision to go onto slicks before the track was fully dry and he lost lost of time. HE did however catch and cut through the field despite being so far behind and he just missed out on getting some points from the Finn, in the Renault.
He wasn't the only one too make some great overtaking moves, Kovelinen made some great overtaking moves, like the one on Alex Wurz. He could have finnished in the top 5 but he made the mistake of pitting in for intermediates at least 3-4 laps too early.
Then there is Alonso, who didn't make many overtaking moves at all but made the all important pass on Massa just a few laps from the end, he had the speed advantage in the wet and tried his best pass him on the first corner hairpin, Massa did some great defensive work to prevent him passing but Alonso didn't give up, by the third corner they where side-by-side with Alonso on the outside but he didn't give up and overtook, but it was a close one Massa hit the side-body of Alonso trting to drive defensively but couldn't prevent him.
Raikonnen led the first lap but slipped out of the pit-lane accidently triny to enter it, this meant he had to try and survive another lap in heavy rain while being on slick tyres, this put him right to the back of the grid. Still the Finn made many good overtaking moves and soon found himself in third and catching Alonso, unfortuneatly his gearbox started to give way and a few laps late it broke completely putting Kimi out of the race.
Another good story was that of the new Spyker driver Winklehock who decided (or his team did) that to start the race on extreme wet tyres right from the off, a low risk idea which payed off, he found himself in first place after just one lap, (a gain of 21 places) thanks to all the other drivers drining in to put on their extreme wet tyres or their inters. The following lap the safety car was deployed destroying his 34 second lead, but still he can still say he lead a F1 race for 4 laps, after that he decided to leave on the extreme wets hoping for more rain, it wasn't to be, the trailing cars soon overtook him putting him in 16th, his engine failed a few laps later.
There were others I thought did really well e.g Webber, Massa, Wurz. However I didn't have the time
I did this post for the benefit of the unfortunate people who may have missed the race. In my opinion it was the best race of the season so far, infact it is the best F1 race I have seen for many years.
and i think Hamilton was lucky to get out of the sandtrap.Should be an interesting start,and have to do that all over again when it start to rain again.......typical Nurburgring...I'll comment later when the race is finished 
, as the rules says that you get some extra fuel for time within 107% ?
Alonso vs Massa was awesome, Alonso's move was as good as the move on Schumacher on the outside of 130R.
