I wish Button would learn how to start a race... Still, he did drive a massively intelligent race after that - preserving the gaps to first Hamilton and then Alonso when he didn't need to pass them and waiting for the inevitable when he could pass them without a fight. Watching him cruise up past Hamilton and then Schumacher, doing in one corner what Hamilton failed to do in ten laps, must have been absolutely crushing for Hamilton - but rather than rag his tyres silly making attempt after attempt to pass only to fail, he just pottered round and used his happy tyres to get clean round the grumpy tyres on his teammate and Schumacher. He benefitted from Webber's... optimism (let's be kind) taking himself and Massa out, mind.
Schumacher drove a fantastic defensive race but there was a clear double-move between Roggia and Lesmo 1. Very naughty - we've seen penalties for less. Spoiled an otherwise excellent performance from him.
Vettel... Beginning to bore me a bit. At least this race he passed someone - and excellently too, a really nice pass - but once isn't enough to dispell the questions over his passing ability. Fair enough, he's rarely required to demonstrate it when he sticks it on pole and buggers off into the distance but it's still not clear whether he's as good as Button or Schumacher nor as exciting as Hamilton or Alonso in that part of his racecraft.
Liuzzi was damned unlucky. He gave (someone) a little too much breathing space on the approach to Rettifilo and dipped a rear onto the grass. Tankslapper ensued and he was just a passenger after that. Really harsh to penalise him, but he did stick his car into five other people's races.
Big fat boo-hiss to Barrichello who, presuming he was pitting out of the way, blithely blundered through blue flags and nearly ended up braketesting Button into the pit entry line. And Webber drove like an utter dick - how he got from Rettifilo to Parabolica claiming he was unaware he had no front wing escapes me. He came within a few whiskers of blatting through the back of (someone) by failing to drive appropriately and putting himself off. Plus he lost the wing all by himself anyway - Massa had the line in Rettifilo and Webber took to the Dukes of Hazzard ramp rather than going the long way round like everyone else somehow managed, costing Massa a potential top 4 finish.
Big fat hurrah to Di Resta getting more points and to Sir James "Squire" Unpronouncable for once again proving that joining the newbies by falling out at Q1 leads to points on Sunday.
