I intended

I intended to get up at 7.30 this morning hoping to see Massa beat Lewis Hamilton. I seriously do not understand the support Hamilton gets in the UK. This "Englishman" who lives in Switzerland made it clear he considers himself Jamaican not British when they interviwed him just after the Olympics. And the "English" team he drives for are 100% owned by Mercedes, who are German. They are an English team if you consider that a Nissan is English because it's built in England or a Vauxhall Corsa is Spanish because it's built in Spain but in reality Mercedes own Maclaren outright and Mercedes are German! The parts are all imported from Germany and put together in the UK like a giant jigsaw puzzle purely for tax reasons.

So a Jamaican, driving a German car, is being supported because he can win the F1 championship for England! Other people consider Maclaren a small team compared to Ferrari and support them for that. So they are supporting a small team, Mercedes, the biggest motor manufacturer in the world who employ millions of people because they are smaller than Ferrari, a specialist sports car manufacturer that employs around 450 people!

This confusion all stems from the fact that most people who watch F1 havent actually got the slightest idea of what it is all about. They don't know the rules, they don't understand the safety rules and regulations and they cant grasp the concept that the most important thing is not the drivers Championship but the constructors Championship. They watch the race on ITV and read the reports in the newspapers and suddenly they are experts. If they were to ever bother reading the reports on the F1 websites or to watch the full coverage on TV, including the pre race and pre qualifying waffle, they might learn a bit more.

They might understand just how much of an advantage Mercedes were given when the rules were changed and everybody else was forced to use the Mercedes computer system, meaning the only ones who had data from last season were Mercedes. They might realise how much of an advantage Mercedes had by starting the season in the best pit slots because they were originally banned from the constructors Championship. And they might question why, given these advantages Mercdes had over the other teams why they haven't already won both titles by now.

Despite the massive advantages handed out to Mercedes this has actually been one of the closest seasons ever with other teams finally beginning to catch Ferrari and Mercedes. Which would have made for a great season next year. Except that once again they are changing the rules. Next year they will be using energy recovery sytems to boost power. I will let you work out for yourselves which Manufacturer has been developing these systems for five years while the others only started a year ago. I will give you a clue though. They are German.

Anyway I have felt so rough that I havent been able to sleep so will probably miss it now. But I hope anybody other than Hamilton or Mercedes wins it.