Celebrating Five Glorious Years of Heikki Kovalainen: Formula 1 in 2012

The question I want answered: WTF has happened to Button? He seems to have just lost the ability to race.

smooth move from The Pastor

Hamilton made some extra moves leading up to pushing Maldonado off track. Doesn't excuse Pastor cutting back into the track afterwards.

can't believe Schumi and Webber finished third and fourth after fighting for tenth with 7 laps left.

Boo hiss to Alonso winning, but this Alonso/Raikkonen/Schumacher podium in 2012 is the height of surrealism.

It's a very 2006 podium.

You know, that might be the most enjoyable Valencia race I can remember. The tires allowed for passing on track, there were pit problems, contact, cars retired; everything.

Fun race! Felt bad for Grosjean.

didn't watch this cos 'valencia is shit' apparently. raging

out of complete accident i caught this from start to finish, not watched an f1 race since last season. really enjoyed it, great race and gorgeous looking place.

even when Vettel had an 18 second lead and before the Safety Car and everything Lotus were apparently totally relaxed that their strategy for Grosjean to win would work. I want to know what that strategy was. Same with Hamilton...why ease off so early if you were going to do a two-stop strategy anyway?

Button just can't get those tyres to work for him at all. I wonder what's going on.

~the longest qualifying session ever~, too bad nobody is there to watch it and I'm watching Le Tour, only switching over during ad breaks

"There has been a fair bit of black humour around on Saturday, as Formula 1 took in the scale of the nightmare caused by the traffic problems on Friday.

"Good luck with the Olympics," HRT driver Pedro de la Rosa shouted with a smile at a group of English journalists.

And Andy Murray's achievements at Wimbledon gave further opportunity to the satirists. 'For the first time in 74 years a British man has...' a voice interrupted, saying: 'Got into Silverstone.'"

that last line is classic.

Anyone can win tomorrow...

...except Massa.

Kobayashi should try out for the professional ten-pin bowling circuit.

that was a bit scary.

Another great race. Alonso driving the tires off that Ferrari week after week is something to behold.

I hope they nix the Red Bull diffuser bullshit going forward. Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law always has me siding with spirit.

Glad to see Vettel penalized. Totally passed outside the boundaries of the track and was not ahead when he made the choice to run wide.

Hamilton harrying Vettel and Alonso was pretty lol

Sorta enjoyed Jenson telling Seb that he went and told the school principal about that.

So far this is the Hungarboring.

Stayed boring. Dullest race of the year.

Yeah, an ol school snoozer. Month away from the next one.

I'm having deja vu watching Kimi juuuuuuuuust not managing to pass the leader - agreed dull race

Dunno if this is the place for pics of the Hunt/Lauda movie but here they are

Recommend cranking the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack to this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LA9Aw7Se-0

alright brilliant work on finding an actor that looks like nothing like James Hunt did

Didn't everybody 40 years ago look like Charles Atlas?

Oh man this grid is crazy

WTF who knew the press would publish those tweets?

OMG

DAMN

that was the biggest muppet start since... spa '98 probably!

@LewisHamilton WTF happened to my steering? Here's my telemetry from the start...

Grosjean brainless. Not the first time.

Ah yes, totally Grosjean's fault there.

the alonso in-car shot is bonkers

scary all around.

Alonso is lucky not to get decapitated. Nasty, nasty, avoidable crash.

Gif of Alonso in-car please

did pastor actually jump that start or just get a helluva gateway?

It looked ridiculously close to a jump.

looked like a jump to me.

Er, not that it matters much now...

stewards should be able to punish him with a cuff to the head for being a doofus.

Ya boys on Sky Sports claim that this comes under 'natural law', as he wouldn't have been caught up in the La Source shenangians if Pastor didn't get the juuuump.

Poor Kobayashi. What was up with his brakes at the start?

No idea. The commentators were saying it was no big deal, but I don't remember them saying what was the cause of it.

scheisse!