But, haven't we all got better things to do than watch the top 3 qualifiers finish the exact same way, from teams who employ 1000's and spend millions.  What gives?  A BMW losing control when a plastic bag gets underneath it?  Here I am, overcome as well.  We can try looking on the brightside, yet there really isn't much of one... I'm afraid to say....  F1 risks become a nostalgic pastime of faded heroes and glory, much like New Orleans.  Which might have a chance as a US Grand Prix site after the introduction of Valencia, arguably Europe's wallflower, Marseilles is close too, and fresh coat of paint and plenty of deals for holiday seekers, no doubt, missing their soccer as their unaccustomed derma was burned to a crispy.  Soon, after our two classic races, they're off to another fantasyland where the bankers and their guests will promote their souless idea of F1.  Fine, we all know money makes the world go around, and sure we all like it, some more than others, but sheesh, there are people starving and worse in this world and the environment has to be a priority, and in this kind of 'spektical', it's not.  All that's missing is a Jonas Brothers/ Hannah Montana concert in the middle of the latest Circus of the Sun show. Maybe in Singapore and with all those lights on and the massive electricity needed so a bunch of Euro'peans don't have to set the PVR, like us Yanks and Canucks have been doing since day one.  Second class citizen's, I tell ya....and,  Yeah, please ask one of those entertained guests who won the '64 world championship, see what they say.  And be prepared,  these days are shallow and uninteresting, building id on reality tv and maxim magazine.  Hopefully they all breakaway into a cheezfest they'll call GP1 or something shallow and unimportant like that and they can get on with their uninteresting balance sheet style of racing and the real men, and lads can get back to basics, first with Formula 2 and then a Formula 1 that the great pioneers of yesteryear like Sir. Surtees et al and the fans who cheered them on, can still feel a sport that marvels in the pathos and colour of its history and provides a reasonable facsimile of it's storied past.

Valencia was not racing, Valencia was about corporate values and advertising. F1, with the right management in place, does not need more races like this to shore up its bottom line. In fact, what it needs most is fewer races and more excitement from less commercial finance pressure.

http://business.asiaone.com/Business/Story/A1Story20080824-83869.html

Nice win for a nice chap over his less than 100% teamate, after Felipe who was 10sec's! in the lead, blows his engine on the front straight, ahead of fellow Finn Kimi and the plucky Timo Glock, who really bounced back after his shunt and trounced nearly everybody. The rest....quite honestly these Euro races really beat up a fellow up in North America, with setting the PVR with all the coverage differences or worse, trying to stay up, you don't even remember what happened in the morning.....  Zuts alor. Wish there was more for this week. Next report will be awesome. 

Now for now ---  Simmer down you posties,  Things are under semi-control in the sport we all love to not love.  So, let's look on the bright side for awhile and see where that takes us.

merci