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Bahrain Qualifying... Wasn't expecting THAT German...

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Ahh..... the warm glow that is having F1 back again. Mmmmmmm. Nice.

And in about 19 hours we move up a gear to the race itself. But that's tomorrow. In the meantime, we had qualifying earlier and it was pretty interesting...

First of all, I just became a Chandhok fan. Poor guy - He'd never even driven the car before, the seat didn't fit and I'm surprised he didn't have the handbook out, reading the little notice about not going over 50mph for the first 1000 miles, and trying to work out where the volume control was for the stereo. In the end, he was about 10 seconds off the pace. Sounds a lot, but when you consider his last drive in an F1 car was a test last year, that's darn good. Nice one Karun.

A slight whinge - The graphics have changed this year and they seem to have opted for a slanty style of showing positions. I think it slopes the wrong way, boys. A bit counter-intuitive (did I just type that? Sorry). Sort it out.

As for the rest of quali, well, it was a bit concerning to see the Saubers a long way off the pace (they looked better than that in testing) but great to see Sutil in the Force India in the top 10, and he's gone for the harder tyres, which might well help him tomorrow.

The great Schunami everyone seemed to be anticipating didn't wipe out even his team mate, and whilst 4th and 8th for Hamilton & Button (oooo... why do those names seem so familiar?) wasn't exactly bad, they must be disappointed. Rosberg did well for 5th (and I bet he feels smug!) and Massa must be a happy bunny to have out-qualified Alonso.

Vettel got pole though in Lucious Liz and very convincing it was too. Let's face it, I wasn't expecting that. Were you?

Still, I told Jean in the bakers this morning that Alonso would win the race, so we'll just have to wait and see if I'm right.

F1 is back. Yay!

Oh, and if you're waiting for the FF1 Team selections, they'll be out later tonight. Mrs Hamilbutton has abandoned me for the night, so I'll be at the laptop...

(NP: New through my letterbox yesterday, Mika's "The Boy Who Knew Too Much" album. I'm liking it...)
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