Ross Brawn may be Jesus Christ...

Brawn said his magic wouldn't take hold until his second year at Honda and boy-howdy did it ever! The man aren't no liar! Just goes to show if you give a mediocre driver a good car they can do good shit with it!

As I am a Barichello fan I was pulling for him to do well and was absolutely appalled at that turd of a start he had to the race. I almost got angry at him, but the old goat proved he still has some fight in him as well as proved the Brawn GP car could take a lickin' and keep on tickin' as he got into quite a handful of melees during the race!

I was also impressed with the pace of the Red Balls car, Vettel holding down the fort till the end of the race when he got over protective and took himself and the Koob out. As much as I pull for Vettel, I can't say I wasn't clapping my hands and talking shit to him/the TV after he fouled up. I've got the hand the kid some credit for him immediately getting onto the radio and taking full blame for the incident, though he need not call himself an idiot. He's just a passionate young racer... but I wasn't heartbroken as the Vettel/Koob incident brought my old friend Rubens back into P2 and I was secretly hoping for that.

Until his run in with Vettel I was also very impressed with Kubica's performance. The guy did a good race and proved that he is in fact a great racer. Heidfeld and his beard are worthless and the only reason he's still with BMW is the fact that he's a Kraut.

Hamilton did a hell of a job too, hanging in there and charging up to 4'th place.

As a Toyota owner I was happy to see Truli slot into P3 due to perseverance and good luck (my Toyota is named Jarno, after Truli). When picking my Fantasy F1 guys I almost went with Truli but decided to go with less likely choices. Only Heidfeld proved me wrong, though that wasn't a surprise to me.

The Ferrari's came off as plain pathetic. That's it.

Overall I must give props to Brawn GP, the Toyota drivers whom both started from pit lane and finished P3 & P5, as well as old Lewis Hamilton who started from the dead end of the grid.

I was right... this year's race was better than the last and for the exact right reasons. I'm surprised the FIA pulled these rule changes off with out having them hamper the race and flopping all over the floor making the sport look bad and boring.

Good job to all!