Hello to all of you F1 fans!

It's taken me most of the day to get myself motivated to write this article/piece/spew. The main reason is that this will be read by people who actually know a lot about motor sport. Me? Well, I don't. I used to watch F1 in my early teens when drivers such as Schumacher and Barrichello would dominate the sport in these red cars called 'Ferrari' and the legacy of somebody called 'Senna' was still mentioned on a racely basis. I proceeded to move towards the dark-side, refusing to watch any sport but football, but I'm finding my way back! It's just hard to get reacquainted with the sport when such names that I previously mentioned are now just in the distant past. Hang on…

Still, not being a driver myself it's hard to get into! Heck, I only recently taught myself the very visible differences between dries and wets! But the sport's beautiful isn't it? Okay, the first race wasn't all that. What were people expecting? When you shove a huge amount of people into the middle of a desert to race on an artificial oasis, it isn't going to be the best motivation for the drivers and teams to push push push. But I'll tell you the one thing duller than Bahrain's drab, over-take reducing rubbishness… All of the people who climbed out of the woodwork just to insult the sport! "They need to change the rules," "the driver's were just happy to sit where they were," "the future of F1 does not look promising." These are all actual quotes they I read a few weeks ago. I had a great idea of my own though. Why not wait and see what happens in the next few races?

So what happened? An absolutely superb race that left me sitting there and thinking, "why did I stop watching this sport?" Melbourne was good wasn't it? I mean it was really good right? We had Hamilton showing us 100 ways to over-take a car. We had Alonso and Massa showing us the meaning of teamwork. We had Webber showing us how to ruin all your previous good work. Schumacher getting bumped at the start, Vettel's Red Bull letting him down again, Button outsmarting everybody involved. What I'm trying to say is that it was quite a good race. Patience is a virtue.

So I woke up this morning feeling pumped up for the Malaysian Grand Prix. Then again, it did get pretty boring, pretty quickly. Rain, Rain, Rain. "It's going to rain, the weather machine's broken because it says it should be raining now, oh hang on, it's raining, oh wait, it's not." I don't remember much from school but I'm pretty sure that moisture rises, and then it falls. Now, I had no idea that Kuala Lumpur was so humid that it caused the drivers to lose 4 kilograms of liquid?! Then again, I also heard it causes a loss of 3 kilograms, 2 kilograms and some drivers may lose 10 stone (I may have made that last one up). So with all that moisture rising up no wonder it always rains during the Malaysian Grand Prix! Plus News Flash: It's Kuala Lumpur. It always rains! Oh damn, wrong again…

It was a very strange race. With 4 very talented drivers in 4 quick cars being right at the back, it was always going to be an interesting opening 10 laps. What I didn't expect is that Hamilton would shoot up as quickly as he did. With a move up the inside, a late break here, a late break there, he was very impressive once again. He even got so bored of overtaking different drivers that he decided to overtake Vitaly Petrov twice. We had another battle of the Ferraris and while I'm sure it's all very professional, and of course they have the right to race each other, maybe they need to go on a weekend break together or something. The story of the day though is that Vettel's bad luck finally ended and the relief on his face on the podium was obvious. Though Webber was disappointed with second when it can be traced back to the very first corner, he seemed content that his team-mate got the points that he deserved. The Red Bull is certainly something for the McLaren and Ferrari teams to really be worried about now. Though the excitement fizzled out in the second half of the race, it should still be enough to keep the sceptics quiet for another fortnight. The only thing I'll complain about is that there wasn't a comedy shot of Bernie Ecclestone standing next to the Petronas Towers. They're impressive enough for the likes of you and me, but to Bernie? I bet they're just that little bit more impressive.

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