So yesterday's Italian GrandPrix was a great way to round off the European leg of Formula One 2012. I don't know about you but I feel like the European season has just flown by. We have had an incredible roller-coaster ride around Europe. Starting with Spain in May we had probably one of the biggest surprises of the season when William's Pastor Maldonando not only put the car on pole but followed that up with a superb win. Bringing Williams their first win since 2004.
The Spanish GrandPrix also saw our 5 different winner in the first five races of the season. At the end of the race was unfortunate for Williams as a massive fire broke out at the back of their garage. This resulted in all of the team's pulling together and showing the outside world that despite the on track rivalries off track if a team is need others help out. It was great to see that there were very few serious injuries sustained by anyone involved. Following on from Spain we headed to the street's of Monte Carlo for the Monaco GrandPrix the jewel in Formula One's crown.
The question on everyone's lips was would we have a 6th different winner. RedBull's Mark Webber responded with an incredible light's to flag victory. The Aussie started on pole as he was promoted following Michael Schumacher's 5 place grid penalty. at this point in the season Mark was leading the championship and was stamping his authority within the RedBull team.
Following on from Monaco we headed to North America and break from Europe for our first of two trip's there this year. The Canadian GrandPrix would prove to be another great race with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton becoming our 7th different winner of the season followed home by the Lotus of Romain Grosjean who picked up his second podium of the season. Sauber's Sergio Perez also scored a fantastic third place finish for the Suaber team.
We have had a sensational season so far and in my opinion this will continue as he head into the long haul part of the season. During the European season the Lotus team have in my opinion along with Sauber have been the stand out team as the have scored point's consistently. Kimi Raikkonen, after his 5th place in Monza yesterday now finds himself in 3rd place in the Driver's standing's just a single point behind Italian race winner Lewis Hamilton and the Finn in his comeback year has yet to win a race this season however that race win will happen.
So after Canada we headed back to Europe for European GrandPrix at the Valencia street circuit. RedBull's Sebastian Vettel looked certain to collect his second win of the season, however disaster struck as his car came to a halt and he was forced to retire with an alternator failure, this allowed Ferrari's Fernando Alonso to come through to the delight of his home fan's to take his second win of the season.
Alonso was joined on the podium by Kimi Raikkonen who collected his 3rd podium of his comeback season and Micheal Schumcher who was o the podium for the first time since his return to F1 in 2010.
So the season was certainly shaping up to be a cracker and it was beginning to look like RedBull were really struggling with their car. At this stage in last year's championship Vettel was running away at the front and had one six of the opening eight. This year he had only one a single race by the same point this year. So following on from Valencia we headed to Silverstone for the British GandPrix. Mark Webber pulled off a fantastic pass on Fernando Alonso to claim his second win of the 2012 season.
So where Vettel was starting to falter, Mark was beginning to pull away from his team mate. So following Silverstone we headed to Hockenheim for the German GrandPrix where Ferrari's Fernando Alonso became the first driver to win three race's this season. Kimi Raikkonen joined Alonso and Jenson Button on the podium for his 4th podium of the season.
Following on from Germany it was time to go to Hungary where Lewis Hamilton put on a dominant performance to take his second win of the season. he was followed in second place by Kimi Raikkonen who came extremely close to taking the Lotus Team's first win since their return to Formula One. He was joined on the podium by team mate Romain Grosjean giving the Enstone based team their second double podium of the season.
This season was becoming one of the greatest in Formula One history and I know that is said every year but it is true this year. So heading to the Belgian GrandPrix Fernando Alonso was still leading the championship and it was set to a fantastic race with Kimi being tipped to take the win as he won there in 2009, his last outing at the famous circuit. However unfortunately for the Finn the win never materialized he pulled off a fantastic overtake on Michael Schumacher into Eau Rouge. Fernando Alonso failed to finish the race for the first time this year, as he, Lewis Hamilton, Romain Grosjean, and the Sauber's of Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi were all involved in a first corner crash which was deemed to have been caused by Romain Grosjean as a result of that he received a one race ban for yesterday's Italian GrandPrix.
The race was won by Jenson Button who took his first win since the opening round of the season in Australia back in March. The McLaren driver has really struggled this year however he started the race from pole and dominated proceeding's finishing 13 seconds ahead of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen who collected podium number 6 of the year.
So yesterday we headed to Monza for the Italian GrandPrix the final race in Europe. This race would turn out to be one of the most eventful of the season and the result has blown the championship wide open. Lewis Hamilton started the race from pole position with Jenson Button starting second.
Hamilton moves up to second in the championship just 37 point's off Fernando Alonso with 7 races to go this season.
In two week's time we head to Singapore for Formula One's only night race and it always proves to be a fantastic race.
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