F1 race Brazil

So, welcome to Interlagos and the home of the Brazilian Grand Prix for the penultimate race of the 2010 season.

After the wet conditions in practice we are welcomed by a much better day and we hope this will be a classic race with the result taking the championship to Abu Dhabi. The mathematics for the top five are endless and all that I can really say is that if Fernando wins and Mark is below fifth then Fernando wins the championship so lets race and discuss the maths afterwards.

Jenson had an incident when leaving the circuit yesterday after quali as a group of young men bearing various items of armour tried to attack his car and quick thinking by his driver got them away from the incident without risk.

It appears a similar thing happened to the Sauber team but they weren't as lucky and they lost everything. All personnel were OK which is a blessing.

Nico Hulkenberg drove an excellent pole lap and finished some one second plus ahead of both Red Bull's to take his first pole position. The first for a long time for the William's team and with Rubens well up this could be another good day for the Williams Team.

The temperatures have obviously increased yesterday and prior to the start the track temp is 51 with air at 24. Nico Hulkenberg is in an unenviable position, his first pole, in front of the four leaders in the championship in the top five breathing down his neck and if he gets in turn one in front that could assist all four of them

Most of the top ten are starting on the Green walled softer tyres but will Jenson change his strategy starting from his lowly eleventh position as we know he can.

From the flag Sebastian passed Nico H into turn one and very quickly Mark went past also. Then Fernando passed Lewis and Nico H and after what seemed an eternity Lewis got past also. However, this put the Red Bull's well in the lead and split up the first four.

Jenson then came in on lap ten to change tyres and came out in tenth and in this race after all. Lewis then came in for his tyre change on lap twenty after complaining about no grip and he came out just in front of Jenson.

Lewis then started to lap quicker and quicker and his tyres should last to the end of the race. The Red Bull's tyres seem to be ok and the longer they go on their starting tyres the better they will be at the end of the race. Fernando then came in on lap twenty five and we await the Red Bull's to come in running line astern at the front.

Red Bull then responded to Fernando with Sebastian in first and Mark followed so the top four had know all changed tyres and we wait for it all to settle down. After the tyre change round it all stabilised at the front with around three seconds between the front two.

Mark is trying to hunt down Sebastian and he knows he won't get any assistance from him. Fernando is still over seventeen seconds behind Mark and Lewis runs some ten seconds behind Fernando.

On lap forty all the cars are still running which is excellent news as there have not been any accidents but then we lost the first car as Lucas retired his Virgin on lap forty five albeit he did come back out some seven laps down.

Then as Vitantonio came out of turn two he went straight off into the barrier and out came the safety car. Both Mclaren's then came in for tyres which will give them a lot of cars to pass to bring particularly Lewis back up to the fourth position he needs to retain his championship target going to Abu Dhabi.

After things settled down after the safety car Sebastian booted it from the front and extended his lead to Mark. Fernando was closing down Mark and Lewis was putting in fastest lap after fastest lap with his new tyres.

Jenson drove brilliantly and now running in fifth behind Lewis albeit not as fast. Into the final lap still only sixteen seconds covered the top four and the championship will be decided in Abu Dhabi.

The top ten were Sebastian (231), Mark (238), Fernando (246), Lewis (222), Jenson (199), Nico, Michael, Nico H, Robert and Kamui bringing up tenth.

So as we leave for Abu Dhabi Fernando still leads on 246 followed by Mark on 238. Sebastian leaves with 231 with Lewis 222 . So all is to play for in Abu Dhabi and Mark leaves Brazil the most disappointed of the top four.

Red Bull won the Constructors Championship here today and congratulations to them for this very young team who took on the might of Mclaren and Ferrari from their roots as Jaguar and Jacky Stewart's team.