Vettel ! Another new winner and first win for another team in Monza

And here is my utter and unreserved congratulations to Sebastian Vettel. Yes, it was a fluke race, the rain making the qualifying a lottery. Still, someone had to drive fastest in that, and Sebastian did.

Then it is not easy to take your first pole position and turn that into a win. Again, Vettel was supremely lucky, in that this was an extremely wet race - to start behind the pace car (no risk of anyone passing him at the start) and also - a drying race, meaning that drivers behind him would have to try on the intermediate tyres before him and thus no risk for him - the opposite would be the total lottery, if it was a dry race getting wetter and anyone behind him might switch at the right moment, and then overtake him. But that won't happen with the drying race as long as his team was vigilant, he held the lead, and they brought him in at the right moment for intermediate tyres.

And of course the biggest benefit, being able to drive without the spray, in a race with a clear view.

The Toro Rosso, the junior team of Red Bull, won a race before Red Bull had. And young Sebastian Vettel did everything perfectly right, and made no mistakes, and won. Briliant. Congratulations. I would have hoped this to have happened back when the team was still a Minardi, but even so, this is magnificent for all the backmarker teams, and any underdogs in any race.

Beatiful. I hope that your career Sebastian will be long and have many many wins in it.

A funny coincidence. The podium at Monza had actually the three first-time winners this year. Vettel the newest winner was first; Heikki the previous first-time winner was second. And Kubica the first of the first-time winners of this season, was third. So the podium was also the celebration of the new talent of F1. Funny to think, that Lewis Hamilton (the likely new champion this season) is no longer new talent ha-ha..

Talking about Lewis. Amazing. He started 15th. He had to take an unscheduled pit stop (bad strategy choice, one-stop strategy, but forced to make second pit stop to change tyrees for intermediate tyres). Yet he finished seventh. Kimi... started 14th, had no problem with pit stops, and finished 9th. Who is the best driver right now? It is quite clearly Hamilton.

And yes, I'm a Finn. But come on, Heikki Kovalainen started second - behind a Toro Rosso of all cars - and finished second. I think I heard the commentator count that Lewis had passed a total of 15 cars during the race. Heikki in the same car was unable to pass one rookie driver in a Toro Rosso.. There is a significant difference in class between these two drivers.

And Massa. I am not impressed. He was there stuck in mid-field, started 6th, finished 6th. Made no progress at all.

So yes, now its a direct race between Hamilton and Massa for the championship. One point between them, Lewis in the lead. It is certainly exciting.~

But more than that, we've had the enormous delight, of six different winners, in four different cars, and three first-time driver winners, and two first-time car manufacturer winners this season. And we still have 4 races to go, including the night race of Singapore, and the often wet Japan and often dramatic Brazil to go.

It is a great season, one for the ages. I am just trying to get over the fact that Kimi is no longer in the hunt for it this season (unless some silly error like Massa and Lewis crashing into each other in the next race or something)