Well our Mark Webber was right about the Yas Marinara being a car park. The only thing giving it away that the track wasn't a car park for the support V8 Supercar race was the fact that the cars were moving and there weren't any boom gates to be seen. Some bright spark, probably Mark Scaife, had come up with some wacky qualifying method where the grid for the first of the three sprint races was determined by a drivers best qualy time. The second race was decided by their second fastest time and the third race their third fastest time. Well guess what? The top three grid spots were taken by the same three for each race. In fact the format was so complicated that I haven't been able to find anywhere on the net (well v8supercars.com.au anyway) how this even worked. So as complex as qualifying was we didn't see that much of a difference at least at the head of the grid.
So to the races. Jaimie Wincup won all three races from the second grid spot from Will Davidson. Yes, I fell a sleep too but with three race wins Jamie has bagged enough points to win the championship. It would take a broken arm to hold him back from here.
It was a different race track for the F1's and what a race it was. Our Mark did one of his usual reverse starts which saw a flying Lois Hamilton sail off into the distance with iceman Kimi who had jumped Mark off the grid hanging on to Hamilton. Unfortunately for Lois he had a power cut in the Voodofone McLaren which gave Kimi the race lead and eventually the win from Alfonso and Seb. The after race podium interviews with Dave Coulthard was a classic from Kimi and Seb who was finding things difficult with his second language.
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