Barrichello beats Michael Schumacher : Hungary 2010

Few things are more gratifying than to see Ruben Barrichello soundly beat Michael Schumacher. Who cares that this happened in 2010 - years after Michael Schumacher's retirement and months into his comeback? Or that this is when the two former Ferrari teammates are now in second-class cars? Or that they were battling for TENTH position and the last remaining point available?

This is about seeing Michael Schumacher forced to eat humble pie and about seeing Barrichello get some points at the expense of said humble-pie eater. It's almost historic.

Here's the video (copying in several just in case F1 Management pulls them out.)

With inset:

Barrichello nearly pasted himself against the pitwall because of Schumacher's attempt to block him but manages to get through in time. Bad, bad Schumi.

And to drive the nail deeper into Schumacher's career coffin, the FIA have just given him a ten place demotion for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel is an idiot

No matter how he tries to explain this away, Sebastian Vettel crashed into Red Bull teammate, Mark Webber. Not the other way around.

Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It was a Red Bull 1 - 2 before this happened.



The result, post crash:
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button take a McLaren 1 - 2.
Red Bull have to content themselves with a 3rd place courtesy of Mark Webber who was surely seething all the way home to the chequered flag.

Check out Webber's body language, post-race.



Sorry: no video of Webber accosting Vettel after, unfortunately.

Is this the end of Kimi Raikkonen's career?

This year has been a listless one for Kimi Raikkonen's championship challenge.

In previous years, it was always a case of the car not being good enough. Last year, he was in a Ferrari and managed to win the championship by a whisker -- and by a stroke of luck as well because Hamilton didn't get close enough at the end to get enough points.

This year, Lewis Hamilton has remained strong -- Felipe Massa has gotten stronger -- and the BMWs have managed to get into the top spots occasionally. All of which have conspired to make my favorite Finn's chances slimmer by the week. It doesn't help that he occasionally makes mistakes -- more than in previous years.

Is he losing the drive to win? The nerve? I don't know.

All I know is that when Mika Hakkinen retired, he told McLaren boss Ron Dennis that "If you want to win, get the Finn." Maybe Mika meant some other Finn. Kovalainen, perhaps?

Rumors abound -- and circulated as early as last December -- that Kimi is actually thinking of retiring.

Five races left in the 2008 season and it looks like our ride to the championship has ended.

Here are some videos of the last race at Spa -- they may be the last vids you'll ever see of Kimi going head-to-head with the emerging new F1 hero (and I mean it), Lewis Hamilton. (I'm putting in several just in case some get taken down, as inevitably they will be. You know how the FIA is...)