The only exciting part of the race was watching the young Columbian battle it out with Raikkonen. The two had some classic wheel to wheel racing moments, but the Finn was outmatched and left in the dust.

McLaren didn't have their stuff together this week and were running around for sponsor purposes only. Coulthard could get his car no faster than 5th and finished a lap down. Raikkonen did have a shot to do better but had a rear tire fail after deciding not to change them during his pit stop. He would spin out during the later portion of the race. This was the weekend that Mika Hakkinen told the world that he would remain at his house. Of course not that the performance of the silver cars had anything to do with his decision.

Sauber showed once again that running 50% of last year's Ferrari is better than trying to build your own. The German grabbed the last point of the day (can you say "home-crowd-team-orders" boys and girls?) with Massa following shortly behind. They were only the third team to have both cars running at the end.

The Japanese driver brought his Honda powered Jordan home in 8th. Pretty crummy performance, but it was one better than their rival Toyota could muster with Salo.

As for the cars not running at the end of the race, well, let's see how bad we can beat up on the also-rans. Fisichella said "I am disappointed about having to retire this time but we are getting better." Could you save improvements for any later in the season? BAR pissed away even more money this weekend. Both cars were out with mechanical problems. JV isn't winning over any friends at Honda by blowing up his motor.

If McLaren was having a bad day, Jaguar was having a Jaguar day. I loved Irvine comment "That was a very difficult race which saw me suffer problem after problem." Which was the first, getting up in the morning, or just showing up?

That brings us to Alex-I-shouldn't-be-here-Yoong. Fortunately, he wasn't.

Only a handful of races are left, and this weeks results seem to indicate that Juan Pablo may just put a damper on his fellow South American's hopes and finish runner-up. Ferrari will more than likely win the constructor's championship, with BMW coming in second. No one will remember anything else about the season. Well, at least the die-hard XKE owners will have another topic to bitch about. The circus continues in three weeks in Hungary.