Been missing keeping this up to date but its just been too hot to sit in the office thinking of what to put. Plus a neglected garden's been shouting at me.

So what's been happening?

Big news was spending last weekend at Silverstone for the Grand Prix.

All in all a great experience and an enjoyable couple of days. The race itself may not have made for the best television but the atmosphere in the 100k crowd made it exciting - the roar that went up when JPM took Alonso was unbelievable. Nearly as loud as the 65k cheer that went up when Jenson put in the provisional pole lap time on the Saturday. Quite funny really as Schmacher took to the track after Jenson so you had the cheers for JB then a few seconds later the jeers for MS.

Also fascinating was arriving at Silverstone at 8:00 to find the Fosters bar open and people knocking back lager for breakfast. Suppose if you'd been there since the gates opened 8:00 would be lunchtime. But what was really brilliant about this was that 100k people could spend the day in peaceful enjoyment as I saw no aggravation anywhere. So it is possible!

Silverstone has come in for a lot of stick over the last few years but having nothing to compare this years efforts to I'd have to say it was all slickly run - virtually no hold up getting to the cicuit - queuing to get in was quite painless - the facilities were clean and respectable and an army of staff was on hand to keep bins and that from overflowing. So well done.

So James Allen seemed adamant the McLaren were wrong not to bring Kimi in for a change of tyre. Fro what its worth I'd agree with the drivers on the ITV team - you go for the win and you wouldn't want to settle for a safe 3rd if there was a chance of victory. And what if the FIA or whoever decided the tyre wasn't a risk and disqualified him??

Always seemed strange to me that in their efforts to make the sport safer the FIA reduced the amount of tyre tread on the track, which in theory makes it easier for the car to slip off the black stuff. And now making a tyre last longer to save on cost has created another way to cause possible injury. It has however added some spice to who's going to win as it can't be taken as a forgone conclusion if you have a 20 second lead with a 3rd of the race left to run that you'll be able to stay on track.

From this latest escapage comes an explanation for Ferrari's struggles this year - Bridgestone has gone along with more durable tyres to last the distance which compromises their qualifying - Michelin have been 'more adventurous' which aids grid positions but brings tyre wear as the important factor on whether they can convert qualifying success in to race success. So could MS take major points from McLaren and Renault when Michelin become more conservative to get points finshes?

So Renault have made it 3 out of 3 and Ferrari fail to score.

I still feel the red cars can make up the ground so making for an interesting season - hopefully hampered by McLaren and Williams improvements to slow their points rate down and all catch up with the flying Renaults. Mustn't forget the one lap wizard(!) - Trulli- who's doing sterling work with the Toyota. Could be a bit of a problem if none of them can get on to terms with the blue and yellow cars, then there'll be complaints of yawn... boring... processions...

Tops Marks for Pedro De La Rosa for helping make an entertaining race. Yes he overcooked things a few times BUT he was having a go and no doubt he'd get a verbal bum kicking if he'd just sat and followed. Was he reckless? Perhaps but no one was put in danger as far as I could see - unless Rubens hurt his ribs laughing as the McLaren hurtled passed him.

BriSCA F1 got off the ground last weekend while we were in Cornwall - had tried to book somewhere near Gt Yarmouth in case I was tempted to pop to King's Lynn but it was not to be. Good to see John Lund taking an early final at Belle Vue on Monday and another new boy takes the win at Coventry last night. So F1GP is 3 down with one winning team so far and F1 stox is 3 finals down with 3 different winners. Says it all...