Again, the Nurburgring puts on a brilliant race, the best dry race certainly this year if not for a long time. Close battles, drama, different strategies, this had everything including a first-time winner in the form of Mark Webber. Button’s championship lead was reduced to 21 points, but it’s the lack of pace that put them behind not just the Red Bulls, but Massa and Rosberg as well.

With the second RBR one-two in a row, the championship suddenly looks a lot less certain for Brawn GP.

Heroes

Obviously, Webber. Not just a win, but a win with a drive-through penalty and he was still over 10 seconds ahead of the higher-rated Vettel. Phil Prew, Hamilton’s race engineer. After the first corner incident, Lewis was busy thinking about anything else but the race and started musing on if it was even worth continuing or stopping entirely to save the engine and gearbox. Prew’s reply: “you do the driving, we’ll take care of strategy”.

Villains

The race stewards tried, but failed, to stop Webber’s stonking drive. Though it was definitely a racing incident (making him a villain not a clown) Kimi’s move on Sutil brings back of Monaco last year. Raikkonen was very busy defending or attacking pit exiting cars into turn 1 and despite his fairly understated position during the race (until his retirement), it looks like he was trying.

Clowns

Jonathan Legard. If you must talk (and again, no Radio 5 Live commentary was available due to more important sporting things happen, like, oh: arguing and cricket), at least talk about F1 and not cricket. Alternatively, shut your trap and let Martin tell us interesting things, thanks. Come back James Allan, all is forgiven.