Better luck in Hamilton

It's frustrating because we've had good car speed and been up on the front of the grid, but we've had such horrible luck with flat tyres, being turned around in pit lane and race-ending altercations.

At least some of the bad luck was used up at the Australian GP where there were no championship points at stake.  Unfortunately, the teams with good car speed and race craft aren't always the winners these days.

Some teams have been quite aggressive or lucky with their strategy.  The whole industry has now turned a corner because of the smaller fuel tanks.

Drivers have to learn how to drive more economically while maintaining speed and lap times.  We're not driving with the proverbial Hans Tholstrup egg under the throttle pedal, but we are always mindful of our fuel strategy which has become a lot less flexible.

Consequently, it's not necessarily the drivers with the most speed and race craft, but the teams that roll the dice and have a gamble on fuel, weather and safety cars that win.

I suppose it's good for the punters because the same teams aren't winning all the time and it gives some of the other teams a chance to shine.

Punters don't want to see the same person win. It's actually spiced up the racing.  Talk about spicy racing, how about that MotoGP inSpain at the weekend.

I sat up late and watched qualifying and the race. Our Casey Stoner did a fantastic job in qualifying.  It was unfortunate that Valentino Rossi took him out in the race. I thought his pass was way too ambitious.

I didn't hear Stoner's comments to Rossi in the pits after the race, but apparently he said much the same thing.  You'd think there would be a penalty for that.

It's early in season and probably not a championship decider, but if Stoner loses by a few points, he'll look back at that incident with some raw emotion.

It was also interesting to see the marshals help Rossi get restarted after the crash but not Stoner. There will be a lot of discussion about that.