So... the first Williams car winning a Grand Prix since 2004, congratulations!
Interesting to see how well Maldonado coped under the pressure from Alonso. Compare that to his team-mate who dropped out of qualifying and got rear-ended out of the race in the early part of the race and it seems to have been a pretty wide gap between them this weekend.
What I found important and good was that they did try a more aggressive strategy than Ferrari by stopping a lap or two earlier at both of the stops. Even GP games that shall remain unnamed here indicate that you should be opportunistic with these tyres. Even if the other driver hasn't hit the point yet where the tyre performance just drops off completely, you can gain a second or two that way.
And yet, it's one of those Barcelona races where the top four ended up in the order they went off. How much difference a few arbitrary elements can make in how a race is perceived.
I think Hamilton's drive into the points should also be recognised. After thinking you're gonna start from pole yesterday, to have what in the best circumstances was a daft mistake from the team cost you that, you could have expected him to be frustrated, try to achieve everything at once on Sunday and ending up with front wing / suspension damage somewhere. In light of the championship in the long term, these couple of points could very well turn out to be important.
And no overtakes at all........ ](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif "Brick wall"){kind=small}
