a race to remember - NOT

well, what a week for f1 world when on saturday, everything looked ok and promising for the german but everything turned upside down come sunday.. (photo:- alonso doing a karate-kid :P)

with schumy and massa qualified on the first row of the grid and the renaults on the third row of the grid, plus a good start to the red cars, everything looks perfect..up untill lap 13 or something, massa had a puncture and had to pit early...and to make it worse, he came out just behind heidfeld who is in a longer stint than his...and this makes it possible for alonso to leapfrog him to second place...

at this point, i was thinking, ok...at least we have another red car in front and most crucially in front of the defending world champ alonso...

come second round of pit stop, alonso came in to pits first, and everything looks ok for him...and 3 laps latter, the leading red comes in...and he come out of the pits around 10s in front of the renault, and 10s is actually quite a hugh margin in f1...

i was just releaved to see this, but just a couple of laps later, the tv showed a smoked red car and to my nightmare, it was shumy's ferrari and not massa, as i hoped for...shumy's out! and fernando comes out on top of the podium...what a bitter pil to swallow!

due to these 2 upside down races (chinese and japanese GP), i would like to do some comparison as some said that there are some similarities between the two races, but i think its not. Look at the CAPITAL letter for comparison...

CHINESE GP
Quali: Renault got an upper hand during quali where alonso qualified 1st and shumy 5th..Race: Shumy won the race and alonso finished 2nd. This is due to Renault's MISTAKE where the only changed alonso's front tyres plus some MISTAKE by renault's pit crew during a pit stop

JAPANESE GP:
Quali: Ferrari got an upper hand during quali where shumy qualified 2nd and alonso 5th..Race: Alonso won the race and shumy DNF. This is due to ENGINE FAILURE and not MISTAKE by the team.