F1-European GP, Valencia

Sebastian Vettel secured the first place in an incident strewn European GP held in Spain. The McLaren duo, Hamilton and Button came in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Midway through the race, there was a devastating crash involving the Red Bull of Mark Webber and Heikki Kovalainen of Lotus. Heikki, decided to block Webber from overtaking but he did it in a strange manner, according to Webber who could not stop his car from smacking the back of the Lotus. The crash sent Webber's car to eject up into the air before somersaulting and landing on the roof. The car skidded a while righting itself up again before crashing heavily to the tire barrier. It was a sickening crash. Fortunately, Webber was able to walk away from the crash with only minor bumps on him.

After this incident, the safety car was brought in. Hamilton was astride the safety car when it came into the track and decided to test his luck and sped away instead of following the back of the safety car. Hamilton was in 2nd place after the safety car period was over.

Hamilton's luck didn't hold since he was deemed by the stewards to be slightly behind the safety car when it came out and should have followed it. So a penalty was given to him. Amazingly, he was back in second place after the he took the drive through penalty due to a combination of a short pit area and the third placed driver being slow and holding up traffic behind him.

This made ex-world champion Ferrari's Fernando Alonso mad with anger. He can be heard whining in the cockpit radio about the unfairness of it all. He was just behind Hamilton when the safety car came out but ended up in 9th place when it went back in. And to add salt to his bruised self, two slower cars overtook him in the later stages of the race despite pleas from his team to concentrate on racing.

Sometimes luck do play a part and one should just take it in the chin and concentrate on the next race. But not Ferrari or Fernando. They are bringing up conspiracy theories that claims stewards are favoring Hamilton in some manner. It doesn't help either that Lewis seems to end up in headlines concerning rules and guidelines of F1 - e.g. racing in pitlane and the dramatic out-of-fuel qualification in the last race - so drivers may get frustrated with the all the non-race attention he gets.

But the bottom line is, Lewis seems to be the only driver who consistently spices up the F1 races. His overtaking moves, his glamorous friend and his unexpected controversial situations makes the F1 an interesting and watchable fare.