The impetus seemed to be with Ferrari as they are well and truly on the back foot and still have to get both drivers back to the form at which they were not two months ago. On the flip side, the momentum lies firmly with McLaren after three wins back to back.
The championships are currently showing with Ferrari only just having a lead in the constructors, now only 11 points, and I still wouldn’t write off the Saubers.
The driver’s standings are equally as close, with Hamilton on top closely followed by all the usual suspects. So with only seven races to go, things are still wide open and it could go any way. Only a fool would bet on this one.
On to the actual predictions, I feel that the confidence should be with everyone’s favourite new driver Lewis Hamilton. He is the one carrying the form into this race.
A slight hiccup, through no fault of his own, didn’t really hinder him. He still sits at the top of the drivers’ championship.
The reason I think he will do so well in this race is because Lewis tends to have a gung-ho feeling when he is approaching a circuit he has never driven on before. He drives with a very aggressive nature, and I feel that a lot of the more cautious drivers will just fall in his wake.
We just have to look back to last year at how he dealt with new circuit after new circuit in such an emphatic flair in which he managed to break all kinds of records.
So for these reasons I predict it will be a very good weekend for McLaren. Of course, we can’t be too sure just how it will pan out until Friday’s practice session.
Practice session will be a tough period with a lot of cars not being on a track for nearly three weeks now, so this will be a time to get the car back to working standard and only then will they be able to tweak certain variables to get on the pace.
The usual suspects will be better at doing this and the time sheets will show this, so expect a lot of laps put in the practice sessions by all midfield and lower teams.
Qualifying could be an interesting one. Fernando Alonso is in a confident mood. On home turf, he could run light and certainly cause an upset to get on the front row. Lewis will be fast, as will Heikki Kovalainen in the sister McLaren, and let's not forget the two Ferraris.
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