Sebastian Vettel scored his sixth victory of the season in Valencia on Sunday, without anyone getting anywhere close to his Red Bull. This was a strong statement to the Red Bull detractors, as this weekend saw the introduction of a limitation on playing around with the engine mapping in between qualiying and race, and this was expected to slow down Red Bull, particularly on Saturday.However, that was not to be, and the two Bulls lined-up on the front row of the grid yet again, led by Vettel. The two Ferrari’s …

Just like 2010, this year’s Canadian Grand Prix was the best race of the season so far (and I guess it will stay the best). As if the venue – Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – was not enough to provide us a great race, we also had intermittent rain on Sunday. Again, like what we saw last season, Jenson Button was a class apart in the changeable conditions and stormed to victory here. With hindsight, Button was on the right tyres at the right times and made the correct strategy calls …

This year, we had a dry race at Shanghai, but it was a game of tyre poker. At the end of it all, McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton held his cards close to his chest, and played it to perfection. The ‘finger-boy’, Sebastian Vettel, again had pole position but couldn’t convert it to another race win this time round. Jenson Button qualified P2, as he managed to edge-out his team mate, who was in P3. Crucially though, Hamilton had only run once in Q3, and thus saved a set of soft tyres …

Sebastian Vettel kept up his winning streak with his fourth victory in a row in Malaysia. But Red Bull’s rivals were able to push them closer during the race and Jenson Button finished only three seconds behind. Red Bull had KERS here, but there were question marks over its effectiveness and reliability. Vettel managed to hold his lead (from pole) at the start ahead of Hamilton, but the two Renaults got off to bullet-starts. Heidfeld moved into 2nd, having started from 6th. On Saturday, it seemed like Hamilton would end …

Sebastian Vettel continued from where he left off in Abu Dhabi last season. He stormed his way to pole position, dominated the race rarely relinquishing his lead, and took the flag as the sun was setting in Melbourne. Lewis Hamilton came home second in the McLaren, and thereby silenced a few critics of the MP4-25. And, securing a superb result for the Renault, Vitaly Petrov came home in P3 to secure the first podium finish of his Formula 1 career. Though the result leads us to believe that the pecking …