F1: Game on in Spain

Mark Webber broke with tradition in this year's Spanish grand prix: starting from pole, he didn't win.

But his team-mate did - yet he did so in part because Webber had a terrible start and because Alsonso had a great one.

Alonso somehow managed to drag his Ferrari up from the second row to be in the lead by half-way round the first lap. By the end of lap two, he was so far ahead that Vettel was outside the DRS zone. Button, from 5th fell back to 10th.

But as the race shook out, it was Vettel and Hamilton who slugged it out at the top, finishing just six tenths of a second apart.

Red Bull's Christian Horner blames the tyres: they will do one good lap, he says, explaining the team's blistering qualifying pace but not quite so devastating race pace. McLaren, however, seem to be able to get a little more out of their tyres.

That Button was hot on the tail of Hamilton and Webber was close behind shows just how dominant these two teams are when it comes to running for a full race.

Webber said that the race was basically run from the pits and that he didn't "do much racing on the track."

Button did. Admitting to "a terrible start," he fought back. Describing the tyres as "like a switch" (working and then suddenly not) he was happy to swap to the harder prime tyre "I really felt like I raced today," he said in the post race interview. Starting 5th, 10th after one lap and finishing third? Yes: that's racing.

But he's not going to be able to do that in Monaco, where tyre degradation over the rough surface will be a headache for everyone.

And they don't even have time to catch their breath: luckily, there's a good motorway from Barcelona to Monaco - and the trucks will be arriving in good time.

Pirelli are bringing a completely new compound: the PZero Red Supersoft. Bags of grip and loads of marbles, perhaps? Pirelli are pleased that, in Spain, the FTD was on the harder compound.

How that pans out in Monaco will be fascinating to see.