Quickest in FP1 in wet conditions, Good pace in FP2 with different loads, Tyre trial runs in FP3 all seemed promising for the coming race.

Saturday was a totally different story which saw Michael miss Q3 due to a "vibration" which didn't give him a good run to stay infront of the two Force India of Paul Diresta and Adrian Sutil. Nico on the other hand managed to qualify a distant eight which was almost a second off Massa's time with P9 and P10 being assigned to non Q3 runners Sutil and DiResta. All in all with a spare set of extra softs for the race it seemed like not all hope was lost.

Race day started well, Michael managing to gain 2 positions at the start making it 26 in total this season and the highest for any driver so far from the grid line. Rosberg had a good few laps holding off the Ferrari's until a mistake caused him to flat spot one of the front tyres and therefore desist their charge in the next few corners. Overall all looked decent till then. Rosberg had a good battle with Button, Michael was gaining momentum and even fended off Alonso on the quicker Ferrari but only to have his race destroyed by a late braking Petrov a few laps later which demolished his rear wing and suspension with a T-Bone style collision.

All hopes were pinned on Rosberg to save the weekend but our car's pace was nowhere near the front runners so much so that he had to give in to Alguersuari's Toro Rosso's attack in the last laps making his final placement P8 the same as he had started. One finsihing car and a mere 4 points is all we managed.

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