From the Toro Rosso website

Looking at the positive, the general view in the paddock was that our new boy, Jaime Alguersuari would be a danger to others and when he proved over the two days of qualifying that was not the case, the next piece of accepted wisdom was that he wouldn’t be able to finish this physically demanding race, because his neck wouldn’t be strong enough to hold his head up for 70 laps. Wrong again. In short, Jaime ticked all the boxes this weekend, learning and improving with every lap of the track.

Naturally, as the newest and youngest kid on the block, he was the focus of media attention, but let’s not forget that his team-mate is not exactly the world’s most experienced F1 driver, with just ten F1 starts under his belt. He didn’t have a great day, not helped by debris damaging his front wing early on, but he is mature enough to admit to having made mistakes and that is not something racing drivers find easy to do!

We now have to wait four weeks to resume battle in Valencia and for two of those, the Formula One World Championship takes its first ever official holiday in its 59-year history. It’s going to be frustrating for the designers and engineers champing at the bit to carry on moving forward with the development of TR4, but at least their kids might recognise them now and their pets might not growl when they walk in the front door at home!

You’ll never guess who won? Lewis Hamilton. Yes, really, the reigning world champion produced a typically aggressive and faultless performance, making the most of his KERS at the start to go from fourth on the grid to second immediately after the start. It was the Englishman’s and McLaren’s first victory of the year and joining him on the podium were second placed Kimi Raikkonen, which must have been a great morale booster for Ferrari after Massa’s terrible accident in qualifying and third placed Mark Webber for our friends at Red Bull Racing.

Round 11 of the world championship takes place in Valencia and so yet again the media spotlight will fall on our Alguersuari, as one of two Spanish drivers on the grid. Before getting there, Jaime will probably be the only F1 driver to get some cockpit time, as he is competing in another round of the World Series by Renault at the Algarve circuit Portimao next weekend.