So Fernando Alonso has finally left McLaren once and for all.

Even after all that’s happened this year I’m relatively surprised to be honest, as his best chance of being in a car capable of winning races and the title in 2008 was surely with the Woking team.  Ferrari’s announcement that Massa has been handed a new contract until 2010 has surely scuppered any chance of Alonso joining Raikkonen in Italy next year - that’s assuming Alonso would even have been happy being in the same team as the current World Champion.

Living in Scotland is excellent - we have stunningly beautiful landscapes all around us, lovely historical landmarks and we are lucky enough to live in relative safety.

The downside to living in Scotland can be summed up in one word - sport!

We have a history of punching above our weight when faced with a better opponent, yet being beaten by those deemed lesser challenges and some would say it’s happened again last night when Scotland were beaten by Georgia - but it was never going to be an easy task.

Apparently Lewis Hamilton was taken aback at the driver’s meeting prior to last week’s Chinese Grand Prix - some of the other drivers had the audacity to make negative comments about the McLaren driver and his behaviour on the track.

Do these drivers have a genuine grievance or were they simply spitting the dummy because they are jealous of what he has achieved so far in his very short F1 career?

Well let’s have a think about what they may be jealous of…