I’ve not written much about F1 this season, not in comparison to the previous years - probably down to a general downturn in the number of posts I’ve written and also due to David Coulthard’s retirement.

I’ve still watched all the races, but nothing has really motivated me enough to write about it!

This week has been different though.

Firstly we had the horrendous accident which Felipe Massa endured during qualifying last Saturday - and by horrendous, I mean the outcome of the crash as at the time it was quite undramatic.

Okay, so I’ve fallen behind a bit - it’s almost a third of the way through the year so I should really be writing a post about book 10, whatever that may be!

With the way it’s going, I may end up having to read 10 books in the last week - a bit like doing your homework on the way to school when you were a kiddywinkle.

Anyhoo enough preamble, what about this book.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually quite like Ted Kravitz - he is probably the second guy I’d like to see join BBC next year along with Martin Brundle.

But I have to take exception to something he has written in his post-race notebook article on ITV’s website.

Talking about Michael Schumacher’s appearance in the paddock at Barcelona last weekend, he states that Michael was apparently upset at some media coverage of his 8-year old son’s first outing in a kart. Now I can understand why Michael would be annoyed by this - if his son Mick does enter the motorsport arena, then the pressure on his shoulders is going to be unbelievable. Because of this, it seems a fairly reasonable request from Schumacher that the media leave his son alone for now until he decides whether this motorsport malarkey is really the path he wants to take.

In a somewhat frank interview, Michael Schumacher has pointed the finger of blame squarely at Ferrari’s Felipe Massa over his spin at the first corner of the first race last weekend.

Claiming that Massa was in too low a gear for the corner which in turn initiated the spin, he is also quoted as saying both DC and Massa were to blame for their coming together later in the race, but places more of the blame on his ex-teammate.

You have to say that David could have been a little cleverer about it, but there is no question that Felipe was the cause.   Michael Schumacher

For the sake of completeness and rather than simply updating my earlier post, I thought I would post the actual list as featured in this week’s Autosport magazine together with a very brief quote from the magazine about each driver.

When you think of who has been left out, remember those included were, and I quote, “over time, these guys were consistently the best of their eras.”   Agree?  I think not!

10.  Jacky Ickx - “he’s an obvious selection as a rainmaster”