I think Sunday was quite a bad day for media hype. A good thing, I’m sure you’ll agree.

First of all there was Jamie Murray’s victory at Wimbledon, which I find absolutely hilarious. It certainly puts the past two years of hype surrounding Andrew Murray to shame a bit. Of all the people who could usurp saintly young tennis genius media darling Andrew Murray, it would be his brother who has not received even a fraction of the attention. Well done MSM!

Then of course, there was the British Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton put in a frankly lacklustre performance. It was by far his worst of the year, which is also absolutely hilarious because the media was getting into a frenzy over the prospect of a Brit winning the British Grand Prix. Ha ha!

My favourite part of the British Grand Prix coverage was actually just before the race started. The usually bearable Martin Brundle had fallen into the Lewis lovey-dovey-vortex. “There is a massive crowd here at Silverstone,” he said, “and they are all hoping for a…” Just in time, a man with a Spanish flag stood up to dominate the camera shot. Brundle battled on. “Errr. Err. Man with a Spanish flag there. Brave man.” Hahahah!

Of course, Hamilton’s poor showing at the British Grand Prix could not possibly have had anything to do with Hamilton himself. The media were already making his excuses for him — even before the race was finished. After the race, ITV pundit Mark Blundell was adamant that Hamilton must have had a problem with his car.

Well, I have not heard anything about what this problem with his car is — probably because it didn’t exist. That was just the media trying to cover its sorry arse.

There probably was an issue with the set up of the car. But guess whose job it is to set up the car? That’s right, Lewis Hamilton’s. Fernando Alonso didn’t have any trouble setting up his car, did he?

We have also seen that Lewis Hamilton does crack under pressure. To be honest, the fact that he could stick to the racing line when he was put under pressure by, say, Alonso, was the most impressive thing about Hamilton. Alonso could have stripped naked and Hamilton wouldn’t have batted an eyelid.

Not so at the British Grand Prix, where Hamilton got so wound up that he ended up trying to leave the pits far too early. He managed to stop before causing an Albers-esque situation, but he was close to doing that. (Incidentally, Albers has lost his job — but it’s nothing to do with the pitlane incident, oh no!)

The media’s story is that Hamilton had lightning-quick reactions to stop his car before anything worse happened. But the point is that he shouldn’t have had his car moving in the first place!

The rest of Hamilton’s race wasn’t much better, and once again he had a fair bit of good luck on his side. If Felipe Massa hadn’t stalled his engine and had to start from the pitlane, there is no way Hamilton would have finished on the podium. Imagine that. The first time he would have failed to get on the podium. Golden boy Lewis had his worst race at the British Grand Prix!

Hamilton still has an intimidating lead in the Drivers’ Championship. But all of his main rivals — Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa — have had more than their fair share of bad luck. The second half of the season will be much more difficult for Hamilton. It will be very interesting to see how he copes with the pressure from now on.

Anyone who saw the French Grand Prix will probably know who I’m talking about.

Briefly, though, I will say that I am glad that Kimi Räikkönen won the race. I think it is better for the reputation of Formula 1 as a whole if Felipe Massa does not win so many races. Ferrari also look as though they have the upper hand now, which is just as well because the championship was threatening to become a little bit one-sided.

Still, even though Lewis Hamilton finished a distant 3^rd, the Brit actually extended his championship lead because his closest rival, Fernando Alonso, had a bit of a hellish weekend. Gearbox woes left him way down the field today.

But Alonso drove very well today. He had a couple of amazing overtaking manoeuvres against Fisichella and Heidfeld. The overtake on Heidfeld, at the Imola chicane, where a move was surely deemed impossible, will surely go down as one of the very best of the year.

But despite pushing hard to make those moves, Alonso still ended up behind both of those drivers thanks to some woeful McLaren strategies.

As for the championship, I was emailed this interesting link by Ken Roberts. It purports to show you the chance each driver has of winning the championship if the rest of the season’s results are determined at random. Hamilton’s chance is astonishingly high — 77%. Wow.

And as you can see, despite finishing 3^rd, Hamilton was the main beneficiary today, while Alonso lost a great deal and the Ferrari drivers made minor gains.

Another point to note is how much Honda seem to have improved. Button scored their first point of the season, and it was a much-needed one. It really looks as though Honda have turned the corner, although they will not be able to challenge near the front for a long while yet.

And now onto the chump. Christijan Albers — what were you thinking?!

How many pit stops has Albers done in his racing career? The lollipop man isn’t to blame for this one, which is the usual excuse. Albers just stepped on the throttle for seemingly no reason, and dragged a fuel rig halfway down the pit lane. Luckily (yet again) nobody was hurt. But that was Albers asking for a massive fire to happen.