A somewhat processional Chinese Grand Prix was taken by Vettel, followed by Webber then Button, to give Red Bull racing their first Grand Prix win, and a race one-two finish.

Vettel led for most of a pretty wet race, with Button taking the lead only for brief moments. After all the diffuser fuss, the team without the split-level diffuser was the victor.

You have to feel a bit sorry for Force India’s Sutil, who came oh-so-close to securing the team’s first points, but unluckily hit some standing water five laps to the end and spun, hiting the wall in a fairly dramatic looking crash.

The race means that Button still leads the Championship, but the gap is closing.

We’re back from Rome! Also, our luggage has managed to make it back from Rome just now, too. It did not make it back with us yesterday. We almost did not make it because our first flight out was delayed a lot. We had to run across Frankfurt airport to get the next plane. I guess our cases were not running quickly enough. Some photos to follow, once they’ve all been sorted out.

The Chinese Olympic Games opened today with an amazing opening cermony that was an incredible spectacle. It defies belief as to how the London show will be able to come up with anything anywhere near as impressive. Some useless mish-mash showing how “multi-cultural” the UK is will just pale into insignificance compared to such a lavish display of Chinese cultural passion. It was very easy to forget the bad press happening around China and simply stare in awe at the opening ceremony. Most impressive.