Renault's Finnish rookie was knocked into a spin on the opening lap by Toyota's Jarno Trulli, ruining both of their races. Their misfortune allowed Jenson Button to capitalize, taking Honda Racing's first point of the 2007 season.

In the middle of all that was Fernando Alonso, who was a lowly seventh for the second time in the last three races. His race weekend was shaped by a costly gearbox problem that left him tenth after qualifying, and although he has now scored points 14 times on the last 17 occasions he's started in double figures on the grid, he was unable to add to his three previous podiums in that category.

Among the non-points scorers, Nico Rosberg finished ninth having celebrated his 22nd birthday this week. While it may be a disappointing result given his promising pace, the German has only failed to finish one race all year (Malaysia), which compares favourably to his 9 DNFs in 2006.

Fellow birthday boy Ralf Schumacher (32 on Saturday) was tenth, his worst finish at this circuit in nine years, and he was unable to break his streak of not finishing on the lead lap of any Grand Prix this season. Mark Webber missed Q3 on Saturday for only the second time all year, but he still kept up his record of outqualifying his teammate on every visit to this racetrack, on which he took his final F3000 victory in 2001.

Those are the kind of numbers Alex Wurz needs to see soon, as he has been beaten by Rosberg in every qualifying session this year. That might not be so bad, but with him failing to emerge for Q1 for the third successive race, the pressure is on the veteran Austrian as he heads to Silverstone, where he scored his first podium finish 10 years ago.

Spyker were back in their familiar role of being the slowest drivers in the speed trap all weekend, but thanks to Takuma Sato's grid penalty, Adrian Sutil has still never lined up in last position for an F1 race. He was hobbled by a problem with his car on the dummy grid, but made it to the end despite losing part of the engine cover winglet late on.

Neither Toro Rosso car made the end of the race for the fourth time this year, and with Scott Speed pointless after 26 races, he is starting to near American Brett Lunger's former record of 34 career starts without scoring a point (since surpassed by Luca Badoer's 48 starts). Tonio Liuzzi was out on the first lap in a collision with Anthony Davidson, the seventh consecutive race that we've seen cars drop out before we've reached the end of lap 2.

Finally, the goat of the week award goes to Christijan Albers, who managed to cost himself a finish by leaving the pits with the fuel rig still attached. Under the Jordan name, this team won the 1999 French GP with Heinz-Harald Frentzen, and this race marked 150 GPs since Damon Hill and Ralf Schumacher finished 1-2 in the '98 Belgian GP. How the mighty have fallen.

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