GERMAN GRAND PRIX - RED BULL AND VERSTAPPEN AND VETTEL AND FERRARI TRIUMPH IN A BATTLE BETTER THE GODS! PART 1

I would not describe the 2019 German Grand Prix on Sunday as a thrilling, classic, or even great race; no. Thrilling and exciting; yes. 

But in truth, it was more of a wreckers derby.  With the destruction of expensive racing cars and their drivers and teams hopes and expectations being smashed against the circuit walls, like rudderless ships being smashed against rock at sea. 

The beginning of the race, with the inception of the Safety Car to guide the formation laps in heavy rain, before giving way to the race starting under normal starting - not weather-wise - procedures. 

Probably should have been taken as more of an harbinger of what was to follow. 

Even though it appeared that Hamilton and Team Mercedes were fated to win what would have been, for Team Mercedes, a coveted and historically significant race. 

It was not to be, with the intervention of upto two Safety Car episodes in the race, before the wheels of Team Mercedes good fortune began to fall off, by the half way stage of an extremely gruelling and hazardous race. 

What might have proved to have been a highly probably win for Team Mercedes, considering that Hamilton had led the field for nearly all of the first half of the race, soon became a certain failure. 

As the bones which were caste into the air, by Fate,  fell on the ground and declared that Team Mercedes was failing to make all the appropriate tyre calls at the right time. 

And not being able to predict accurately the transpiring changes in the hostile weather conditions, and their drivers not consistently holding onto the IGW - the invisible golden wire - at all times. 

To be continued!