Virgin on the ridiculous

First things first. What an awesome win by Button to kick off the season, great stuff thoroughly well deserved. Absolutely delighted for Button and especially Ross Brawn, they and a large team of people have worked incredibly hard to get this result.

One person who hasn't is Sir Richard Branson. He's got fantastic publicity by sponsoring the Brawn GP team, and his timing was great - but at the end of the day he turned up and paid for the water coolers, paperclips and the bash-hats that the pit crew wear. I was gobsmacked when in a perhaps forgivably euphoric mood the Beeb's commentator declared:

"Brawn GP are winners on their first race appearance and not only that it's a one-two finish Button from Barrichello, the smiles are on Ross Brawn and Sir Richard Branson"

Fucking hell! Way to utterly diminish Brawn's achievement. Hopefully it was just a slightly jingoistic celebratory gaffe and we won't see much more of Sir Richard - or god forbid hear from him at further GPs. Branson is never shy of getting some publicity for his brand, but if we're gonna credit the boss of the sponsors for their part in the win then I think its only fair that we acknowledge the awesome work done by the boss of the Williams sponsor who helped Nico Rosberg get 6th place and 3 important points...

...step forward Sir Fred Goodwin, I have something here for you.