Felipe Massa, who inherited the win from Kimi Raikkonen today, leads the world championship for the first time in his career. Clearly any one of the four can win the title this year.

Aside from a welcome return to the podium for Jarno Trulli after a two-year absence, there were two major talking points at Magny-Cours: Were the various penalties McLaren received over the weekend justified; and how did Raikkonen manage to get a Ferrari with a broken exhaust through half a race to the finish?