Do McLaren have the Superior car now??

Lewis Hamilton's back-to-back victory at Hockenheim has clearly showed the McLaren Mercedes to be be the better car, but is it going to be like this for the rest of the season?? Ferrari's below par performances have sent shockwaves through the Maranello-based team, even going so far to question the drivers' thirst for victory. Ferrari still seem to be reeling from their disastrous British GP, over a fortnight ago. If things do continue to like this, Hamilton could wrap up the Formula One Championship before the Formula One circus reaches Suzuka, Japan.

Hamilton's first stint made people think that he had 5-6 laps fuel less than the Ferrari, but when they came in a lap or two later, it was evident that the McLaren was setting a scorching pace. It was only one McLaren that was literally flying, as Kovalainen was looking very lackluster. After the first round of stops it was obvious that Hamilton would coast to victory followed by Massa. Then with about 30 laps to go, there was a suspension failure from Timo Glock's Toyota that sent him crashing into the wall bringing out the safety car. This caused majority of the teams to stream into the pits, with only Hamilton, Piquet and Heidfeld deciding to stay out. This baffled almost all teams and viewers as McLaren chose to keep Hamilton on track. I was pretty sure that Mclaren had made a big mistake and possibly cost Hamilton victory. However he proved all of us wrong and drove an amazing last stint and was a second quicker than anyone else on track
. Hamilton's performance was on par with a Schumacher performance, but we all know how much Schumacher has achieved, can Hamilton do the same??

Hamilton breezed past Massa like he was standing still, quite a disappointing defense from a championship contender, and went to to win the German GP. Sebastian Vettel was holding of Alonso with everything he had, and this was for 9th position, I would expect Massa would do more to fight for the championship. I really believed Massa had what it took to be Champion this year, but has been very disappointing the last couple of races and with Kimi totally out of sorts this weekend, Hamilton is looking good for a maiden Championship.

Kimi might have had one of his off weekends but ruling him out of the Championship would be a big mistake. Just the way Hamilton was not seen as a serious challenger couple of races ago, Raikkonen is being seen as fading away. However, Raikkonen and Massa will hav eto work really hard if they are to be able to challenge the McLarens. Ever since the Silverstone test couple of weeks ago, the McLarens have found couple of tenths of a second over the Ferrari and will look to capitalize on it during this week's test at Jerez. They have aerodynamic updates and will definitely be using the shark fin cover, which they tried during the Hockenheim test last week. Ferrari will have to dig deep and find something to beat the McLaren, with Hamilton looking very likely to be dominant at the Hungarian GP in less than two weeks time. To me it seemed like they went the wrong way with the set-up, because your car can't get slower by a second in the space of 2-3 weeks.

The battle is going to be between Hamilton, Raikkonen and Massa and right now it is too close to call, let us hope we all have the same dilemma going in to the final round of the Championship in Brazil...