Max Mosley won his invasion of privacy case, as this story on the Mosley affair in The New York Times outlines. This is the end of a scandal that has occupied the president of the International Automobile Federation since last March. Fortunately the F1 season has been just fantastic despite Mosley being so occupied elsewhere, and fortunately there have been no scandals within the racing series itself this year during that time. Let's hope it continues that way!

Timo Glock, the German driver for the Toyota team who had the horrific accident at the German Grand Prix on Sunday, is in perfect health and will return to driving the racing car during testing on Thursday, the team announced today.

As any spectator could see through the extraordinary television work that happened to capture the accident from several different angles, the problem was that the rear right suspension of the car broke and the wheel came off.

Here's how Toyota words it: The accident, "has been traced to the right rear toelink/trackrod." Let's hope the part is stronger at the next race.

After winning the home race for McLaren in England two weeks ago, it was time for Lewis Hamilton to take the home victory for Mercedes at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. Amazingly, it was also the first time McLaren Mercedes had won at Hockenheim since Mika Hakkinen won here for the team in 1998.

Hakkinen, by the way, was on hand to witness this incredible race and magnificent team and driver victory. Ferrari was literally stuck in the sand as McLaren beat them on pure speed and a surprising call to not ask Hamilton to make a pit stop during the safety car period when Timo Glock had an accident.

"Today's victory topped off another magnificent weekend for the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team," said Ron Dennis, the team director and part owner. "I stress the word 'team' because our win was very much a team effort. The deployment of the safety car presented us with a difficult decision: Should we or should we not bring Lewis in for a pitstop? We decided that, since he still had quite a lot of fuel on board, we would leave him out until Lap 50. We'd expected the track to be cleared of debris a little faster than it was, which would have allowed the safety car to come in a bit earlier. As a result Lewis was unable to rejoin the race in the lead. He responded majestically, however, and scored another fabulous win."

The two McLaren Mercedes drivers are clearly getting closer in their racing and qualifying these days, as Heikki Kovalainen regains his confidence and gets used to the new team. Had he not made a small mistake on his last lap of qualifying he might have got ahead of the eventual pole sitter, Lewis Hamilton. Instead, Heikki finished third.

Indeed, Hamilton is showing that he is out of the little down period he had and his pole position was convincing. But behind him in second is Felipe Massa, who had a disastrous race in Britain two weeks ago. But he looks back in good shape too, while Kimi Raikkonen has dropped down to sixth in qualifying today. I'm starting to wonder about Raikkonen's motivation. I'm starting to lean toward a Hamilton/Massa finale to the world championship. And I see McLaren starting to recover from its third position in the constructors' championship. The series is getting very interesting - and this German Grand Prix tomorrow in Hockenheim will be a key race for the future.