I n the end, the threatened rain never materialised and the sun shone over Silverstone, but there was a dearth of genuine excitement throughout yesterday's British Grand Prix.
Perhaps it was the fact that most of the A-listers and sporting celebrities had decamped to Wimbledon, where there was drama in spades and a plethora of visceral scenes.
Maybe we had been spoiled by the fluctuating fortunes of the protagonists in this season's F1 campaign, but there was something "meh" about the fashion in which Mark Webber inexorably hunted down Fernando Alonso in the climactic stages and surged to the chequered flag for another Red Bull Racing triumph.
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