Put the Piz Buin away, folks - the summer break is officially over and done with. The Formula 1 circus returned from its holidays in typically rambunctious fashion, laying down an assortment of storylines to make up for a fallow period in the annual soap opera.
For those missing sandy beaches, the seaside town of Zandvoort offered a neat way to wean people off their out-of-office messages and thrust them back onto the F1 hamster wheel. The racing action might have been stilted in comparison to the pre-summer affairs, as the tight circuit draped across the Dutch dunes made the wheel-to-wheel stuff a little more difficult, but it nonetheless added another element to a once one-dimensional title affair.
