Make no mistake, today's race is about two team and four drivers. Indeed, at this point in time it would be safe to say that the entire 2007 championship season will be fought out by McLaren and Ferrari.

Ignoring the fact that today's result could well be settled within the first few hundred years - Massa has made it plain that he will be more aggressive this weekend, and Hamilton will be no pushover - we face the prospect of a thrilling battle in the months ahead.

It is clear that Alonso, in particular, is playing a strategic game, for there is no way that he's 0.8s slower than Massa, or indeed, 0.4s slower than his own teammate. The guy's a two time world Championship, which just about says it all.

Therefore, ignoring the fact that either a Ferrari or a McLaren will win today, it's worth looking at the rest of the field.

Without doubt, BMW is the class of the field, however, it should be worth watching Heidfeld and Kubica in the opening laps, as there is a fierce internal team battle going on here with much at stake.

The rest of the top ten is made up of sole representatives of four teams, Toyota, Red Bull, Williams and Renault.

We saw a rare Renault failure in the GP2 race yesterday, which is not a good omen. However, Fisichella's admission that the best his team can aim for today is some points indicates just how far the champions have fallen. Not for nothing did we nickname Giancarlo and Heikki as 'glum and glummer' the other day.

Poor Nico Rosberg will be hoping for some reliability. The German, and his Austrian teammate clearly have the speed, they just need a car that doesn't suffer these niggling little, but crucial, problems.

Webber's grid position owes more to the man than to the Adrian Newey designed car. It was a strong performance from the Australian yesterday. Hopefully, he can convert the result into a few points, but he'll be under pressure.

Toyota will surely get at least one car into the points, as the team continues to make slow but steady progress. Neither driver inspires, to an infuriating degree, but this weekend it appears to be Trulli's turn to perform.

The Super Aguris have been good all weekend, and look set to cause further embarrassment to some of the big guns, most notably Honda, which will be keen to get this race out of the way and return to base, in order that it can set about discovering why things have gone so badly wrong.

Another team that will be keen to get this race out of the way is Spyker, which is having a torrid time. Hopefully, Mike Gascoyne can make full use of the four week gap before the Spanish GP.

Toro Rosso will continue being Toro Rosso, make of that what you will.