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My motorbike ride home from Spa to Norfolk on Sunday night after the Belgian Grand Prix was very therapeutic.

I can listen to music in my crash helmet and so some Clapton was called for - it was great to see Eric on the grid - and then plenty of Deep Purple and a little Led Zep before migrating to my background music playlist.

Through all of that, I frequently thought about Mark Webber's pass around the outside of Fernando Alonso in Eau Rouge at 170 mph during the race.

How did he do it? Why did Alonso yield? Is Alonso thinking: "Next time, buddy, you'll be in the hedge"?

What would have happened if they had touched? Is there any point in my career where I would have done that? Would Webber have done it without modern safety cells and large run-off areas at the top of the hill?

Whichever way you look at it, that pass was spectacularly impressive, skilful, and brave.

Webber may not have won a race for more than a year but he won my eternal respect for that one.

I almost closed my eyes when I saw what was going down. The replay only made it worse when you realised how close the two were to banging front tyres. It's the kind of move which will be referenced for years to come, particularly when we revisit Spa.

“I would demand less pit-stops,” he underlines. “More attacking and pushing the cars to the edge; more racing and less strategy. Bring back refuelling; it is better to drive cars that are lighter – [and engines with] 1,300 horsepower. Big engines and big noise – that is what fans relate to F1.

“The 1980s [were] dangerous, so drivers needed big balls – it was the era I watched on TV when I was little. To be honest, the 1950s and 1960s were a little bit extreme; the 1980s were the right time – the right balance between safety and extreme.

“I always liked going to Imola, but of course the memories of many in F1 of going there are probably not so good. In some ways, it is a bit of a 'dark track' after what happened there. Obviously, it is not the luckiest venue, but I think a lot of drivers would love to go back there for the atmosphere.

“To be honest, I always liked going to Magny-Cours, too. Even though many complained that it is in the middle of nowhere, the track layout was very nice – and I liked it because there were no groupies and no clowns walking around in their suits, it was just racing!”

The lack of refuelling is something fans like myself are missing. Drivers are having to be far too calculating and reserved in the early stages of the race to avoid damaging their tyres when the cars are full of fuel. While the racing has improved recently, it is simply down to the tyres and in some places the DRS system. We are seeing teams getting on top of the new tyres which degrade more quickly and as a result, they are getting increased milage from them. I tend to believe that if refuelling was reintroduced with the current regulations, we'd see racing improve to an even higher level.

“Obviously we haven't sat down and signed the contract, but ultimately I expect that to be a formality. I am very happy with the two drivers we have. They push each other hard and I can't imagine any other driver in our car, or Mark Webber in any other team's car next year,” said Horner.

Other than that, the RBR boss claims that Webber and Vettel are the two strongest drivers on the grid at least for the team and one has to admit that both of them do have this certain ‘chemistry’ as a result of which, they push the other drivers to improve even more.

“The dynamics between them tells us so. They push each other harder then perhaps some others, so we are very happy with that combination. They are now together in their third year and it is logical that we are looking to extend that,” he said.

The writing looks to be on the wall. Perhaps this will suit the timing of Ricciardo stepping up into the main event after a season and a half getting himself up to speed with HRT and Torro Rosso.

“It is a chance for us at Red Bull to bounce back after Ferrari and Fernando Alonso came out on top at the British Grand Prix,” Webber wrote in a column for BBC Sport. “Irrespective of how good it looks for my team-mate in the Drivers' Championship and Red Bull in the Constructors' battle, you still don’t like being beaten.

“So it was not a particularly nice feeling on Sunday night at Silverstone - everyone put in their best effort and we got done. Ferrari and Fernando were very, very competitive there.

“Fernando's a wise old fox and he will definitely be a force in the next two races. I remember racing him back in Formula 3000 at the Hungaroring, which hosts the Hungarian Grand Prix the week after Germany, and he has always been very, very fast there. He is not too dusty around the Nürburgring either.”

It would be great to see Ferrari turn this championship on its head and start winning races. Red Bull have looked untouchable in qualifying but vulnerable in the races. Ferrari looked very strong in winter testing but failed to deliver on the track. It now seems they have overcome their difficulties and are now putting their best foot forward.

With the threat of rain again in the air this weekend, we may be in for another shock. We'll have to wait for a dry weekend to see if Ferrari are the real deal.

Red Bull is planning to pair Sebastian Vettel with his friend Kimi Raikkonen in 2012.

That is the sensational claim of the high-circulation German newspaper Bild-Zeitung, less than two days after Mark Webber ignored team orders at the end of the British grand prix.

2007 world champion and Finn Raikkonen, 31, left formula one at the end of 2009, and Red Bull team boss Christian Horner was quoted on Monday as saying "I believe he has put F1 behind him".

Bild said the plan to replace Australian Webber with Raikkonen is "top secret" but divulged the information of a source "at the highest level".

German Vettel remains friends with Raikkonen, the pair often meeting in Switzerland to play badminton. Asked recently who his ideal teammate is, the reigning world champion replied: "Kimi."

This seems highly unlikely but worth considering for a moment. Kimi is clearly at home with the Red Bull brand, and perhaps the reduced pressure of not being a Ferrari of McLaren driver might entice him back into the Formula 1 game.

The 34-year-old Australian caught German Vettel in the final laps and despite instructions from his team telling him to 'maintain the gap', he mounted several unsuccessful overtaking attempts before settling for third behind winner Fernando Alonso.

"I am not fine with it, no," he said. "If Fernando (Alonso) retires on the last lap, we are fighting for the win.

"Of course I ignored the team because I wanted to try and get a place. Seb was doing his best, I was doing my best. I wasn't going to crash with anyone.

"I try to do my best with the amount of one way conversation I was having - I was trying to do my best to pass the guy in front."

"Four or five laps to go, they started to chat to me about holding my position. I wanted the points but I also wanted to get some more points as well.

"I just wanted to race to the end and I'm sure if it had been the other way round it would have been like that as well."

Defending drivers' champion Vettel, 24, said he understood why the team asked them not to race each other but conceded that he had enjoyed the battle.

"I try to stay ahead, nothing wrong with that," he said.

"If you have the cars quite isolated in second and third, with the first guy away and the fourth guy pretty far away, from the team's point of view there is no point racing and doing something stupid.

"The difference between second and third is not massive but we naturally try to race. I tried to hold position. I was struggling, Mark was faster and then there was the chequered flag."

Vettel added that he thought the situation had been blown wildly out of proportion.

"To me at this stage it is quite amusing," he said.

"If it was the other way around, there is no point - of course I would like to overtake Mark at that stage, so no point trying to do something stupid. I don't see why there is such a fuss."

This is a difficult one.  For sure I agree with what they did in theory, however, they have changed their tune since last year so one can't help but feel Webber is being disadvantaged when there is little to no reason given the championship situation.  Where last season they were allowed to race with "no team orders", it now seems they can race until Mark has a chance of overtaking Vettel and then he is told to hold position.

My hat goes off to Vettel for speaking how he feels and not towing the team line.  He understands the score and would no doubt to the same thing if the situation was reversed.

Horner has refused to discuss the situation until now but he has admitted he would like to keep the Australian for at least another year.

"Well, that's very, very likely," Horner told Servus TV when asked about Webber staying on at Red Bull. "We have agreed to sit down a bit later and then focus on next year."

I think if Mark overcomes his issues with the new tyres (which looks likely given his performance in Valencia) he'll stay on at Red Bull.

Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Mark Webber and Jaime Alguersuari all escaped with reprimands for not slowing down under yellows in Spain.

Hamilton, Button and Webber finished second, third and fourth respectively but in the aftermath of Sunday's race it emerged that the trio as well as Alguersuari were to be investigated for failing to slow down when the yellow flags were waved following Heikki Kovalainen's crash.

Given that Hamilton, Button and Webber were over 50s clear of fifth-placed Fernando Alonso, who was in fact lapped, penalising them with 20-second drive-through penalties would not have made any difference to the race result.

I'm surprised the whole field hasn't been pulled up on this.