Well, by me simply typing this up, I guess you can say I have.

So, why return when I claimed it was the end all those months ago? I guess I need somewhere where I can be informal and blog. The Red Light is merely a formal blog regarding Formula One and I can't give the personal feel in those blogs which I can here. Besides, with work and University priorities, I've been struggling to even find time to write up my usual Grand prix preview blogs - that's even with Wednesdays and Thursdays off.

Still, the question remains: Why, at half 1 in the morning on a cold and miserable winter night, do I start blogging? Boredom? Not really feeling tired? Who knows, but I guess as Racky_rules claimed in my last blog, it was "good to hear about the man behind the green leadership badge". As a leader, I can't really delve too much in to "about me", per se, because of the duties that come with it: ensuring peace and tranquility is not disrupted (thankfully, during my reign as leader I've never encountered this), as well as providing all the GP threads and Prediction Championship games. I seem to be becoming the businessman that appears to have no social life, I guess. You know,the one that appears at work that you never quite know that much about because the personal touch isn't quite there. Maybe this blog provided that in the past, and maybe it should be resurrected so that the personality hidden behind that small, green tag reading simply "leader" is released once more in to this world.

Can I promise a monthly blog like in the past? No.
Can I get 40+ comments like I see with the majority of people on my friends list who blog on this blog itself? Highly Unlikely.
Could I care less? I guess not.

I guess the end result of why I've returned then would be that I feel I've lost that "human touch" - or whatever you'd call it - with the members of the union, and that I should regain it and not appear like a robot - as is so easy for people with Aspergers, like myself, to do.

So, with that out of the way, what has gone on in the life of Redders since the 11th of May, 2010?

I suppose if we start with F1, the main point would be that Jenson Button is now an outgoing World Champion, whatever happens. Of course, this makes me sad, but I'm also in a way happy because, in no way shape or form, did Hamilton annihilate Jenson, like so many people predicted. Heck, even I had my doubts, but when you look at the performance of JB over the season, if he was ahead of Lewis it was, for the most part, quite a margain between the two, and when Lewis was ahead it was, for the most part, quite a small margain (Korea being one of the notable exceptions).

The thing is, so many parts of the media keep telling us consumers that "all the championship contenders made mistakes". Now, either they didn't consider Button a championship contender, or I missed something here, because I'm pretty sure both of JB's retirements came from other people's mistakes (pit crew member in Monaco, Vettel in Belgium). If one was to criticise Jenson, and fairly, then they would take a look at his qualifying performances. That's what ruined JB's chances this year. Just once this year has Button started a race from the top three, which was always going to put him at a disadvantage come race day where, once again, he proved to be much stronger. Unfortunately, the job needs to be done on a Saturday as well as the Sunday, and who knows where Jenson could've been relative to the championship battle if he didn't spin off in Q1 in Malaysia.

I suppose the next step is to talk about the title fight itself.

Presumably, the majority of you have picked up on the fact I would like to see Mark Webber become World Champion in Abu Dhabi this weekend. When you look at the remaining challengers, Mark appears to have made the least mistakes (Australia, semi-Valencia and Korea) and in my honest opinion, has driven the best this year. Has Alonso come on strong at the end of the season? No doubt about it, but part of being a great driver is to be strong-minded and not let things get to you - Fernando mid-season was nothing like that at all. He was fragile, weak, and seemed to be blaming everyone else for Ferrari's problems. Did they have a case in Valencia? I guess they did, but it's not Hamilton's fault he was able to drive fast enough to negate the drive-through penalty, is it? The whole Kubica incident in Britain - what was so difficult in just lifting for a few seconds to let Kubica past again? Clearly there was no way for them to know Robert was about to retire anyway, but what could've been a good points haul turned out to be nothing, just because he felt he was in the right.

And yet, this is the same man who's won the most races out of anybody this season, and has what I like to consider a 1-point "fair" lead. If anyone asked me if the championship would be tainted if Alonso won it, I'd tell them "only if it was 7 points or less" - so despite all the weaknesses he's shown (and, let's be fair - whilst brilliant in his race wins, this is the worst we've seen Alonso in a LONG time), if he took the title by 8 points or more, it's a fair title win in my books and he'd be deserving of it. In a way, if anyone asked in the future what was the best and worst of Alonso, Fernando himself has summed it up by his 2010 performances.

Then, there's Vettel. Young? Yes. Naive? Quite possibly. Still got a way to go? A little. But unlucky not to have had this title wrapped up ages ago? Absolutely. As a result of mechanical failures, Vettel has lost a whopping 65 points - that's more than two and a half race wins - and adding the points lost by mistakes (Turkey, Britain-ish, Hungary, Belgium), that's another 61-78. Arguably, Vettel could've had 126-144 points more than what he does and - without doing the maths for moving everyone else - meant he could've been champion a good two or three races ago. But no driver can be perfect, and Vettel will be aware of that himself, just like all the other contenders.

Lastly, Hamilton. He has a Button-sized mountain to climb if he wants to win the title in Abu Dhabi - Alonso no-scoring? Seems hard to envision, but saying that, was it not Hamilton who dominated in Abu Dhabi until he had a mechanical failure? It's not impossible, but to win the race in a car which is arguably behind the Red Bull and Ferrari in terms of pace will not help his case at all.

What about me? Well, I've finished my first year of University, had my summer break, and now well in to year 2. Over the summer, I've been doing my best to help my workplace stay open (as you're well aware, the economic crisis hasn't helped anyone - especially pubs and clubs, and the Band Club I work at is no exception), and we seem to be turning a leaf now. It's slow, it's painful, but we're getting there.

Speaking of which, Children In Need isn't far around the corner, and our place is running a Talent Show throughout the night to raise money - and yours truly is involved in it. My part involves signing some cheesy songs, so enjoy this setlist that I'm performing on Friday 19th November:

- Rockin' All Over The World - Status Quo
- A Little Respect - Wheatus
- Uptown Girl - Westlife
- Spirit In The Sky - Gareth Gates
- Footloose - Kenny Loggins

FOFA-wise, it's been a little quiet in recent months, however come the end of this month I'll be having a tour of the Renault factory (and possibly having a little trek beforehand to go visit some of the other nearby factories too), so keep an eye out on a blog soon about that.

An hour or so on from asking myself why I decided to blog once again, I seemed to have opened up to everything that is now recent within my life. Has the missing "human touch" been restored? I guess we'll find out over time.

The man behind the green leadership badge is back.