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After a series of technical hiccups and lying to the podcasts stewards the edited (and slightly short) Malaysian Grand Prix podcast is finally here.

Sorry for keeping you waiting but stay cool baby as Kevin and Terry discuss the rain, the liegate, the massa and the eddie jordan’s of this world.

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With diffusers rumbling in the background and liar ruminating their lies, Formula One did what it did best in Malaysia… racing (and complaining about the weather).

As in many a recent year the race was dominated with startlingly accurate rain forecasts that never quite got it right as Rosberg got away to first from the grid. Could the Williams finally show its potential this year? no.

Button was soon flipping around near the front after (it has to be said) some majestic driving as the first pit stops came.

Kovi managed to retain his crown as DC of 2009 by shunting off the first corner and Kubicas car was on fire before the race even began. Is that part of the grand BMW plan?

As the rain barely started to threaten to spittle down, Raikkonen came in for tyres - rumour has it that Schumacher, sitting on the pit wall, thought it was time he justified his post race salary and made him put on wet tyres.

Kimi lost 20sec per lap. Bad call Michael, think Ross used to do them whilst you just zipped around quick.

Then eventually the rain did come, and my did it piss down. The wooden plank on the cars was aquaplaning them like pedallos, and soon enough the race was stopped.

After a lot of argy bargy and Bernie not wanting the race to stay stopped as his media machine wanted to say the drove majestically through the rain it was decdied to stay stopped and everyone got half points.

button has yet to win a race not in safety car conditions.

But with this car, he’ll prob do that in China

8:38:25 AM: Malaysian Grand Prix - The Liveblog posted on anotherf1podcast get it here http://bit.ly/19GpjB

8:41:53 AM: It’s Brundle’s grid walk… he’s trying to poke at Toyotas rear end. A triple diffuser is surely taking the piss?

8:45:08 AM: rain on the way?

8:47:38 AM: Is Barrichello being played by H from Steps?

8:50:32 AM: It looks like I forgot to put the blog clock forward - no idea where the knob is though

9:52:05 AM: think i fixed the time?

9:53:19 AM: just what massa needs, bernie looming in with the malaysian government

9:54:49 AM: I quite hope it really bloody chucks down

9:56:10 AM: the word liegate is now official for the hamilton thing - legard just said it

10:03:20 AM: here we go…

10:04:27 AM: ROSBERGER!

10:04:45 AM: Kovi : the DC of 2009

10:09:32 AM: Oh, oh oh - my kubica on fire…

10:09:58 AM: (to the kings of leon tune)

10:13:11 AM: everybody into F1 on twitter should follow @fakemarkwebber

10:15:38 AM: I want rosberg to win - he is dreamy

10:20:43 AM: I want a cup of tea - I think I miss the ad breaks

10:24:54 AM: ooh, proper racing - I remember that

10:28:42 AM: rosberg pits - this is going to fall apart for him if it rains

10:33:54 AM: kimi onto wets!!

10:36:42 AM: brundle on kimi - “understeering like a cross-channel ferry”

10:39:34 AM: bernie has pressed the rain button!

10:42:36 AM: kimis tyres are proper fucked - well done them

10:46:19 AM: KERS (pronounced KERS) not working out for hamilton, I reckon he doesn’t even have it in his car but was told to lie about it

10:46:19 AM: KERS (pronounced KERS) not working out for hamilton, I reckon he doesn’t even have it in his car but was told to lie about it

10:49:53 AM: electic storm approaching - got to be scared for the KERS cars

10:58:42 AM: glock makes a good wet tyre call

10:59:15 AM: mosely resorting to lightening to fix race

10:59:28 AM: button on proper wets

11:00:39 AM: SAFETY CAR

11:01:10 AM: careful lewis, don’t do any undertaking again

11:05:29 AM: oo, they’ve not done this for a while

11:07:15 AM: felippe baby - stay cool!

11:12:56 AM: got to feel for the poor sods carrying the drivers umbrellas

4:31:17 PM

Hamilton and Massa must be properly good friends, alway looking out for each other. Whenever Hamilton is having a bad time in the press Massa does his best to shield his mate. He did so today by not getting his seeminlgy strong Ferrari past Q1 and ending up 16th on the grid.

Button went on to prove that BrawnGP didn’t just fluke Australia (unless the diffuser is deemed illegal, but that’s another story)

A couple of grid penalties affect the final grid, Vettel down ten places from his third position thanks to hugging Kubica in Australia, and Barricello down five from 4th due to a new gearbox.

The McLaren team never made it past Q2, as expected and Beumi let his frustration known to the world as he went out despite on the way to posting a Q1 busting time.

No rain happened as feared and the Toyota’s continued their good-looking pace finishing a net 2nd/3rd.

The three world champions on the grid didn’t bother the top six, with kimi 8th, Alonso 9th and Hamilton down in 12th

GRID POSITIONS

Pos   Driver                             Q1        Q2        Q3         

1.    Button
      (Brawn-GP)                         1:35.058  1:33.784  1:35.181
2.                     Trulli
                       (Toyota)          1:34.745  1:33.990  1:35.273
3.    Glock
      (Toyota)                           1:34.907  1:34.258  1:35.690
4.                     Rosberg
                       (Williams)        1:35.083  1:34.547  1:35.750
5.    Webber
      (Red Bull)                         1:35.027  1:34.222  1:35.797
6.                    Barrichello*
                      (Brawn-GP)         1:34.681  1:34.387  1:35.651
7.    Kubica
      (BMW-Sauber)                       1:35.166  1:34.562  1:36.106
8.                    Raikkonen
                      (Ferrari)          1:35.476  1:34.456  1:36.170
9.    Alonso
      (Renault)                          1:35.260  1:34.706  1:37.659
10.                   Heidfeld
                      (BMW-Sauber)       1:35.110  1:34.769
11.   Nakajima
      (Williams)                         1:35.341  1:34.788
12.                   Hamilton
                      (McLaren)          1:35.280  1:34.905
13.   Vettel**
      (Red Bull)                         1:34.935  1:34.276  1:35.518
14.                   Kovalainen
                      (McLaren)          1:35.023  1:34.924
15.  Bourdais
     (Toro Rosso)                        1:35.507  1:35.431
16.                   Massa
                     (Ferrari)           1:35.642
17.  Piquet
     (Renault)                           1:35.708
18.                   Fisichella
                      (Force India)      1:35.908
19.  Sutil
     (Force India)                       1:35.951
20.                   Buemi
                      (Toro Rosso)       1:36.107

*  demoted 5 places for gearbox change
** demoted 10 places for thwacking Kubica in Australia

Nico Rosberg should send a fax to the FIA lobbying to get a point for consistently topping the practices - and maybe an extra point for not doing nearly as well in qualifying or the race.

I’m afraid i didn’t get to watch this process as I was on a night coach from Wakefield to London, the pain is similar I believe to what Lewis Hamilton is going through today.

Pos  Driver       Car                    Time               Laps
 1.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota        1:35.940           19
 2.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault       1:36.048  + 0.108  13
 3.  Massa        Ferrari                1:36.089  + 0.149  13
 4.  Trulli       Toyota                 1:36.132  + 0.192  21
 5.  Glock        Toyota                 1:36.189  + 0.249  22
 6.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault       1:36.194  + 0.254  14
 7.  Raikkonen    Ferrari                1:36.322  + 0.382  14
 8.  Nakajima     Williams-Toyota        1:36.325  + 0.385  18
 9.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes         1:36.519  + 0.579  19
10.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes         1:36.541  + 0.601  17
11.  Kubica       BMW-Sauber             1:36.563  + 0.623  18
12.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes       1:36.657  + 0.717  15
13.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes       1:36.742  + 0.802  13
14.  Alonso       Renault                1:37.004  + 1.064  16
15.  Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber             1:37.026  + 1.086  18
16.  Piquet       Renault                1:37.032  + 1.092  18
17.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes   1:37.118  + 1.178  18
18.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:37.282  + 1.342  17
19.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari     1:37.322  + 1.382  16
20.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes   1:37.398  + 1.458  19