High Octane1. Lewis Hamilton's arrival into Formula One.
2. Kimi Räikkönen secretly enters a Finnish powerboat race dressed as a gorilla.
3. Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Ron Dennis - the most entertaining dysfunctional family since the Simpsons.
4. Takuma Sato from lowly Super Aguri overtaking world champion Alonso in Canada, which resulted in the biggest cheer of the year from any crowd.
5. The European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring. How to make a GP more interesting - add torrential rain on lap one.
6. Felipe Massa v Robert Kubica at the Japanese GP. The best full lap of wheel-banging action since Gilles Villeneuve v René Arnoux at Dijon in 1979.
7. BMW-Sauber's rise and rise.
8. Rookie Sebastian Vettel of Toro Rosso finishes an amazing fourth in Japan a week after crashing out from a podium spot in China.
9. Alonso crashes in China and needs a miracle. A week later in Japan, Hamilton spins out, giving us a three-way fight to the flag in Brazil.
10. The Brazilian GP. The closest season-ender in two decades results in a roller coaster race.
Low fuel pressure
1. Lewis Hamilton's "earth-shattering" arrival as "the biggest thing in sport in centuries" hype from the tabloids.
2. Honda's laughable "My Earth Dream" marketing spiel, a crass endeavour in a sport which burns fuel at interstellar speed.
3. The spying scandal or how to devalue a sport in 465 parts.
4. The re-emergence of Magny Cours.
5. Toro Rosso driver Scott Speed is axed after allegedly getting involved in a punch-up with his technical director, Franz Tost, at the European GP.
6. Watching Ralf Schumacher race.
7. Listening to poor Jenson Button trying to claim every awful weekend that Honda are making progress.
8. F1's continual reliance on protests, legal proceedings and court hearings to get anything decided.
9. The Spanish GP. The most turgid, dispiriting procession since, err, the last Spanish GP.
10. McLaren's post Brazil appeal.
Action stations - FIVE BEST YOUTUBE MOMENTS
1. Robert Kubica's terrifying but miraculously safe crash in Canada. Search keywords: Robert + Crash + Circuit + Montreal
2. Taku overtakes Alonso in Montreal. Search keywords: Sato + Alonso
3. Alonso muscles past Massa at the European GP. Search keywords: Alonso + Massa + Overtake 4. Massa and Kubica battle it out in Japan. Search keywords: Felipe + Kubica + Japan
5. Hamilton's title charge goes off track in China. Search keywords: Hamilton + China