Grapevine: Paddock Life - Hungaroring edition

First there was Kimi Raikkonen's 100th Grand Prix. And to celebrate, he was handed a new gold leaf designed helmet by McLaren sponsor Johnnie Walker, who were themselves celebrating their one year anniversary of linking up with the team.

Raikkonen was also presented with some special Johnnie Walker driving shoes - made out of one piece of suede leather and with no laces. They probably got a bit wet, though, after his long walk back from the far side of the circuit following his collision with Vitantonio Liuzzi in the race.

Prior to that, however, on Saturday evening, McLaren boss Ron Dennis got everyone to join in his celebrations for his 40th anniversary of being involved in Formula One.

To do so, he played a special DVD that had been put together as a present by Mercedes-Benz motorsport boss Norbert Haug. It featured all the news, events, races and music from 1966...and of course England's triumph over Germany in the World Cup.

One mention of the word football inevitably stirred up the emotions, with Haug shouting to Dennis about Geoff Hurst's controversial goal that may or may not have gone across the line - "It wasn't a goal..."

But Dennis, without a moment's hesitation, pressed the play button and responded: "We won by two goals anyway!"

So that was 1-0 to England again...

The Brazilian driver community in Formula One have always been a close-knit group, and nothing proved that more in Hungary in the aftermath of Cristiano da Matta's Champ Car testing crash.

News of da Matta's accident was greeted with disbelief by almost everyone in the paddock when it filtered through on Friday morning, but it was the Brazilian drivers who felt it the most.

That was why, on Friday afternoon, the Brazilian contingent in the paddock - including Rubens Barrichello and Felipe Massa - all congregated at Toyota's motorhome to offer their prayers for da Matta.

Toyota themselves, for whom da Matta drove in 2003 and part of 2004, also wrote a letter to da Matta's family to offer their support in the aftermath of the accident.

There had been some cheeky suggestions in Hockenheim that the Formula One race stewards had been told to do a bit more work when they got involved in the mass damper affair and then disqualified Midland for having flexi wings.

But in Hungary, the stewards went even further, judging by the reams of paper that came forth from their office over the weekend.

Compared to a usual event, when only a handful of statements are needed to deal with rules and regulations, the Hungarian Grand Prix officials found themselves cramming the noticeboard with statement after statement over the weekend.

Dangerous weaving, yellow flag infringements, red flag infringements, speeding in the pitlane, blocking cars, and then finally Robert Kubica's underweight car resulted in the stewards issuing a record total of 49 documents over the weekend.

Let's see if they do any better next time out in Turkey.

While most of the Formula One circus was keen to get out of Hungary as quickly as possible for the three-week summer break, poor team boss Frank Williams is dreading the prospect of counting down the days until the next race.

It has nothing to do with his team's current run of poor results, having not scored a point since Nico Rosberg's seventh placed finish at the European Grand Prix.

Instead, Williams is dreading going to Turkey because of the prospect of hitting the appalling traffic that goes across the Bosphorus bridge.

The endless traffic jams drove Grand Prix racing's finest to new levels of insanity last year - and more of the same is expected this time out.

"Turkey means the worst effing traffic in the world that I have ever had to deal with," moaned Williams, rolling his eyes to express his frustration.

"Crossing that bridge eight times over the weekend, you think, 'oh god not again.' That is almost how big the problem is!"