Grid Crasher dishes out the green and red lights after an eventful race in Barcelona

Five winners:

1. Kimi Raikkonen He hardly put a wheel wrong all weekend and kept team-mate Felipe Massa at bay with ease. Seems very happy with the set-up of his Ferrari now, which is ominous news for the rest of the field. Who can stop him retaining his world title now?

2. Lewis Hamilton As we predicted, the British driver bounced back after a nightmare race in Bahrain – his gutsy move on Robert Kubica essentially ensured a place on the podium. However, the McLaren is still a good half second off the pace of Ferrari, which means he could struggle to climb higher than the third step this season.

3. Fernando Alonso By far his best weekend of the season so far, although that was to be expected on home turf. The Spaniard couldn’t take his brilliantly shocking qualifying performance into Sunday, but at least he showed that the new, tweaked R28 is competitive.

4. Mark Webber A very strong showing from the Aussie, who is making Red Bull team-mate David Coulthard look really, really bad this season. Qualified well and drove a solid race to finish in fifth.

5. Jenson Button Like Webber, Button is outperforming his veteran team-mate (Rubens Barrichello, in Button’s case) by some distance. Honda have made more progress than most teams since Bahrain, and Button’s sixth place was a fair reward for their work.

Five losers:

1. ITV Sport They won a Bafta for their coverage in Canada last year, but it seems that standards are slipping – they didn’t even show Kimi Raikkonen’s post-race press conference, instead cutting straight to Lewis Hamilton. That sort of jingoism stinks. They need to drop the Hamilton obsession. Oh, and the ad breaks seem longer than ever this season. Maybe because ITV is painfully aware that the BBC will steal its coverage in 2009, there is an element of “dropping the ball” about Steve Rider and co. in 2008.

2. Circuit de Catalunya The sooner this dull, predictable race is scratched from the F1 calendar, the better – the circuit offers nothing for the drivers to work with. Yes, this year’ Spanish GP was more eventful than in previous years, but there was precious little overtaking to enjoy, and the pole sitter won yet again. Zzzzzzz.

3. Nick Heidfeld Poor Nick. If pranging his BMW Sauber in front of hundreds of BMW employees wasn’t bad enough, the German had terrible luck in Spain:

He was running in fifth place but was forced to refuel during a safety car period; the current rules prohibit access to the pit-lane until the field has passed. The subsequent stop-and-go penalty dropped Heidfeld to the back of the pack, effectively ruining his race. F1 has to look at changing this dumb rule.

4. Sebastian Vettel Three first-lap exits in four races. This time it wasn’t even his fault. Still, his stock remains high and there’s every chance he will graduate from Torro Rosso to the senior Red Bull team, probably at David Coulthard’e expense. Talking of Coulthard…

5. David Coulthard Having a truly horrible season and things didn’t get any better in Spain. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: DC must retire from F1 now.

Who are your winners and losers from the weekend in sunny Spain?