Bob Constanduros writes:

Well, what an amazing race that was. At times I wondered if we would have a race at all, but I'm very glad we did, and I'm pleased that Felipe Massa said that Charlie Whiting made the right calls in terms of when to bring in the safety car. It wasn't an easy decision, so well done to Charlie and the FIA getting it right.

Sorry about the no-postcard yesterday. It had just seemed like a normal day at a Grand Prix on Saturday, with the added benefit of an excellent qualifying session. The Red Bull guys did a fantastic job on a circuit on which they are supposedly at a disadvantage. Having said that, Mercedes and their engines completely locked out the first six places in the speed trap stakes, with Sebastian Vettel five kph behind the fastest - Nico Rosberg - and Mark Webber a couple of kph further back.

I'm afraid I haven't been very ambitious in the gourmet stakes; it's been back to Boticelli's again. I blame the snappers I'm with but we have eaten very well there, and last night, when taxis seemed rare, the proprietor kindly drove us all home. However, when he ran the second red light, I think some of us swore that we'd just wait for a taxi in future.

Quite a few of us are eating there now, with Fleet Street's finest (that's journalists working on British national papers) joining in. One (no names etc) was clearly most impressed. Unfortunately, when he returned to his hotel, he slipped and fell in his bathroom, dislocating his thumb in the process. Fortunately he had already taken what might be termed an anaesthetic, so it didn't hurt too much, and he was also sufficiently emboldened to put the thumb back roughly where it should be. And promptly went to sleep (or as we say, passed out).

Waking up in the morning, not only was his head throbbing but so was his thumb, so he headed to the medical centre which is always such a refuge at Grands Prix (I've sought their cures on several occasions). There they put his thumb back together again properly this time, and he's now bandaged and plastered (the problem in the first place).

Another source of amusement was the unfortunate timing of FOM cameramen in catching one of our regular snappers out in the field just as qualifying began. In case you missed it, our friend was caught clearing his nasal passages, doing an utterly thorough job by attending to first one side and then the other before they quickly switched to something else. A colleague from Brazilian TV is threatening to make him super-famous at the next Grand Prix - although if I were he I would be wary what might then be thrown from the grandstands.

Some of the local motels have a particular reputation as I mentioned the other day. Let me say right now that I have seen no sign of any dubious activity. It is important to underline this, because one team's mechanics have got into lots of trouble as their wives seem to be under the impression that their men are enjoying local hospitality following certain newspaper reports. Everyone is very keen to distance themselves from this impression!

However, a local journalist has just asked about our accommodation, that there have been a lot of complaints about transportation and hotels. Well, they haven't come from me, although I have heard that it took people up to three hours to get to their hotel on Saturday night. Certainly, we were in a 20 minute queue to get onto the bridge which takes us to Mokpo. Once we got on to the bridge, however - at 8pm I must add - the traffic ran freely.

Having said that, another bridge is being built, and I'm sure that the whole situation will be very different over the coming years. The circuit will be finished properly next year, and then they can start work on other developments such as the marina, the apartment blocks etc. There's no sign of those at the moment, just artist impressions.

Even so, coming into the circuit this morning, I was struck by just how big a promotion this is, particularly for a brand new enterprise. There is a massive amount of car parking for spectators, and spectator marshals everywhere. The organisers claimed 63,000 attendance for qualifying - even half that would be pretty respectable for many Grands Prix. The main grandstand seemed less full than on Friday, but then I was told that rather as they do in Bahrain, people were milling around in the vending area behind even during qualifying. But such a big crowd slightly confounds the theory that you need a motor sport heritage to get a big crowd at an inaugural Grand Prix. This is already looking pretty amazing.

Well, after the race I'm told the attendance figure was 80,000 but then probably a further 15k were parked out on the roads trying to get in. I'm afraid that in spite of the huge car parks, people just couldn't get into them. It reminds me of the first year of the Turkish Grand Prix; there were loads of people on the roads trying to get in but couldn't, and of course they never bothered again. Let's hope the same thing doesn't happen here.

Talking of motor sport heritage, I've just spent 20 minutes trying to explain to a local journalist - uh oh, here comes another one - when teams will make a tyre choice if it's wet for the race (answer: minutes - even seconds - before the start). He was having trouble understanding that you use wet tyres when the track is wet because they give you more grip than slicks, they cut through the water to make contact with the tarmac. Getting the message across was a slow process; there are a lot of things people don't understand about motor sport, let alone Formula One.