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Every time alonsa wins he make faces/stupid gesture. I feels he very lucky to win easily, beginining to dislike the guy already.
Piquet overtakes Ayrton Senna
onde of the great moments of f1 history
piquet vs senna
Every time alonsa wins he make faces/stupid gesture. I feels he very lucky to win easily, beginining to dislike the guy already.
Actually that was done on purpose not to cross the finish line, so that to avoid a 10 grid penalty due to engine change in the next race, as he is not considered finished the race so engine change will not be penalised. Great thinking by the Honda race engineer within that few seconds.Originally Posted by BFG
The worst luck happened to Button who just at the last corner coming into the finishing line, his engine suffered a complete breakdown and stopped a few metre away from the finishing line.I wonder how he feel, so near yet so far away...
well, that's what makes the races exciting.
bits and pieces of carbon flying, wheels hanging by a thread, ....
thomas liew
whether that was great thinking or not, will have to wait till end of the season. each point is worth 1 million bucks; honda just "gave" away 3 million bucks!
thomas liew
I have reservation about this 1 point=1 million bucks. Don't think that is the case for all and what stated in the Concorde Agreement.
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Considering Button started on pole and struggled with the pace...
Considering Barichello struggling in midfield anonymously throughout the race...
Surely Honda knows that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush? So Honda thinks that their fortune will dramatically change for the better in the next race?
Lots of actions off track as well... the spats between Liuzzi/Villeneuve, Montoya/Raikkonen, Speed/Coulthard are amusing...
For a big team like Honda, they are not interested to get 3 points. Only podium positions will attract more attention. Even if they win only 1 race for the season will be better than all the low-point scoring positions add up. Years down the road people remember you for winning race, not some fourth place in constructor championship.
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Yeah, but the prize money is based in part, the points you obtained in the Constructors championship, no? So 3 points could very well be worth an additional $3m (an arbitary number) in the end.
Surely Honda must be interested in that, no? The decision to sacrifice the 3 points is really a gamble, but IMHO, I don't see Honda winning a race sooner than later.
Considering Honda spending more than $300 mil a year, a few points don't count muchAnyway, that was their business decision, and was even praised by other team for that decision.
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This weekend will have a race @ Imola. The place where Senna died
Senna Forever, true sportsman that push his body to the limit.
colin | The Wilderness and Forest | FTS
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OT but related to Ayrton...
His nephew, Bruno Senna won his first ever race in British F3 in the season opener at Oulton Park recently.
M. Schumacher broken Senna best lap record since 1994 during qualification
Result from Imola, San Marino
1.Schumacher
2.Alonso
3.Montoya
colin | The Wilderness and Forest | FTS
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Another great race of the 2006 Season! M.Schumacher held Alonso for 20++ laps and had control of the situation at every turn! His pits manuever was well timed, coming out in front of Alonso by a few car length. He had lulled Alonso into following him closely for most of the race, controlling their speed and making sure that Alonso driving was disrupted at every turn. 2 laps before the end of the race, it seems Schumi effort paid off as Alonso seems to suffer brake fade as the constant hot air emitted from the Ferrari seems to increased the temperature of the Renault car.
Last year at the same track, Alonso had blocked Schumacher from his 1st position win on Ferrari home ground but at the race yesterday, it seems Schumacher had used most of his experience to thwart off Renault win at Ferrari home track, and with such control that it was an exciting race to watch! It's no wonder he won so many World Championship.
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However there were some drama at yesterday race. As usual, car crashes were the earliest excitement at yesterday's race during qualifying and the start of the actual race too! There was a car that had flipped over on it's side after being nudged on it's rear. I've forgotten which team it was. The most memorable ones happens to Jenson Button during refuelling. His 'lollipop' man, the person telling him to stop, rev-up and go had a bad day. He had mistakenly released Button to exit the pit area, but there were still the refueller holding on to the refuelling pump still attached to the Honda's car. As Button floored the pedal, that person holding onto the refuelling pump and the person behind him got dragged away and as the fuel hose tightened, it breaks off at the pump head, still connected onto the car!Both of them fell flat on their back!
The funny part (to me ) was that the 'lollipop' man thought he could stop Button from accelerating away in a F1 car by placing his 'lollipop' flat on the front of the Honda car! As Button accelerated forward, that 'lollipop' stick smash flat on Button's helmet!Button stopped his car a couple of meter away from the pit area as the refueller who managed to recover himself went to his car to unhooked the fuel pump head.
He completed in seventh place if I'm not wrong.
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Well, Renault is still clearly the car to beat this season. Resurgence of Ferrari is possibly limited to Imola-type tracks, and dependant on how much development can Bridgestone put in the tyres.
Looks like Ferrari and Michael is back to challenge Renault with a back to back wins. Quite boring for me to watch because I don't support these teams, anyway hope some underdog team can win some races.Like a big rainstorm to spoil the track.he..he..
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You can't deny the facts that the team is good. Ferrari has some good people working for the team. The onus now is for the other team to buckle up, pull up their socks and move! Some of the teams made such stupid mistake like what happened to Button on the last race. It cost him so much time in the pit area that he lost a few place due to the carelessness of his pit crew. Even Renault was not spared. During qualifying of the Nurburgring, Alonso had literally blocked his team mate who was trying to achieve a fast qualifying lap. Why do that? If both of them can qualify for a 1-2 pole position, they could have blocked Michael Schumacher. Everytime I've watched the race, there's bound to be some 'distraction' that cost the other team to falter.
There's 1 hopeful driver though. Nico Rosberg. He have made extremely incredible performance of his driving skill, always moving up on the race position. If it's not about reliability of the car or the car's engine to survive 2 race, it will be about 2 drivers of the same team duking out on each other. It's a pity though as Schumi has managed to overcome all these hurdle. He's been offered a new contract worth $86 million to stay for another 2 years with Ferrari.
No matter if the rules will change against Ferrari favour, the worst part is that the other teams will not be able to overcome those hurdles that the prancing horse seems easily to jump over them. The season is not yet done.
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Yes, cannot deny the fact the top teams are very good in term of having the best designers,engineers,mechanics etc.. and big sponsors and their best young and fearless driver and even had their own personnel trainer.
During the race everything counts on one man, the driver, except when the mechanics help out at the pit stop and some race technical strategy when to come in for fuel/new tyres. And above all, lady luck!
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No doubt, credit where credit is due, Ferrari has improved in many ways, the car is good.
But IMHO, the tyres also made a lot of differences. Tyre changes are allowed this year and this translates to an advantage with the Ferrari/Bridgestone combo.
Also, their race strategies (qualifying, fuel load, pit stops) make all the differences in the world in the last few races. Last year, I thought they were rather awful with their race strategies.
However, I would still rate the Renault car as the stronger car (slight advantage over Ferrari), discounting the tyre differences.
Bring on Barcelona...
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