Nick Heidfeld - Slowly but steadily proving himself, McLaren overlooked him when he and the world expected the McLaren seat. But then they had a chance again last year and plumped for "Mr Good for nothing but talk" Montoya. The excuse for "Please look at me, I can talk" Montoya is that he is not race-fit and would take a few weeks more to prove that McLaren can conjure 2 good cars. It seems BMW wants to buy over Sauber and take Heidfeld over with them. With Massa doing well and making Villeneuve look like a truck driver, that would mean Karthikeyan has to strike off Sauber as potential suitors. Narain again lost out to Monteiro, and it was a racing maneuvre Monteiro took him out fair and square.
As for the King himself, he desperately needs some luck and he can only earn that by taking the pole. Bad luck struck in the form of Webber this time, but still did well to finish 5th and definitely my star of the race. Unfortunately there was none of his mid-race bursts that we have come to be accustomed to recently, so, 5th place was not bad and Barrichello gave the Tifosi something to shout about. Ferrari, importantly Bridgestone are definitely way off the race pace but its very impressive that there has been no public bitching so far. Its important that they stay united. Everyone seems to think that the King will bow out this year, but I personally am very sure that he will take all this on his chin and will be back and will go out being acknowledged as the best racing driver and team leader ever, not only by the Tifosi but every single soul that is passionate about F1.
Only other talking points were Webber's acceptance of blame for his mistake at the first corner, a true gentleman and unfortunately too nice to be in F1! Next time we hear "It was a racing incident", the person needs to be reminded of Webbers actions. BAR seemed to have partied for the past month and were way off in everything and Button did well to finish at all.
Finally the sight of Kimi walking back. I really felt for him, no matter how much he earns he would have gladly traded all his wealth for a promise from god that such a thing would never happen again! I remember this happening to his mentor Hakkinen once before but not sure during which GP or the year and I think it was a Ferrari that benefited, but again not sure whether it was Schumi or that "Montoya Snr" Eddie Irvine. We use the cliche 'So near, yet so far' so often that sometimes we forget the bloody sad significance of that, it really hurts and in my own context I have experienced it and it takes a lot to recover from that and it for sure is not easy. There is no comforting word in the dictionary that would have cooled Kimi. Kimi, the world is sincerely sorry.
As for the King himself, he desperately needs some luck and he can only earn that by taking the pole. Bad luck struck in the form of Webber this time, but still did well to finish 5th and definitely my star of the race. Unfortunately there was none of his mid-race bursts that we have come to be accustomed to recently, so, 5th place was not bad and Barrichello gave the Tifosi something to shout about. Ferrari, importantly Bridgestone are definitely way off the race pace but its very impressive that there has been no public bitching so far. Its important that they stay united. Everyone seems to think that the King will bow out this year, but I personally am very sure that he will take all this on his chin and will be back and will go out being acknowledged as the best racing driver and team leader ever, not only by the Tifosi but every single soul that is passionate about F1.
Only other talking points were Webber's acceptance of blame for his mistake at the first corner, a true gentleman and unfortunately too nice to be in F1! Next time we hear "It was a racing incident", the person needs to be reminded of Webbers actions. BAR seemed to have partied for the past month and were way off in everything and Button did well to finish at all.
Finally the sight of Kimi walking back. I really felt for him, no matter how much he earns he would have gladly traded all his wealth for a promise from god that such a thing would never happen again! I remember this happening to his mentor Hakkinen once before but not sure during which GP or the year and I think it was a Ferrari that benefited, but again not sure whether it was Schumi or that "Montoya Snr" Eddie Irvine. We use the cliche 'So near, yet so far' so often that sometimes we forget the bloody sad significance of that, it really hurts and in my own context I have experienced it and it takes a lot to recover from that and it for sure is not easy. There is no comforting word in the dictionary that would have cooled Kimi. Kimi, the world is sincerely sorry.
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