Well its been quite a long time since my last post. Nigh on two months. Not posted anything since that lad Hamilton won in Canada.
Its the same story in Formula One as has been all throughout this season. After the North American double-headers that Mclaren dominated, the pendulum swung back in Ferrari's favour in France and Great Britain where Kimi Raikkonen discovered his lost form and took two sublime wins for the Scuderia.
Then the Nurburgring turned out to be a lottery with torrential rain playing havoc with the proceedings just one lap into the race, with numerous cars spinning off successively under braking for the very tight and very slippery Turn 1. The race was stopped and when it got underway again rookie Marcus Winklehock found himself at the head of the field with Massa and Alonso right behind him!
The both of them found their way past easily and Massa seemed to be controlling the race from the front while Raikkonen was piling the pressure on Alonso until a drop in hydraulic pressure put him out of the race.
With less than 10 laps to go Massa seemed to be in control of the race and was cruising in order to bring the car home. Then the rain came again. Massa and Alonso both pitted for wets. Massa however had some vibrations coming from his tyres and so Alonso caught him and passed him with an audacious move that saw the cars banging wheels and a heated exchange of words between Massa and Alonso post race. And so Alonso won and Hamilton failed to finish on the podium for the first time in his Formula One career.
Then the Formula One circus moved to the tight and twisty Hungaroring. The hungaroring like Monaco was never going to suit the long-wheelbase Ferrari F-2007 but Kimi finished only 0.7s behind race winner Hamilton, a clear sign of the ground Ferrari has made up on Mclaren since Monaco where Felipe Massa finished 69s behind race winner Alonso.
And so we head into the final six races of the 2007 season, all flowing tracks that should play to the strengths of the F-2007. However for Ferrari to make up the ground in both championships on Mclaren it is going to be very difficult. Jean Todt has set the Ferrari drivers the task of finishing on the podium in all of the final six races, and just one more DNF could decide the championship in Mclaren's favour.
(Spy scandal and team rivalry tomorrow)
Its the same story in Formula One as has been all throughout this season. After the North American double-headers that Mclaren dominated, the pendulum swung back in Ferrari's favour in France and Great Britain where Kimi Raikkonen discovered his lost form and took two sublime wins for the Scuderia.
Then the Nurburgring turned out to be a lottery with torrential rain playing havoc with the proceedings just one lap into the race, with numerous cars spinning off successively under braking for the very tight and very slippery Turn 1. The race was stopped and when it got underway again rookie Marcus Winklehock found himself at the head of the field with Massa and Alonso right behind him!
The both of them found their way past easily and Massa seemed to be controlling the race from the front while Raikkonen was piling the pressure on Alonso until a drop in hydraulic pressure put him out of the race.
With less than 10 laps to go Massa seemed to be in control of the race and was cruising in order to bring the car home. Then the rain came again. Massa and Alonso both pitted for wets. Massa however had some vibrations coming from his tyres and so Alonso caught him and passed him with an audacious move that saw the cars banging wheels and a heated exchange of words between Massa and Alonso post race. And so Alonso won and Hamilton failed to finish on the podium for the first time in his Formula One career.
Then the Formula One circus moved to the tight and twisty Hungaroring. The hungaroring like Monaco was never going to suit the long-wheelbase Ferrari F-2007 but Kimi finished only 0.7s behind race winner Hamilton, a clear sign of the ground Ferrari has made up on Mclaren since Monaco where Felipe Massa finished 69s behind race winner Alonso.
And so we head into the final six races of the 2007 season, all flowing tracks that should play to the strengths of the F-2007. However for Ferrari to make up the ground in both championships on Mclaren it is going to be very difficult. Jean Todt has set the Ferrari drivers the task of finishing on the podium in all of the final six races, and just one more DNF could decide the championship in Mclaren's favour.
(Spy scandal and team rivalry tomorrow)
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