Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Hockenheim disaster!!!

The man was so silent. So was his car. There was no hurry in his walk. There was no perspiration on his face. The Man slowly climbed out of his car and started walking to his Driver on the inside of the fence. Thats the real meaning of being THE ICEMAN. The stone cold hardened face did not frown even for a single second in the pit garage for the entire race.

Tyaga - you were right. The car is simply not good enough. I did a bad speculation about Mclaren. Ever since I heard that the Ferrari Chief Designer has switched to Mclaren, I was happy that the competition would be tough between Mc's
and the Scarlet's. But things went the other way by which teams like Renault and BAR are showing a strong improvement in the design and power, bridging a gap between the highly advanced teams.

Mclaren's... The car... the silver and black beast had an upgraded rather completely new aero pack on it. The most obvious one was the Triple deck front blades which were found earlier only in Ferrari. The car was practically using more road than any other car on the circuit. Meaning the car stayed in the racing line at all speeds and all conditions that it was put into by Kimi and Montoya.All they needed was the power pack to be strong and reliable and last for 67 laps. But it dint.. and the blame is not on Kimi.. not on Ron... not on team... although the blame was turned to
one single engineer who forgot to re-fasten the pressure pump valve after a check, which caused the car to stall with a huge lock up in the rear wheels making it look like an engine seizure.

My heart just went out for Kimi again. Probably by now, his management would be pushing him to the limit to sign off the papers for Ferrari after MS leaves. And he is human too. Maybe he has started thinking about other options already.The Ferrari's simply sucked. Rubeno was struggling and nowhere in the picture. MS showed the world why he is called an Ace!!! Button simply could not pass the limping F2005 for so long... held back by MS. Every time he moved around or caught the back of the Ferrari, MS closed the door and he knew exactly where to push the car to its limits and where to slow it down. Even Giancarlo could not pass him until the penultimate lap with the so called FERRARI EATER -R25.

Alonso... the luck is just shining on this fellow. No more comments. The happy news is, Ferrari is back to Modena.The development has been started for the new V8 Spec cars for 2006. Hope they hit the mark in the first race and get back to the championship Mode. There might be a lot of driver swapping next year too.

Narain Karthikeyan, might or might not stay in Jordan.. rather Midland next year. The Russian team boss is keen on bringing on Russian Drivers into F1. He had a good start, then a bad season so far. nevertheless, he made his mark. That matters the most. May luck be with him.

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