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It's 7.30pm London and no-one has posted a race thread?! Where is everyone?
Well, what a finish - Michelin had a bad day, methinks. Kimi wasn't the only one to have bother but what a crash - the suspension couldn't hang on any longer.
Minardis bad off the line - Jordans left us for dead and then it seemed to me Paddy made the wrong call in the corner - he could have cut inside but c'est la vie. Where has our pace gone? (if that doesn't sound too ridiculous to any no-Minardistas reading this!)
Umm ... oh! Schumi hahahhahahahhahahahhahaha.
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And there's 2 reasons to celebrate coming up:
1. Minardis in Montreal next race, where they always run strong, and
2. I'm going to be there!!!
:P
Question though. How were we so off the pace here?
[Edited on 29/5/2005 by Ger]
Great race. Lot'sa action!
Bad luck for Kimi and Massa. Good luck for Alonso.
Goodraces by Nick, Rubinho and Fisico who managed to end 6th from starting in the pitlane!!!!!
Btw, how come we were so slow today???
Lotsa coverage of Pat's car. The TV director must be a fan of his!
The car is better. Albers was the quicker of the 2 today, but he lost out at the start, got stuck behind Pat, then got the drive through, but still came out on top. If he hadn't screwed up qualifying and got caught napping at Turn 1, we might have had something better to talk about.
Again I say, how come that yellow dog is faster?
Both Minardi have finished the race!
Maybe it was smarter from Patrick his side to let Albers by in the beginning because Albers was a second per lap faster, but the guys want to compete with each other and that's the way it should be, the Jordans where to fast!
Albers must get his quali better and Patrick must get his race pace beter!
I am confident for Canada cause that's a track that suites the Minardi's;)
[Edited on 29/5/2005 by MinardiSquad]
Shame for him, as he drove a pretty solid race.
Alonso was the also man today and keeps impressing. He was never going to win on the track so he just put himself in a position where he could capitalise on any problems.
Good luck to Nicky boy as he really gets his head down and does his own thing. Well done.
DC is having a great time at Red Bull and may yet find his way back to the big time if Montoya continues his 'me only' style of driving. I generally don't get involved in the Webber debate, cause as far as I'm concerned, he can look after himself. I was disapointed that having acknowledged that he was too deep into the corner protecting from Trulli (and that is very understandable), the other camp said that he drove into Montoya. The Columbian started his turn in after the Williams was heading straight. I don't suppose anyone is going to remember when Webber was in the exact same position in Sepang, that he turned away from the straight-lining Fish. Never mind. At least he fulfilled my prophesy as manifest in the picking comp. After all the crap he has had either leaving the corner to the kamikazes that sooner, or later he would have a go and luck would not be with him.
As for the Minardis, their lap times were reasonable and fastest laps less than 5 seconds from the leader. Finishing distance was up on last year as well. The Jordanskis found something in their race setup that wasn't there in practice and qualifying. Very odd. I think a swab might be in order.
I reckon we might do better in both the US and Canada. A compbination of very slow corners and big long straights seem to deliver what the PS05 does best so here's hoping.
We didn't look too bad, but the Jordans were relative jets yesterday and the team has to suck it up and find more race pace somewhere.
I was disappointed in Mark's first corner stuff up, but he gave something a go and if he hadn't he would've been about 6th after that corner and it would've been 'Webber is a crap starter' all over again. He had to try and keep Trulli and Montoya at bay and it just didn't happen. Like Lease, i was annoyed that Ron put the entire blame at Mark's door.... he might have admitted it was his fault (and how rare is that for a driver), but surely Monty should've left a little more room there. Some of you may have noted that Nick's start was equally slow - I think either the launch control needs more refinement, or that BMW really lacks low down get-away punch! :o Well done to Nick btw, great drive, he really has some ascendancy in that team at the monent. Starting first out in qualifying next race has pretty much ruined Mark's Americana swing. :(
Trulli and Coulthard, just plain unlucky. I have to say I'm starting to like DC a little bit....cough.... Nurse!
Nick, well done...Mark, we need to get these starts going. In an interview before the race he said that he expects to get swamped before the first corner, and just wants to keep Trulli behind. Unfortunately he said it isn't a quick fix.
Ralf is just shit, and so is JPM. He could have done more to avoid the clash with Mark, like looking in his mirrors. Even so, he had a fast car and just stuffed around.
Looking at the fastest laps Minardi around 2 secs behind Jordan. We seriously need aero work.
and what's happening to Fisi? This isn't like him..
The Bridgestones seemed to struggle once they cooled down after the pits stops.
http://www.crazynews.net/dp/files/2-223.jpg
I recall during the Malaysian GP when we were plugged in to Renault's radio comms, Fisi's engineer was chatting to him before the pitstop as to what adjustments he wanted to wings and tyres. He gave him about 3 options and said what do you want to do. Fisi just said, that sounds ok. The engineer was confused, and I think so was Fisi.
I wonder if Fisi can articulate in English what he really wants?
Roo, DC, y'see?! The guy is a diamond. OK, he was never as good, consistently, as Mika but that's a very high standard. Clearly, he should have left McLaren earlier.
Webbo now has a problem but I sincerely hope he digs deep and just has a bit of luck! JPM is on the skids.
Fisi drove well as did Alonso - he has to be the championship favourite despite the pace of Kimi.
Bravo Lil' Nick. Look! He smiles!
I liked what Mark said after the race that "It's not up to Juan Pablo to give me room at that stage" though.
The race was positive for us because we have found our reliability back. In the race we were little over 4 seconds off the pace, which is not bad. Unfortunately our competitors were way faster and we must find more pace.
Re. Renault:
the car is difficult to drive. Ask Trulli and Villeneuve!!!
I believe it's built for Alonso's agressive driving style.
Fisico has a much cleaner style and I think the car doesn't suit him that well !!!
from paddocktalk.com:
Challenge Red Bull: no way !!!! They are too far ahead.
Its catch 22. Minardi need to find more pace to usrp Jordan from ninth place monies. But without more sponsorship/investment this won't happen. In addition findind more money would allow the chance to build a car to take the Cosworth V8.