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results:
1)schumacher
2)button
3)alonso
4)coulthard
5)montoya
6)webber
7)pizzonia
8)sato

raikkonen set the fastest lap, just from schuey, and was challenging him hard for the lead, shame his rear wing fell off, otherwise we could really have had a stunning race between them.mclaren are back, make no mistake.

button had race of his life from 13 to second, passing cars at ease, and had several great fights with alonso, if he started 3rd and not 13th he could have won.

barrichello lost his front wing driving into back of coulthard at start, finshed his race.

willams, poor pizzonia was beaten by webber, much to the delight of everyone at jaguar after pizzonia's comments about them.

trulli, had problems with his car, but seemed totally disinterested and finshed way down, the renaults starts are unbelievable, they clearly have the fastest accelration in formula 1.

fisichella and sauber not so good compared to silvverstone but still finshed top 10.

Good race IMO.
First lap was quite surprising, many drivers in front did bad start. Montoya got unlucky, lost his place at start, then slow down his car to avoid Barrichello's front nose.
Raikkonen was the most unlucky driver, made no mistake but his team did. Obviously he was the only driver to challenge Schumi, but in 13th lap his car got rear wing failure. At least he was fine after crashed his car onto the wall. David also did great, he maintained his 4th position to the finish.

The best performance must be Button's. He started from 13th on grid and finished 2nd, amazingly he overtook Alonso with only "one hand" . His helmet lost its grip, so he must hold it, especially in speeding.

Hockenheim... things will never be the same again...

I was enjoying to watch the race.

Few things I pointed out :
1. Schumi raced calmly, any possibility of car failure in displays it wouldn't be happening. It's tough for him, but the battle between Button and Alonso made him in safe situation in terms of distance. Makes 81th career win.

2. Something's wrong with The Finn's rear wing, technical failure or what?

3. Button as his consistency displays had been this year serious threat for Scuderia. Unbelievably move from 13th to second!

4. Webber outpacing Pizzonia to whom the man he will be strong candidate to fill in the abandoned Williams' spot after Ralf officially will be driving for Toyota and JPM for McLaren.

5. Toyota should've made improving season this year or significantly promising to say at least. C'mon do it something good!

I miss when F1 was really exciting ... with mika hakkinnen
nowadays I don't enjoy it anymore .... bummer

Yeah, Hakkinnen vs Schumi, but head-to-head history still belongs to the German!

Originally Posted by Nova

I miss when F1 was really exciting ... with mika hakkinnen
nowadays I don't enjoy it anymore .... bummer

agree ..i just watch the awesome MOTOGP now..where the real excitement still lies, and where the driver/biker is still more important than the bike

GO VALENTINO!!!

Originally Posted by Giovanni

agree ..i just watch the awesome MOTOGP now..where the real excitement still lies, and where the driver/biker is still more important than the bike

GO VALENTINO!!!

Lucky you, Gio... There are so many Italian riders there...
but the perfect combination must be "Valentino Rossi + DUCATI".

Originally Posted by Nova

I miss when F1 was really exciting ... with mika hakkinnen
nowadays I don't enjoy it anymore .... bummer

Obviously Kimi Raikkonen could do so, Marco.. as long as he got a proper car.

yeah.. Scandinavian drivers ROCK!!! They are all over Formula One and World Rallying Championship.

hey guys i agree something is wrong with the mclaren. Isn't it a new car and hasn't there been trouble with in crash testing??

FORZA MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

The one that couldn't pass the crash-test is MP4-18 and MP4-19, the new version, MP4-19B is the revised one. It's obviously faster and stronger, or at least better.

anyway, that "rear wing failure" was really² ridiculous.. Kimi was about to challenge Schumi but his car JUST won't let him..
Stupid mistake IMO.


Latest news:
Next season, Giancarlo Fisichella will join Fernando Alonso in Renault. Trulli likely will join with Ralf Schumacher in Toyota.
Williams have signed Mark Webber and still find the second driver. They likely will chase Nick Heidfeld (Jordan - Driver), David Coulthard (McLaren - Driver) or Anthony Davidson (BAR Honda - Test Driver).

button has rejoined williams, as of next year, it will be a great battle between him and webber, lets hope that they have a championship challenging car under them, and not the walrus they have now.

Toyota have replace Cristiano da Matta with Ricardo Zonta for this season, starting Hungarian GP this weekend.

I also heard that Ralf ain't ready to do come-back at Hungaroring. He would take more time to recover.

Originally Posted by Lombardia

button has rejoined williams, as of next year, it will be a great battle between him and webber, lets hope that they have a championship challenging car under them, and not the walrus they have now.

It becomes controversy between Williams and B.A.R. David Richards has responded with a statement that English racer is still under contract for 2005 and finger crossed Williams yesterday's announcemet has not only been premature but also invalid.

On the other hand, Williams has publicly insisted that Jenson belongs to team even B.A.R's claims that Jenson is still contracted to them.

is that true that Mika Hakkinen is coming back to Formula-1, and to join BAR next season?

It's more likely a humour about returning Mika in F1. You need time to regain yourself to come out on top again.

B.A.R has Anthony Davidson, mind you..he shone at few free practice this season. He could be appointed to fill in one of an abandoned place at team.