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As much as I hate to say it, I believe you are correct about the younger Schumacher; though he was only a thousandth off Michael in the qualifying, in the race he was uninspiring. One almost felt that he DESERVED the bad fuel stop! I wonder if he and Rubens had switched cars whether or not he'd have even gotten close to the Brazilian; he certainly wouldn't have finished second. To do so he would have had to pass not only Rubens, but JPM and Villeneuve. And that would have necessitated about a four hour race.
That said, it's hard to agree with you about the race being decided by tyres. JPM, as you yourself pointed out, drove the heck out of his car and MADE HIS OWN TYRES! Too bad Williams didn't get Kimi (or even Jacques!); we could all forget about the red cars and just watch the dogfighting going on in the Blue & White ones. It would be like the bad old days at Ferrari. Team orders? Forget about it!
I'm going to go out on a limb here. I have a very strong feeling that Renault is going to do as badly at their "home" race as Mac & Jag did at theirs! No points for the French at Magny Cours. And it's about time for Eddie Jordan's famous luck to strike. With everyone calling for another boring race, I'm thinking this one will have everything and I hope I'm right this time - Jim W - USA (Reference Heretic 4-21 - How long do we have to put up with ...)

The Heretic replies:

Jim, nice to hear from you again. I apologise for replying this late but my day job is interfering with my real job.

Just because Montoya refused to have his tyres dictate his pace does not make me wrong. He fluked it! I have never seen anyone do that before.

I will give you the point on Montoya. I should have said that apart from Montoya the race was decided on tyres.

Kimi teaming with Montoya or Villeneuve in a no team orders situation will be worth watching, but after the last race we could easily see Kimi on the top of the podium in Hungary. McLaren are getting faster and so is Kimi.

As I have the advantage of 20-20 hindsight, Renault did not do too badly in France. Trulli admittedly did not finish but Button made it into the points.

The Heretic