The Grand Prix of China was a great success. The track and the facilities
are second to none and the actual race was a close fight between 3 drivers
from 3 teams.
Rubens Barrichello wins again ahead of Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen.
A few of the highlights:
Rubens Barrichello won again and it wasn't easy. Is Rubens Barrichello
finally moving away from Michael's shadow or will we only this kind of
performance when the Championships are decided ? Well done anyway!.
Team-mate Michael decided to start from the pitlane after changing the
engine and going for a different strategy. Back to back comebacks was not
to be and Michael spun, had a puncture and banged wheels and ended up
12th.
Jenson Button drove a superb race and finished second despite losing a
number of places at the start. Team-mate Sato also drove well finishing
6th after starting from the back due to an engine change. BAR were clearly
better than Renault here and with just 2 races to go, it looks like
they'll keep second place.
Kimi Raikkonen once again shows that he'll always fight for the win as
long as his car lasts. He lost second to Button after modifying his
strategy in the hope of taking Barrichello. It didn't work
Coulthard drove as per usual. An incident with Ralf Schumacher robbed him
of his usual 7th place finish. He finished 9th!.
Fernando Alonso managed 4th. He had a quiet race after Button passed him
early in the race. New team-mate Villeneuve didn't produce the drive his
fans expected and finished 11th not helping Renault reduce the gap to BAR.
Japan will be crucial!
Juan Pablo Montoya did well finishing 5th after starting 10th!.
Team-mate Ralf Schumacher decided not to continue racing after pitting
following his incident with Coulthard while the team was waiting from
Montoya to pit.
One would expect better from Williams or is it their drivers who are not
putting the effort ?.
Giancarlo Fisichella and Felipe Massa both drove well to finish in 7th
and 8th. The Sauber continues to show improvement.
Webber finished 10th for Jaguar. With the team pulling out of Formula 1,
a better result wasn't expected.
Nick Heidfeld did well to finish his Jordan ahead of the Toyota of
Olivier Panis.
Radio communication on the live feed wasn't understandable at all. The
coverage though was better than what we've seen in the past race!.
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What others are saying:
Now that another boring season has passed Reubens is allowed
to actually race. It's not Schumacher that's great but the full weight of
Ferrari behind him. Senna had to battle Prost, Piquet had to battle Mansell
and Scheckter had to battle Villeneuve (although Scheckter even admits Gilles
could have passed him at Monza but Gilles being honorable made him stay
behind). These are the true GREAT drivers. They achieved their goals through
competition. Even the records that have been broken were done with far more
races in which to break them with. I know some people are tired of the
Schumacher bashing but those who can look past a red car fascination and can
really look at all drivers and cars equally can see that Schumacher is very
good but not great - Brain - Canada
I like the new Track in China quite a bit. It's really a
beautiful facility. I also think the radio communication thing is at least a
good effort to try to bring the interest level up.
The Schumachers surprised me. First off Michael. I think it was scripted that
he was supposed to spin in qualifying, start last, and then fight his way back
up and have a duel with his old buddy Jacques. But he hit Klein, and all kinds
of bad stuff. Then caught Jacques in 11th, and battled for a couple of laps,
passed him, and pitted immediately. He probably told Ecclestone, "
Jacques has to at least be in the top 7,or that will not work " But at
least when he pitted, they had tires for him, un-like Williams, who sat there
with there arms folded and told Ralphie, " Sorry Ralphie, can't help you.
Those are Montoya's Tires." So I guess after you break your back, your
attitude changes, because Ralphie just got out of the car, and said " I'm
not getting back out there, 2 laps down, and getting hurt again, just because
you don't have Tires for me."
And what about Toyota! Boy it's a good thing they got rid of that da Matta
character, because he was really hurting them! Maybe this deal with Ford
pulling out will work out for Toyota. They can run 6 cars instead of 2, and
hire half the drivers in the world, and maybe they will finish in the
points.
Then there's J.V.. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's back. But again, I'm
pretty sure Bernie had something to do with this. If you have a previous world
champ, and he's talking about gong to race NASCAR, because he can't get a
drive, while Ford is pulling out of the series ; F-1 can't afford that much
embarrassment. I just want to see Jacques do well.
The next guy will be Coulthard. The second most winning driver on the grid,
can't get a drive. Maybe he should threaten to race IRL or something ! -
John N - USA
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