Sunday, September 11, 2005

Belgian Grand Prix

Was watching F1 the other day. It was fucking brilliant. :D

Narain Khartikeyan had a pass on the grass and then a fair in the air. Lol.
Picture this, a flying F1 car. In case you don't know, the suspension in an F1 car isn't for comfort. It isn't like normal saloon cars. The suspension here is stiff man.... haha... The best part was, that his Jordan actually overtook a Sauber.. haha.. Again, in case you don't know, Jordan isn't exactly the best team around. At least not on the winding tracks.

In fact, every single car that used the bridgestone tyres that day performed far better than they used too. At least with the wet weather tyres and the intermediate weather tyres. Bridgestone tyres are definitely the best as you can see...

The sheer increase in the performance in the cars that used the bridgestone tyres when they changed to the intermediate and wet weather tyres was simply amazing.

Ralf shumacher went in once to change back to dry weather tyres and then skid twice and then went back in to change back to the intermediate tyres. haha..

Barichello was flying in his ferrari and also didn't change his tyres at the last pit stop, even though his tyres sort of looked worn out. Nonetheless, he was doing very well.

Then all of a sudden, Michael Schumacher, who was in a strong 5th place, got T-Boned by Takuma Sato. Sato apparently was tailgating Schumie but braked too late and knocked both of them out of the race. Schumacher, being frustrated at being "knocked" out by other drivers for so many races this season, got up and had a word with Sato and gave him a light pat on the helmet. If it weren't for that accident, i think Schumie could've gotten a podium finish. Sato did look remorseful though.

That Belgian race track is one of the best throughout the whole season and is also definitely the most beautiful.

Also during the race, as always at this track, some of the guys had some very high impact crashes, but thanks to the safety measures implemented in the sport, none of them were hurt. Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella both hit the barriers surrounding the track at speeds of more than 100 KPH!!

Then of course Montoya was "knocked" out of the race by Pizzonia, the super sub. Twice have McLaren's hopes of a 1-2 win been dashed, the first time when Montoya skidded himself of another track a few weeks back and now when he was knocked out by Pizzonia. It's been a very very long while since McLaren have had a 1-2 podium finish.

Well, all i can say is I can't wait for next year. 24valve engines are going to be introduced and the Jordan's will be getting Ferrari engines.

In fact, the Jordan's already have begun to look promising what with their new stage-b chassis.

And at the end of the race, Jenson Button was 3.6 seconds behind Alonso to take the third place. Barichello finished in 5th place so I wonder how much better Schumie could have done, no offense to Barichello of course. And a Jordan, driven by Tiego Monteiro, was the last in the points. Which was fucking brilliant if you ask me.. haha.

Ralf Schumacher also took superb last minute charge at villneueve but was 1.6 seonds short and finished behind him.

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