2006 F1 Season

[dezz]

im gonna watch it...starts at 11:30 on chan ten, but thats about an hour and a half behind...

only thing is im already wrecked after the lack of sleep all weekend, and im wakin up for work at 4:30am.....GP will prolly finish at like 2am...lol

[Roy]

I hate Alonso...never thought i would see the day i woudl be rooting for MS

Go Michael you good thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Roy]

What a GREAT GP!!!!

3 races for position in the top 8 with 10 laps to go!!

[gtr660hp]

FORZA FERRARI-woo hoo-national holiday in Italy-Ferrari win on home soil

[Beer Baron]

mmm nice to see schui holding off dirty sanchez in a direct reversal of last years imola race. how good was webber? put a move on kimi in the opening lap and held it till the last pit stop. buttons pit stop was a laugh and that lolly pop bloke is so fired it's not funny. he f**ked up by raising the stick, then nicely smashed it into the car and buttons head so hard he broke the thing... good work.

when ITV were asking for new names for the lolly pop troy had a rare moment of clarity and came up with: the STOP farken! stick. i think it would go down well, email it in troy.

[ECR033]

Good to see Schumi back on top of the podium again (it's been a while between drinks for him), but I still can't understand how Renault managed to botch up the win for Alonso by bringing him in early for his 2nd pitstop. They wasn't a direct threat behind him even though Montoya/Massa etc were closing. They should have just waited for Schumacher to pit and then bang in a couple of quick laps and then they'd surely be in front after their stop.

I thought Webber drove very well (not that we ever saw him - how shit was the coverage!), I think 6th is a good result for Williams considering they weren't all that competitive during the weekend.

Button's incident was a joke, infact his whole career has been a joke - the way he's going, he'll destined to never win a GP

LOL @ the stop FARKEN stick

Bring on Nurburgring

[dezz]

lol all i could come up with was stop stick....left out the farken...

pit exit controller....too long lol

as for the GP itself, was well worth staying up for (which i do 99% of the time) but this time i was already sick , and tired, and had to be up at 4:30...but i went to bed after it with a massive grin on my face....ferrari baby!

if they can sort out the tyre issue, they'll be back!

[ECR033]

if they can sort out the tyre issue, they'll be back!

I think the only issue with Ferrari's tyres was the fact that they used up all their new sets during qualifying and had to put scrubbed tyres on their cars at each pitstop as none of the other Bridgestone runners had any problems during the race.

I think they've definately improved, but Imola is a track that Ferrari have always done well at, so the next GP at Nurburgring will be a good indicator as to how much they have really improved compared with Renault and McLaren and whether they'll be able to challenge for more race wins during the season.

[dezz]

I think the only issue with Ferrari's tyres was the fact that they used up all their new sets during qualifying and had to put scrubbed tyres on their cars at each pitstop as none of the other Bridgestone runners had any problems during the race.

I think they've definately improved, but Imola is a track that Ferrari have always done well at, so the next GP at Nurburgring will be a good indicator as to how much they have really improved compared with Renault and McLaren and whether they'll be able to challenge for more race wins during the season.

true, thats why i wont let myself get too excited just yet...

but the fact that they know the track so well means they know what tyres etc....bridgestone still isn't up there with michelin yet....

its gotta be hard for bridgestone though with the majority of the top teams on michelin

[Roy]

The next few GPs are the ones where the Williams struggled a little...lets hope they keep the results coming.

How unbelievably bad are Honda. They seem to have the pace but go out of their way to stuff things up...be interesting to see if Rubens is there over the next few races. If not, it would seem i would have to cross out a few of those starts next to his name, as i rated him as a 4 star driver

[Beer Baron]

rubens is down to 3 stars roy. get with the times.

[Master]

well this looks like prediction central so here goes....

Alonso

Schumi

JPM

Sorry guys but its another DNF for Mark.

Well i hate to admit it but if Pat Symmonds was not smoking something wierd yesterday, that prediction was spot on..

[Beer Baron]

umm webber didnt DNF... so you got 1 from 4.

[Frink]

what a entertaining race. the ferrari is a genuinely fast car this year, i just think that bridgstone need to put a little more into their research. aside from the 'graining' issue with 2-3 lap old tyres, they just dont seem to have the bite that the michilens do.

i think jenson button will be the most sucessful un-sucessful driver in F1! he just cant seem to pull it all together on race day.

well done to massa too, who drove rather maturely considering what he had done in the prior few races. and webber just stuck it out to hang onto 6th which was good.

dont you just love the way that montoya just tells it like it is?

[Master]

Ur right i did get that one wrong..lol

But with regards to JPM, ur very correct he just tells it like it is, i love the way Journalists try to get a bit of interesting TV happening.. n he just does not buy in. Imagine McLaren's PR group, they must be working soo hard for their money with JPM in one pit bay and Kimi in the other...haha. Gone are the days of the slick DC and Mika was a man of a few words but a little more media friendly than his countryman.

Hats off to mark that way, he must be a sponsors dream. Its amazing how the drivers that are the face of the team can either make that fan following or shread it to bits.

[Paradizzle]

Prodrive is the official 12th team for F1, they will start competing in 2008.

No Minardi

However David Richards is back, running this team and looks promising, their racing pedigree is very healthy.

[ctjet]

Congratulations,

Yuji Ide is out!!! .... now if only they could get rid of Sato we'd be laughing

[Frink]

maybe he should take up a career in demolition derby? (sato...)

Edited May 5, 2006 by Frink

[Paradizzle]

lol Ide was terrible, spent more time off track then on.

[ECR033]

lol Ide was terrible, spent more time off track then on.

...and even more amazingly, he's somehow made Takuma Sato actually look like a good driver. How that was ever possible, I'll never know.