What a fantastic race end. In total contrast to last few seasons when there are excitements at the beginning and becomes dull afterwards, this race took off in its final stages. Undoubtedly thanks to great Ferrari/Bridgestone package. I’m not mentioning Schumacher who drove the car because no driver can’t do 2s/lap gap on its own.
It seems that Bridgstone’s were consistent throughout the race and got better with time, while Michelin runners had too to put up with less than stellar behavior of their tyre. It was obvious that all Michelin runners kept the same time gap in the last 20 or so laps, while only Schumacher gained 2s per lap, passed Button – in a really spectacular way, kudos for him for that – and then got behind Alonso for the last 12 laps.
No F1-live, this race will not be remembered for amazing drive put in by Michael Schumacher, but because of amazing drive put in by Fernando Alonso. It’s nothing spectacular to drive objectively faster package (saying car only will not do justice here) and gain places.
Bloody amazing! Nothing else can be said for fantastic driving performance Alonso gave today. Keeping obviously faster Ferrari, driven by extremely motivated M. Schumacher, at bay for twelve final laps… That was the deed that reminds of the late Senna and his fight with Mansell more than a decade ago when Mansell drove the technologically best car ever made.
Schumacher’s move to remember is taking over Jenson Button – almost full speed through two connected corners and through the small gap left unguarded by Button. Experience yes, but also great driver instinct.
The saddest part is Kimi’s early retirement. He was, without the doubt, giving best performance whole weekend and too see him out so early took away a good deal of excitement. Bad luck still seems to like the company of my fav team. :(
I agree, what a fantastic race it was. The only things that ruined the experience watching it here in England was ITV(the tv channel showing it) went to an advertisment break during the last three laps! It completely messed up the excitement the last few laps Michael and fernando was battling it out. Again, I agee with you on Raikonnen, he always seems to have the worst luck, and being my favourite driver + team seeing him retire does make the rest of the race much less interesting.
Oh well look forward to the next race when McLaren is meant to have an even faster car!
michael schumacher was amazing; however i don’t quite agree with you on the fact that alonso drove the better race. on a circuit where over-taking is nearly impossible, it was pretty obvious m. schumacher could only haunt alonso till the end. alonso did fight and defended very well, but it should be expected he would/should be able to defend.
so who gave the race its climax? i would have to say michael schumacher.
I sad that in my first paragraph, only I think M.S. had nothing to do with it — it looked like Bridgestone tires were made for this track. Which is not surprising since this is one of Ferrari’s most used training tracks.
I praise Alonso because he kept up with the pressure Schumacher was putting on him, something not easily done. There were two places where Michael could overtake him and for each of the 12 laps Alonso closed both corners. On each straight he masterfully moved slightly aside depriving Schumacher of the slip-stream…generally doing 101% of what needed to be done to stay ahead. He simply did not make a single mistake.
Even though I dislike Schumacher, I always credit where credit is due.