It’s been a while since I’ve blogged F1. In fact, this is the first time this season. The races have been quite boring until today at Monaco.
Great strategy and excellent driving won McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonan his second crown in a row this season. Awesome driving by Williams’ Nick Heidfeld, McLaren’s Juan Pablo Montoya, and Toyota’s Ralf Schumacher.
Renault’s Fernando Alonso suffered from bald tyres and lost 2nd place to Nick and then 3rd to Williams’ Mark Webber only to come in 4th barely in front of Juan Pablo who came from 16th place at the starting grid.
Nothing new this race from poor performing machines and tyres of team Ferrari where there had been nothing much that our 7 time World Champion Michael Schumacher could do. Although there is still a lot in Michael to go, Ferrari has pretty much lost it this year. It was nice to see Michelle Yeoh in the Ferrari pit though.
And oh, Mr. Irwin, the only thing that’s really bore about our 7 time champ is your words against him. Michael maybe boring you, but at least he is still in the race. Whereas you can only sit on your butt bad mouthing non English racers.
As a fellow Canadian, I can only say this to Sauber’s Villeneuve - quit. There is really no point in racing when all you could do is take out your teammate along with yourself.
That goes for you too, Webber. The whole point in racing is to go forward. Not defending a position and hold everyone else behind, and not being able to get pass anyone. I have no idea what everyone sees in you, Mark. Leave the not-being-able-to-pass job to Ralf alright; he’s been doing a great job at that before today; however, not bad for Ralf from 17th to 6th today though.
Tough luck for Jordan’s Karthikeyan, India’s first F1 driver, who suffered from some break problems and had to quit early. Karthikeyan seems to be one of the best rookies in the past few years. There should be a great future in F1 for him if he could get a car that could really perform.
In watching F1 races on TV, I have never liked listening to the Cantonese commentators so I have always been listening to the English ones. I tried listening to the Cantonese for about 10 minutes today, and it was already too much to remind me not to switch to it again. First off, the name of Ferrari’s Technical Director is Ross Brawn, not “Ron Bronze”. Secondly, that’s “pit stop”, not “piss stop”. And the race today was in Monaco (Europe) , not Morocco (Africa)! Get your act together, will ya?!
WhaUSay?!