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<blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 229398" data-attributes="member: 185281"><p><a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/result/760/8.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/result/760/8.html</a></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Michael Schumacher recorded his first victory since the European GP at the beginning of May to, if only slightly, take a chunk out of Fernando Alonso’s Championship lead, with the Spaniard only managing 5th in a disappointing weekend for the champion.</span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Felipe Massa, who lead for nearly half the race, succumbed to team orders and came 2nd in a race he could well have won. Fisichella provided Renault with their only highlight of the weekend, coming in 3rd to cement a terrific recent return to form.</span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">But the Grand Prix will probably be best remembered for the events of the first lap, when to incidents at turns 1 and 2 lead to the retirements of McLaren pair Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya, as well as Nick Heidfeld, Mark Webber, American Scott Speed, Christian Klien, and Franck Montagny.</span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This opened up the field, and due to the further DNF’s of Button, Sato, Monteiro, Villeneuve, Albers, and towards the end Ralf Schumacher, lead to Jarno Trulli, who started from the pits, sensationally taking 4th, while Barrichello again turned it on for his Honda team. Fight of the day, however, was between the 3 lowest placed finishers for the two remaining points places. Red Bull colleagues, David Coulthard and Vitantonio Liuzzi of the junior Toro Rosso team, and Nico Rosberg in his Williams thugged it out, with Coulthard’s (7th) pit tactics proving successful and Luizzi capitalised on a positioning mistake by Rosberg in the straight to overtake for the single World Championship point.</span></em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>Drivers' Championship - </strong><a href="http://www.formula1.com/archive/driver/2006.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #606420"><strong>http://www.formula1.com/archive/driver/2006.html</strong></span></u></a></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>Schumi (69pts) dragged the lead of Alonso (88pts) down to 19pts, and although the German veteran still has some way to go, the chase is still on for a little longer than it may otherwise have been, and a DNF by Alonso could blow the Championship wide open.</em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>Constructors' Championship - </strong><a href="http://www.formula1.com/archive/team/2006.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #606420"><strong>http://www.formula1.com/archive/team/2006.html</strong></span></u></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em>Ferrari’s (105pts) strong showing the Brickyard may do little to worry Renault (131pts) quite yet.</em></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>Full Story - <a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4589/760.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4589/760.html</a></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>FIA Post-Race Press Conference - <a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4593/760.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4593/760.html</a></strong></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In <span style="color: red">SupaLiga</span>, although the mass retirements of the US Grand Prix have done little to dent the leading ‘Speedy Devils’ (261pts), who continue to maintain a commanding 27pt lead over ‘pipjack’ (234pts), the top two have benefited greatly from them due to the varying fortunes of the chasing teams.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The major story was the disastrous performance of ‘IG Racing’ (182pts), who sensationally <strong>dropped</strong> 2 pts, and fall from 3rd to 5th, with ‘Wolfs bangers’ (3rd – 203pts) and ‘Tom34’ (4th – 199pts) taking advantage of the slip-up.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">‘F1 Aberdeen’ (177pts) fall from 6th to 8th, as ‘Team Carros’ and ‘<span style="color: black">Draconigen’ remain on par, both rising to 6th from 8th, now on 180pts. These are closely followed by ‘Honda/Williams’, ‘Team Oily’, and ‘Burnin’ Rubber’, all in equal 9th on 176pts. ‘bronking buckos’ (173pts) suffer a huge drop from 7th to 12th, only 4pts in front of 13th placed ‘GameboyUK’ (169pts).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Down at the foot of the league, the ‘hypotheticals’ <em>thankfully</em> suffered a drop to 17th (141pts), but Bob’s ‘Smeg ups’ now occupy bottom with 131pts. My ‘Super25s’ are equal 15th on 147pts with ‘Bussola’s dream team’, who maintain position. And last, but not least, ‘Jose`s Marinos’ (151pts) rise one place to 14th – a team once in the doldrums at bottom now have aspirations of joining the middle order.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(And I believe that is the first time I’ve mentioned every team!)</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>NEXT GRAND PRIX... FRENCH GRAND PRIX at </strong><strong>CIRCUIT de NEVERS MAGNY COURS... JULY 16TH...</strong></span></span>[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salty25, post: 229398, member: 185281"] [URL="http://www.formula1.com/race/result/760/8.html"]http://www.formula1.com/race/result/760/8.html[/URL] [I][FONT=Verdana]Michael Schumacher recorded his first victory since the European GP at the beginning of May to, if only slightly, take a chunk out of Fernando Alonso’s Championship lead, with the Spaniard only managing 5th in a disappointing weekend for the champion.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]Felipe Massa, who lead for nearly half the race, succumbed to team orders and came 2nd in a race he could well have won. Fisichella provided Renault with their only highlight of the weekend, coming in 3rd to cement a terrific recent return to form.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]But the Grand Prix will probably be best remembered for the events of the first lap, when to incidents at turns 1 and 2 lead to the retirements of McLaren pair Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya, as well as Nick Heidfeld, Mark Webber, American Scott Speed, Christian Klien, and Franck Montagny.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]This opened up the field, and due to the further DNF’s of Button, Sato, Monteiro, Villeneuve, Albers, and towards the end Ralf Schumacher, lead to Jarno Trulli, who started from the pits, sensationally taking 4th, while Barrichello again turned it on for his Honda team. Fight of the day, however, was between the 3 lowest placed finishers for the two remaining points places. Red Bull colleagues, David Coulthard and Vitantonio Liuzzi of the junior Toro Rosso team, and Nico Rosberg in his Williams thugged it out, with Coulthard’s (7th) pit tactics proving successful and Luizzi capitalised on a positioning mistake by Rosberg in the straight to overtake for the single World Championship point.[/FONT][/I] [FONT=Verdana][B]Drivers' Championship - [/B][URL="http://www.formula1.com/archive/driver/2006.html"][U][COLOR=#606420][B]http://www.formula1.com/archive/driver/2006.html[/B][/COLOR][/U][/URL][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana][I]Schumi (69pts) dragged the lead of Alonso (88pts) down to 19pts, and although the German veteran still has some way to go, the chase is still on for a little longer than it may otherwise have been, and a DNF by Alonso could blow the Championship wide open.[/I][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana][B]Constructors' Championship - [/B][URL="http://www.formula1.com/archive/team/2006.html"][U][COLOR=#606420][B]http://www.formula1.com/archive/team/2006.html[/B][/COLOR][/U][/URL] [FONT=Verdana][I]Ferrari’s (105pts) strong showing the Brickyard may do little to worry Renault (131pts) quite yet.[/I][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana][B]Full Story - [URL="http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4589/760.html"]http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4589/760.html[/URL][/B][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana][B]FIA Post-Race Press Conference - [URL="http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4593/760.html"]http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4593/760.html[/URL][/B][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]In [COLOR=red]SupaLiga[/COLOR], although the mass retirements of the US Grand Prix have done little to dent the leading ‘Speedy Devils’ (261pts), who continue to maintain a commanding 27pt lead over ‘pipjack’ (234pts), the top two have benefited greatly from them due to the varying fortunes of the chasing teams.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]The major story was the disastrous performance of ‘IG Racing’ (182pts), who sensationally [B]dropped[/B] 2 pts, and fall from 3rd to 5th, with ‘Wolfs bangers’ (3rd – 203pts) and ‘Tom34’ (4th – 199pts) taking advantage of the slip-up.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]‘F1 Aberdeen’ (177pts) fall from 6th to 8th, as ‘Team Carros’ and ‘[COLOR=black]Draconigen’ remain on par, both rising to 6th from 8th, now on 180pts. These are closely followed by ‘Honda/Williams’, ‘Team Oily’, and ‘Burnin’ Rubber’, all in equal 9th on 176pts. ‘bronking buckos’ (173pts) suffer a huge drop from 7th to 12th, only 4pts in front of 13th placed ‘GameboyUK’ (169pts).[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Down at the foot of the league, the ‘hypotheticals’ [I]thankfully[/I] suffered a drop to 17th (141pts), but Bob’s ‘Smeg ups’ now occupy bottom with 131pts. My ‘Super25s’ are equal 15th on 147pts with ‘Bussola’s dream team’, who maintain position. And last, but not least, ‘Jose`s Marinos’ (151pts) rise one place to 14th – a team once in the doldrums at bottom now have aspirations of joining the middle order.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana](And I believe that is the first time I’ve mentioned every team!)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][B]NEXT GRAND PRIX... FRENCH GRAND PRIX at [/B][B]CIRCUIT de NEVERS MAGNY COURS... JULY 16TH...[/B][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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