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<blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 259509" data-attributes="member: 185281"><p><span style="color: #004e6e"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/result/765/8.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/result/765/8.html</a></span></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Although Michael Schumacher stormed to another Ferrari home win, it was the announcement of his retirement for which this 2006 Italian GP will be best remembered. The announcement was made in an official statement released right after the race, and this was shortly followed by another announcement that Kimi Raikkonen will be joining Ferrari to partner Felipe Massa for 2007.</span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">As for the race itself, Raikkonen lead from the start until the first pit stop, when he went in one lap before Schumi, allowing the German to gain the necessary distance to leave the pits in front his 2007 replacement. From that moment on, Schumi was in full control and took all 10 points.</span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Schumi’s dream day was in stark contrast to Fernando Alonso’s nightmare. Clearly lacking the speed to overtake, he had to push his engine right from the off in an attempt to make up places resulting from his grid demotion by the stewards, and so it proved his downfall when on lap 43 his engine finally gave in.</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The whole Renault team’s frustration was obvious, culminating in Flavio Briatore’s sensation remark that the sport was ‘fixed’ – an FIA investigation is in progress (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5332052.stm" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #606420">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5332052.stm</span></u></a>).</span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Other than the fireworks of the title contenders, it was a fairly quiet weekend, although the magnificent performance of the BMW-Sauber team may unfortunately mostly go unnoticed. In only his third F1 Grand Prix, Robert Kubica took 3rd place in a determined performance, whilst team mate Nick Heidfeld guided his machine to a respectable 8th place, in front of the chasing Ferrari of Felipe Massa.</span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Giancarlo Fisichella brought Renault some light relief by finishing in 4th, the Honda pair of Button and Barrichello took 5th and 6th, and Jarno Trulli finished in 7th.</span></em></p><p></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><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The victory of Schumi (106pts) and the DNF of Fernando Alonso (108pts) have set-up a rousing finale to the end of the season. Alonso reckons Shanghai and Suzuka will favour the Renaults, while the final race at Interlagos will not be favourable to Ferrari, but without a win since June in Canada, the pressure is well and truly on the Spaniard and the French outfit to recapture the form of the opening half of the Championship.</span></span></em></span></span></em></span></span></p><p></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></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><em><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Alonso’s engine blow-out has tipped the title chase in favour of the Maranello outfit – Ferrari now lead 168pts to Renault’s 165.</span></em></span></em></span></em></span></em></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>Full Story - <a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4931/765.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4931/765.html</a></strong></span></p><p><strong>Schumacher retirement - <a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4930/765.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4930/765.html</a></strong></p><p><strong>FIA Post-Race Press Conference - <a href="http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4937/765.html" target="_blank">http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4937/765.html</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In <span style="color: red">SupaLiga</span>, the race for the title now seems as close as that of Schumi-Alonso duel, with leaders<span style="color: black">‘Speedy Devils’ (387pts) gaining a below par 19pts in Italy, thus reducing the gap to just 7points from the chasing ‘pipjack’ team (380pts). <strong>Can the Devils, who were Warm Up Champions of SupaLiga and having been leading the main championship since San Marino, really lose the championship at this late stage?</strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Tom34 (303pts) remain in 3rd, and are still only 4pts above the 4th placed opposition. However, the opposition in 4th has changed, as <strong>‘bronking buckos’ collected a massive 44 points</strong>, 299pts in total, catapulting them an equally massive 5 places up from 9th. That demoted ‘IG Racing’ (296pts) back to 5th, now only 3pts in front of ‘Honda/Williams’ who stay in 6th on 293pts.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Not far behind are ‘Burnin’ Rubber’ (286pts), who swap 8th for 7th with ‘F1 Aberdeen’ (283pts). Only 3pts behind are ‘Team Oily’ (280pts), who rise 1 place to 9th. Behind in 10th are ‘Wolf bangers’ (275pts), who suffer an embarrassing 5 place drop, only picking up 8 points this GP. ‘Team Carros’ (264pts) rise 1 to 11th.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">‘Super25’ (257pts) go up from 13th to 12th, tying in that place with ‘Draconigen’, who slump from 11th. ‘GameboyUK’ (252pts) fall 1 to 14th, ‘Jose`s Marinos’ (250pts) drop an additional place to 15th.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">And finally at the bottom, ‘The Smeg ups’ (220pts – 16th) and ‘Bussola's dream team’ (213pts – 17th) launch a recovery to overtake the ‘hypotheticals’ (210pts – 18th) – they’ll be hoping it remains that way for the rest of the season.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">NEXT GRAND PRIX... CHINESE GRAND PRIX at SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT... OCTOBER 1ST...</span></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salty25, post: 259509, member: 185281"] [COLOR=#004e6e][URL]http://www.formula1.com/race/result/765/8.html[/URL][/COLOR] [I][FONT=Verdana]Although Michael Schumacher stormed to another Ferrari home win, it was the announcement of his retirement for which this 2006 Italian GP will be best remembered. The announcement was made in an official statement released right after the race, and this was shortly followed by another announcement that Kimi Raikkonen will be joining Ferrari to partner Felipe Massa for 2007.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]As for the race itself, Raikkonen lead from the start until the first pit stop, when he went in one lap before Schumi, allowing the German to gain the necessary distance to leave the pits in front his 2007 replacement. From that moment on, Schumi was in full control and took all 10 points.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]Schumi’s dream day was in stark contrast to Fernando Alonso’s nightmare. Clearly lacking the speed to overtake, he had to push his engine right from the off in an attempt to make up places resulting from his grid demotion by the stewards, and so it proved his downfall when on lap 43 his engine finally gave in.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]The whole Renault team’s frustration was obvious, culminating in Flavio Briatore’s sensation remark that the sport was ‘fixed’ – an FIA investigation is in progress ([URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5332052.stm"][U][COLOR=#606420]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/5332052.stm[/COLOR][/U][/URL]).[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]Other than the fireworks of the title contenders, it was a fairly quiet weekend, although the magnificent performance of the BMW-Sauber team may unfortunately mostly go unnoticed. In only his third F1 Grand Prix, Robert Kubica took 3rd place in a determined performance, whilst team mate Nick Heidfeld guided his machine to a respectable 8th place, in front of the chasing Ferrari of Felipe Massa.[/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Verdana]Giancarlo Fisichella brought Renault some light relief by finishing in 4th, the Honda pair of Button and Barrichello took 5th and 6th, and Jarno Trulli finished in 7th.[/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][FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana][I][FONT=Verdana][FONT=Verdana]The victory of Schumi (106pts) and the DNF of Fernando Alonso (108pts) have set-up a rousing finale to the end of the season. Alonso reckons Shanghai and Suzuka will favour the Renaults, while the final race at Interlagos will not be favourable to Ferrari, but without a win since June in Canada, the pressure is well and truly on the Spaniard and the French outfit to recapture the form of the opening half of the Championship.[/FONT][/FONT][/I][/FONT][/FONT][/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][/FONT] [I][FONT=Verdana][I][FONT=Verdana][I][FONT=Verdana][I][FONT=Verdana]Alonso’s engine blow-out has tipped the title chase in favour of the Maranello outfit – Ferrari now lead 168pts to Renault’s 165.[/FONT][/I][/FONT][/I][/FONT][/I][/FONT][/I] [FONT=Verdana][B]Full Story - [URL]http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4931/765.html[/URL][/B][/FONT] [B]Schumacher retirement - [URL]http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4930/765.html[/URL][/B] [B]FIA Post-Race Press Conference - [URL]http://www.formula1.com/race/news/4937/765.html[/URL][/B] [FONT=Verdana]In [COLOR=red]SupaLiga[/COLOR], the race for the title now seems as close as that of Schumi-Alonso duel, with leaders[COLOR=black]‘Speedy Devils’ (387pts) gaining a below par 19pts in Italy, thus reducing the gap to just 7points from the chasing ‘pipjack’ team (380pts). [B]Can the Devils, who were Warm Up Champions of SupaLiga and having been leading the main championship since San Marino, really lose the championship at this late stage?[/B][/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Tom34 (303pts) remain in 3rd, and are still only 4pts above the 4th placed opposition. However, the opposition in 4th has changed, as [B]‘bronking buckos’ collected a massive 44 points[/B], 299pts in total, catapulting them an equally massive 5 places up from 9th. That demoted ‘IG Racing’ (296pts) back to 5th, now only 3pts in front of ‘Honda/Williams’ who stay in 6th on 293pts.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Not far behind are ‘Burnin’ Rubber’ (286pts), who swap 8th for 7th with ‘F1 Aberdeen’ (283pts). Only 3pts behind are ‘Team Oily’ (280pts), who rise 1 place to 9th. Behind in 10th are ‘Wolf bangers’ (275pts), who suffer an embarrassing 5 place drop, only picking up 8 points this GP. ‘Team Carros’ (264pts) rise 1 to 11th.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]‘Super25’ (257pts) go up from 13th to 12th, tying in that place with ‘Draconigen’, who slump from 11th. ‘GameboyUK’ (252pts) fall 1 to 14th, ‘Jose`s Marinos’ (250pts) drop an additional place to 15th.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]And finally at the bottom, ‘The Smeg ups’ (220pts – 16th) and ‘Bussola's dream team’ (213pts – 17th) launch a recovery to overtake the ‘hypotheticals’ (210pts – 18th) – they’ll be hoping it remains that way for the rest of the season.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][B][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]NEXT GRAND PRIX... CHINESE GRAND PRIX at SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT... OCTOBER 1ST...[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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