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Monday, July 09, 2007

Raikkonen Wins 2nd In A Row For Ferrari



Raikkonen and Ferrari delivered another stunning victory yesterday at the British Grand Prix. That’s two in a row for Kimi. When all that gets distilled down it means that Ferrari are benefiting from having fixed their wind tunnel problem and Kimi is finally getting on with the job he is being paid to do. Let me tell you it’s about time too.
After the race both Kimi and Alonslow had some differing views on whether the better car or the better strategy won the British Grand Prix. It was easy to tell who was the winner and who was the loser.
ALONSO: "Maybe I was slightly quicker forgetting the fuel loads that we saw today. And in the race they were slightly quicker, maybe starting in front of them was just enough to win the race or maybe not."
RAIKKONEN: "It doesn't make any difference anymore. I was first, you were second."

To me that sum's it up beautifully, here you have Alonslow making any kind of excuse so as to deflect away from his shite driving and car setup, and Kimi laying down the law of the land. Make no mistake, Alonso is starting to get very very deep in the trouble pit as it were. Heh heh heh.


Lewis on the other hand made several very small mistakes, the biggest of those being when he almost repeated the Albers pit stop from the previous weekend. All told, he was under probably the biggest whirlwind of pressure he will face all season being that it was his home race etc… He has also vowed to raise his game from now on, which can’t be good for Alonslack, because Lewis leaves Britain with a healthy Championship lead and we are now past the halfway point of the season.

Well done Lewis on your Ninth straight podium finish.

See you all at the European GP on the 22nd.
Ciao
Photo's courtesy of Sutton

1 Comments:

At 9:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually Mark,
Alonso said that 2nd was the best that they could hope for today, because Kimi had the fastest, smoothest car - too bad they wasted the points on Kimi, as Massa was their "real" championship hope - think of the scenario if Massa had taken 20 points out of the last 2 races instead of Kimi. It is nice that Kimi has to be threatened by Luca to put in a couple of good drives. I liked seeing Alonso finish ahead of Lewis, despite the fact that you missed this, I think that it was a good result as Alonso truly outclassed his team mate AND that was with 90,000 fans cheering Lewis along. Good on ya Fernando - too bad Hamilton couldn't handle the pressure and didn't show up for most of the race.
I felt that Fernando was also the only guy 'racing' in France - as he was the guy putting on all the moves to pass people in the mid-feild through the points paying positions and was aggressive as hell - he even passed a lot of these dudes again after the pitstops (unlike Massa who flew through the back of the grid in England and then kinda just went to sleep AND with the fastest car too)
I think that Alonso's pass on Heidfeld was one of the top moves of the season thus far. Skill and courage in motion.
See you in Germany.
T as in willie 'Take-ouT' ribbs

 

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