Thoughts on the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix

[sgd]

If there is a dissapointement of the day award, it would have to go to Montoya who finished behind Kimi who started last .

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Agree with you. but I'd shared the dissapointement of the day award with Toyota...
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"I think we had some issues over the weekend with Montoya's engine," McLaren MD Martin Whitmarsh told Autosport.

"We have a number of different modes of operation with the engine. We have economy, super economy and full mode and certainly in the lesser modes of control there was something in the engine that we were trying to track down all weekend that gave him a slight element of disadvantage.

"It's the same engine this weekend but we have got a bit more time to study it now. We cannot change the mechanics of the engine but we are allowed to change the software and the mapping.

"With a bit of detailed analysis maybe we can find something there to give him more confidence in the operating regimes of the engine."

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There's a new sheriff in town, and his name is Alonso!!!
Well done, Fernando!

Cheers to Nico Rosberg and Christian Klein for not getting caught up in celebrity and taking care of business. These two are championship material- cool, colected, driven, and never satisfied!

Kimi gets the Mika Hakkinen Ironman award for performance coming from last to 3rd. (Hey didn't Alonso do that in the season opener last year?)

Michael still has the measure of everyone else (other than Alonso, that is!).

Webber gets a point for finishing in the points cleanly.

As for everyone else, ...

Chris