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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:05 pm
by Ed
Alonso suffers an engine failure!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:06 pm
by Ed
He was running 3rd with just 10 laps to go!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:07 pm
by Ed
Massa pits. He had a puncture!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:08 pm
by Ed
Massa has rejoined in 9th!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:10 pm
by Ed
7 laps to go and Michael is increasing his lead over Raikkonen. Up to 6.8 seconds!
Kubica is 3rd.
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:12 pm
by Ed
If Michael wins, the gap in the championship narrows to just 2 points!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:13 pm
by Ed
Order after 48 laps: M Schumacher, Raikkonen, Kubica, Fisichella, Button, Barrichello, Trulli and Heidfeld
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:15 pm
by Ed
Massa is in 9th but is catching 8th placed Heidfeld!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:15 pm
by Ed
Heidfeld is fighting with Trulli over 7th place!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:16 pm
by Ed
and Massa has caught up with them!
2 laps to go!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:17 pm
by Ed
Michael starts his final lap!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:19 pm
by Ed
And Michael Schumacher wins the race and closes the gap to Alonso to just 2 points.
Raikkonen is second with Kubica in 3rd!
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:21 pm
by Ed
Fisichella is 4th ahead of Button, Barrichello, Trulli and Heidfeld.
Massa finished 9th while Alonso retired with an engine failure while running in 3rd 10 laps from the end.
Full results
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:10 am
by Ed
Michael Schumacher wins the 2006 Italian Grand Prix convincingly ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. It was a race between those two.
Robert Kubica finished a distant third but was nonetheless very impressive given that this is just his 3rd race of his career.
Fisichella managed to finish in 4th on a single stop strategy ahead of Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Jarno Trulli and Nick Heidfeld.
Fernando Alonso made his way up into 3rd after starting from 10th but suffered an engine failure with 10 laps remaining.
2 points separate Alonso and Michael with 3 races remaining.
Your thoughts ?
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:35 am
by Julian Mayo
A good result for non-partisan F1 fans. Any ch'ship that goes down to the wire is alright by me. Hard to award drive of the day, but in the end I went for Kubica, the lad can handle pressure, an F1 car, and a driver -debriefing. He is a racer. The team boss reckons that Heidfield has found half a second a lap since Kubica jumped in, does that mean he was bludging before??
ferrari and Scummi win the "real time" strategy award.
kimmi wins the "classy driver-I didn't break anything" award.
Webbo wins the "drag the bucket of bolts towards the front" award.
Up 6 places in the first few laps with arguably the heaviest car out there, and finished 9 grid spots up.
Alonso wins the "The gods, fate, FIA stewards, Max, n Bernie-its a conspiracy" award.
That Grid Penalty.
What an outrageous joke.!!! What an insult to the fans. The FIA must now be the laughing stock of the Motor racing world.
The '07 Engines.
Honda and Renault have a lot of work to do as the development deadline looms. Alonso was looking for cool air early on, and that looked like pieces of piston/valve assembly he left scattered in his wake.Not a good look. Fisi was restricted, tho it's hard to tell with him these days. Honda had to resort to the '06 mills and were just too slow in a straight line.
Overall, it must have been a good race, I stayed awake.