Thoughts on the Spanish Grand Prix

F1greyhound · Post by **F1greyhound** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:08 pm

My calculation is an average of 8.5 points for Michael from now on, 7.5 for Kimi and 7 for Fernando, makes final 128 WDC Fernando, 112 Michael, 107 Kimi. That is unless.....

F1greyhound · Post by **F1greyhound** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:14 am

Oops, its 14 races left, not 12

WDC Fernando 142, Michael 129, Kimi 122.............

Michael has to make up 2.43 p/GP now, Kimi 1.93.

Looks tough

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Fri May 13, 2005 6:22 am

F1greyhound wrote:Oops, its 14 races left, not 12

WDC Fernando 142, Michael 129, Kimi 122.............

Michael has to make up 2.43 p/GP now, Kimi 1.93.

Looks tough

And if Alonso dnf's twice ?

sgd · Post by **sgd** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:28 am

julian mayo wrote:And if Alonso dnf's twice ?

then MShumierda DNF's 4+ times...

Graham Ross · Post by **Graham Ross** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:08 am

I can't see Michael scoring 8.5 points on average. There will be a few hot races coming up and they won't shape.
Even in the cold their pace won't necessarily be as quick as they were in San Marino.

Everyone will start taking notice of Montoya from Monaco. He is not out of it you know!

rah · Post by **rah** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:50 pm

Just because the bridgestones can't take the heat now, doesn't mean they wont in the future. It is a big company and they only have one major team.

I agree Graham, you will see more from Monty, but personally I think it will be replays of him spinning.

If it makes you feel better, at least he will finish in front of Webber.

Julian Mayo · Post by **Julian Mayo** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:53 pm

rah wrote:Just because the bridgestones can't take the heat now, doesn't mean they wont in the future. It is a big company and they only have one major team.

I agree Graham, you will see more from Monty, but personally I think it will be replays of him spinning.

If it makes you feel better, at least he will finish in front of Webber.

Only if Webber retires

Kapel · Post by **Kapel** » Fri May 13, 2005 8:02 pm

I see Fisi overshadowing Alonso for a couple of races,cos i think Alonso has gone a little complacent now.

Mclaren is surely the main dominant force,so expect them to win the next couple of races.Kimi in Monaco & Montoya in Europe

AfterShock · Post by **AfterShock** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:51 pm

Kimi drove an excellent race. His opening stint was mind blowing, setting fastest lap after fastest lap. He backed off later on in the race, cause he never was threatend and never needed to push hard again. McLaren certainly have the quickest car all round at this moment and if there reliability holds, Reanult are going to struggle to keep up.

Fernando Alonso did a great job. THou its clear he can't live with Kimi and McLaren without hurting his tyres. Fisichella did brilliant to come back from his problem.

Toyota, are getting better and better and could well be the surprise package at Monte Carlo. Jarno is really good around here.

JPM, well was probably goin to finish on the podium, but troubles again hit him.

and finally Ferrari. I just don't think its onlt the tyres that are causing there lack of pace. Kimi was lapping upto 2.5 faster in that opening stint. Ferrari just don't have the pace, they blindly seem to believe is there.
2.5 secs in not tyres.

Predicting Monte Carlo is going to be very difficult. With spain I won that round, but this is the real hard one.!

JayVee · Post by **JayVee** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:17 pm

Kapel wrote:I see Fisi overshadowing Alonso for a couple of races,cos i think Alonso has gone a little complacent now.

Mclaren is surely the main dominant force,so expect them to win the next couple of races.Kimi in Monaco & Montoya in Europe

I think you are jumping to conclusions too quickly.

Yes Raikkonen was quicker than Alonso in Spain but that doesn't mean McLaren will be stronger in Monaco ?

And from testing you can tell Renault aren't relaxing either.

I think it will be very close which is great!

Kapel · Post by **Kapel** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:04 pm

JayVee wrote: I think you are jumping to conclusions too quickly.

Yes Raikkonen was quicker than Alonso in Spain but that doesn't mean McLaren will be stronger in Monaco ?

And from testing you can tell Renault aren't relaxing either.

I think it will be very close which is great!

JayVee,i'm not jumping to conclusions,but its an observation on Alonso-mind u not Renault.Fisi need a bit of luck in his favour now(He need to do a big "Pooja"(prayer in Hindi) on a Saturday to impress Lord Shiva(Holy day) so as to get rid of his bad luck.

)

JV,i've observed,(just an opinion

)Alonso with such a comfortable margin in WDC,isnt driving to the fullest or taking risk to often.He cant afford a couple of DNF's and see his lead shrunk.Thats what i meant in complacent.

On the other hand,Mclaren has shown speed,hopefully would be reliable and could close-in the gap to Renault which would be good for the championship.

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