5....4....3....2....1....GO !!!!!!

Dissapointing qualifying session if you are a Ferrari fan like I am......

Honda’s Jenson Button will start the Australian Grand Prix from pole position after a tense qualifying session which saw MSC eliminated before he could push Ferrari into the top 10. MSC could not come in the top 10 for the final leg of the qualifying session.


Following is the Grid position for Sunday's race :-

1st row:
1. Jenson Button (GBR) Honda 1:25.229, 2. Giancarlo Fisichella (ITA) Renault 1:25.635

2nd row:
3. Fernando Alonso (ESP) Renault 1:25.778, 4. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.822

3rd row:
5. Juan Pablo Montoya (COL) McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.976, 6. Ralf Schumacher (GER) Toyota 1:26.612

4th row:
7. Mark Webber (AUS) Williams-BMW 1:26.937, 8. Nick Heidfeld (GER) BMW Sauber 1:27.579

5th row:
9. Jarno Trulli (ITA) Toyota, 10. Michael Schumacher (GER) Ferrari 1:26.718

6th row:
11. David Coulthard (GBR) Red Bull 1:27.023, 12. Vitantonio Liuzzi (ITA) Toro Rosso 1:27.219

7th row:
13. Christian Klien (AUT) Red Bull 1:27.591, 14. Nico Rosberg (GER) Williams-BMW 1:29.422

8th row:
15. Felipe Massa (BRA) Ferrari, 16. Rubens Barrichello (BRA) Honda 1:29.943

9th row:
17. Christijan Albers (NED) Midland 1:30.226, 18. Scott Speed (USA) Toro Rosso 1:30.426

10th row:
19. Jacques Villeneuve (CAN) BMW Sauber 1:29.239, 20. Tiago Monteiro (POR) Midland 1:30.709

11th row:
21. Takuma Sato (JPN) Super Aguri F1 Team 1:32.279, 22. Yuji Ide (JPN) Super Aguri F1 Team 1:36.164

Australian Grand Prix (Race Day) tomorrow 8.30 am (IST) on Star Sports.
 
these were the final timings in the australian grand prix....

fell very bad for button yaar..... so near yet so far......
But a bizzare race to say the least... only 13 cars finish... 9 retirements and 5 crashes... including Shumi.... :sad:

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points

1 1 Fernando Alonso Renault 57 1:34:27.870 3 10

2 3 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 57 +1.8 secs 4 8

3 7 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 57 +24.8 secs 6 6

4 16 Nick Heidfeld Sauber-BMW 57 +31.0 secs 8 5

5 2 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 57 +38.4 secs 2 4

6 17 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-BMW 57 +49.5 secs 19 3

7 11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 57 +51.9 secs 16 2

8 14 David Coulthard RBR-Ferrari 57 +53.9 secs 11 1

9 12 Jenson Button Honda 56 +1 Lap 1

10 19 Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 56 +1 Lap 17

11 21 Scott Speed STR-Cosworth 57 +1 Lap 18

12 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 55 +2 Lap 21

13 23 Yuji Ide Super Aguri-Honda 54 +3 Lap 22

Ret 4 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 46 Electrical 5

Ret 18 Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 39 Mechanical 20

Ret 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Cosworth 37 Accident 12

Ret 5 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 32 Accident 10

Ret 9 Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 22 Transmission 7

Ret 15 Christian Klien RBR-Ferrari 4 Accident 13

Ret 8 Jarno Trulli Toyota 0 Accident 9

Ret 10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 0 Accident damage 14

Ret 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 0 Accident 15

Fastest Lap: Kimi Räikkönen 1:26.045

Official Result


Notes: Speed finished eighth but had 25 seconds added to his race time for lack of attention to yellow flags.

Next race: Imola Grand Prix April 23....
 
Button deliberately refrained from crossing the line after his engine blew up.

He could've picked up 3 points for P6, but his team ordered him to park it in order to escape the 10 place demotion in the next race.

And oh, Alonso sucks!! :aj1: :aj:
 
===Schumacher hangs on to victory===

For a while Ferrari’s grip on the San Marino Grand Prix looked tenuous, after Michael Schumacher had initially built up a lead after sprinting away at the start. By the time he pitted for fuel on lap 20, arch-rival Fernando Alonso had worked his way up to second place, and then took the lead until his own stop on lap 25. Schumacher just beat him for the lead as Alonso rejoined, but then the Spaniard began to put the Ferrari under massive pressure. If he could keep up this pace, it seemed, victory would be assured by the next fuel stops. It wasn’t to be.
Schumacher said that he lost pace in the second stint because of tyre graining and a problem on the car that he did not elect to identify, and began lapping up to two seconds off the pace as a frustrated Alonso got bottled up behind him. Now instead of a festival of pure speed it had become a chess game. Who would pit first? The answer finally came on lap 41 when Alonso suddenly sprinted into the pit lane. After a 6.7s stop he was back out again. Schumacher, meanwhile, was suddenly able to catch backmarkers Nick Heidfeld and Scott Speed, whom he had apparently been unable to catch earlier on. But any hope in the Renault camp that they might impede their rival ended when Schumacher swept outward on lap 42, after remaining stationary for 7.1s.

Both teams had changed their strategy to pit early, and this time Schumacher just got out of the pit lane before Alonso arrived at Tamburello, setting up a finish that was a reverse carbon copy of last year’s race. Lap after lap Alonso gave Schumacher no breathing space, but as Michael appreciated last season, Imola is a tricky place to pass a determined rival. Alonso got partially alongside on one lap, but when he slid over a kerb and ran wide exiting Villeneuve on lap 59, the great chase was over. He settled back to the second place that Renault had already agreed would be acceptable, and wisely preserved his championship lead.

An ecstatic Schumacher, already the new pole record holder after qualifying, sped on to the 85th victory of his career and his first since the ‘Bridgestone-only’ US Grand Prix in 2005, and his first against a full field since Japan in 2004.

Behind them, a very long first stint helped McLaren’s Juan Pablo Montoya to third place ahead of a challenging Ferrari of Felipe Massa, who had Kimi Raikkonen right behind him in the second McLaren as the three of them crossed the line.

Mark Webber brought his Williams home sixth after a good run, aided again by a long first stint. Jenson Button should have finished a lot better than seventh for Honda, but had another unhappy race. He was the second leading runner to refuel (on lap 15, a lap after team mate Rubens Barrichello), and later had a disaster when he was signalled prematurely to rejoin after his second stop on lap 30. The lollipop man signalled him to go, then changed his mind as he saw that the refuelling hose was still connected. By then Button was already on his way and got swiped on the head by the lollipop as it was hurriedly lowered again. He stopped a few feet beyond his pit garage as team members ran to retrieve the now broken fuel nozzle from the car, and he finally resumed after the delay, dropping from third to eighth place. His third stop went okay on lap 44, but it was another disappointing result for him and the team.

The final point went to Giancarlo Fisichella, who started 11th with a full Renault tank and sat it out in the pack until things improved as others stopped.

Ralf Schumacher was the only other driver apart from Button to opt for three stops, but could not quite squeeze enough performance from his Toyota to score a point. He headed home a disappointed Rubens Barrichello in the Honda, Williams’ Nico Rosberg, and Jacques Villeneuve and Nick Heidfeld in their BMW Saubers. Vitantonio Liuzzi spun from 16th place down to 18th behind Red Bull team mates Scott Speed and Christian Klien after running off at Variante Alta on the fifth lap, but a tigering drive brought him home 14th, ahead of Speed. Tiago Monteiro was 16th for Midland.

Neither Klien, nor David Coulthard, finished the race. The Austrian struggled with his Toro Rosso team mates before retiring on lap 41 with an hydraulic problem, while the Scot disappeared on lap 48 with a broken driveshaft. Neither Super Aguri made it home either. Yuji Ide prompted deployment of the safety car on the opening lap after shoving Christijan Albers’ Midland into a barrel roll in Turn Six. The Dutchman was unhurt, while after a lengthy stop for repairs Ide later rejoined but spun off at Variante Alta with suspension damage after 23 laps. Takuma Sato stopped on lap 45, interrupting the team’s finishing record. Jarno Trulli was the other retirement, driving his Toyota into the pits after only five laps when he was running eighth.

The race puts Ferrari back into contention for a championship that has 14 races left. “The championship had never really gone away even after two difficult races,” Schumacher said, “but now it’s looking two points better and there is a long way to go.”
 
Guysss... you all seem to have forgotten the F1 season it seems......
Well.... i missed many of the races due to my exams...
But here it is again.... The Spanish Grand Prix today at 4.30 pm (IST) on Star Sports....
The atearting grid fr today's race goes like this -

Pos No Driver Team First Second Third

1 1 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:15.816 1:15.124 1:14.648

2 2 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:16.046 1:14.766 1:14.709

3 5 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:16.049 1:14.637 1:14.970

4 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:16.359 1:15.245 1:15.442

5 11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:16.266 1:15.258 1:15.885

6 7 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:16.234 1:15.164 1:15.885

7 8 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:16.174 1:15.068 1:15.976

8 12 Jenson Button Honda 1:16.054 1:15.150 1:16.008

9 3 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:16.613 1:15.422 1:16.015

10 16 Nick Heidfeld Sauber-BMW 1:16.322 1:15.468 1:17.144

11 9 Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 1:16.685 1:15.502

12 4 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 1:16.195 1:15.801

13 10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 1:17.213 1:15.804

14 17 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-BMW 1:16.066 1:15.847

15 15 Christian Klien RBR-Ferrari 1:16.627 1:15.928

16 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Cosworth 1:17.105 1:16.661

17 21 Scott Speed STR-Cosworth 1:17.361

18 18 Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 1:17.702

19 19 Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 1:18.024

20 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:18.920

21 23 Franck Montagny Super Aguri-Honda 1:20.763

22 14 David Coulthard RBR-Ferrari No time

well... u all kno whom will I be supporting..... yes thts SHUMI !!!!!!!!!
GO SCHUMI GO !!!!!!!! Kick ALONSO on his home track.... !!!!!!
FERRARI RULEZ !!!!!!
 
Damn !!!!! after grabbing succesfuly the pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix, Shumi has been sent rite at the back of the grid.... here is the full story...

Schumacher is stripped of pole (www.formula1.com)

Michael Schumacher has been moved to the back of the grid for the Monaco Grand Prix after stewards concluded that he deliberately blocked the track in the closing stages of qualifying, preventing rivals from beating his time.

The decision - which came eight hours later - means Renault’s Fernando Alonso will now start from pole position with the Williams of Mark Webber alongside him. Schumacher is demoted to the back row, where he will join Ferrari team mate Felipe Massa, who crashed out of qualifying without setting a time.

Schumacher appeared to lock his brakes and then run wide as he entered the final Rascasse corner in the dying moments of the session. The former champion regained control without hitting the barriers, but came to a halt with his stalled car partially blocking the circuit, forcing other drivers to slow down.

Following the session, the stewards heard evidence concerning the incident from Schumacher - who claimed it was a genuine error - as well as Ferrari personnel. They also reviewed video footage and data evidence supplied by the team and the FIA.

Their finding was that Schumacher had no justifiable reason for braking so hard, as he had been traveling little or no quicker than at the same point on previous laps. They therefore concluded that he deliberately stopped his car on the circuit, an infringement of the sporting regulations.

As punishment the stewards deleted all of Schumacher’s qualifying times, hence his move to the back of the grid, from where he has little or no chance of taking a record-equaling sixth Monaco Grand Prix win.

Ferrari’s Jean Todt expressed the team's displeasure at the stewards' findings, saying: “We totally disagree with it. Such a decision creates a very serious precedent, ruling out the possibility of driver error. Michael was on his final timed lap and he was trying to put his first place beyond doubt, as could be seen from the fact that his first split time was the best and could have seen him do another very good lap. With no real evidence, the stewards have assumed he is guilty."


The following wer the qualifying results...... Damn... feelin bad for Shumi... :(

Pos No Driver Team First Second Third

1 5 Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:15.118 1:13.709 1:13.898

2 1 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:14.232 1:13.622 1:13.962

3 9 Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 1:14.305 1:13.728 1:14.082

4 3 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes 1:13.887 1:13.532 1:14.140

5 2 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:14.614 1:13.647 1:14.396

6 4 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 1:14.483 1:14.295 1:14.664

7 11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:14.766 1:14.312 1:15.804

8 8 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:14.883 1:14.211 1:15.857

9 14 David Coulthard RBR-Ferrari 1:15.090 1:13.687 1:16.426

10 10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 1:14.888 1:13.909 1:16.636

11 7 Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:14.412 1:14.398

12 15 Christian Klien RBR-Ferrari 1:14.489 1:14.747

13 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Cosworth 1:15.314 1:14.969

14 12 Jenson Button Honda 1:15.085 1:14.982

15 17 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-BMW 1:15.316 1:15.052

16 16 Nick Heidfeld Sauber-BMW 1:15.324 1:15.137

17 19 Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 1:15.598

18 18 Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 1:15.993

19 21 Scott Speed STR-Cosworth 1:16.236

20 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:17.276

21 23 Franck Montagny Super Aguri-Honda 1:17.502

22 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari No time

No matter what.... will always support SHUMI..... HE IS GOD !!!!!!!
GO SHUMI GO !!!!!!!!

watch the Monaco Grand Prix today at 5.30 pm (IST) on Star Sports....
 
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