San Marino Grand Prix (Alonso wins 3rd race in a row!)

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:20 pm

Michael tries to overtake without success.

Lap 54, there is nothing between Alonso and Michael!
Button is in 3rd over 10 seconds behind

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:23 pm

Lap 56 and Alonso leads Michael by 0.4 seconds.
Button in 3rd ahead of Wurz, Sato, Villeneuve, Trulli and R Schumacher

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:25 pm

Lap 58 and Alonso lead by 0.3 seconds!

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:26 pm

The leaders are lapping in the 1:25's and they are coming up to lap Liuzzi

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:29 pm

Michael has a look but can't make it!

2 laps to go!

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:30 pm

Final lap!

Alonso still leads!

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:32 pm

And Alonso holds onto the lead.

Brilliant win by Alonso and a brilliant drive from Michael!

Ed · Post by Ed » Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:37 pm

Alonso now wins 3 races in a row.
Ferrari and Michael have proved they are back!

Jenson Button makes it on the podium.
Wurz finishes 4th in his first race in a few years!
Sato is 5th and Villeneuve doing very well finishing in 6th!
Trulli and Ralf Schumcher make 7th and 8th.

Poor form from the Williams with Heidfeld in 9th and Webber in 10th.

Liuzzi in 11th ahead of Massa, Coulthard, Karthikeyan and Monteiro.

Retirements: Fisichella, Freisacher, Raikkonen, Barrichello and Albers

Full Results

Ed · Post by Ed » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:01 am

Ralf Schumacher is penalised a 25 second penalty for what the stewards considered an unsafe manouvre on Nick Heidfeld following his second pit stop. This means Ralf Schumacher loses his 8th place to Nick Heidfeld

Toyota will appeal

sgd · Post by **sgd** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:12 am

sad for Ralf, how was this manouvre? what happened there?

sgd · Post by **sgd** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:19 am

Great rece! i really enjoyed it! =) The end was just killer!!! =)
Good for Alonso!!!Super

, MS

excelent!
Wurz!

JV!!!

, Karthikeyan!!

Bad: Button

. Webber

cheers to Kapel and JV!!!
for Julian...

I WANT MONTOYA BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ed · Post by Ed » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:51 am

sgd wrote:sad for Ralf, how was this manouvre? what happened there?

It appears that Ralf Schumacher jumped in front of Nick Heidfeld at the second round of stops forcing Heidfeld to brake hard to avoid him.

Heidfeld said "At the last pit-stop Ralf Schumacher got in front of me
by forcing me to brake hard and avoid a crash."

Ed · Post by Ed » Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:55 am

Team and driver quotes following the race are now available here

Winner's press conference now available here

sgd · Post by **sgd** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:36 am

Ed wrote:
sgd wrote:sad for Ralf, how was this manouvre? what happened there?
It appears that Ralf Schumacher jumped in front of Nick Heidfeld at the second round of stops forcing Heidfeld to brake hard to avoid him.

Heidfeld said "At the last pit-stop Ralf Schumacher got in front of me
by forcing me to brake hard and avoid a crash."

I see... thanks!
let's see how the results of the appeal turn to be...

sgd · Post by **sgd** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:48 am

The way Alonso kept MS in such a cool way, no making mistakes under such a pressure only shows that he's champion material!!
that was so GREAT!! i'm very happy for him! a deseved win! =)
excatly the opposite for Button... he's similar to Trulli, thay can do good races but they lack that Champ-factor which Kimi, Alonso Montoya and Shumierda have...