BMW_Dude

Looks like the Renaults have shown who is on top, or they are low on fuel, we will see tomorrow!

I am disappointed with BMWs pace, they started the season very well, but now they are dropping off the pace big time, especially last weekend!

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bmwownage

No. That Mclaren livery doesn't cost a lot, it's just some chrome painting... imo they should revert themselves back to the old livery and see if they get more luck!
Seriously though they need to have some dramatic improvements, like a new suspension? new aero package? new nose? I don't know but this MP4-21 looks more like a MP4-18/19 (which was a disaster) than last year's dominating MP4-20.. They have to get it right this season in order for Kimi to stay, or else if Kimi is gone, and you have a Alonso who loves his understeering Renault driving a not-so-understeery Mclaren, and if they even kick Montoya out, it will take Mclaren 2 years or so to recover... So they have to get it right soon before it's too late..
So far their qualify is crap, even with Montoya who had a 7-consecutive pole history with a FW24 back in 2002, and what you see is Montoya getting a P12, and you must admit that the FW24 wasn't a very good chassis... And those on-board shots we saw, you see the Ferrari/Renault steering wheel almost not shaking, and then Raikonnen's steering wheel was shaking all the way... i don't know if this means anything bad, maybe that is Mclaren's characteristics but it looks like there is less confidence..

bmwownage

Remember the BMW is merely a Sauber, actually i am very disappointed why they call themselves BMW Sauber, why not just BMW?
You see a team like Toyota, have nearly unlimited funding, and Honda too, but where are they? One day their bucks will pay off, but just not yet.. and BMW, they surely do not have that much funding, so to be honest I don't think they'll be too successful in the next few years.. Had they bought Williams instead of Sauber they might be better off, i mean just look at the Williams this year, they are not bad!

BMW_Dude

Yea, I get your point, the reason why BMW where doing so well at the beginning of the season was more luck than pace. A bit like Red Bull last year doing well, even though it was a Jaguar underneath!

Am I right in saying Toyota has the biggest budget of any team? If they do then it's going to take a long time for them to get to the front, at the moment they aren't doing too well!

BTW bmwownage, if BMW had bought Williams, they would have brought to the end an experienced and very well known team in F1! Also I'm sure it would have cost a lot more than buying Sauber!

bmwownage

Mclaren, a full minute behind at the finish...
Well to be honest this is better than them finishing 10s off the winner because now, they know they have a huge gap to catch..

disasterous for Mclaren, with Montoya's spin as well... Surely Montoya's car was understeering absolutely everywhere..

BMW_Dude

Alonso wins!!

MS is second, Fisichella is third!

BMW_Dude

Here are the final results:

1 1 Fernando Alonso Renault Winner

2 5 Michael Schumacher Ferrari +18.5 secs

3 2 Giancarlo Fisichella Renault +23.9 secs

4 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari +29.8 secs

5 3 Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes +56.8 secs

6 12 Jenson Button Honda +58.3 secs

7 11 Rubens Barrichello Honda +1 Lap

8 16 Nick Heidfeld Sauber-BMW +1 Lap

9 9 Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth +1 Lap

10 8 Jarno Trulli Toyota +1 Lap

11 10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth +1 Lap

12 17 Jacques Villeneuve Sauber-BMW +1 Lap

13 15 Christian Klien RBR-Ferrari +1 Lap

14 14 David Coulthard RBR-Ferrari +1 Lap

15 20 Vitantonio Liuzzi STR-Cosworth +3 Lap

16 18 Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota +3 Lap

17 22 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda +4 Lap

Ret 19 Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota +18 Lap

Ret 21 Scott Speed STR-Cosworth +19 Lap

Ret 7 Ralf Schumacher Toyota +35 Laps

Ret 4 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes +49 Laps

Ret 23 Franck Montagny Super Aguri-Honda +56 Laps

Alfie

Complete dominance by Alonso. Good for him, good for Renault.

siko

How was the race?... I forgot to set an alarm and slept right through it!!?

Imhotep Evil

Agreed.
Renault/Alonso has learnt the lesson.

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