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The teams in the quarter final are:

Germany

Argentinia

England

Portugal

Italy

Brazil

France

Ukraine

Games:

Germany : Argentinia

Portugal : England

Italy : Ukraine

Brazil : France

The ‚Matador’ wins also in Monaco- there is just one word needed this weekend:

 ALONSO

  
First Podium finish for RedBull-Racing
 
After 78 long laps  and 1 hour and 43 minutes it was decided- Alonso was the first time in his career on the podium in Monaco- and celebrated at the same time his first vicotry in front of the colombian Juan- Pablo Montoya and the scottish RedBull driver David Coulthard in the little state.
It was a very thrilling and extraordinary race, like every year in Monaco. The flair there is not able to describe, it is just amazing.
The race began with a good start of Alonso, and a very aggressive start of the finn Kimi Räikkönen, who tried to overtake Mark Webber, who had been on second start position. At first this didn’t work, but after a few rounds Räikkönen could overtake the australian, and was third. Kimi pushed hard and got also very close to Alonso. After the first PitStop Kimi got closer again, but also Mark Webber and Juan Pablo Montoya came closer, and it got a fight between 4 cars, where much overtaking of the weaker cars were involved. Then Mark Webber suddenly went with his car to the side- his engine blew up and so the race was over for him. A few laps later the McLaren-Mercedes of Kimi Räikkönen got slowlier and also his car was smoking, but i’m not sure if it was reallly the engine. One of the people around came to extinguish the flames, after he did it Räikkönen was able to drive down to park the car. Then he got out and went slowly and calm to the habour and onto one of the yachtes. When the RedBull cars were on 5^th (Klien) and 6^th (Coulthard) position, Klien got to the boxes- the hydraulics striked- the austrian was out. This would have been the best position in his whole career. Coulthard got as a heritage his place and made something brilliant out of it: he overtook Barichello, and after Trulli fell out, David drove his RedBull straight onto the podium… the first podium finish for the ‘Formula Austria’ (I’m sorry for Trulli, Webber and Räikkönen, but my patriotic heart laughes )-
David Coulthard: “Of course there fell a few out in front of me, but this is always the challange of Monaco- to take the car through- there are always a few who fall out.”
 
CONGRATULATIONS, FERNANDO
 
CONGRATULATIONS RED BULL!!!
 
 
A little quote of Heinz Prüller (out TV- commentator) at last: :
 
“Klien und Coulthard, die beiden Österreicher…”
(Klien and Coulthard, the two austrians…)
 
He was so proud of David, he nearly gave him our citizenship

The podium: Juan Pablo Montoya, Fernando Alonso and ’superman’ David Coulthard
 
  
1. ALONSO Fernando (ESP, Renault)
2. MONTOYA Juan- Pablo (COL, McLaren- Mercedes)
3. COULTHARD David (GBR, RedBull- Racing)
 
4. BARICHELLO Rubens (BRA, Honda)
5. SCHUMACHER Michael (GER, Ferrari)
6. FISICHELLA GianCarlo (ITA, Renault)
7. HEIDFELD Nick (GER, BMW- Sauber)
8. SCHUMACHER Ralf (GER, Toyota)
 
 
OUT:
 
TRULLI Jarno (ITA, Toyota)
KLIEN Christian (AUT, RedBull- Racing)
RÄIKKÖNEN Kimi (FIN, McLaren- Mercedes)
WEBBER Mark (AUS, Williams- Cosworth)
ROSBERG Nico (GER, Williams- Cosworth)

SATO Takuma (JPN, Super Aguri- Honda)

SCHUMACHER CHEATED IN MONACO???

“No comment!”- Michael Schumacher gives no statement to the FIA- decision

 
It’s four years ago, that Michael Schumacher won the Grand Prix of Monaco, and as it seems, it also won’t work this year- except there will happen a few miracles. Everything seemed very well yesterday in the qualifying- till the very last lap. Michael Schumacher was in the lead, when he suddenly came off in the corner. It was not clear what had happened. Schumacher said at the press conference afterwards, that he slipped out and tried to take in the reverse gear, but because of the traffic it was not possible. This all would have not been a problem, if Alonso weren’t 3/10 faster than the german at this time. In the press conference everybody could read on his face: he doesn’t believe, that this was an accident.
The FIA also wasn’t sure. The talked for 8 hours- then they decided: Schumacher has to go back to the last starting place- because of unfairness.
 
Other drivers and people around the Formula 1 are disappointed. Here some quotes:
 
“He’s a 7^th time World Champion!”, says Niki Lauda, 3 times World champion. “This was really not needed.”
 
“I lost my respect of him- I’m really disappointed”-  said Keke Rosberg, the father of Nico Rosberg, who will start from the 9^th position today, angry.
 
“He shall retire as boss of the GPDA*”, many drivers say. Keke Rosberg added to this: “He shall NEVER talk of a saftey F1 again…”
This action was sure not saftey.
 
“He should have put his hand in front of the car-camera”- Kimi Räikkönen ironic, like always. (explanation: The FIA watched the ‘accident’ out of Schumachers position with his car camera and so they find out, that it was no real accident)
 
 
Michael Schumacher said nothing to the FIA- decision so far. Probably he will give  no statement before the start.
Ferrari is angry of course, and they say, it is absolutely not understandable why the FIA has decided like this- well, anyway, we have a Ferrari- Family meeting in the last start row: Felipe Massa got his car into the wall yesterday, before he could drive just one lap. Because of this he is on 21^st start position- one place in front of Schumi.
This will be sure not the best remembered weekend of Ferrari in the next years…
Alonsos heritage is the Pole now… this will statisfied him sure a lot, because he is of course the big favourite to the victory, but also the ‘sivler- arrows’ (McLaren) seem quite competitive in –Monaco (this is probably because they don’t need to have such a good engiene, because in just 45%** of a Monaco round is accelerated, but there you need more Downforce).
GianCarlo Fisichella, Fernando Alonsos teammate got also a penalty, because he stopped Coulthard on a flying lap. Fisichella is 10^th now (first he was 5^th).
 
Schumacher got sure not more friends with this, and i know i should be objective, but at the end an own opinion: I was never a real fan of him, but i had respect to what he made. He is a fantastic driver for sure, but i thought a 7 times world champion has a bit more brain than to make such a silly action- my respect is away. This man is 38 years old, and he also made some things like this in past, but i thought he won with his titles also the idea of fairness.
I’m sorry, that i was so wrong with my thinking, and i must say i feel similar like Keke Rosberg, even i’m not really disappointed, because when you know the past***, then you are not surpprised. For Schumacher was always every way to win the right way, even if it was not right of fairness.
 
 
*Grand Prix Drivers Association (mainly for a saftey F1)
** average on other tracks: 60%-70%
*** for example:
1994: Schumacher had an accident with Damon Hill. Both could have win the World Championships, but after both fell out, Schumacher had enough points, that Hill couldn’t get him anymoreà Schumacher got World Champion
1997: a very similar situation, just with Villeneuve. They had a crash, and Schumacher got enough points to get World Champion, but then the FIA took him all points of the complete year, because of unfairness, and so Jacques Villeneuve got World Champion
 
 
 
And finally we have the right start positions, a bit unusual maybe, and it needed the FIA 8 hours to get it, but anyway, here it is:
 
 
1. ALONSO Fernando (ESP, Renault)
 
2. WEBBER Mark (AUS, Williams- Cosworth)
 

3. RÄIKKÖNEN Kimi (FIN, McLaren- Mercedes)

4. MONTOYA Juan- Pablo (COL, McLaren-Mercedes)

5. BARICHELLO Rubens (BRA, Honda)
 
6. TRULLI Jarno (ITA, Toyota)
 
7. COULTHARD David (GBR, RedBull- Racing)
 
8. ROSBERG Nico (GER, Williams- Cosworth)
 
9. SCHUMACHER Ralf (GER, Toyota)
 
10. FISICHELLA GianCarlo (ITA, Renault)
 
 
11. KLIEN Christian (AUT, RedBull- Racing)
 
12. LIUZZI VitanTonio (ITA, Scuderia Toro Rosso)
 
13. BUTTON Jenson (GBR, Honda)
 
14. VILLENEUVE Jacques (CAN, BMW-Sauber)
 
15. HEIDFELD Nick (GER, BMW- Sauber)
 
16. ALBERS Christijan (NED, MidlandF1-Toyota)
 
 
17. MONTEIRO Tiago (POR, MidlandF1- Toyota)
 
18. SPEED Scott (USA, Scuderia Toro Rosso)
 
19. SATO Takuma (JPN, Super Aguri Honda)
 
20. MONTAGNY Franck (FRA, Super Aguri Honda)
 
21. MASSA Felipe (BRA, Ferrari)

22. SCHUMACHER Michael (GER, Ferrari)

+++ result of the race of the GP of Spain+++

HE DID IT!!!!

simply happiness- Fernando enjoys the victory in his ‘living- room’

 
 Alonso won his home GP-

 Today the spanish Renault driver, and world champion 2005, made a glourious victory, which was never in danger, directly in front of his biggest enimy this year, the seven times World Champion, Michael Schumacher. So, Fernando was able to celebrate his first victory in his home land, Spain, on the circuit de catalunya near Barcelona, after he was on the podium for two times the last two years.
Ferrari was too slow over the whole distance and Michael Schumacher finished with 18,5 seconds after Alonso, Fisichella was third, 24 seconds after his teammate, as 4^th was Felipe Massa, the teammate of Michael Schumacher, driving over the finish lane and 5^th was Kimi Räikkönen, with his not perfect McLaren- Mercedes.
 
1. ALONSO Fernando (ESP, Renault)
2. SCHUMACHER Michael (GER, Ferrari)
3. FISICHELLA GianCarlo (ITA, Renault)
4. MASSA Felipe (BRA, Ferrari)
5. RÄIKKÖNEN Kimi (FIN, McLaren- Mercedes)
6. BUTTON Jenson (GBR, Honda)
7. BARICHELLO Rubens (BRA, Honda)
8. HEIDFELD Nick (GER, BMW- Sauber)
 

Formula Austria:
 
13. KLIEN Christian
14. COULTHARD David
15. LIUZZI VitanTonio*
 
OUT: SPEED Scott
 

*out in last lap, but counted because of driven distance

the podium: Michael Schumacher, Fernando Alonso and GianCarlo Fischella

Let me introduce you somebody…

He is already a star, even he is very, very young.

He got his coolness of his dad.

His job is: looking cute

He is:

SEBASTIÀN MONTOYA

Born: 11th of April 2005

parents: Juan- Pablo and Connie Montoya

of course there are not so many information about this boy in the net (it’s maybe also better like this), but pictures speak more than thousand words anyway:

And here he is- the little star of formula 1:

yeah– baby cool

and here is daddy cool- - who doesn’t wants to have such a dad?

(Sebastiàn looks very similar to his dad (you must notice 29 years of differnce before you answer ), doesn’t he? )

 Fernando Alonso got the PolePosition in his homecountry Spain. Renault has the optimal positions with both cars in the first row. But both Ferraris not far away of them… David Coulthard parked his car directly in the first session- into the wall. So he has to start from 21st position into his 200th formula 1 race. Just Jacques Villeneuve (BMW- Sauber) is behind him- his engiene was changed before this weekend.

I’m curious about tomorrow, i bet it will be an exciting race.

 he can smile brightley- the best position at home for Fernando Alonso.

The spanish fans are very enthusiastic 

1. ALONSO Fernando (ESP, Renault)

2. FISICHELLA GianCarlo (ITA, Renault)

3. SCHUMACHER Michael (GER, Ferrari)

4. MASSA Felipe (BRA, Ferrari)

5. BARICHELLO Rubens (BRA, Honda)

6. SCHUMACHER Ralf (GER, Toyota)

7. TRULLI Jarno (ITA, Toyota)

8. BUTTON Jenson (GBR, Honda)

9. RÄIKKÖNEN Kimi (FIN, McLaren- Mercedes)

Sometimes it works, sometimes not- at the moment not everything runs perfect for McLaren-Mercedes and Kimi Räikkönen. A reason for him to go to Ferrari or maybe also Renault? He says it’s nothing decided yet… he ’says’- but is it true…? 

Formula Austria:

14. KLIEN Christian (AUT, RedBull- Racing)

15. LIUZZI VitanTonio (ITA, Toro Rosso)

16. SPEED Scott (USA, Toro Rosso)

21. COULTHARD David (GBR, RedBull- Racing)

Michael Schumacher won again. The race was extremly exciting, because after the first Pit stops, Fernando Alonso was still leading with his Renault, but after the second turn Alonso went into the Pit stop 3 laps before Michael, and this was the decision for the race. Schumacher went 3 very fast laps, and when he went out of the pitlane he was leading five seconds in front of Alonso. Fernando came closer till the end of the race, but it already was decided. Schumacher won 5 seconds in front of Alonso, 7 in front of Massa and 8 in front of Kimi Räikkönen. The 5th, Rubens Barichello, was already a minute behind them.

And special congratulations to the brazillian Felipe Massa, who got his FIRST podium finish in Formula 1 in his career. He sometimes was already very close to it, but now it finally happened. Congratulations, Felipe, go on like this. 

results:

1. SCHUMACHER Michael (GER, Ferrari)

2. ALONSO Fernando (ESP, Renault)

3. MASSA Felipe (BRA, Ferrari)

4. RÄIKKÖNEN Kimi (FIN, McLaren-Mercedes)

5. BARICHELLO Rubens (BRA, Honda)

6. FISICHELLA GianCarlo (ITA, Renault)

7. ROSBERG Nico (GER, Williams-Cosworth)

8. VILLENEUVE Jacques (CAN, BMW Sauber)

9. TRULLI Jarno (ITA, Toyota)

10. HEIDFELD Nick (GER, BMW Sauber)

11. SPEED Scott (USA, Toro Rosso)

12. MONTEIRO Tiago (POR, Midland F1)

13. ALBERS Christijan (NED, Midland F1)

Formula Austria:

11. SPEED Scott (USA, Toro Rosso)

OUT: COULTHARD David (GBR, RedBull- Racing)

OUT: LIUZZI VitanTonio (ITA, Toro Rosso)

OUT: KLIEN Christian (AUT, RedBull- Racing) 

other outs:

MONTOYA

BUTTON

WEBBER

SCHUMACHER Ralf

SATO

MONTAGNY

Today, 12 years ago, the biggest and best racingdriver for ever died. Ayrton Senna da Silva was 34 years old and had 3 world championships-titles. But 12 year ago, the sun fell from sky…

>>Imola, May 1st 1994. Josef Leberer was, like always, at the track before the start with Senna, who already sat with his helmet in the car. The start positions were told. There was applaud at “Senna”, applaud at “Schumacher”, and then a special applaud at “Berger”. Josef told me, that this special applaud really amused Senna- Josef saw, that he smiled all over the face.

In the sixth lap there suddelny was a shaddow behind of me, and there was a hit at the car. I couldn’t feel something special, just drove on, and before I was able to think about it, there were the red flags outside: race canceled.
I told my mechanics to check the front- there was a bad damage and you could see that the stuff was sticking there just a bit on the car. The mechanics started to change these things before the re-start. I heard in all the chaos, that the accident I recognized in the Tamburello corner, an accident of Ayrton Senna meant. They had to put away the car from there. And the parts who hit my car where from a front wing of Senna’s car.
How bad was the accident?
Nobody was able to say this. The monitores in the boxes where in the intern network of the racing course, so every single normal TV- watcher outside had a better view over the situation than me, and was able to recognize, that it wasn’t a normal dozen- accident, but a real serious thing. I had no problems to forget this for a while, an accident, like many others. I was concentrating on the new start.
Before the start I asked again about Senna. Yes, he already was awake, he just stood up- and i thought, “stood up and went away… he really knowes, how to make a show”. Then Bernie came to me and said ‘shit weekend’ and i asked, what’s up, he had the radio with him and tried to reach Sid Watkins [racing doctor at this time] but he was working at this time, and I tried again to concentrate.
New start, zero thoughts on Senna or anything terrible. After a few laps I overtook Schumacher and was in the lead with this. Suddenly, in the Aqua Minerale, the car broke out. Schumacher went past me, but I didn’t defend much, first I wanted to recognize, what was up there at the behind part of the car. On the straight line I recognized sparks in the back-mirror and I thought, that there weren’t sparks before, I was angry about myself: are you dreaming now, or what? Anywhere in the last corner of a driver’s brain, you are recognizing minimal changes of your car: Hopefully I do not have a slowi puncture. I thought, maybe I whould get my new tyres immidiately, even they boxing stop should have been three, four laps later, and then I did it like this.
When I went out again I got understeering, which wasn’t there before, and what made me unsure, if it maybe because of the new tyres, or because of the fuel they put in, the car was heavier now, and i needed to change the braking points. In the fast chicane, where Barichello had his crazy accident, the car broke out again, and i had to drive over the lawn, and I wasn’t sure at this time, if there was something wrong with the car, or if I just had been too fast. Anything told me: now the fast straight line comes- you really don’t need it, if something will happen.
So I went to the box and the mechanics looked. The guys said, there is everything allright, but I said, when I think, there is something wrong, then there can’t be everything allright. In this moment Jean Todt came and said: go out of the car.
Later he told me: “I saw it, that you wanted to get out”, and I really wanted this.
Then I sat in the boy, and i suddenly got the feeling, that everything was so silent, even outside was the loudly race, and then i noticed in a way, which i can’t explain, that Ayrton Senna was dying.

Now the first news over the seriousity of the accident were coming till to the boxes. I heard, that Senna still ws fighting to survive, but it was nearly already lost. In this moment I had just one feeling: I wanted to see him a last time. I don’t know, what i expected from this, but I just wanted it. Braga and my dad orgnized the Malboro- Helicopter, who flight us to the hospital in Bologna.
What I understood in the hospital was, that the fight of the doctors was hopless, but not over. I had to wait for a time, which seemed eternal, then Josef Leberer and me were allowed to go to him. Ayrton was covered with a green blanket, and just a part over the brow was free. The hand and the foot I saw, where the one of a dead person, on my feeling. Two or three doctors were working on the injures of the brow, and we were not sure, if Ayrton was still living. [...]

Josef Leberer stayed in the hospital, and from this moment on, he stayed with Ayrton Senna, it was the wish of the family, he went with the coffin to the plane, sat next to it in the plane and was till the funeral with Ayrton. It was an endless, deeply good bye.

My mother sometimes said senteces, which i recognized, because I absolutely didn’t know, what they should mean, and i just said them maybe too, but without a sense, and i thought: maybe i will recognize once, what it means. One of these expressions was ‘I am shocked’. When I woke up on the day after Senna’s death, I recognized for the first time, what this could be.
It was like, not be able to hear anything in an scary emptyness, and when I looked around and tried to hear, also everything was just empty.
It was an incredibly horrible weekend: On Friday Barichello crashed with 240 km/h into a tyres wall- the video is an only nightmare. On Saturday Roland Ratzenberger died, on Sunday a start crash, where a tyre flought into the audience and injured a man heavily on his head, then Senna’s accident, and during I was sitting in the box, three mechanics where flying round, because of a sloppy fixed tyre of Alboretto’s car.
This mass of drama showed the huge negative power, which suddenly came free, when something goes into the wrong way. The good years of the formula 1 were like wiped away.
Thinking was the only thing i could do.
Did I expect, at the moment, when I saw my dead friend, a hint for this, how it should go on with me? When I would recognize in the next days, that it would be the right time to stop, then I would fight with myself, and then this image would make the decision- the better one, the right one- easier… maybe on that way, like you have a child, and you are terribly afraid because of the danger with drugs, then you take this child and go with it to the places, where you see drugs- addicted- for deterrent. But I didn’t get a hint during the situation in the hospital, I just was happy, that I had been able to see Ayrton a last time. The injures of the head where never in me, when I thought on him- he stayed uninjured- forever.
The image of Ayrton Senna.
I think he was happy. Yes, for sure. He had the same, wonderful life like me, and over this also three World-Champions titles. I don’t know, maybe he wanted to become world Champion for six times- to beat Fangio. But I think this was also everything, what could have been missing.
He had something mysterial. An appearance, like he would come from another planet, and because of the he had more view over the things, more brain, more power, more energy. Also when he never had the aura of being warm- hearted, and sure not of being the nice guy from next door, but there was so much charism in his appearance, in his eyes, in his smile, that the people not just adored him, they also loved him.
He brought a new line into Formula 1, a big step higher. He leaded the techniqual work of a Lauda or a Prost in till now unreached high.
For us he was really untouchable, what also means something like not injureable, but I don’t think so, that he saw himself like this. He didn’t have this amazingly, crazy frightless behaviour of a Gilles Villeneuve. He sometimes came to me with a printed paper from the computer, where i was driving full in any corner, and he said ‘you are crazy. When you come off the course there, you are dead’… no, he wasn’t absolutely frightless, this was not his forte. He wasn’t the wild dog, but the most perfect and most concentrated racer, with an unbelievebal view over the things, without comparison.

(from left to right: Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna, Gerhard Berger)

Ayrton Senna is maybe dead, but his myth will last for ever.
By the way: the golden series of Formula 1 accidents with no death lasts today exactly for 12 years… the danger is not over… there always will be accidents… and it is just a question of time… because of that, we shall not think, that everything is save there… it never can be 100% sure… but we can make it, that there will be 99,9% safety… I pray for a save motorsport…. with no death… may it, that Roland and Ayrton haven’t died for nothing… you all: learn out of this tragedy, and make it better…