The Brazilian Grand Prix Insider or Deja vou??
The qualifying for Brazilian Grand Prix finished not quite after expectations. After
several
thousands of test kilometers the most reckoned team - Minardi Ford, did not qualified in
top
5 places. The team boss - Mr. Minardi Ford - said that Shinji Nagano has hosted 1998
Winter
Olympics at home and he was quite disturbed after it. Besides, his view on the track is
shortened because of his Japanese eye style. The other Minardi veteran - Esteban Tuero was
already FAQed because of Nakano's position and he did not want to comment it. He said that
there are another two silver cars in the front row so people will maybe not mention... And
yes
indeed, there in fact were two MacLarens Mercs with Hika Makkinen and Cavid Doulthard
or whatever. Well, everyone in the paddock thought that after that Australian qualifying
will this team start falling down the order in the name of not loosing the popularity of
the
whole F1 racing. Ron .enis told afterwards that they tried very heavily to fire that Newey
but he just didn't get out. JV said that his 10th position was caused by the aerodynamical
drag caused by his beard and mustaged face. But one positive thing - there is #1 in his
position. The Williams team made an internal decision which says that during the Brazilian
Grand Prix the driver who gets first to the first corner will win the race (??)
So the Small Price began. The Clerk of the course said that if there will be any accidents
in the first corner he will ban the Brazilian Grand Prix (??...). Well yes, the start of
the race
was underlined by the meaning: "I watch the race and what don't I see - a crash! - I
watch closer
and I really don't see it"...
Schumacher senior had a delayed start because he was watching Dallas TV series marathon.
Ralf Schumacher was a little influenced by Luftwaffe where he completed his National
Service
so he flew into the gravel - the most exciting thing during the GP.
The silver arrows, well actually black arrows were in top conditions - the race
conditions.
I won't comment McLaren's race because there would be no use :-(
The race itself was terribly boring. Schumacher's second pitstop was lengthened because of
TV problems and Schumi wanted to see the rest of the Dallas which was better at that time
than the Brazilian GP (boy, that race had to be VERY boring...). Just before he left the
pits
Sascha Wurz overtook Frentzen who was quite disappointed afterwards. "If I only knew
that he will be angry I wouldn't overtook him, but I wanted to prove myself that there
is a duck on his nose cone" said Wurz after the race.
The only person who escaped MOLO (MacLaren's One Lap Overtake) was Schumi who
explained afterwards: "They have shot J.R. Ewing so I started to race much more
relaxed,
but you must excuse me now, the Dallas marathon ends in one hour...".
Mika Hakkinen won his first Grand Prix... He also p(g)roved that he is even smarter
than Schumacher when he got him at the podium ceremony.
The race ended in a typical boring style also called 'start-finnish' or 'end-finnish,too'.
As Mr. Ron (boy what a rude surname...) said before that "if you want to finish
first,
you must be Finnish first...".
The race was so boring that this report doubles its boreness.
Well, finally probabilities for the next Grand Prix in Argentina;
The probability that
Frank Williams will smile 1:100
Adrian Newey will not make an engine with closed eyes 1:500
any team except Macs Mercs will win the first two places 1:100 000
Mika Hakkinen will be pretty 1:1000
David Coulthard will change his girlfriend 1:1
Mr. 'E' will forget his walky-talky 1:50 000
Max Mosley will start smoking 1:10 000
Schumacher will leave Ferrari 1:notsobig
Martin, the duck on the Williams' nosecone :-))