Formula 1 and Other Motorsport 2006

[ewan]

Fingers crossed for Honda :wink:

[tom_b]

Well the San Marino GP was interesting with most of the race mirroring last year. But is it me or were ITV showing too many ad breaks, I counted around 5/6.

San Marino Top 8
1: M.Schumacher (1st real win since Suzuka 2004. A hint of something to come prehaps?)
2: Alonso (Lost time in final 6 laps to challenge for the win)
3: Montoya
4: Massa (Brave effort to hold up Alonso in early part of the race)
5: Raikkonen
6: Webber
7: Button (Race ruined on his 2nd pitstop by the lollipop man. Result: Broken fuel rig and lost time)
8: Fisichella

Retirements:
17: Coulthard (Unknown)
18: Sato (Unknown)
19: Klien (Hydraulics)
20: Ide (Held on till damaged suspension from 1st lap contact with Albers failed)
21: Trulli (Unknown)
22: Albers (Rolled by Ide)

Drivers Championship (Round 4/1
1: Alonso (36)
2: M.Schumacher (21)
3: Raikkonen (1
4=: Fisichella & Montoya (15)
6: Button (13)
7: Massa (9)
8: R.Schumacher (7)
9=: Villeneuve & Webber (6)
11: Heidfeld (5)
12=: Barrichello & Rosberg (2)
14=: Coulthard & Klien (1)

Constructors Championship (Round 4/1
1: Renault (51)
2: McLaren (33)
3: Ferrari (30)
4: Honda (15)
5: BMW (11)
6: Williams (
7: Toyota (7)
8: Red Bull (2)

Next F1 Race: European GP, Nurburgring, May 7th

GP2 Imola Race 1 Top 8
1: Gianmaria Bruni (Trident)
2: Michael Ammermuller (Arden)
3: Nicolas Lapierre (Arden)
4: Alex Premat (ART)
5: Nelson Piquet Jnr (Piquet Sports)
6: Ernesto Viso (iSport)
7: Timo Glock (BCN)
8: Hiroki Yoshimoto (BCN)
Fastest Lap: Bruni (Unknown but given point after Valles started in pitlane and Piquet cutting a chicane)

GP2 Imola Race 2 Top 6
1: Viso (iSport)
2: Piquet Jnr (Piquet Sports)
3: Yoshimoto (BCN)
4: Glock (BCN)
5: Luca Filippi (FMS)
6: Felix Porteiro (Campos)
Fastest Lap: Viso (1m34.431s)

GP2 Drivers Championship (Round 2/11)
1: Piquet Jnr (25)
2: Bruni (1
3=: Ammermuller, Lapierre & Viso (16)
6: Hamilton (9)
7: Valles (6)
8=: Glock, Premat & Yoshimoto (5)
11: Lopez (4)
12: Filippi (2)
13: Porteiro (1)

GP2 Teams Championship (Round 2/11)
1: Arden (32)
2: Piquet Sports (25)
3: Trident (1
4: iSport (16)
5: ART (14)
6: BCN (10)
7: Campos (7)
8: Super Nova (4)
9: FMS (2)

Next GP2 Races: Nurburgring May 6-7th

Also next week look out for Round 1 of the GP Masters at Qatar.

[kodster]

Gooooo Renault

[tom_b]

Well GP Masters came and went at Qatar and there was some strong drives but once again, it seems no one (for the moment) can stop Red 5.

GP Masters Qatar Results (Round 1/4)
1: Nigel Mansell
2: Christian Danner
3: Eric van der Poele
4: Eddie Cheever
5: Derek Warwick
6: Pierluigi Martini
7: Jan Lammers
8: Stefan Johansson
9: Rene Arnoux
10: Riccardo Patrese
11: Patrick Tambay
12: Emerson Fittipaldi

Retirements
13: Andrea de Cesaris
14: Eliseo Salazar
15: Hans Stuck

Next GP Masters: Monza, June 18

[tom_b]

WRC results from Argentina, however Im removing co-drivers names and retirement list to ease quick delivery of results. Also with the JWRC and PWRC not receiving much coverage, I will not post those results for those catergories up. I apologise for any inconvenience, also apologies for lateness of the results.

WRC Top 8
1: Sebastien Loeb (Kronos Citroen) 4h6m51.3s (Matches Tommi Makinens record of 24 WRC wins)
2: Petter Solberg (Subaru) +44.6s (Another podium, Petter should be strong on the next two events)
3: Gigi Galli (Peugeot) +3m24.3s (1st WRC podium on 2nd outing in a Pirelli-backed Peugeot)
4: Manfred Stohl (OMV Peugeot) +3m40s (Strong result on 100th outing)
5: Dani Sordo (Kronos Citroen) +5m40.2s (Fights off Atkinson for 5th)
6: Chris Atkinson (Subaru) +5m43.8s (Scoring well and gaining more experience)
7: Henning Solberg (OMV Peugeot) +9m28.7s (Strong showing but dropped to 7th on final run through super special with clutch failure)
8: Matthew Wilson (Stobart VK Ford) +10m34.6s (Beats team-mate Luis Perez Companc amid a number of firsts: 1st stage win, 1st top 10 finish and 1st WRC drivers point)

WRC Drivers Standings (round 6/16)
1: Loeb (56)
2: Gronholm (35)
3: Sordo (24)
4=: P.Solberg & Stohl (1
6: Galli (11)
7: Bengue (9)
8: Atkinson (
9=: Hirvonen & H.Solberg (7)
11=: Carlsson, Gardemeister & Sarrazin (6)
14: Pons (5)
15=: Kopecky & Radstrom (4)
17=: Duval, Katajamaki & MacHale (3)
20: Wilson (1)

WRC Manufacturers Standings (Round 6/16)
1: Kronos Citroen (69)
2: Ford (57)
3: Subaru (51)
4: OMV Peugeot (31)
5: Stobart VK Ford (15)
6: Red Bull Skoda (11)

Next WRC Event: Rally Italia on May 19th-21st

[jamesb]

did i ever post this by the way?
http://www.gixxerkart.comwww.gixxerkart.com

ill be building one this summer
might even make it a 2 seater and offer to take some of you for passenger rides, just so the next FRA kart social can be even more entertaining.

i reccommend watching the videos, they are INSANE!!

[ewan]

i want one

[jamesb]

damn!!! I thought id got a hayabusa engine on ebay, but the guy withdrew it with an hour to go.

itll have to be the small cbr600 engine sitting in my garage then. still, 105bhp isnt bad i suppose, unless anyone has something biger to donate?

[tom_b]

My apologies for the lateness of the qualifying list, a few changes, both Webber and Rosberg have changed so they will start 10 places back from where they qualifed. Also Villeneuve demoted 1 slot after alledgedly blocking Fisichella.

European GP Grid
1: Alonso
2: M.Schumacher
3: Massa
4: Barrichello
5: Raikkonen
6: Button
7: Trulli
8: Montoya
9: Villeneuve
10: R.Schumacher
11: Fisichella
12: Coulthard
13: Heidfeld
14: Liuzzi
15: Klien
16: Albers
17: Speed
18: Monteiro
19: Sato
20: Webber (10 place engine penalty, demoted from 10th)
21: Montagny (Yuji Ides replacement unlucky in qualifying)
22: Rosberg (Like Webber, demoted 10 places from 12th)

Also a good day for Britons in GP2, more on that later.

[tom_b]

Well a mixed weekend at the Nurburgring, good day for the Brits in the F1 support events but not in F1 itself.

F1 Nurburgring Top 8
1: M.Schumacher
2: Alonso
3: Massa (1st F1 podium of his career)
4: Raikkonen
5: Barrichello (Salvaging pride for Honda)
6: Fisichella
7: Rosberg (1st points since Bahrain and salvaging some consolation for Williams)
8: Villeneuve

Retirements
14: R.Schumacher (Engine failure)
15: Montoya (Engine failure about the same time as Ralfs engine failure)
16: Sato (Unknown, maybe engine problems)
17: Montagny (Engine problems)
18: Button (Engine failure)
19: Klien (Hydraulics failure)
20: Webber (Hydraulics failure)
21: Coulthard (Suspension damage and steering problems)
22: Liuzzi (Puncture from being tagged by Trulli followed by a spin)

F1 Drivers Championship (Round 5/1
1: Alonso (44)
2: M.Schumacher (31)
3: Raikkonen (23)
4: Fisichella (1
5=: Massa & Montoya (15)
7: Button (13)
8: R.Schumacher (7)
9=: Barrichello, Villeneuve & Webber (6)
12: Heidfeld (5)
13: Rosberg (4)
14=: Coulthard & Klien (1)

F1 Constructors Championship (Round 5/1
1: Renault (62)
2: Ferrari (46)
3: McLaren (3
4: Honda (19)
5: BMW (11)
6: Williams (10)
7: Toyota (7)
8: Red Bull (2)

GP2 Nurburgring Race 1 Top 8
1: Lewis Hamilton (ART)
2: Alex Premat (ART)
3: Adam Carroll (Racing Engineering)
4: Jose Maria Lopez (Super Nova)
5: Nicolas Lapierre (Arden)
6: Ernesto Viso (iSport)
7: Xandi Negrao (Piquet Sports)
8: Hiroki Yoshimoto (BCN)
Fastest Lap: Lewis Hamilton (1m42.782)

GP2 Nurburgring Race 2 Top 6
1: Hamilton (ART)
2: Lapierre (Arden)
3: Lopez (Super Nova)
4: Yoshimoto (BCN)
5: Carroll (Racing Engineering)
6: Michael Ammermuller (Arden)
Fastest Lap: Gianmaria Bruni (1m41.921)

GP2 Drivers Championship (Round 3/11)
1: Piquet Jnr (27)
2: Hamilton (26)
3: Lapierre (25)
4=: Bruni & Viso (19)
6: Ammermuller (17)
7=: Lopez & Premat (13)
9: Yoshimoto (9)
10: Carroll (
11: Valles (6)
12: Glock (5)
13=: Filippi & Negrao (2)
15: Porteiro (1)

GP2 Teams Championship (Round 3/11)
1: Arden (42)
2: ART (39)
3: Piquet Sports (29)
4=: iSport & Trident (19)
6: BCN (14)
7: Super Nova (13)
8: Racing Engineering (
9: Campos (7)
10: FMS (2)

More motorsport action next weekend, beginning on Saturday with qualifying for the Spanish GP at lunchtime followed by GP2 highlights from the Nurburgring. Then Sunday begins with the Spanish GP at midday followed by Live British Touring Cars from Oulton Park, all on ITV.