Two botched pitstops and a crucial mistake

It's been sometime since my last post. Been a bit busy these days :-( .. Well here I am with this post.

Here onwards, I'll try to review every Formula 1 race here. Please don't expect this to be objective. Since I'm a hardcore McLaren fan, u'll find the review a bit more McLaren-centric than usual.. If u want objective reviews, this might be the place for u....

So, here we go on with the review of the 2006 Canadian Grand Prix....

This took place at Montreal @ Giles Villeneuve Circuit... One of the most challenging circuits in the Formula 1 and is very well known for the proximity of concrete walls to the track.. and infamous for cars crashing onto the wall...

The qualifying went on smoothly without any untoward incidents and the top 7 were
1. Fernando Alonso
2. Giancarlo Fisichella
3. Kimi Raikkonen
4. Jarno Trulli
5. Nico Rosberg
6. Michael Schumacher
7. Juan Pablo Montoya

The race started with a mistake by Fisi and Kimi made use of it to jump to second.. Meanwhile Montoya overtook Schumacher and had an amazing on-track duel with Rosberg, which seemed good Television viewing while it lasted... As feared, there was a touch between the duo and Rosberg crashed into the wall , thus bringing the safety car out.... Montoya had to go to the pit lane for a front wing replacement and joined at the tail end of the cars.

As the race restarted, Alonso, Kimi and Fisi pulled away from the others and Schumacher was stuck behind Jarno Trulli for a long time.... Then came the news that Fisi had been awarded a Drive-Thru penalty for a jump-start and after the drive-thru, he joined the race behind Trulli and Schumacher... Meanwhile, difference between Alonso and Kimi was hardly a second for the first stint in the race and the duo had a lead over 20 seconds on Trulli and others.. Alonso came in to the pits and Kimi took over the lead for the first time in the race (WOW!!!!!).... and Alonso rejoined the race at second position just ahead of Trulli... Two laps later, Kimi went for his pits and we were all expecting a brilliant pit stop from McLaren as usual........

Sadly, the pit crew bungled and the right rear tyre wasn't fixed correctly and Kimi lost around 4 seconds and joined the race 5 seconds behind Alonso....

Meanwhile, Montoya was driving aggressively and overtaking people brilliantly and jumped upto 12th place from last.. and then he hit the wall on the last corner and wrecked his car.. Race over for Montoya :-((

As usual, Schumacher overtook Trulli at the end of the first round of pit stops and jumped to third .... Schumacher was also lucky that his car did not suffer any damage, when he hit the wall during one of the laps in this period...
... and the order was Alonso, Kimi and Schumacher.

The race continued and by the end of the second stint, Alonso was ahead of Kimi by around 7 seconds and Kimi was ahead of Schumacher by 20-odd seconds.. Then Alonso went for his second and final pit stop, which was a clean one and joined the track 5 seconds behind Kimi.. and then in the next lap, Kimi went for his second and final pit stop..

Tragedy strck here for the second time and Kimi's engine stalled and had to be re-started, thus ensuring that Alonso will lose only by either crashing into the wall or a mechanical failure , both of which seemed unlikely .... and Kimi joined the track just ahead of Schumacher, who was yet to go for his second pit stop... Thus , ensued a cat and mouse game for 5-odd laps before Schumacher went for his second and final pit stop.. This was again a brilliant one by Ferrari and Schumacher joined the race 20-odd seconds behind Kimi....

After the second round of pit stops, the gaps were
Alonso - Kimi 15-odd seconds
Kimi-Schumacher 20-odd seconds

This went on for some time.. Thus prompting everyone to think that this race would end in a predictable manner.....

But Jacques Villeneuve had other plans... While trying to lap Ralf Schumacher, who was having a miserable day, he lost grip and crashed into the infamous wall.... thus bringing about the safety car... This happened with 10 laps to go.. After the debris were cleared, there were 8 laps of excitement...

There were a few backmarkers between Alonso and Kimi and also between Kimi and Schumacher .. and this made the restart very crucial... Alonso had an amazing restart and opened a 3 second gap between himself and Kimi, whereas Schumacher made up time and reduced his gap to Kimi to 1.5 seconds....

On the penultimate lap, Kimi made a mistake in the U-Turn and Schumacher overtook him to take the second place :-(( ...... and Schumacher reduced his gap to Alonso to a mere 1.5 seconds at the chequered flag.. At the end, Alonso won his fouth straight Grand Prix and seems really baffling why he's making the move to McLaren next year, especially when Renault is performing so brilliantly...

The top five in this race were :
1. Fernando Alonso
2. Michael Schumacher
3. Kimi Raikkonen
4. Giancarlo Fisichella
5. Felippe Massa

For McLaren & Kimi, this race was the story of "TWO BOTCHED PITSTOPS AND A CRUCIAL MISTAKE"...

After the excitement of this race, I'm really looking forward to the US Grand Prix @ Indy this weekend... Watch this space for the review ;-)

Hatred

Most of u might have heard abt Orkut(TM). I'm also an active member of Orkut(TM) and love to explore orkut(TM) whenever i'm free. Now what has Orkut(TM) got to do with the topic? No, this is not an ad for orkut(TM), but something which i have noticed and feel is prevalent in the real world.

I have seen many communities on Orkut(TM), which was very disturbing. Why was it so disturbing? Because, here follows the names of some of them
F##k India
Shitt on India
Anti- Pakistan
Pakistan sucks
Chennai sucks
Bangalore sucks
and many others

Why do we have so much hatred among us??

If this is the case in the virtual world of Orkut(TM), where we find most of the educated and cultured people, just imagine what it might be in the real world.

What exactly is "Hatred" ?
It's a negative emotion. It's an extreme emotion of dislike. I'm no psychiatrist, but would like to dwelve a bit on emotions.

There a few thing people want to do and love to participate or watch, etc..... This is known as "Like". The opposite of above is "Dislike". If a person starts "disliking" something a bit too much, this turns into "HATRED".

More than the cause, I'm very much concerned about the effect, this in turn increases the violence, lot of negative emotions and in short turns life into hell and the place into a hell-hole.

Life is short, why waste it on hating something / someone. What will a person gain by hating something / someone?? Beats me!!!!

I think there are lot of things in life which necessarily doesn't make sense to me.Looks like I keep on discovering these things day in and day out. I think this will join the list alongwith the beards (Please read my earlier post to know more about this ;-) )