San Marino GP

[AndyMac]

Saluations All...

Its that time again, and this time its a long weekend

Prediction (from Me)

1. David Coulthard (boohisss)

2. Michael Schumacher

3. Kimmi Rakkinen

4. Rubens Barricehllo

5. Juan Montoya

6. Fernado Alonso

7. Ralph Schumacher

8. Mark Webber

I hope I'm wrong and the podium is

1. M. Schumacher

2. M. Webber and

3. Kimmi Rakkinen

Hoping its a good race.........with a Webber somewhere in teh points.

[Silver-Arrowz]

You a Schuey man? *boo*

Mac's all the way! I reckon Renault are onto a good thing with Fernando Alonso. He's making vet. Jauno Trulli look slow all the time.

[AndyMac]

Everyone knows Schumie is "the best there was, the best there is, and the best there ever will be"

"People don't understand how good he is. To beat Michael in equal equipment isn't possible, to beat him in better equipment is, thats what Hill did, what Villieneuve did and what Hakkinen did..." Eddie Irvine...

I'm VERY one eyed.

[Duncan]

Yeah, he can sure drive, but what a prick! Lets not forget the trail of "punt my rival if I can't beat him"

[Silver-Arrowz]

Schumey's good, but how can you compare him to Senna, Prost or Fangio? Senna was a freak and give him a crap car and he too will give you a good run for your money. I reckon these 2 are on par. Prost is a champion in the turbo era and the post-turbo era. Driving the old turbo cars, you need balls of steel cause 1000bhp is not easy to tame. Fangio, need I say, the man who came up with the modern racing techniques.

But the biggest arguement I have is if you have the backing of an entire team, of course you will do very well.

[AndyMac]

I was waiting for that...

Not completely true. Duncan as a racer yourself and I race karts at state and club level, there is no way in the world you'd risk race points or a possible win by overtaking a damaged car...excatly what Hill did.

Villeneuve, Shumacher admitted he did it and stated that it was his biggest regret in F1

Various Coulthard accounts...Coulthard doesn't count..hehehe

I think he races hard, on the fineline, but not as bad as some make it out to be...

But then again, I think the bloke is amazing...

[Silver-Arrowz]

Those incidences put me off Schuey completely. Thought he was a real champ till he rammed Hill of. In my books, Hill is 2 time champ. JV incident, made me see satin in him.

No doubt he's the best of this generation. His brother.... well.... I doubt he will reach Michael's hights.

[AndyMac]

The debate still rages about Senna, it doesn't deserve an answer I think out of respect to the great man Senna was...I personally dislike the comment that Senna was pushing too hard trying to compete with Schumacher.

Fangio, well its uncomparable, its a different era, we're talking about time here when team orders meant to pull your car in and give it to the lead driver if his car was not performing or damaged!

Still based on the points scored/poduims view...Shumacher is a clear cut winner, with the added bouns he hasn't always had the best car, and took on a Ferrari drive when they where far from teh best team.

As far as I know, Prost and Senna always had cars capable of obtaining a top 3 finish.

[Shell]

Just looking at F1 Live

last year the Ferrari's kicked arse here!

Pole : M. Schum 1'21''091

Best lap : Barrichello 1'24''170

Podium :

1 M. Schumacher

2 R. Barrichello

3 R. Schumacher

hmmm i won't even try to predict this one, I'll just give my usual call

GO JUAN!!!

[EnricoPalazzo]

I dont admire Hill very much but respect him for what he tried to do, which no one has ever done before. He went from a top team to shit bottom crap team as world champ? and he almost succeeded in a win at Silverstone, England if it wern't for mechanical failure. Alot of people overlook him and i think he deserves more credit than he gets.

[Sydneykid]

Its in italy.... i know where the smart money is... plus, added bonus of the italian mafia making sure a ferrari wins.

By the way, Hill was booted from Williams before he won the world championship...from memory... had no choice but arrows (?!)

son of sydneykid

[Silver-Arrowz]

Hill got booted cause he wanted more $$$

[Shrub32]

Hill won the championship in 96 and should of been in 94!

Senna didnt always have the best car, 88 yes but no other year was he in the clear cut favourite. Those days it was more even racing. Im sick of hearing of how Schumacher wasnt always in the best car!

[fatz]

david coulthard driving slow for fun!

[Silver-Arrowz]

Gr8 race once again. I love this new rule cause qualifying means almost jack and you actually get to see cars slice and dice! And I'm re-learning what "overtaking" is again...

Congrats to Schuey on a well deserved win, and for performing especially when dealing with the loss of his mother.

Webber, well.... What can I say? Bad start only to recover a little then the Jag going POP.

[Duncan]

Hey, I think we were watching different races! I only saw one overtaking manouver all night - barricello on r schumaker coming onto the straight. The rest was m schumaker driving away and mistakes in the pits.

I was dissappointed, I love watching close racing and dicing, and this race wasn't that.

Having said that, maybe there was better racing elsewhere in the field, I think they only showed 6 cars all race

[Silver-Arrowz]

It's not the ontrack overtaking. It's more the pit stop stratagy I like. But love when they bang wheels overtaking too (not jerez 97 style though...)

Everyone thought that the macs we're slow cause of their qualifying stuff-ups but on race day it was a different story.

[DSKYLINE2C]

I just cant comprehend the pace of the Mercedes - McLaren's. I mean they r using the same chasis as the previous year where they could not even compete with Williams. Yet, they r close to if not on top of Ferrari....wats going on?

[Silver-Arrowz]

The mclarens is a developed version of last years car. Last year they used the mp4-17a/b/c specs. This year they used the d spec car.

The ferrari is still a quick car, only it was driver errors which let ferrari down until the san marino.

[Sydneykid]

The McLaren story is the same as the Ferrari story. Apparently while they call them last years cars, barely a single part is interchangable with last year's car.....