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Alonso goes so close but Villenueve makes it a hat trick
Jacques Villenueve has won the Monaco Grand Prix, his third win of the year, and it launches him into first place in the race for the title. Villeneuve has established himself with this hat trick of victories as the most successful driver ever in the SR F1 Championship.
As usual at Monaco, the pattern of the race was dictated by pit strategy and not making major mistakes. There were a few minor mistakes by Trulli, Da Matta and De La Rosa but they only lost small amounts of time. It was pit strategies that set the standard because the majority of the field were tightly bunched together for most of the race.
Monaco is very hard on transmissions and 3 cars succumbed to this problem. Wilson was the first to suffer on lap 47. Irvine was the next on lap 68 and Fisichella was the last on lap 75 but he was later classified 18th. Monaco is also a place where you don't want to make a mistake but 2 drivers made fatal errors. Verstappen was in a fairly comfortable 2nd but crashed out on lap 21. Panis was lining up for more points when he crashed out on lap 63.
Villeneuve and Alonso zoomed off and were trading lap times but the B.A.R pit crew were fractionally faster than Renault's meaning Villeneuve won and Alonso came 2nd. Montoya was hurt in the chase for the win by being held up early in the race by De La Rosa but finished a comfortable 3rd. Button led home a gaggle of cars from 4th place. Coulthard managed 5th and Da Matta came from the back with an amazing drive for 6th. Barrichello gets his first points of the season with 7th and Raikkonen takes the last points place with 8th.
Full race results: (The brackets at the end is how many places they went up or down from the grid)
1st Villeneuve (Dog Breath) 1h43m29.167s (Up 3)
2nd Alonso (Random Hero) +0.503s (Down 1)
3rd Montoya (Afrojoe) +45.248s (No Change)
4th Button (Der Nazi) +55.260s (Up 6)
5th Coulthard (Reynolds) +56.040s (Up 2)
6th Da Matta (Grandprix) +1m00.214s (Up 16)
7th Barrichello (Unbeliever) +1m01.244s (Up 10)
8th Raikkonen (Ineedsleep) +1m01.752s (Up 3)
9th R Schumacher (Absolut Neo) +1m02.419s (Up 7)
10th Firman (DW) +1m03.066s (Down 1)
11th Trulli (Ant) +1m03.889s (Up 9)
12th Webber (Evil Dark) +1m04.715s (Up 2)
13th Heidfeld (Sylphetic) +1m05.284s (Down 1)
14th Pizzonia (Reddy 2003) +1m05.858s (Up 4)
15th Frentzen (Figo) +1m06.813s (Up 4)
16th M Schumacher (Shadow) +1m07.570s (Down 1)
17th De La Rosa (Virtuoso) +1m08.698s (Down 11)
18th Fisichella (Badgerman) -4laps (Up 3)
DNF
Irvine (Crunk Dow) Transmission
Panis (Foreman) Crashed
Wilson (MikeAll) Transmission
Verstappen (Jericho17) Crashed
Drivers Championship
1st Villeneuve 30pts
2nd Trulli 27pts
3rd Alonso 26pts
4th Firman 25pts
5th Button 19pts
6= Raikkonen 17pts
6= Coulthard 17pts
8th Fisichella 16pts
9th De La Rosa 15pts
10th Montoya 14pts
11th Heidfeld 13pts
12th Verstappen 12pts
13th Pizzonia 10pts
14th Wilson 8pts
15= M Schumacher 5pts
15= Da Matta 5pts
17th Panis 4pts
18= R Schumacher 3pts
18= Irvine 3pts
20= Webber 2pts
20= Barrichello 2pts
Constructors Championship
1st Renault 53pts
2nd B.A.R. 49pts
3rd Jordan 41pts
4th McLaren 34pts
5th Minardi 20pts
6th Senna G.P 18pts
7th Williams 17pts
8th Sauber 13pts
9th Jaguar 12pts
10th Toyota 9pts
11th Ferrari 7pts
Fastest Lap: 1m17.829s Alonso
7 rounds down and Villeneuve has taken the last 3 race wins to take a surprise lead in the Championship. Only Frentzen has yet to score a point this season. Both Championships are so close as we near the half way stage.
The next race is Canada and Villeneuve will be aiming to please his home fans with a 4th race win but everyone will be out to stop him. Can they? Find out by staying with the SR F1 Championship!
(This weekend, I will be making a decision on a few drives and whether they need replacing. If you have any queries, write them in this topic or contact me on MSN. Someone has my address about if you don't have it. If you want to keep your drive, reply to this race and you will keep your drive. I have been keeping track of who has been replying. Thank you for your co-operation and I hope you all will continue to enjoy the remainder of the Championship.)
Jacques Villenueve has won the Monaco Grand Prix, his third win of the year, and it launches him into first place in the race for the title. Villeneuve has established himself with this hat trick of victories as the most successful driver ever in the SR F1 Championship.
As usual at Monaco, the pattern of the race was dictated by pit strategy and not making major mistakes. There were a few minor mistakes by Trulli, Da Matta and De La Rosa but they only lost small amounts of time. It was pit strategies that set the standard because the majority of the field were tightly bunched together for most of the race.
Monaco is very hard on transmissions and 3 cars succumbed to this problem. Wilson was the first to suffer on lap 47. Irvine was the next on lap 68 and Fisichella was the last on lap 75 but he was later classified 18th. Monaco is also a place where you don't want to make a mistake but 2 drivers made fatal errors. Verstappen was in a fairly comfortable 2nd but crashed out on lap 21. Panis was lining up for more points when he crashed out on lap 63.
Villeneuve and Alonso zoomed off and were trading lap times but the B.A.R pit crew were fractionally faster than Renault's meaning Villeneuve won and Alonso came 2nd. Montoya was hurt in the chase for the win by being held up early in the race by De La Rosa but finished a comfortable 3rd. Button led home a gaggle of cars from 4th place. Coulthard managed 5th and Da Matta came from the back with an amazing drive for 6th. Barrichello gets his first points of the season with 7th and Raikkonen takes the last points place with 8th.
Full race results: (The brackets at the end is how many places they went up or down from the grid)
1st Villeneuve (Dog Breath) 1h43m29.167s (Up 3)
2nd Alonso (Random Hero) +0.503s (Down 1)
3rd Montoya (Afrojoe) +45.248s (No Change)
4th Button (Der Nazi) +55.260s (Up 6)
5th Coulthard (Reynolds) +56.040s (Up 2)
6th Da Matta (Grandprix) +1m00.214s (Up 16)
7th Barrichello (Unbeliever) +1m01.244s (Up 10)
8th Raikkonen (Ineedsleep) +1m01.752s (Up 3)
9th R Schumacher (Absolut Neo) +1m02.419s (Up 7)
10th Firman (DW) +1m03.066s (Down 1)
11th Trulli (Ant) +1m03.889s (Up 9)
12th Webber (Evil Dark) +1m04.715s (Up 2)
13th Heidfeld (Sylphetic) +1m05.284s (Down 1)
14th Pizzonia (Reddy 2003) +1m05.858s (Up 4)
15th Frentzen (Figo) +1m06.813s (Up 4)
16th M Schumacher (Shadow) +1m07.570s (Down 1)
17th De La Rosa (Virtuoso) +1m08.698s (Down 11)
18th Fisichella (Badgerman) -4laps (Up 3)
DNF
Irvine (Crunk Dow) Transmission
Panis (Foreman) Crashed
Wilson (MikeAll) Transmission
Verstappen (Jericho17) Crashed
Drivers Championship
1st Villeneuve 30pts
2nd Trulli 27pts
3rd Alonso 26pts
4th Firman 25pts
5th Button 19pts
6= Raikkonen 17pts
6= Coulthard 17pts
8th Fisichella 16pts
9th De La Rosa 15pts
10th Montoya 14pts
11th Heidfeld 13pts
12th Verstappen 12pts
13th Pizzonia 10pts
14th Wilson 8pts
15= M Schumacher 5pts
15= Da Matta 5pts
17th Panis 4pts
18= R Schumacher 3pts
18= Irvine 3pts
20= Webber 2pts
20= Barrichello 2pts
Constructors Championship
1st Renault 53pts
2nd B.A.R. 49pts
3rd Jordan 41pts
4th McLaren 34pts
5th Minardi 20pts
6th Senna G.P 18pts
7th Williams 17pts
8th Sauber 13pts
9th Jaguar 12pts
10th Toyota 9pts
11th Ferrari 7pts
Fastest Lap: 1m17.829s Alonso
7 rounds down and Villeneuve has taken the last 3 race wins to take a surprise lead in the Championship. Only Frentzen has yet to score a point this season. Both Championships are so close as we near the half way stage.
The next race is Canada and Villeneuve will be aiming to please his home fans with a 4th race win but everyone will be out to stop him. Can they? Find out by staying with the SR F1 Championship!
(This weekend, I will be making a decision on a few drives and whether they need replacing. If you have any queries, write them in this topic or contact me on MSN. Someone has my address about if you don't have it. If you want to keep your drive, reply to this race and you will keep your drive. I have been keeping track of who has been replying. Thank you for your co-operation and I hope you all will continue to enjoy the remainder of the Championship.)
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AfroJoe wrote:
>Neo, 9th isn't acceptable for the Williams!
Yeh I know, but thats actually an improvement by Ralph....!
>Neo, 9th isn't acceptable for the Williams!
Yeh I know, but thats actually an improvement by Ralph....!
Not a great result for me, but at least the team got a few points from Unbeliever.
Just let him be. :) He obviously hasn't found the Life or Story forums yet. Nice long posts in there. :)
Silver Merc SL500- Good car.
Silver Merc- You shouldn't criticise regulars, seeing that you're only an newbie.
Silver Merc- You shouldn't criticise regulars, seeing that you're only an newbie.
ohhhh - a word count critic seems to have wandered into the wrong thread.
Good post a little to long
I asked my computer and he said no, he doesn't accept bribes. :D
Do you take bribes, GrandPrix? I need some better results!
Bah. He was in 2nd but crashed out on lap 21? Stupid Verstappen... :D He'll win the next race, you'll see!
And Neo, 9th isn't acceptable for the Williams!
:-)
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