Round 13 in the Formula 1 World Champion, the Hungarian Grand Prix would be one for the record books as rain and a very wet racetrack would play a huge factor in what would be describe as an exciting and unpredictable race.
In yesterday's qualifying section, Kimi Raikkonen grabbing the pole, while both Alonso and Schumacher were given time penalties putting them in mid-pack of the starting grid.
On the start of the race, it was the two McLaren-Mercedes up front leading the way with the Renaults and Ferraris fighting it out for position behind. The wet racetrack made for lots of passing and even more incidents, including Kimi Raikkonen's wild airborn ride as he tried to make his way by a lap car, making contact shedding his car's frontend in pieces putting him out of the race.
By the mid-race point, it looked like Fernando Alonso had everyone covered with about a 30-second lead over second place. During the race, the racetrack had finally started to dry out on the racing line, begging the question, who would make the big move of race and pit for dry tires. First it was Scott Speed pitting for dry tires and after spinning out on his outlap, that sent Speed back to the pits for intermedent tires. The move of race would come on lap 50, when Alonso would suffer the same problem on dry tires as he too lost it and backed his Renault into the wall, putting the points leader out of the race.
That put Jenson Button into the lead and Michael Schumacher into second place. The battle for second place would heat up with Pedro de la Rosa chasing down and fighting with Michael for several laps before contact between the two sent de la Rosa to 2nd and with just a couple laps to go, Schumacher to the garage and out of the race. With all of that happening over 30-seconds behind Button, no one could run down the Honda as Jenson Button would pickup his first career victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Pedro de la Rosa in his McLaren-Mercedes would grab his career best 2nd place finish and Nick Heidfeld grabbing 3rd in his Sauber-BMW.
Update: After Kubica got disqualified, Schumacher scores 8th place and 1 championship point. I can't believe that Schumacher got 1 point after questionable driving in the final laps, FIA Formula 1, where is the penalty for cutting the corner?
WindTunnel Question of the Week: Who do you think will win the Formula One World Championship (Fernando Alonso or Michael Schumacher) and why?
I say it will be a dog fight down to wire with both drivers/teams willing to do anything to win, plus the Bridgestone vs. Michelin tires will play a roll in the outcome and in the end, it will be Fernando Alonso winning the 2006 Formula One World Championship.
One person in a comment on anyother site said Formula One is a parade and NASCAR is a race..I got to think about that statement...powerful
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