2006 FORMULA 1™ Foster’s British Grand Prix - Preview
Jun 9th, 2006 by Haas
2 weeks after the shocking events in Monaco, Silverstone holds host to the 2006 British Grand Prix. This weekend holds the key to a lot of drivers and teams…
Firstly the obvious intrest of home teams…
Mc Laren the home team would love to win this one and prove that their performance in Monaco was no one off. Montoya will be looking forward to repeat his 2005 race win and Kimi looking for the top step after a brilliant 3rd last season.
Renault the other home team will be looking to improve their last year’s performance of 2nd and 4th. They will be keeping an eye out for the competition and would want to secure points looking ahead to the constructors championship. The next two races in the calender Canada and USA gave them 0 pts last year and that will clearly be on the back of their minds
Button will be looking again for his first career win but it looks very doubtful that it will be this weekend. The team that took over from BAR almost treat this as a home gp and would love to get back in the chase… its been almost a year and a half since BAR looked competitive.
Fisichella will look to build on his brilliant race in Monaco where he over took 3 top cars on track. I even herd that Flavio had made a statement saying that this race would be won by Fisi… He looks really confident and being 3rd on the championship he looks all set to give a fight to his dominant teammate.
Michael Schumacher will probably treat this race as one of the most important this year. Many Ferrari fans hv hailed his performance in Monaco as one of his best ever but I beg to differ… 22nd to 5th is great but you got to look at the bigger picture Kimi, Webber and Trulli retired, all 3 were ahead of him and if they had finished Micheal would hv ended up 8th. I know in F1 it only counts if you cross the finish line but frankly I hv seen much better performances by the 7 time champ to not think too high of this one.
This race for Micheal might become a do or die battle… Alonso’s unbelievable consistency has seen him finish in the top 2 in every race of this season and if he can do it for the rest of the season then the only way Michael can become world champ is to win every one of the remaining races (current pts diff 21 and races remaining 11). Frankly I would assume Alonso is the safest bet for the world champ this season… Despite all of Michael’s attics(parking his car in the costliest parking space in Monaco), I doubt Michael will win this one.
Alonso looks like the most confident of the lot right now… He has clearly matured into a more level headed driver than he ever was (and than most experienced drivers on the grid) and the results clearly show it. Every race day he looks more and more like a 2 times world champion.
Silverstone promises to be one of best races this season… Lets hope it delivers.