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Articles by Darren Galpin
| An ode to Magny-Cours - Sun 16th Jul 2006 |
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How boring, boring, boring, booorrring,
I’d rather watch them race at Hungar-or-ing
The racing wasn’t close,
The sport is grandiose,
Please wake me up if it gets to morning.
The only way to pass is to piiiit-stop
The aero causes all the griiip to drop
The corners split it up
I’m really quite fed up
As a race it’s just a biiiiig flop.
Glory, glory is Itaaalia
Beaten yet again is Fraaancia
The Ferrari went ahead
Michelin went to bed
And Bridgestone is the one which is happier.
Montoya’s disappeared off to NASCAR
Pedro is the one who got hiiiis car
At Indy Monty crashed
He wasn’t much abashed
And Ron had been pushed just too far.
To finish, back to Magny-Booooring,
Honda’s engines weren’t ripsnorting.
Rubinho’s went up in smoke
And Button’s had no poke
In the pits there wasn’t much cavorting.
As was hinted in the ode above, the race was decided by tyres. If you had Bridgestones you did well (except for Williams, who suffered delamination issues with the left rear), and if you were on Michelin’s it was a case of damage limitation. Renault played this to perfection, Alonso pipping Massa for second by clever strategy, Alonso having got back onto form and outpacing his teammate Fisichella. Michael Schumacher won the race easily, and yet again nibbled at the championship gap. It is gradually coming down……
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