hmm.. first, i thought to write about how Rossoneri open up their account for a new season or even rattling about The gunners being mentally and physically English Champions if not Europe!!

and since, my mind is totally went crazy or blur actually after the exams after-math.. added with blank explanation from someone that i think owe some kind of explanation to + my weekly msg to a person that i havent mat before but being so kind to hear my views arsenal and Michael Schumacher..

since, i'm feeling guilty by sending him another long2 msg like i did last week .. (when he reply 2 days late than usual, i just think.. i blew it!) .. so, no f1 review this week and my fingers are itching away to write something about or probably just plagiarised the facts from my fren who happen to know more stuff about f1 than me.. he even claimed being McLaren test driver .. maybe that's why they suck this season .. hehe.. no offence

BELGIAN GP PREVIEW


Let's get one thing straight immediately. Ferrari are almost certain to win at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend.

Barring misfortune – and remember, Ferrari have still to register their first mechanical failure of the season (3 years and still counting) - Michael Schumacher will become the first man to win the Belgian Grand Prix seven times.

After all, if Ferrari are capable of taking the opposition apart at the Hungaroring, a track at which they struggled last year, what chance have the rest got at Spa?

This is a race at which Ferrari are unbeaten since 2000 - and the event holds a special place in Schumacher’s heart.

The German made his debut at Spa in 1991, took his maiden F1 win there a year later and came through from 16th on the grid to win in 1995.

In short, he raises his game even higher for this race.

So, having just regained consciousness following the tedium of Hungary, why on earth should you tune in to watch this weekend?

An incredible team they may be, but what the vast majority of F1 fans want is overtaking, excitement and incident. That's where Spa comes in. Time after time, it has delivered all of those things in abundance.

Mika Hakkinen sweeping past Schumacher as he lapped Ricardo Zonta in 2000. Jordan’s first ever F1 win in 1998’s incident-strewn race. And that’s just F1’s last five visits to the circuit.

Spa may not be the circuit it once was – it was chopped in half in the late Seventies – but it remains the most challenging, not to mention spectacular, track on the F1 calendar.

The race failed to make the F1 calendar in 2003 due to a dispute over tobacco advertising. With state-of-the-art new circuits sprouting up across the globe, many feared that would be the end.

But a way was found to cram the track back on to 2004 itinerary and the Belgian authorities have even commemorated its return by rather needlessly redesigning the Bus Stop chicane.

Schumacher may be red-hot favourite but this is one victory that any racing driver would like to add to his CV while he still can. It will be fascinating to see which team emerges as the best of the rest this weekend.

The frustrating thing about the commotion over Ferrari’s domination is that it fails to take into account how competitive things have been behind the newly-crowned world champions. Think about it. Renault and Williams had the upper hand at the Hungaroring but it was McLaren and BAR at Hockenheim. Take a look at this season’s results and you’ll see realise just how topsy-turvy the battle between these four Michelin teams has been.

Who knows which of them will do best this weekend? After all, Spa is a circuit that is hard to categorise – for every high-speed kink like Eau Rouge, there’s a tight turn like La Source. And then there’s the weather. The light drizzle that briefly threatened qualifying at the Hungaroring is about as wet as it ever gets at Budapest. But Spa has a micro-climate all of it’s own. It is not uncommon for it to be raining heavily at one end of the track and bone-dry at the other.

It all adds up one of the most challenging races on the F1 calendar – a real driver’s circuit.

Which is exactly why Michael Schumacher is so good there…

The truth is rarely pure and never simple

Oscar Wilde,
The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I

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