Alonso, thanks to the rain God, took full advantage of a late rain shower to oust Felipe Massa and claim his third victory of the season. The race was action packed and full of extraordinary scenes at the early stage of the race when six drivers - including Hamilton, whose World Championship lead has been cut to a paltry two points - crashed out within thirty seconds when the Nurburgring was hit by a virtual monsoon. Incredibly, the race then re-started twenty minutes later in near perfect conditions before a late shower produced a final twist and enabled Alonso to pass Massa with the McLaren and Ferrari cars banging wheels.
It was a memorable race for Markus Winkelhock the local hero in his first race as he took the pole positon on restart because Spyker had taken a remarkable gamble and started him on intermediate tyres. He was overtaken by Massa, Alonso & Co., and eventually retired ‘cuz of his Spyker Ferrari engine giving away.
Kimi’s bad luck continued as he was forced to retire from a certain podium position on track, as his Ferrari engine gave him problems by intermittently cutting out. Kimi crawled back to the pits on Lap 35 and finally coming to rest at the side of the pitlane.
Mark Webber [Red Bull] finished third in a thrilling finish as he lost control going into the Schumacher-S on the final lap of the race, under extreme pressure from Alex Wurz. He just about managed to get it back together again and scrambled through the final corner with Wurz on his gearbox to receive an ecstatic welcome from his mechanics on the pitwall.
Overall it was an extraordinary race with good fortune and bad fortune for many of the front runners [only 13 out of the 22 finally could finish the race], but finally Fernando Alonso had got some good fortune and should be thanking the rain Gods for it, for if the 2nd rain showers would have taken another 20 odd mins to hit the tarmac, it would have been another story with Massa thanking them for the delay.
Going forward to the next race at Hungry on 5th August, Ferrari will have their work cut out as summed up nicely by Kimi in the post race interview “We have a very competitive car but clearly we have to improve on the reliability front."
It was a memorable race for Markus Winkelhock the local hero in his first race as he took the pole positon on restart because Spyker had taken a remarkable gamble and started him on intermediate tyres. He was overtaken by Massa, Alonso & Co., and eventually retired ‘cuz of his Spyker Ferrari engine giving away.
Kimi’s bad luck continued as he was forced to retire from a certain podium position on track, as his Ferrari engine gave him problems by intermittently cutting out. Kimi crawled back to the pits on Lap 35 and finally coming to rest at the side of the pitlane.
Mark Webber [Red Bull] finished third in a thrilling finish as he lost control going into the Schumacher-S on the final lap of the race, under extreme pressure from Alex Wurz. He just about managed to get it back together again and scrambled through the final corner with Wurz on his gearbox to receive an ecstatic welcome from his mechanics on the pitwall.
Overall it was an extraordinary race with good fortune and bad fortune for many of the front runners [only 13 out of the 22 finally could finish the race], but finally Fernando Alonso had got some good fortune and should be thanking the rain Gods for it, for if the 2nd rain showers would have taken another 20 odd mins to hit the tarmac, it would have been another story with Massa thanking them for the delay.
Going forward to the next race at Hungry on 5th August, Ferrari will have their work cut out as summed up nicely by Kimi in the post race interview “We have a very competitive car but clearly we have to improve on the reliability front."
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