de Blueboy » Lun 17 Oct 2005 23:58
Chez les british, les titres!
'FERNANDO ALONSO flicked two fingers at his rivals after claiming the final race of the season in China yesterday.
The Spaniard stormed to his seventh victory of the year to make a clean sweep of Formula One's trophy cabinet.
The win handed Renault the constructors' championship, adding to the drivers' crown he won three weeks ago in Brazil.
On the slowing down lap the Renault racer held up seven fingers - one for each of his wins - but it was the two on his left hand that said most.' - Byron Young, The Mirror
'FERNANDO ALONSO should be thankful that he is good at his day job. He celebrated a seventh win of the season in the Chinese Grand Prix yesterday with an impromptu rendition of Queen’s We Are the Champions that was so awful it could have stripped the paint off the side of his glorious Renault car.
'There is no chance of a new career in the pop industry on this evidence but, fortunately, his squawks were confined to the radio link to his garage, where the celebrations of complete mastery of Formula One were already under way and nobody minded how awful his singing was.' - Kevin Eason, The Times
'Queen provided the soundtrack to Fernando Alonso's season. The world champion gave an emotional rendition of We are the Champions on the Renault team radio as he took the chequered flag, his seventh victory of the year, equalling Kimi Rakkonen's haul and securing the double of constructors' as well as drivers' title for the French manufacturer.
'The travelling Asturians, that swelling band of Alonso fanatics from northern Spain, were also in splendid voice as they welcomed their hero into the paddock. How they got there was a question that at other times would have exercised Formula One's crack security cordon. Maybe, like Michael Schumacher, who crashed on the way to the grid and later spun out of the race, the officials were having a bad day.' - Mick Garside, The Daily Telegraph
'Fernando Alonso put the finishing touches to a season of rare endeavour with a flawless victory in the China grand prix yesterday. His four-second victory over Kimi Raikkonen's McLaren clinched Renault's first constructors' world championship and equalled Raikkonen's tally of seven grand prix wins in 2005.' - Alan Henry, The Guardian
'Fernando Alonso and Renault responded yesterday in the best possible way in China to McLaren-Mercedes' challenge for the world championship for constructors, as the Spaniard won a chaotic race and thus confirmed the French manufacturer as champion in its own right for the first time.' - David Tremayne, The Independent
'MICHAEL SCHUMACHER denies that he wants to retire but a miserable Chinese Grand Prix yesterday could force him to contemplate it for the first time. The final race of the Formula One season was the last straw for Schumacher, who managed to crash before he reached the starting grid in one of the more bizarre episodes in his turbulent history.
'The Crown Prince of Formula One then compounded the felony by spinning off into early retirement from the race when he was not even racing. He was simply following the safety car in a lowly tenth place when he decided to warm up his tyres and whizzed off into the gravel. The long walk back gave him plenty of time to think about the giggles up and down the pitlane as the seven- times world champion was brought to the lowest ebb of what he describes as his “worst ” season in ten years of driving for Ferrari.
'If that was not bad enough, he couldn’t take an early flight home on his private jet to his lakeside mansion in Switzerland. The race stewards made him hang around until after the race to slap his wrists for pulling across in front of Christian Albers’ Minardi as the pair made their way to the start line, even before the race was officially under orders.' - Kevin Eason, The Times
'MICHAEL SCHUMACHER knows just how David Moyes is feeling right now. Like the manager of rock-bottom Everton, everything that could possibly go wrong this season, HAS gone wrong for the Ferrari ace.
'Spectacularly wrong, in fact. Schumacher’s rotten year was summed up in two bizarre incidents within the space of 45 minutes at yesterday’s final grand prix of the season.
'The seven-time world champ even managed to crash before the race started. Schumacher was driving on a parade lap when he swerved in front of Christijan Albers and was bashed from behind by the Dutchman’s Minardi.
'Damage to the Ferrari forced Schumacher, 36, to start in his spare car from the pit lane.
'And on lap 23, his nightmare 2005 was complete. Having moved up to 10th place and with the safety car out, Schuey spun off at gentle turn No 8.' - Charlie Wyett, The Sun