Monday, September 13, 2004

Ferrari Team Wins a 1-2 at Home in Monza, Italy!

I called this race before it even began!
Boy am I glad I was right!
For quite some time Jenson Button,
Driving for BAR-Honda, had the lead.
Then two incredible things happened.
Rubens Barrichello caught up with Button &
with the power of Ferrari under him took a pass, thus taking the led from Button.
Then all of a sudden Michael Schumaker made a brilliant catch and pass on a turn leaving Button in third place! We all thought Button had the lead in the bag!
Barrichello still had to pit for more fuel to make it to the finish line. So he pulled some extreme driving and succeeded in creating more than a 23 second lead to allow enough time to pit.
It would take at least 2.5 seconds to give the car enough fuel to make it to the finish.
Rubens Barrichello pulled it off. A 5.5 second pit time, allowing sufficient time for fuel & a set of new tyres for the last 10 laps!
It was a marvelous race filled with excitement.
Luckily Jenson Button still made the podium & gave BAR-Honda more constructor points, although Schumacher's 12 season wins, not only puts him in the history books as the only pilot to accomplish this, has already tied up the championship for himself & Ferrari!
Three more races still to come,
with the Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai
next on the 29th of this month!
It'll still be good racing and
more points up for grab for 2nd & 3rd places.


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