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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Great Britain 2006


Not a spectacular race by any means, especially when compared to British Grands Prix of recent years. Alonso ran away with it, Ferrari pulled out a great second stop to overtake Kimi, who held off Fisico in the later laps.

Scott Speed made a dangerous lung on Ralf who managed to collide with Webber whilst trying to regain control of his Toyota - all three retiring from the race. Hopefully Speed will be penalised at least financially as this is the second time he will have been before the Race Stewards, let's not forget that Yuji Ide only caused one crash and he had his licence revoked.

Jenson Button had a nightmare weekend, mistakes in qualifying strategy meant that he started 19th on the grid and retired early on after making his way to 12th, behind a struggling David Coulthard. Rosberg did well to finish ninth, just out of the points.

I wasn't at all impressed with Alonso's driving prior to the restart, that kind of thing is dangerous and was just asking for an accident the way the cars were stacked up behind him, then he has the intelligence to accelerate then brake again, he should be fined for dangerous driving.

So onto the rumours, Williams have yet to confirm that they have signed an Engine deal with Toyota, which is now reported to be for three years and the engines may be badged as Lexus.

The two Red Bull teams are rumoured to be having a reshuffle with their engines. Allegedly they have asked Cosworth to consider changing the contract that is in place for next season, at the moment it is for the V10 to go in the Toro Rosso cars but Red Bull want them to change to the V8 and place it in the Red Bull Racing cars. But what about the contract with Ferrari to supply Engines? Well, apparently, the contract is with Red Bull, not Red Bull Racing, meaning that Red Bull can put them in either of their teams' cars. Therefore the contracts that are in place with Cosworth and Ferrari for next season are honoured, with a few tweaks, paving the way for Volkswagon to become the Engine supplier to both teams in 2008, according to F1 Live, the VW badge is currently prominent in Toro Rosso press releases, so this rumour seems quite likely.

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