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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (678)	9/25/2005 3:06:20 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 764

The 2205 Belgian Grand Prix proved to be one filled with unexpected happenings... it certainly did not disappoint; a track where the men are separated from the boys still and in spite of the many modifications to the former far more dangerous track it used to be. this weekend the famous weather effect created havoc and had many driver fall as victims as they tried to out-guess (and even some of them out-drive the conditions)... some of them were brazilian felipe massa and german ralf schumacher attempted to get ahead of the pack by switching to dry weather tires as the racing line started to dry out... only to realize that the humidity (and wetness would still hang and make many parts of the track sufficiently damp to cause them to run off the pavement, only to be saved by their skill from crashing heavily... in ralf's case, the switch to dry tires was very much untimely as he was running second behind kimi and closing in very fast, (when he still had the intermediates on)... inexplicably, he went into the pits to make the switch and as he came out it became clearly evident the tires would not hold the road... his gamble failed... there were other mishaps, more noticeably, poor giancarlo fiscichella crashed heavily at radillion... watching the replay, he seemed he got sideways as he was going through eau rouge.... (probably after going over the kerb)... at such speed, and with little space... he simply slammed against the tire barrier he was ok, but no doubt sick by the accident as he was running seventh and catching up to the leaders fast. giancarlo has had a very disappointing year... he started in terrific form winning the opening GP in melbourne... since then, he has been struggling and twice now, he has made critical errors that may jeopardize his position as a Renault driver... a combination of bad luck and errors made by him -the one stalling out of his second pit stop in an earlier race stands out have not help his team's pursuit for the constructor's championship finally... second placed montoya was hit by antonio pizzonia to take himself and montoya out of the race... arguably, montoya seemed to have cut in front of pizzonia as they entred a corner... all a moot point as montoya lost second place.... pitpass.com