Sunday, 4th August 2007, the much awaited date for my favourite show of the weekend, Formula 1 at Hungary and the much anticipated showdown of the Premiership champions Manchester United FC and the FA Cup Champion Chelsea FC. The final result ending with me having a late sleep thinking of the events that were stuck in my mind before finally sleeping at 3am in the morning.
The First Show started at 7pm on Starsports, with highlights of the Qualifying session held a day before for the race day grid positions. Final grid positions were official with Lewis Hamilton of the McLaren Mercedes inheriting the pole form his fellow McLaren team mate Fernando Alonso, deemed to have impeded Lewis during qualifying. Alonso was demoted to sixth position and Team McLaren were also punished for the incident after the stewards decided that Alonso had delayed Hamilton during their final Q3 pitstops and that the team had not managed the situation properly, thus will not be eligible for the constructors' points in the race, pending the teams appeal to this decision. Yade yade yade.......
Crap, even within the team pun boleh beulah? Anyway, I spare you guys the details on formula 1, for more details go to http://www.formula1.com. Anyway, at least my team won, despite its internal incident. Here is the final standings:
The First Show started at 7pm on Starsports, with highlights of the Qualifying session held a day before for the race day grid positions. Final grid positions were official with Lewis Hamilton of the McLaren Mercedes inheriting the pole form his fellow McLaren team mate Fernando Alonso, deemed to have impeded Lewis during qualifying. Alonso was demoted to sixth position and Team McLaren were also punished for the incident after the stewards decided that Alonso had delayed Hamilton during their final Q3 pitstops and that the team had not managed the situation properly, thus will not be eligible for the constructors' points in the race, pending the teams appeal to this decision. Yade yade yade.......
Crap, even within the team pun boleh beulah? Anyway, I spare you guys the details on formula 1, for more details go to http://www.formula1.com. Anyway, at least my team won, despite its internal incident. Here is the final standings:
FORMULA 1™ Magyar Nagydíj 2007
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 70 | 1:35:52.991 | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 6 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 70 | +0.7 secs | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | 9 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW | 70 | +43.1 secs | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 1 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Mercedes | 70 | +44.8 secs | 6 | 5 |
| 5 | 10 | Robert Kubica | BMW | 70 | +47.6 secs | 7 | 4 |
| 6 | 11 | Ralf Schumacher | Toyota | 70 | +50.6 secs | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | 16 | Nico Rosberg | Williams-Toyota | 70 | +59.1 secs | 4 | 2 |
| 8 | 4 | Heikki Kovalainen | Renault | 70 | +68.1 secs | 11 | 1 |
| 9 | 15 | Mark Webber | Red Bull-Renault | 70 | +76.3 secs | 9 | |
| 10 | 12 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 69 | +1 Lap | 8 | |
| 11 | 14 | David Coulthard | Red Bull-Renault | 69 | +1 Lap | 10 | |
| 12 | 3 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Renault | 69 | +1 Lap | 13 | |
| 13 | 5 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 69 | +1 Lap | 14 | |
| 14 | 17 | Alexander Wurz | Williams-Toyota | 69 | +1 Lap | 12 | |
| 15 | 22 | Takuma Sato | Super Aguri-Honda | 69 | +1 Lap | 19 | |
| 16 | 19 | Sebastian Vettel | STR-Ferrari | 69 | +1 Lap | 20 | |
| 17 | 20 | Adrian Sutil | Spyker-Ferrari | 68 | +2 Laps | 21 | |
| 18 | 8 | Rubens Barrichello | Honda | 68 | +2 Laps | 18 | |
| Ret | 18 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | STR-Ferrari | 42 | Electrical | 16 | |
| Ret | 23 | Anthony Davidson | Super Aguri-Honda | 41 | Accident | 15 | |
| Ret | 7 | Jenson Button | Honda | 35 | Throttle | 17 | |
| Ret | 21 | Sakon Yamamoto | Spyker-Ferrari | 4 | Accident | 22 |
Note - McLaren scored no constructors' points as penalty for Alonso impeding Hamilton during qualifying.
The next show was immediately after Formula 1 airing on ESPN channel 81, the FA Charity Shield which pitted the mighty Manchester United vs. Chelsea FC, both champions in their own right. It was a wonderful game to watch, although some first eleven players were missing on both sides. Manchester opened up the score with Ryan Giggs striking it on the top middle of the Chelsea net and just before half time, Malouda, the new Frenchman Chelsea recently acquired, wrestled Rio Ferdinand to sublimely nick the ball over Van Der Sar using his outside right foot into the net.
The score stayed the same until the final 90 minutes and the penalty shootout was called for. Van Der Sar Saved all three penalties from Chelsea's chosen penalty kickers whilst Man U scored all three without having to get the other 2 additional kickers to spot kick, making the Charity Shield Trophy, the 3rd trophy won by Man U for this season.
A great preview of the next 9 months of football season to come starting next week. Will Manchester United be able to defend its Premier league title and also be able to challenge in 3 additional fronts of the European Championship league, the FA and the league cups? Or will Chelsea be the team to come up with such bids? Mind you, Liverpool and Arsenal have all beefed up their squads, and so have the teams outside the top four teams, notably Totenham Hotspurs, Manchester City under the new Asian owner and former Premier of Thailand, Mr. Taksin Shinawatra and his new gaffer, Former England Manager, Sven Goran Eriksson. Other notable teams to watch are Newcastle United and Sunderland under former Manchester United Skipper? Its going to be an exciting 9 months of football I tell you.
Formula 1 being 3/5ths of the way with very close points in the drivers championship as well as the constructors championship especially with the twist of McLaren losing constructor's points? Will rookie Lewis Hamilton (McLaren Mercedes) win the Formula 1 driver's championship on his first year stint in Formula 1 or will the Defending Champion Fernando Alonso (McLaren Mercedes) be able to overcome the 7 points deficit and retain it? Is Ferrari going to up their machines during these last few races and provide former McLaren Mercedes driver Kimi Raikonen and his team mate Filipe Massa both at postion 3 & 4 respectively with 21 points separating the first and forth drivers with 6 more races to go?
The score stayed the same until the final 90 minutes and the penalty shootout was called for. Van Der Sar Saved all three penalties from Chelsea's chosen penalty kickers whilst Man U scored all three without having to get the other 2 additional kickers to spot kick, making the Charity Shield Trophy, the 3rd trophy won by Man U for this season.
A great preview of the next 9 months of football season to come starting next week. Will Manchester United be able to defend its Premier league title and also be able to challenge in 3 additional fronts of the European Championship league, the FA and the league cups? Or will Chelsea be the team to come up with such bids? Mind you, Liverpool and Arsenal have all beefed up their squads, and so have the teams outside the top four teams, notably Totenham Hotspurs, Manchester City under the new Asian owner and former Premier of Thailand, Mr. Taksin Shinawatra and his new gaffer, Former England Manager, Sven Goran Eriksson. Other notable teams to watch are Newcastle United and Sunderland under former Manchester United Skipper? Its going to be an exciting 9 months of football I tell you.
Formula 1 being 3/5ths of the way with very close points in the drivers championship as well as the constructors championship especially with the twist of McLaren losing constructor's points? Will rookie Lewis Hamilton (McLaren Mercedes) win the Formula 1 driver's championship on his first year stint in Formula 1 or will the Defending Champion Fernando Alonso (McLaren Mercedes) be able to overcome the 7 points deficit and retain it? Is Ferrari going to up their machines during these last few races and provide former McLaren Mercedes driver Kimi Raikonen and his team mate Filipe Massa both at postion 3 & 4 respectively with 21 points separating the first and forth drivers with 6 more races to go?
No wonder I'm tired, with so much excitement and the looking forward to next week, such previews of what is to come is simply overwhelming for a puny man to recover sufficiently to the workdays ahead. Nerve-wrecking man!!!
Pictures coustesy of Soccernet.com & f1-live.com
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Zzz... too long boss!
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