F1 Manager Revised 2006 Season - We have a winner! Season complete

2006 Australian Grand Prix - Qualifying

Renault's Fernando Alonso took pole position for the 2006 Australian Grand Prix ahead of Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton and Toyota's Mark Webber, setting a blistering time of 1:25.842. Williams had a poor session with Giancarlo Fisichella only managing to finish 12th whilst the two Super Aguri's propped up the grid once again.

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I'm still awaiting testing plans from the following teams!

Ferrari
Mclaren
Red Bull
Honda
Midland
Toro Rosso

You have until tomorrow to get them in or you will miss out on potential gains from the session.

Wohoo!
Finally showing some pace we are, that's great! Fingers crossed Nando is good in the race too..

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Honda
Great effort from Massa, that's 8th! Sutil should have some more pace though, he's honestly not matching Massa's pace.



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BMW Sauber
Great quali for us with Ralf starting 4th tomorrow and Nick couldn't turn his luck to a good one so he starts 13th, which that hopes us a good race for tomorrow, but anything can happen.

Super Aguri
It wasn't great quali, at least Speed was so close to the pace of other cars but unfortunately it wasn't good enough. We said previously that Super Aguri says that catching up cars from back of the field is really hard. Best thing tomorrow for the race is we may play a patient game until something dramatic happens.

Toyota

Extremely happy to see Mark get third in his home race. Hopefully he can convert it to a race win. Still some improvement needed for Jenson.

2006 Australian Grand Prix

Hello and welcome to sunny Melbourne, the host of the third round of the F1 championship. Yesterday, Fernando Alonso took pole position in the Renault ahead of Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari. Can the reigning champion convert pole position into a win to kick start his championship or will home town hero Mark Webber take the spoils? Lets go dowen to the grid and find out.



5 lights and away we go!



No major dramas on the first lap so here's a look at the standings.



Ralf Schumacher runs wide and that lets the Red Bull of Juan-Pablo Montoya through.



Lap 3 and Michael Schumacher has a look down the inside of Jarno Trulli



Contact!



Trulli is off the track and Michaal Schumacher is facing the wrong way



Massa has nowhere to go and plows into the Ferrari



Schumacher is out and Massa will need a new front wing



Massa will have a lot of work to do to match his 2nd place finish in Malaysia now



Schumacher only has himself to blame after hitting Trulli



Now Sato spins! It's all happening



He tries to rejoin but spins into the wall!



He's out of the race. Morgiman will be furious



A look at the standings after 10 laps. Alonso still leads



Montoya dives dowm the inside of Raikkonen



He's into 4th



Glock looks to get by Sutil



But it denied by some great defensive driving by the Honda man



Sutil undoes all that work two laps later by spinning on the exit of the first corner



That drops him down to 17th



A train is beginning to form behind Trulli



Fisichella is through past Button into 8th, the cameras have missed that one



It looks like it's going to be a pitstop race between Toyota, Williams and Toro Rosso as Button, Fisichella and Coulthard pit



Button is out ahead of Fisichella



Coulthard couldn't quite beat Fisichella out of the pits though



The race leader is in now



The pitstops haven't beneffited Jarno Trulli, he's lost a place to Jenson Button



Alonso rejoined in 5th, behind Lewis Hamilton!



Montiero has a problem



A loose wheel ends his race



Webber is in. Looks like a one stopper for the Aussie



He rejoins in 5th



But Raikkonen takes 5th on the next lap



Now Montoya is having a go, Webber is really struggling



Not this time for the Red Bull driver



Stuck behind Mark Webber, Juan-Pablo Montoya finds himself under pressure from Button



A terrible corner for Toyota! Montoya is through past Webber and Trulli passes Button



Button now in 8th



A lap later and it's 9th, Heidfeld is through



The German is on a charge and is now 7th after passing Trulli



Heidfeld dives down the inside of Webber who locks up



And takes 6th



Trulli dives down the inside of Webber



Disaster for Toyota! Button spins



Now Heidfeld too! What a shame for the BMW driver



He's now 11th ahead of Button



Raikkonen has an electrical problem! He'll pit to get it fixed.



Scott Speed spins on the final lap



And his teammate retires with a suspension problem



Hamilton wins the Australian Grand Prix to take his maiden F1 win



Alonso is 2nd



Ralf Schumacher 3rd



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2016 01:07PM by F1_Manager.

BMW Sauber
Great day for our team, Ralf gets another podium on his list and Nick finally gets the points. Although there was a big mistake for Nick, which is a spin that threw his chances to have a great result, but he gets the job well done to hold on in top 10.

Super Aguri
Nothing quite dramatic changed, but the day couldn't get worse for us as Karthikeyan with another mechanical problems. Speed finishes 18th and we leave no points so far.



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Get in Lewis, awesome drive mate, awesome drive. Let's take this momentum into the next race!. We don't know what happened to Michael yet, whether it was his own mistake or a problem that caused the mistake but we'll have a further look into that.

Honda
Trash race.

fandericciardo3 check your pm's please



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Toyota

A disappointing race for us with both drivers struggling for pace in the second stint. Onwards to San Marino where we hope to be more competitive.

Wow.. just as annoying as his win in Monaco.. did he pit in at all? Cant quite load the pictures on mobile internet so cant tell

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miki2000milos Wrote:
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> Wow.. just as annoying as his win in Monaco.. did
> he pit in at all? Cant quite load the pictures on
> mobile internet so cant tell

Lewis did but came out ahead of Alonso

Latest News

Unfortunately Casssp has decided to resign from his position as manager of Red Bull Racing. I will take over in the interim unless there is anybody who would like to take over? Any interested managers please send a pm

Edit: I can confirm that Toro Rosso manager MDBSnake will be taking over at Red Bull



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Albeit very short at the reigns with Toro Rosso, I am very happy to be guiding Red Bull forward as well. I am looking forward to this challenge ahead! My main focus will be going towards Red Bull, getting to know the team and the people. But I will push with both teams to achieve maximum results!

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MDBSnake schrieb:
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> Albeit very short at the reigns with Toro Rosso, I
> am very happy to be guiding Red Bull forward as
> well. I am looking forward to this challenge
> ahead! My main focus will be going towards Red
> Bull, getting to know the team and the people. But
> I will push with both teams to achieve maximum
> results!


Great to see... so me and Snake controlling 2 teams. Wonder this is going to be awesome. Can't wait for next race.

2006 San Marino Grand Prix - Free Practice

Toyota's Jenson Button registered the fastest time of free practice ahead of the San Marino grand prix with a time of 1:22.241. Ralf Schumacher was second in the BMW and Giancarlo Fisichella too 3rd in the Williams.