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I think my earlier comments were interrupted by an electrical storm here in Indiana. Anyway, I agreed with most of your comments on the Nurburgring this year, but wanted to suggest that the BMW is wound up too tight in the Williams; it looked to me like Ralph was "nursing" it after the last pitstop. I think they're trying to beat the Red machine with sheer "grunt" (what seemed to work for them last year) and have run up against the limits of their engine. I'm especially suspicious because they keep saying the engine is O.K. 
The other thing was that you overlooked a remarkable drive from Bernoldi (he passed both Jags and both Toyotas and finished ahead of both Minardis (tho' he started in front of one of them). He also beat J.V. Not bad for someone driving a wholly out-classed machine with Cosworth (Cosworth!) power. Almost might as well have been an Offenhauser [sorry, inside Indy joke]. And as long as I'm on the subject of remarkable driving, let me throw in the following thought: At Austria, Rubens qualified at 1.08.082 for the pole; Alex Yoong, the "goat" the Qualifyer says "can't even drive" was 4.254 seconds behind Rubens (in 22nd place) almost a full second behind Webber. What does this mean? That the other nineteen drivers arranged themselves inside a 3 second "window" on a course that is 4.3 kilometers ( or 2 & 1/2 miles) long. Given that, except for Rubens, all the other drivers find themselves in "also ran" machines, this suggests -- to me at least-- that all speculation about who in the field is "championship material" is pretty silly. We know, for instance, that besides Rubens, Eddie Irvine can also win in a Ferrari; he did it when he used to have Rubens' job. And at Austria Eddie was almost two whole seconds faster than Alex --and he was driving a truck "prepared" (hahaha) for him by Nikki! In short, pretty much anyone on the grid can win in a Ferrari --provided, of course, the team orders call for him to. The only exception might be those fellows (and we know their names) who can't seem to remember that the race isn't won by winning every corner - Jim W - USA (Reference Heretic 4-19 - I don't mind being right...)

The Heretic replies:

Sorry for the late reply. Yes Bernoldi is good.

It is sad that to win a race today one must first drive for the right team – hardly anything else matters.

I suspect that there are many drivers, like Bernoldi, Webber, Raikkonen, Button etc that may prove to be brilliant but will never get the opportunity. Even if the likes of McLaren recognise their ability, like in the case of Raikkonen, it may be a bad time to join the team. Luck has a lot to do with it.

The Heretic

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