Telling Fortunes by Grounds

The sooner the start of the season, the more the tension not only in the teamcamps but among fans too. After all, over three months of strained working and expectations left behind. But expecting what? Everybody holds his own hopes for a new coming season. Someone (like Renault) even calls them “a plan” and threatens to fight for the main prize. All attempts to forecast the outcome of 2005 championship are like telling fortunes by grounds: whatever you see in the testing “grounds”, it does not mean at all that everything can come true. In F1 there is always a place for a surprise. Take even last year’s breakthrough of B.A.R. or complete failure of McLaren and Williams. (By the way, the two latter made a good showing at pre-season testing.) It was a revelation not only for the F1 public but obviously for themselves!

If you see Max Mosley in the near future, give him my regards, please. He can congratulate himself: thanks to his innovations, any predictions are extremely complicated. Some experts say the speed in the corners decreased! Which is why the drivers’ role is supposed to increase. (If it is really so……well, there are not many racers who are able to line a trajectory so gracefully as Jarno Trulli does.)

There were also some remarks about tyres. They say, expect lots of problems because the long-life rubber refuses to work with the new aerodynamics in a prompt way...

Though I digress. So I foresee by testing: Toyota is going to be in the middle of the final ranking. (You must know the results of all those innumerable testing days.)

There is one more way of telling fortunes: that is called “by others’ troubles”. This time our guys (as Jarno works here now) ought to get the 7^th place in the WCC as the worst case scenario. Minardi and Jordan (even with Schneider’s millions) could compete with the red-and-white cars only at the Japanese team’s debut. Regarding former Jaguar, Red Bull now, “Austrian Mafia”, as F1 paddock baptised Mateschitz & Co., has already torn many (management) heads off. I do not think actually, the renewing process will stop there. Anyway, time must pass so that the team can get themselves together.

By the way, about collaboration: Sauber switched to Michelin. A bit of a strange decision, isn’t it? The Ferrari chassis is constructed considering Bridgestone’s qualities. I wonder, how did the news affect the mood in Maranello? But who knows, it may be another perfidious plan by Jean Todt… Anyway, Sauber is just a modest private stable while Toyota’s resources are huge! So our favourite has enough power to gain the 6^th position in the WCC. Time presses.

Hopefully the top teams have a hard battle for the champion’s crown ahead. They have claimed their ambitions already. They have thrown down the gauntlet to the seven times champion. (Oh, my dear! The same as last year again!) There is nowhere to retreat for them any more: Renault (somehow they did not convince me that they are able to make M. Schumacher not to sleep a wink at nights) or Williams (when will they finally find out who is guilty and what they should do next?). And if in such a kind of situation our two drivers will manage to get on, then, you never can tell, even podiums are possible. And together with them a higher position in the general classification! Could Jarno’s and Ralf’s words really be unfounded? ...

Little Queenie
Special thanks to Linda Camper of www.jarnotrulli-ukfc.co.uk  for her concern and help

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