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What is interesting is that Webber is not sorry to see Schumi go.
Webber not sorry to see Schumacher leave
21/10/2006
Writing for the Daily Telegraph, WilliamsF1 driver, Mark Webber, who heads to Red Bull in 2007, has admitted that he will not be sorry to see Michael Schumacher leave Formula One, claiming that in many ways the sport will be better off without the German.
“I came into this sport looking up to Michael,” admits the Australian. “He was an inspiration to me. But it’s like seeing a stunning girl in the playground. When you get close to her you start to notice some of her flaws.
“Alain Prost was my real hero,” he continues, “but Schumacher rocked up and took the story on. His attention to detail was just unbelievable; the way he used his power and influence to manipulate situations to suit him. He never lets up. He is amazingly hungry.
“Being single-minded is fine,” admits the WilliamsF1 driver, “but sometimes the lengths Michael has gone to in order to succeed has left an awkward taste in the mouth. Sometimes when the adrenalin is flowing we do things that are a bit over the top. You can let that go. But Michael has been more cynical than that, doing things that are over and above what you might expect.
“As a fan I want my sport to be looked at in the right way,” he adds. “You want your main man to be a hero. You don’t want to be defending him all the time. You can give someone the benefit of the doubt only so often. At times I have run out of excuses for him.”
The Australian says he believes that the way in which Schumacher accepted defeat in Japan was an act, and warns that the title fight is far from over.
“As always with Michael everything is prepared. In every race there are three, four, five possible scenarios. In Japan he wheeled out the one that best suited his purpose. When he was walking back to the pits at Suzuka the gears in his brain were spinning. He was working out how best to handle the situation. If he had come back saying the fight was still on, that he could still win the championship here, it would have pumped up Fernando Alonso even more. If he can take five per cent off Alonso’s performance here, so much the better. He will take this title any way he can. He’s a very clever guy.”
With Schumacher due to hang up his helmet after this weekend, Webber is unsure whether he will ever be able to forget some of the negatives that surround the German.
“I think things might be different when he has stopped racing. Some of the discussions we have had have been really genuine. Back in 2003 at the Monza test, talking about his family, things like that. They draw you back the other way. I hope we can go back to that when he is removed from all of this. I hope so, but I’m not sure.”
Article from Pitpass (http://www.pitpass.com):
Published: 21/10/2006
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i love those BTCC / WTCC races.
classic BMW vs Alfa battle at the silverstone one. and mansell… what a berk! he goes all over the place bumps everybody leads the race and drops to 3rd. classic snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for mansell. cool. nice to see the ford sierra cosworths… monster cars. as usual, murray walker’s commentary adds more colour to the race proceedings. love the way he squeeked when tarquini flipped.
cheers man.
not been following of late due to lack of sources / info / coverage.
[quote=sabelt]fazz how did you attach the youtube link in this thread? [/quote]
below the text area box, click on the input format and choose full html (if you are allowed access). then copy the YouTube “embed” link and paste it in the text area of the post. hope that helps. let me know if it doesn’t.
[quote=Nohad]I don’t have the official school holidays yet.
If there is no changes to the present school holiday,
1st term holiday should be mid March for 1 week.
2nd term holiday should be at end May & early June for 2 weeks.
3rd term holiday should be end August for 1 week.
4th term holiday should be somewhere mid Nov.
[/quote]thanks for the effort anyway. yeah, it should not change much… but will wait for the official dates.
cool video clips!
yeah, this is something we should have in town.
oh ya. bro naza… if you would like to post the videos here, you can cut and paste the “embed” links to be able to show the video on this site… first you need to select the “full html” input format below this text box area.
the onboard is awesome.
[quote=ed]You’re joking, right?
Either that or Jeremy’s joking!
Are they (VAG) out of their minds….?!?
All that money could have been better spent to make cheaper VWs (I love the new Golf MkV GTi… yummm!!!)
[/quote]story goes that jeremy has had operations to remove his tongue which got stuck to his cheek. apparently it is a chronic disease he suffers from. incurable.
[quote=mikko]Or could it be too much action (to benefit oneself) without enough planning (talk) to actually make the sport grow rather than individual pockets?[/quote]
there’s two sides of the coin. my view is lack of coordinated efforts. the market after all is small… but fragmented.
[quote=TheFazz]malay mail had a good coverage.[/quote]
actually, to correctly update… most if not all papers had pretty good coverage. well done. let’s hope that this will boost interest in the series and around malaysian motorsports.
[quote=mikko]Just had some random thoughts about the my-kart site layout as it is.
I seem to remember the “active forum topics” list being visible at the first page after coming into my-kart.org/web. ( I might be wrong ?.)
Now the only way to find the forum at that point is to see the small link at the top of the page, and you only have the active forum topics list when you enter the forum section. I think the forum is one of the main sections that would bring in participation at my-kart after the events section. Think it’s worth making it more visible?
And another thing… you think it might be worth making the threads readable by guests? And only commenting restricted to those that signed up. This because I for one was thinking “wow this forum gets no replies” when there was thread after thread without a single reply. When you aren’t logged in it simply states “login or register to post comments”… doesn’t say anything about having to log in to read the comments.[/quote]
Mikko – thanks for the suggestions.
Consider your requests done. Please give me your feedback.
A thread was started to get feedback on the new layouts:
http://club.my-kart.org/node/625yeah, fantastic races. Enjoyed the feature race and the pass about 5 laps from the end.
Well done to Alex and Team Malaysia. Malaysia was competitive all weekend long. If we can maintain this sort of consistency and Alex’s mature driving, then we should be making waves.
This should be a great boost for track attendance at Sepang. I would love to see a Malaysia win at Sepang on 26 Nov!
Team Malaysia now in third with 17 pts behind Germany (20pts) and Mexico (19pts). Sweeeeettt!
congrats!
Go Team Malaysia! Go Alex Yoong!
[quote=Jules]I am still having contents of forum which goes offscreen to the left….rendering it unreadable!
Sigh! care to help?[/quote]
apparently this problem plagues internet explorer users. have you tried firefox?
in any, case i shall try to fix it – but i am not sure what is causing the problem.
[quote=sabelt]would be glad to have in pHp format forum. :)[/quote]
what do you mean by this? are you talking about the phpBB forum? ah. can’t do that, unless you want another login id.
btw, i have allowed unregistered users to be able to view responses to topics.
