Nor in most optimistic of its projections, Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley they would have imagined that the changes introduced in the edition 2003 of the Formula One were going to trigger in without doubts will be one of the exciting definitions the more in the history of the category. And it does not matter already if some of the three names that maintain in vilo to the world-wide liking does with the triumph in the three races that lack. The work is done, and fully.

IT ENTRUSTS was able to give it an upset to the monotonous championship of 2002

Arriving at these instances of the contest with seven pilots with mathematical possibilities to accede to the crown is a situation little common in the maximum category of motoring and, we insisted, good part of the credit it ENTRUSTS takes it thanks to the modifications that introduced for this campaign. They are the same seven steering wheels that have distributed the successes in the thirteen rounds until now celebrated, - besides Giancar it Fisichella that do not enter the account - being last of them the youngest child Fernando Alonso, for whom any praise will be concise and del that we will dedicate a generous space.
Although for some certain norms as the classifications to a sent return are boring, for others it has generated the opposite effect, while unique the certain thing is that of the way as it is watched to him, the present season has returned to capture the interest of many people who were lost the taste of the F1 before the overwhelming superiority exhibited in the past seasons by Michael Schumacher and the Ferrari house. Now, on the contrary, the emotion seems not to have a climax, in an unpredictable constant and to happen of events that are going to explain themselves in the Earth of the Rising Sun.
And as if a end of the championship of the League or Calcium one would be, three pilots and their respective equipment gamble “the Champions” in the tracks of Monza, Indianapolis and Suzuka, is worth to say, temples of the speed where only Ferrari will have very small advantage with a “unique game” like the premises, although without counting on all the group in yield fullness. 72, 71 and 70 points are the units that present/display Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya and Kimi Raikkonen which turns any prediction into a simple exercise of riddle.

The fight between Piquet and Mansell did not help to the equipment Williams in 1986

In a recent article we dared to imagine an epilog like the one of 1986, when Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton the Seine defined the battle, but to the point at which we have arrived it surpasses this aspiration fully. For it they had to take place a series of circumstances that - for fortune of all the lovers of the automotive sport - have been fulfilled exciting and dramatic precision: technical fiasco of Ferrari, regularity of Raikkonen and recovery of Montoya. It would be necessary to back down until the beginnings of the Eighties to secure a similar equality, with editions like those of 1981, 1982 and 1983 with average dozen of aspirings with campeoniles possibilities for want of three dates. But one reviews detailed of to those we will leave it seasons for coming chronicles, because Hungary let too many things pleasant to comment and others to criticize.

HAT TRICK OF PRECOCIOUSNESS

A smiling Alonso puts with its machine of F. 3000, in Austria

Also in the previous note we had shown the commentary about the possibilities of Alonso of managing to seize of the record like the youngest winner of the history of the F1. In truth it was, beyond the mathematical possibilities that still they favored to him, a task beside the point uphill given the quality of the rivals, but realized by the boy of 22 years in the vericuetos magiares surpasses any optimistic logic, rendering to us before a boy who has dedicated itself to rescribir many chapters in international motoring in little more than half hundred of races: for the precision, they tell if them do not fail, 54 taken on vehicles single-seaters.
That was what one of the goals wished by any motorist in the world needed the Spanish Fernando Alonso to adjudge itself more: to prevail in a Great Prize of Formula One, objective one reserved to a few human beings in - numerical coincidence goes - 54 years of history of the category. But we did not speak solely of its participation with the Minardi and the Renault, that as soon as they add 29, but from the moment at which the native one of Oviedo sat down for the first time in the Coloni Nissan of 2000cc of the Euro Open Movistar Nissan of 1999 followed by one season in the F.3000. That is to say, it arrived at the F1 with 25 released in its life! , seven of praised/poured off them in victories. Clear that there will be one who maintains that pupilo of Flavio Briatore swallowed thousands of kilometers in tests with Renault F1 during the 2002, but the truth is said: nothing is comparable nor the experience is sufficient when near 850 horsepowers they roar in unison to your around in the hope that the red lights go out.
Without realizing the exhaustive investigation that corresponds so before statistical, beforehand it is possible to be assured that the pilots must be few who in so short time have prevailed from the day in which they rose for the first time a single-seater with a bar antiupset on his heads. One of precocious, pentacampeón of the world Michael Schumacher, needed up to 75 presentations between F.Konig, F.Ford, F.3, Tourism, Sport Prototypes and F1 before prevailing in the GP of Belgium in Spa-Francorchamps 1992.

Nine races only took to Brushes McLaren to secure their first triumph him

Clearly, we could not ignore the new historical document of Fernando, after to have broken the mark that was in use by 44 years, transforming itself into the youngest pilot in adjudging a GP of F1, registry that corresponded from 1959 to the New Zealander Brushes McLaren, that took advantage of the lack fuel in Cooper-Climax de Jack Brabham in the GP of the United States disputed in Sebring; for the anecdote, the Australian pushed his single-seater last the two hundred meters until crossing the goal in the fourth place, which assured to him first its three world-wide titles.
Alonso is also the first Spanish in raising the highest drawer of the premiación in a race of F1, consequently disappears the best previous result obtained by Hispanic in the power of Alfonso a Head of Cow Marquess of Portago, that doing dupla with the Briton Peter Collins, was second on a Ferrari in the GP of England of 1956, mark that the own Fernando would tie during the GP of Spain of the present season. And it is that to its 22 years with 26 days, Alonso has added a true “Hat Trick” when becoming youngest realizing one pole position, a record of return and by all means, the victory. The future pilots of era will have it to Internet very hard at the time of trying to snatch some to him of these landmarks and if some name could threaten that in the future near registry, they do not forget Lewis Hamilton (a protected British colored person of Mercedes Benz) and Nelson Piquet Jr, both with 18 springs.

KARTING, UNIVERSAL SCHOOL

Fernando ready Alonso to release a test of street Karting

In the most glorious hour of Spanish motoring, that one that just begins to enjoy itself in the form of the “Alonsomanía”, is many the elements that the pain is worth well to remember and to emphasize. We considered therefore it at least, with the permission of which they dissent of our expositions.
And it is that before the just world-wide euphoria by the triumph of the “Asturian Martian” (as well as was called to him at the time to the Finnish motorcyclist Jarno Saarinen or the American Kenny Roberts), one cannot forget the origins the participants and the importance that karting represented in the formation of any modern professional steering wheel. What has to do karting? they will be asked less experienced, perhaps they are not those carts that many see like a vehicle of familiar diversion. Then yes. But also they are the same that forged the weather and the skill of the world-wide champions of F1 the last lustrums, with exception done in Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. An amazingly competitive world that hardly hide in those motors of two times of 100cc, where thousandth separates to the best one of the last one, in interminable and an expensive one to peregrinate of competitions and tests throughout nations and continents, route that legend like Alain Prost, Ayrton the Seine and Michael Schumacher followed, like the modern aspirings to champions like Juan Pablo Montoya, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso.
Next to their father Jose Luis, the occasions were not few in which Fernando Alonso slept in his own car or crossed hundreds of kilometers without rest to save the payment of a hotel. Although they possibly do not admit it, but the same Schumacher or Montoya had to carry out enormous sacrifices to destine their resources in obtaining the best pieces in a modality where the unique reward is a trophy. Now it is when the victories of the boy of the principality of Asturias in karting international - ignored then by the same means that honor today it - with successes in the fought contests of Italy and Europe besides becoming Champion of the World Junior in 1996 acquire more value, a conquest that another Hispanic of undeniable talent had obtained two seasons before, Antonio Garci'a, but it wanted the destiny that while one is now the greater Spanish sport reference in the planet, the other, to its little 23 years, participates almost in the anonymity in the European Championship of Tourism. They are the injustices of a modality that in the present only admits 20 candidates.

The Nissan Formula contributed to the formation of Alonso, among others

In second term, what would have happened if in 1998 the project of single-seaters does not arise in Spain called Open Nissan promoted by slight an ex- pilot of motorcycles dragged to the world of the media of name Jaime Alguersuari. A time ago, in the grill of exit of a test of the World Series, we talked with the Catalan industralist and we indicated the surprise to him produced that us that a motorcyclist had laid the way to his pairs of the four wheels to which responded to us with a satisfaction smile, an asseveration that still there is that refuses to accept, especially in the Hispanic surroundings, but the reality does not leave margin to the doubt: without the Nissan Formula today there would not be a Fernando Alonso in Formula One.
Its triumph in a season 1999 was worth a test to him with escudería Minardi and of in they are repeated more stories there over and over again, del that we rescued as soon as the bad humor of Will stop Fiorio that asked prudence to him the boy indicating to him that it handled slowly on humid asphalt; the times contradicted when Italian manager but capital the surprise went of all when listening of an incredulous and timid Alonso that, indeed, had not forced for anything the machine. An extraterrestrial one had made its debut in a F1. The avasallante irruption of the ovetense has changed the image to him to always despised Spanish motoring, territory absolutely motorcyclist thanks to the countless victories and crowns added by its centaurs, with Angel Grandson at the top, while in counterpart, its motorists, as in the case of Japan and Venezuela and the generation of Italian steering wheels of the last decades, little or anything they have been able to contribute unlike which they take the accelerator in the right fist.
Clear that if today a Fernando Alonso exists also he is thanks to whom “the green ones ate”, men with talent who did not manage to find the moment appropriate, as the case of Luis Perez Room, Jordi Gené, its own Marc brother, recently disappeared Fermín Vélez and until Pedro of the Rose, that had to emigrate to Japanese British earth and until working a race and a name. For the sarcastic British, Adrián Fields was the model of the contemporary, pilot Hispanic steering wheel that thanks to a generous familiar economic contribution could arrive at the F1 in the middle of the eighty, so being not known at the time as in the present it could be the Malayan Alex Yoong or the same Hungarian Zsolt Baumgartner. Paradoxical what, indeed Adrián Fields, that left the F1 when not classifying in three consecutive occasions with the Minardi Cosworth in 1988, would be the person who would grant the first opportunity to him to Alonso to hardly rise a single-seater with 18 years and now she acts like manager personal of the phenomenon of Asturias. Definitively, the talent of Fields was outside the cockpit.

DELICIOUS HUNGARIAN GOULASH

Arm in high for Spanish aircraft commander in gaining a GP of F1

But for the magnificent cavalcade of the pilot of Renault and what meant as approached the goal, the race to magiar would have been an nth sample of which the Hungaroring, in spite of its modifications, is not worthy of a joust of as much hierarchy, but the same will stay in the calendar until the hypocritical laws antitobacco arrive at the margins of the Danube.
The fact by Alonso the day of its first triumph in the F1 is hardly comparable to the first conquest of Nelson Piquet in the GP of Long Beach of 1980 or the one of Ayrton the Seine in Portugal 1985, when both took leave of their rivals from the released one, the first between the walls of the Californian port and second under a true deluge in the drawn up one of Estoril. It did it to the Spanish in the track of smaller adhesion of the F1, where to leave the ideal track it represents a loss of considerable time, raising his virtuosity to the steering wheel when compensating the difference of horsepowers in front of the BMW motors, Mercedes or Ferrari with a race strategy and perfect completion.
For Renault, now identified with blue the celestial one, it meant the return to the victory like constructor in two decades, although as soon as they were two seasons (1984 and 2002) in which ran without effective triumphs like manufacturer of all the package, interval in which offered its motors to equipment like Lotus, Ligier and Williams, marks this last with that reached its majors conquests. Alain Prost had prevailed in Austria 1983 and everything was directed towards the title of constructors and pilots, but the slight Gaul made bitter the existence to him to his heads when hitting in the following race Nelson Piquet and that way their hopes were diluted.
In the started one of the Hungaroring several interesting things were appraised: the terrible exit of the Williams, incapable to transmit almost the thousand horsepowers on the dirty part of the track, while Jarno Trulli, placed in the same sector left, them back as if it had carried out one released sent, like Kimi Raikkonen whose maneuver was worth to him to recover two positions, being placed after the Australian Mark Webber, stumbling block that complicó remarkably the aspirations of the Scandinavian although the final balance was beside the point ideal, when adjusting hardly two of the first place with rejuvenecido McLaren MP4/17. If it accompanies it to the mechanics and it does not betray it like in Nurburgring, the inexpressive Kimi feels like the most serious contender to us in the decisive packing. Its quota of mistakes seems satiated in the first returns of the races of Montmeló and Montreal, is worth to say, in the classifications of Saturday, while in Hockenheim it had enough with leaving walking after crashing against the wall of tires.

The destroyed Jordan de Firman is transferred to boxes of Hungary

Other that must be thankful for the rigidity of the modern single-seaters is Ralf Firman, after its dreadful flight of Saturday in the morning when losing the back aileron of its Jordan. The impact was so strong that it took to doctor Sid Watkins to determine the rest of the Briton, which abrió the doors to him to the stranger Zsoltz Baumgartner, pilot of tests of escudería yellow with less than 200 kilometers in tests, a boy who without doubts removed the lottery in front of his compatriots. The fat view as far as the delivery of Superlicencia ENTRUSTS it completed the panorama becoming, a requirement that stops some has been weeks and that in the case of magiar, as soon as it needed minutes. And it is that the Bernie uncle was not going to allow that grilla of released outside smaller to 20 cars, from which the Zsolt young person happened to become the first descendant of the feared Attila in running in a GP of F1, having like a distant precedent to Ferenc Szisz, that almost a century before gained the first edition of the GP of France in 1906 to the commando of. Renault.
The fact by Baumgartner was honest, if we considered its little experience acquired in the F3000, where it is one more of the squad, while another newcomer one, the Danish Nicholas Kiesa, made its opening in Germany and to date its greater merit has been to take the Minardi until the goal, thus is in the last position. The world-wide runner-up of karting 1996 and surprise winner in the GP of F3000 de Montecar it 2003 (when one was with the gift of the Swedish Bjorn Wirdheim, that carried out blooper of the millenium when pausing to salute to its equipment thinking that already the goal was cruzado), must like first mission equal its companion Jos “The Boss” Verstappen, a task that obviously appears complicated.

Webber leads a nourished squad in the past race of Hungary

It continues astonishing the Australian Mark Webber, who once again scared in the classifications when being placed third party, staying by many returns in the second square. Jaguar-Ford-Michelin maintains its rate, although its new Justin acquisition Wilson has not done much more than the defenestrado Antonio Pizzonia did, which allows to think or that Webber is a superphenomenon (or in Minardi it made things remarkable), or the attention in green bolides is not similar for its two conductors. It is as soon as the second presentation of the spiky Justin on the green made ones, so there will be to give time him so that it justifies his credentials.
Another good task of tactical support realized David Coulthard in the second McLaren, the unique one in to have selected the strategy of two haltings instead of three like the totality of the leaders, while Jarno Trulli had much work in the renewed Hungarian circuit when trying to contain first a Montoya soon and to Michael Schumacher, although the one of Fished must have been one of which it passed worse it in Hungary, because to equality of machines, it was doubled by his companion Fernando Alonso, pair that was ratified in the Renault equipment for season 2004 where they will arrive with many aspirations.

TROMPOYA LEFT CHEAP

Juan Pablo Montoya beside the point completed a positive result after a complicated exit and his seventh podio consecutive hardly leaves a point of the first place, that is to say, before from his arrival to the F1 it never was so about commanding the championship. Nevertheless, the native of Bogota almost spoils everything with his third I spin a top of the season, a number over the average of errors allowed to any aspiring to champion, although on the other hand, if it has survived with minimum damage the mishaps of Melbourne, Montreal and Budapest, means that the luck is of its side, a fundamental element that it always accompanies the predestined ones. The best thing of Juancho is the honesty with which it recognizes his failures, although it means that their followers live with a knot in the throat until the picture flag lowers.

Juan Pablo Montoya obtained his seventh podio consecutive

And we spoke of “allowed” sins because except for very rare exceptions, all the champions committed some that another desliz in route towards the crown. In the era has been called on that us to live, we remembered one of Niki Lauda when realizing I spin a top in Nurburgring 1984 that nearly complica him the trichampionship, but then its coequipero in McLaren Tag Porsche Alain Prost was hardly a professor apprentice, far from to arrive perfectly that it would reach with time, and had already thrown by the hut up to three sceptres with different mishaps at moments critics; Nelson Piquet hit up to three consecutive times in the route towards its first title in 1981, and in 1987 I spin a top his in Spain prolonged the possibilities of Nigel Mansell; the great Ayrton the Seine crashed against a guardrail in Monaco 88 when it dominated with the McLaren Honda, but even so was champion; Michael Schumacher also carried out I spin a top in Spa 1994 that he would not prevent him to arrive at assault echelon from podio, although soon he would be disqualified by the use of the flat wood bottom of smaller dimensions to the allowed ones. That is to say, nor greatest pluricampeones was exentos of mistakes, from which the aspirings still have “even permission” to be mistaken, word that to date does not seem to comprise of the vocabulary of Fernando Alonso.
Clear that it must not have been to the liking of Patrick Head the new deconcentration of its pilot, like was not it either the nth maneuver uncontrolled of Ralf Schumacher in the started one, made up by a magnificent recovery, with until now a little sight advancement on its older brother, results than they grant the first place to him from constructors to the British house, the primary target of Sir Frank Williams. Juan Pablo had the immense fortune to return in time just in front of the minor of the Schumacher, but, what would have happened if Ralf happened to its companion? , one went away to let advance to yield the third place to him to the Colombian? , a question that stops all that toils within the square of Grove was no necessity to respond.
We sin resoundingly when thinking that the house of the Cavallino Rampante was going to plant face in Budapest, especially Schumacher, but one from the grayest activities in all their race, accomplice of having been in the incorrect place at the right moment was, like when she left behind Jarno Trulli and when it remained without fuel when arriving at his second resupply. But as it could not be of another way, the palm of the bad fortune became to take Rubens to it Barrichello, that on the other hand can feel contented to escape without no scratch. The unexpected breakage of the back suspension in the quickest point of the track (rather it seemed an explosion of the transmission by the way as they left the pieces flying), ended the hopes of the Brazilian, while Montoya was a privileged spectator and little it lacked so that also it was involved in the incident.

The Ferrari equipment made responsible to Barrichello by the breakage of its car

The back wheel of the F2003-GA left sudden flight and thanks to God this time did not strike to anybody, while the pilot demanded the lack of medical attention and the little space on the way to escape. What irony: the 100 meters of zone of deceleration no longer are sufficient more for the today pilots, in a section that now has asphalt instead of gravel, consequently a hardly uncontrolled vehicle can pause but until crashing against the multiple barrier of tires. Rubinho admitted to have felt fear when the feeling like a passenger in an airplane without wings, but as we do not get tired to repeat, all the heroes of the present must give thanks to the extreme safety measures that prevail in the sports to motor, because otherwise, or many would tell not even it, without concerning their ability or hierarchy.
Definitively the modern F1 does not leave margin for the miracles and if the engineers say that in such track the chassis and the aerodynamics do not favor to them, because in fact it is therefore no longer is time to invent something new. McLaren trusts the oval of Indiana since in the past edition it was to them very well there, and as in the end we spoke of the same modified car, they hope that the situation is repeated, while they are more cautious for Monza and Suzuka. Ferrari and Bridgestone count the minutes to leave to prove in Monza, green light that just will receive in the month of September, tests that will determine the success or not for the rest of the season, while the package BMW-Williams-Michelin is without doubts the best one of grilla, and in the Nazionale Automobile race track I gave Monza must ratify it, with possibilities in Indianapolis and by far work in Suzuka, where rain could be the element surprise that unbalances the schemes.

Schumi continues reaping intrascendentes results GP'S in the last

By all means, how to forget it, it was the sour cherry of the pie and also an image that can be interpreted of many ways: the teacher Michael Schumacher doubled by the possible winner Fernando Alonso, a satisfaction that without doubts more perverse enjoyment between the liking generates and the malicious press that enters the true professionals, although is not either necessary to forget indeed that similar maneuver took place the past in recent in favor of own Germanic on the Colombian the Juan Pablo Montoya, there, in Hungarian earth. And if Spanish-speaking one is, the one of Budapest it was the first occasion from the GP of Argentina of 1957 when two runners of Castilian language raised podio, in that one occasion with the immortal Argentinean Juan Manuel Fangio like winner, while his compatriot Charles Menditeguy was third party, a so particular type that besides wonderful become fond of pilot, it was expert golfista, velerista and hadicap 10 in pole. At the moment, it is hour to celebrate with Asturian cider.