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His troubles started with a poor performance in the qualifying heats. Raikkonen misjudged a back marker and was catapulted over the back markers car to another retirement. There aren't many people though that expects Renault to continue at such a high performance as they did in 2005 and 2006. This was the first ever GP race in Hungary with rain and it created much indecision at the beginning of the race, no-one really knew what tyres to use, it was slippery even catching De La Rosa out on the warm up lap, with a spin. The race then started and from the first corner there was wheel-to-wheel action resulting in one of the best Grand Prixs ever in recent years. Speaking to F1.com Briatore said: 2007 will be a fresh start in many ways, and we are very proud to be welcoming a company of the stature of ING to Formula One.

What was interesting that directly after the race, not all the interviews were shown on TV as grown men were crying with emotion in the Honda pit lane, so much work and effort had gone into this historic win. The ability of Williams to continue to take a financial beating is also very questionable. If Formula One loses many of its privateers, the races will become a farce. Instead of using a 'lollipop man' to control their driver, Team Ferrari relies heavily on a system of automated lights that illuminate to indicate to the driver when the fuel pump is removed from the vehicle. Unfortunately, the manual override sequence failed to prevent Massa from getting the green light from his pit crew when the refueling of his car was complete, causing him to veer dangerously in front of the Force India driver. Christian Klien says his decision to join Honda as test and reserve driver is not a step down in his career.

Lewis Hamilton or Pedro de la Rosa will most likely become Fernando Alonso's team mate at McLaren in 2007. Adrian Sutil hopes he can become the third driver at the Spyker Formula 1 team. He has to have something to work with however, and the current Honda set up is just all wrong. Alonso wins the Driver's Championship, but a weak second driver for Renault results in Ferrari taking the Constructor's title.

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