Drivers Slam ScumMaster In Monaco Qualifying Storm
- From: Hoong <hoong@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 14:36:56 -0400
Rivals slam Schumacher in Monaco qualifying storm
Sat May 27, 2006 6:47 PM BST
By Alan Baldwin
MONACO, May 27 (Reuters) - Michael Schumacher's rivals slammed the Ferrari
driver after his controversial pole position at the Monaco Grand Prix on
Saturday.
The most glamorous race of the Formula One season was buffeted by a storm of
outrage after the German stopped at the penultimate corner in the dying
seconds, preventing others still to complete fast laps from beating his time.
The seven times champion said he made a mistake, but others doubted the most
experienced and successful racer on the track, a man chasing a record-equalling
sixth Monaco win on Sunday.
"I hope it was deliberate, because if that was a mistake he should not even
have an F1 superlicence," 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve told reporters
"If you can make a mistake like that, you shouldn't drive a race car. There's
no way you could make a mistake like that," added the Canadian, who won his
title after a notorious clash with Schumacher.
"It's the kind of thing I couldn't dream of doing myself," said Villeneuve.
"I don't know what goes through your mind when you decide to do that, when you
know that the rest of the world can see. I don't understand it, it's stupid.
EMBARRASSING
"He didn't need to do that, he's a seven times world champion, he was on pole
position. Why do that? It's only going to make him look bad."
"This is embarrassing. Embarrassing for a world champion. It would even be
embarrassing for (Japan's Yuji) Ide," said the Canadian, referring to the Super
Aguri driver who had his licence taken away earlier in the season.
Australian Mark Webber, who drives for Williams and qualified third, questioned
whether Schumacher would sleep soundly on Saturday night.
"Obviously, if it is intentional it is childish, isn't it? It looks a bit
tricky to be honest," he said.
"I just feel you don't have to do this stuff. Why does it always have to
happen? It's like Mike Tyson biting someone's ear off, isn't it?
"If it's deliberate it's absolutely rubbish. It's massively below the belt and
if that's the case he should definitely lose all his qualifying," added Webber.
Both McLaren drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya, doubted there had
been any mistake.
"Was it really a mistake?" said Colombian Montoya, Monaco winner in 2003 with
Williams. "I'm not so sure."
"I don't believe that he really had any problems," added Finland's Raikkonen,
race winner last year.
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