Major driver reshuffle for the whole F1 teams except for Ferrari, maintaining The 6 times World Champion, Micheal Schumacher (MS) and Rubens Barichello (RB) with their F2005 car. 2nd on the Constructors championship table during 2004 is BAR with their Honda powered engine car, with Brit young gun, Jenson Button (JB) alongside with Takuma Sato (TS) of Japan. Despite some confusion on JB's contract, he is determine to drive for championship this year with team. Sato on the other hand would make the Honda name to the World wide brand name.
After the good start of the 2004 season, Renault with its best launch control car, also retains Spaniard Fernando Alonso (FA) with Italian flavor, Giancharlo Fisichella (GF). Alonso was tipped to challenge MS for the title this year, while GF wants to redeem the poor performance from the 2004 season with the Renault car.
2 cars were launched by BWM Williams last year after some design failure on the aerodynamic side, is hoping with new drivers and a new car would bring back BMW Williams to the contenders of the constructors standing with the choice of Patric Head and Frank Williams drivers, Mark Webber (MW) and Antonio Pizzonia (AP). MW was from Jaguar and did an impressive performance last season which caught the attention of Head and Williams and would bring the team back to greater heights.
Meanwhile, Ron Dennis from the McLaren, thought that, by bringing Juan Pablo Montoya(JPM) would turn the disappointing performance of the team last year back to the contenders of Ferrari. Kimi Raikkonen (KR) is kept in the team to show his best results. This promising Fin was able to challenge MS and would do the same this year.
Team from Hinwill, Switzerland, Sauber Petronas, brought back previously World Champion Jacques Villeneuve (JV) to the team pairing with Brazilian born, Felipe Massa (FM) with its Petronas 05A Engine to rev up the season. The team spent million of Euros on wind tunnel testing should see the results this weekend in Australia.
One of the Biggest car manufacturer, Toyota is confident with Ralf Schumacher (RS) style of driving and would bring back points for the championship. RS is to drive along side with Italian born Jarno Trulli (JT). JT is famous for his aggressive driving style and is set to score championship points this year.
Another financial ailing team, Jordan was bought by Midland Group in January secured its position in the Formula One race. With the faith of Eddie Jordan to a newly upgraded driver from the F3 league, Narain Karthikayen (NK) from India would be his debut appearance in the F1. Another rookie for Jordan team is Portuguese born, Tiago Monteiro (TM), 2nd on the Nissan World Series Championship.
Austrian first ever debut appearance, Red Bull team would be their fist race after bought the Jaguar team from Ford is set to drive with David Coulthard (DC) with vast experience in F1 together with Austrian born Chirstian Klien (CK) for the team.
The last but not the least, its the Minardi team. Paul Stoddard did a lot of miracle to the team. Despite the team performance is not up to par as the Ferrari, the Minardi team manage to score some points and manage to keep it selves running throughout the race.Maybe with their 2 new drivers, Dutch born Christijan Albers (CA) and Austrian Patrick Friesacher (PF).
Well, there you go for the teams and their respective drivers. Major reshuffling and some were retained would spark an excitement to the race this season. Few questions still looming,
Will the Micheal Schumacher dominate the whole race again!?
Will cars like McLaren and BMW Williams be reliable and stay on running throughout the whole race?
The guessing games is still there... SO....Ladies and Gents....THE HEAT IS ON!!.....
iDAN
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