The Complete 2006 Malaysian GP Review
A thorough review of all the events and results from the second race of the season
Melbourne victory aside, 2005 was a crushing disappointment for Giancarlo Fisichella. He had a car quick enough to win the championship, yet a combination of technical problems, the vagaries of a flawed qualifying system, and occasional underperformances meant that 'Fisico' stood on the podium only three times all year.
Bahrain last week looked like another chapter in this miserable story, as a down-on-power engine handicapped Fisichella in qualifying, and turned him into a roadblock in the race until a hydraulic failure brought the frustration to an end. All this was rendered insignificant by the death of his childhood friend and karting buddy Pietro Saitta in an accident on the same day.
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