Ferrari's Hungarian Goulash
What could have been the turning point of the 2006 world championship turned into one of the worst race weekends for Michael Schumacher, with the German and his Ferrari team dropping the ball time and time again. What actually happened down at the red garage, and was Schumacher's race all bad? Adam Cooper brings the inside story
For Michael Schumacher, the Hungarian Grand Prix was a weekend of dropped balls and missed opportunities, and nothing any team did on Sunday was as spectacularly unfathomable as the team's decision to leave Michael Schumacher out until the bitter end on intermediate tyres. But, as you will see, it seemed like a good idea at the time...
It goes without saying that Schumacher's first mistake was to throw away the opportunity he'd been presented in the form of Fernando Alonso's qualifying penalty by collecting his own. The fact that it involved passing the Spaniard when the red flags were out was just extraordinary.
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