Eighth win for Schumacher in French GP
Michael schumacher won the French Grandprix for the 8th time with a dominating and record breaking performance at Magny cours. With massa taking the third place on the podium, this should silence everyone who thought that Ferrari’s Indy’s pace was because of Michelin’s cautious approach. Schumacher set another new standard as he became the first driver in the history of the sport to win eight grands prix at a single venue. Schumi even managed to have an extra pitstop compared to Alonso withought loosing the lead. Schumacher was never really challenged as he controlled the pace in his Bridgestone shod Ferrari and took the chequered flag with a comfortable gap over Fernando Alonso with Felipe Massa coming home third. Read More
F1’s joke World Champion
German newspaper Bild, ridiculed 24-year-old Alonso for his unique brand of post-victory celebrations. While Schumacher does his famous ‘leap’ after a win, Alonso likes to imitate animals as he stands on his blue Renault. In Barcelona he acted like King Kong and yesterday in Canada, he climbed on his car and mimicked an eagle.#.
“If Alonso continues like this, he will get his second title - and he will be F1’s joke World Champion.”#.
Alonso does it again in dramatic Canadian Grandprix.
Alonso takes his maiden Canadian GrandPrix win, with seven time canadian GrandPrix winner, Michael Schumacher taking second and Raikkonen in third. Only 14 out of 22 drivers crossed the line as everyone suffered or struggled for rear grip at the hairpin which is just covered in marbles at the end. With just 10 laps to go, Villeneuve went hard into the wall at turn 1 and the safety car was deployed, which enabled Schumi to come close to Raikkonen and eventually pass him at the hairpin to claim the extra 2 points. Raikkonen was really unlucky with heldups at both the pitstops and finally loosing 2nd place.
On the whole its a boring first half and the second half was little bit exciting with some overtakings. Ferrari and Schumacher have lot of work to do to catch up Renault in the next weekend’s United States GrandPrix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Read More
Schumacher 30th on Forbes Celebrity 100
Michael Schumacher was listed 30th on Forbes, The Celebrity 100 list released by Forbes. Although its a step down for Schumi who was ranked 17th in 2005 beat David Beckham and other top stars. The year’s biggest winners were the entertainment stalwarts with Tom Cruise still reigning supreme at the box office and on Forbes list. Keifer Sutherland appears this year at No. 67 as a result of the incredible success of his Fox television series, 24. He reportedly inked a $40 million contract to play Agent Jack Bauer for at least three more seasons.
To generate the list, we used a combination of factors including income, Web references as calculated by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), press clips as compiled by Lexis/Nexis, TV/radio mentions from Factiva and the number of times a celebrity’s face has appeared on the cover of 26 major consumer magazines. Earnings estimates are for June 2005 to June 2006 and are dollars earned solely from entertainment income. Management, agent and attorney fees have not been deducted.
Check out the Slideshow of the list on forbes website.