Extremely late comments on the San Marino GP

I didn't get to see it but the race was a scorcher. Renault won for the fourth time in as many races and Fernando Alonso took his third straight win but only by 0.2s over Michael Schumacher in the new Ferrari F2005. Ferrari had been running the F2004 car for the first 4 races due to some issues with the F2005. But it seems to have been ironed out. Maybe. Rubens Barrichello went out on lap 18 of the 62 lap race with "electrical problems."

Jenson Button and Takuma Sato disqualified from third and fifth respectively following a BAR weight infringement. Thursday the BAR-Honda team was handed a two-race suspension due to the infringement. Additionally, a 25-second penalty was added to Ralf Schumacher's race time for an unsafe pit lane maneuver. This took him from what could have been a sixth place finish to just out of the points in ninth. Team Toyota will not be happy with that.

Red Bull Racing finished in the points again and have now scored points in every race so far. Granted it's not been at the same level as Renault. The former Jaguar-Cosworth team has scored 7, 4, 1 and 1 points for a total of 13. However, that is enough to put them in sixth place in the Constructors Championship.

2005 Drivers Championship
Pos    Driver               Nationality     Team             Points
1      Fernando Alonso      Spanish         Renault          36
2      Jarno Trulli         Italian         Toyota           20
3      Giancarlo Fisichella Italian         Renault          10
3=     Michael Schumacher   German          Ferrari          10
5      Nick Heidfeld        German          Williams-BMW      9
5=     Ralf Schumacher      German          Toyota            9
5=     David Coulthard      British         Red Bull Racing   9
5=     Mark Webber          Australian      Williams-BMW      9
9      Rubens Barrichello   Brazilian       Ferrari           8
9=     Juan Pablo Montoya   Colombian       McLaren-Mercedes  8
11     Kimi Räikkönen       Finnish         McLaren-Mercedes  7
12     Alexander Wurz       Austrian        McLaren-Mercedes  6
13     Jacques Villeneuve   Canadian        Sauber-Petronas   5
14     Pedro de la Rosa     Spanish         McLaren-Mercedes  4
15     Christian Klien      Austrian        Red Bull Racing   3
16     Felipe Massa         Brazilian       Sauber-Petronas   2
17     Vitantonio Liuzzi    Italian         Red Bull Racing   1

2005 Constructors Championship
Pos    Constructor       Points
1      Renault           46
2      Toyota            29
3      McLaren-Mercedes  25
4      Ferrari           18
4=     Williams-BMW      18
6      Red Bull Racing   13
7      Sauber-Petronas    7

Now it's on to Spain, where there's sure to be one or two people cheering for Alonso.