… with Manchester United finally winning a silverware in the English FA Cup Final to lift the spirit at the end of a dissapointing season. Man Utd beat Millwall 3-0 at the Cardiff Millennium Stadium in Wales with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring with a header and Ruud van Nistelrooy scoring one each from the penalty spot and from free play.
And in Monaco, the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monte Carlo just concluded with Jarno Trulli of the Renault F1 team clinching his maiden victory from his maiden pole position… great effort I tell you! 
Although McLaren showed some glimpse of improvement, however, it all ended in dismal performance on race day again with DC getting caught in the accident that sent Fisichella’s car flying and ended up turtle while Kimi Raikonnen retired to the pit garage after the team found out that there were some serious problems with the car via the telemetry.
Quite a spectacular race I tell you, with numerous incidents that required the Safety Car to be deployed to ensure safety of the track before race could resume in full pace. It all started even before the race when Panis couldn’t align his car to his grid position at the end of the formation lap due to a stalled engine and resulted to an aborted start. After that, Takuma Sato’s engine blew up big time in smoke that blinded Fisichella that caused him to bump up DC’s rear wing and sent himself flying.
More wacky incidents followed, with Fernando Alonso tried to outsmart Ralf Schumacher by overtaking him on the outside of the tunnel road that lacked grip… way too smart I tell you, crashing into the wall and while his car was spinning to a stop, he managed to show his middle finger towards Ralf Schumacher… And BEST OF ALL Schumi finally cracked when he locked up the left front wheel in the tunnel road and end up colliding into the wall trying to avoid Montoya who was beside him. Lost his front wing and his left front wheel… that spelt retirement for his race today… 
So the lack of McLaren pace is compensated this weekend with the amount of incidents in an otherwise almost-not-overtake-able race track, especially with Schumi’s DNF 
Also, Renault F1’s site at www.renaultf1.com offered live telemetry of both their race cars on their website… a cool feature indeed… here’s a screen capture in case you missed it:
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Oh yeah, I’m single again after what has been a month of emotional rollercoaster ride… guess you’ll all see more of me on this blog… hope that’s not too bad a thing…
