But he now understands and realises what is needed to try and get into a championship winning situation. He is in the middle of it and he has just had the first blip – although it was a blip by his standards, which are very, very high.
He probably didn’t have the best opportunity to use the car throughout the last grand prix weekend, because he hadn’t tested at Silverstone before the event and maybe that accounted for some of the inconsistency. I wouldn’t be too worried though. He is a tough guy and he will work even harder as he has said.
McLaren will also be up for this event, not least because it a home event for Mercedes.
It is the same for BMW too and even without
Michael Schumacher, the home fans will have plenty of things to cheer about.
They will also have four drivers to support too, including BMW’s
Nick Heidfeld and with Germany only holding one F1 race this year I am convinced there will be a good turn-out.
BMW have been going very well - even leading up to this event at the recent Spa test they have been very competitive, so Nick should do something.
Can BMW challenge the top two though? Well that is a very difficult step to make. They have made a huge amount of progress so far this season and the next step is the last one which will put them in a position to battle for grand prix wins.
That is the hardest one however and it won’t happen overnight but we have seen a steady rate of progress made.
Maybe now that we are halfway through the season things might start to change slightly. We will have to see if BMW maximise the potential of their latest developments for the
F1.07.
After
BMW,
Renault is coming back.
Heikki Kovalainen has now got ‘his feet under the table’ and is a bit more confident and stable within that team. Maybe there are some strengths coming from that. The team are a bit more harmonious.
They seem to be making some technical progress too and that all bodes well for Kovalainen and
Giancarlo Fisichella.
It’s a shame we can’t say the same about
Honda because it was disappointment all round for them at the British GP. Following Magny Cours they seemed to think they had found a little something but that didn’t seem to manifest itself at
Silverstone.
