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It's hard to fathom why such an experienced driver as Michael Schumacher, a man
who has been voted Laureus Sportsman of the Year so many times, should get it
so wrong in Monaco qualifying?
fathom:推測
No, I couldn't quite believe it either. The moment Schumacher ran wide at
Rascasse in Qualifying for Monaco and parked the car there it was obvious he
didn't want to continue. For a start, the tyres of his Ferrari weren't even up
against the Armco, (and for those who doubt it, look at the in-car footage).
even up:扯平 footage:連續鏡頭
The biggest question wasn't DID he do it deliberately. It was quite obvious he
did it deliberately.It was WHY he did it? Why risk his reputation as a seven
-times World Champion, the greatest points scorer, GP winner, pole-sitter,
driver etc of all time.
deliberately:故意地 reputation:名聲
In the press conference he had his guilty "post-Austria 2002" face on. This was
the uncomfortable post-race press conference he had to endure after the Ferrari
team had asked Rubens Barrichello to move over and give up the win to him.
Schumacher was booed off the podium. At the time Schumi made out that he didn't
know what was going on (not true, as it turned out) and referred people to
"Mr.Todt".
endure:忍受 boo:噓聲 refer:把...歸因(於)
Luckily on Saturday he had the poodle-like Peter Windsor (a man who worships
the ground he walks on) asking the questions in the post-Qualifying press
conference and so he got away with it. Though the fact that he momentarily
forgot one of the most famous corners in F1 - Rascasse - set alarm bells
ringing.
poodle:捲毛狗 worship:崇拜 momentarily:臨時地
Schumi also seemed unable to describe what had happened that made him run on,
just that he was pushing hard. Given that Rascasse along with Lowes/Gran Hotel
hairpin is one of the two slowest corners in F1, it's very difficult to get
wrong. In the 25 years I've been watching F1 races I can't remember anyone
losing it there on a qualifying lap on good tyres.
run on:喋喋不休 hairpin:髮夾彎
After we came out of the press conference the ITV crew were very suspicious too.
suspicious:疑心的
"Didn't he look a bit sheepish?" asked pundit Mark Blundell who's driven the
corner many hundreds of time in his career. "It's difficult to have an
accident there."
sheepish:愚笨的 pundit:權威
"There wasn't a conviction in what he was saying and you get the feeling that
he parked it and then realised it was the wrong thing to do."
conviction:說服力
Meanwhile, Ted Kravitz had been speaking to other people in the pitlane. "I've
been talking to other teams who've come to me and said Ferrari are a disgrace,
they're an absolute disgrace. They're all sure he did it deliberately"
disgrace:丟臉
So, no healthy differences of opinion, only one conclusion if you're not
wearing red.
Flavio Briatore was similarly disgusted with Schumacher. "I think he is taking
everyone for a ride. Someone who was seven times a world champion wants us to
believe that he didn't do it on purpose - it's fairyland.
disgust:厭惡 fairyland:夢境
"And given that we are not Snow White and the Seven Dwarves I think that what
he did was unsporting and against everything.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves:白雪公主與七矮人
"It's really astonishing what he did. Incredible."
astonishing:令人驚訝的
Though Schumacher has been mired in controversy throughout his career,
stretching back from his pre-F1 days, this is potentially the most serious.
This is one incident he can't afford to back down from. It's serious because it
could cast a cloud over his exit from F1.
be mired in:陷入困境 controversy:爭議 stretch:延伸 back down:打退堂鼓
And even if nothing is done before the race on Sunday it will still rage on all
season. In the 1997 Jerez GP, when he was fighting for the lead and the World
Championship with Jacques Villeneuve, he tried to take Villeneuve out and put
himself into the gravel. At the time it was dismissed as a racing incident by
stewards, but Schumacher was subsequently punished by the FIA. And years later
he admitted to Jeremy Clarkson that yes, he did drive into Jacques.
rage:肆虐 gravel:碎石 dismiss:去除 subsequently:隨後
Schumacher has had similar clashes with Mika Hakkinen, Damon Hill and used to
be well-known for his Schu-weave, a manoeuvre which almost pinned his brother
against a pitwall, caused Montoya to lose the Brazilian GP and once put Alonso
on the grass at Silverstone.
weave:編排 manoeuvre:謀略 pin:釘住
But the incident that is most telling is the start of the 2000 Austrian GP when
he was hit by an overzealous Ricardo Zonta in Turn 1. Schumacher's Ferrari had
a deranged front wing at the first corner and so Schumi drove his car onto the
racing line and then switched the engine off. He was hoping for a red flag and
a re-start. Instead he got a Safety Car and no re-start.
telling:顯著的 overzealous:過熱的 derange:擾亂
Today the ghosts of 1997, of 2000 and of 2002 reappeared. Jean Todt had said
that there was some fun missing from F1 and his team have certainly injected
it. This incident will be talked about for years to come.
inject:洗腦
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