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schuette wrote:Schuey was shit to begin with but jings did he pull his socks up....he would have got Button for sure but ...

and speaking of Button what a place (the last corner) for your engine to blow!...dont know what I would have done..take the points and drop 10 places in the grid for the next race or what the team decided on and stop before the finish line to not get the penalty on the engine change...I would have probably went for the points...

As the Italian press shift into seventh gear with claims of a new red crisis, runaway championship leader Fernando Alonso has leapt to Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher's cover.

"He's a great driver," the young Renault star told Italy's ANSA agency, "and I don't think he'll retire. He'll be back in winning form soon. (Michael) deserves respect."

Leading daily La Gazzetta dello Sport, however, ran with the Monday headline 'The Red Depression' following Ferrari's double shunt and lack of pace in the Australian grand prix.

The newspaper also published a survey claiming that 44 per cent of readers are convinced that Renault, Honda and McLaren have now built a better car than the Maranello team.

Meanwhile, Marca newspaper - revelling in countryman Alonso's Albert Park win - reckons F1's seven time champion is now showing signs of his age, perhaps referring to Schumacher's accidental journey into the Toyota garage following his crash.

The Alonso era has begun, it continued.

Italy's La Repubblica said the 'nightmare of 2005' had again woken up.

Schumacher's former Benetton teammate, Johnny Herbert, joined the bandwagon in advising the German to retire before more damage is done to his reputation.

Now a member of 'MF1' team management, the Briton added: If he is smart, he will stop at the end of the year."