Controversy again surrounds Michael Schumacher after today’s qualifying session in Monaco. After posting the fastest time in the final round of qualifying, Schumacher ‘locked up’ his front wheels and ‘lost control’ of his car in one of the final corners on the course. This loss of control made other cars that were attempting to post a fast qualifying time to slow down when they arrived to Schumacher’s ‘immobile’ car.

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In my opinion, if it was a driver other than Michael Schumacher, you could probably believe that they did lose control of the car, but he has a history of using dirty tactics in the past. This makes it difficult to believe that he lost control of the car at that point in the session - to me, it looks like he purposefully guided the car into the spot while attempting to make it look like an accident.

8 hours after the qualifying session had ended, the stewards came to the same conclusion and relegated Schumacher to the back of the grid for the race tomorrow. Although I believe he crashed on purpose, Schumacher made it almost believable that it was an accident. Unfortunately, the race which was shaping up to be extremely close may now be anti-climactic with Fernando Alonso moving up to pole position and being heavily favoured to win the race. The good news for Australians is that because of Schumachers relegation, Mark Webber has moved up in to position 2, and if he makes it in to the first corner in first position, he may have a good chance of winning his first race.

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