Heidfeld worth every dollar

By Andrew Hooper
May 30 2005

 
Heidfeld worth every dollar
 

For BMW Motorsport Director Dr Mario Theissen another second place for Nick Heidfeld in the European Grand Prix must have been particularly pleasing as we has to come out and say that "He (Nick) is apparently worth every dollar he earns."

Theissen praised Heidfeld for his race and how Nick had what could only be described as the perfect race.

Heidfeld on the podiumTheissen said: "He had a flawless race, very good, the right strategy with three stop, it was on paper equal to a two stop and he said 'I want to go for it' and it turned out to be the right one.

"He had a free race almost the whole time, he got stuck just before his final stop he went up onto Kimi so that was put forward a bit but apart from that it was a perfect race. He achieved the optimum result, we were lucky, but it was an important podium again."

As for the teams other driver Mark Webber and his crash in the first corner of the race Theissen was somewhat more critical as he felt that the accident was avoidable.

Theissen added: "I didn't speak to him but on television it looked to me as if he could have turned in earlier. Maybe he tried and he was just late on the brakes, but there was room to turn in earlier and that could have avoided the collision."

 
 
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