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Originally Posted by chunterer

2001, had the BMW engines not blown up all the time, he would have been much closer to Ferrari. A BMW insider once reckoned that they really could have beaten Ferrari had they been upto scratch straight away as the engine was the most powerful by far.

2003 people keep saying it should have been Kimi but when I spoke to Jonny Williams at Thruxton recently, he agreed that title was Juan's but a couple of mechanical issues, a couple of his errors and the Monza Ferrari Michelin stitch up put paid to that!

The penalty he got in 2003 USA really took the wind out of his sails. That was the year for JPM to win it.