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Now remember.........he is the fastest in a reasonably priced car at the moment.

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The recycle man.

 

One way to scrub the marbles off your tires:

 

Or fire equipment.

 

Yeah, even the winner said he screwed up, but does that mean he's going to hold back and let his teammate take the next one?

I highly doubt it.....better to ask forgiveness than permission seems to be his philosophy......and at the end of the season, the number of wins will still be noted, but no one will remember the method.

There was controversy with the 3rd and 4th place finishers too, but I think there are things we as spectators are not privy to, clearly they had a reason for holding him back, whether he likes it or not.

And bottom line, the drivers work for the team, not the other way round.

 

They change the complete suspension settings just about every race don't they? For that matter, they change them in between practice sessions in some cases!

I know many teams go to a different design every season, some change within the season.

I agree that going to a tire that more accurately reflects what's used on street driven cars would make sense, after all isn't F1 supposed to be bleeding edge technology that eventually finds it's way onto street cars?

However, this is one area where I'd like to see street driven cars follow F1, back to higher aspect ratio tires and away from the rubber bands they're using now. And away from these ginormous wheels.....

A good 13" wheel is SO much lighter than a 20" or 22", think of the unsprung weight savings! It also takes less energy to get them to turn (rotate), and since they're lighter everything associated with them can be lighter.

Like Chapman said, "Add lightness"!

 

Well, you do want drivers to have a predatory nature. It's up to the team to manage that. These are both Alpha personalities, so of course there's going to be friction. Maybe they should talk to the old guys at NASA to get tips on how to manage test pilots.

I don't care if Vettel passed or not, but I sure as hell bet the team cares if he wrecks both their cars doing it. It made for good viewing, and the gossip fills the gap between races.

As for Nico - I'm betting he didn't pass because his team has penalties for violating team orders. Most of them do, as far as I know. And yeah, he should have been allowed to pass or have just done it. I bet Lewis will let him by later this season some time when it matters.

 

I gotta admit, I laughed at this.

 

The best could still rise to the top, even if they limited the number of people over the wall.....maybe do it like NASCAR, only 5 guys allowed over the wall at a time?

 

I for one do not want to see refueling. Even without being pressurized it's a huge risk.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3U6pGA-jA]Fire in the Benneton F1 Pit - YouTube[/ame]

 

I've always thought the Citroen's were wonderfully advanced cars.

I remember in the days of active suspension they should a split screen of two cars, one with and one without, down the same section of track. The difference was amazing. The active car was smooth and stable while the non-active car was bouncing around.

I love technology but I can see how this would take away from the racing as it makes it easier to drive. I hate all the nanny aid their sticking on cars now. It just make people worse drivers.

 

More than Red Bull are complaining about the tires.

I like there to be strategies that need to be worked out in a race. But a set of tires that only last 3-6 laps is getting ridiculous. I guess that would make a strategy for a race that was a long pit in and out would be set up the car to minimize tire ware, go slower, and win when everyone else is in the pits. I'd be looking for that this year.

 

Well, I agree that the end of the race and Vettel's run on the Hamster was fun and thrilling to watch, but the race was already over by then, and that's what I think people have been objecting to.....a race for third place is not really the same, is it?

I don't really care tho, I enjoy the races no matter what, and three different winners in three races is a good sign to me.

The different tracks and temps favor different teams too, so I think in the end it balances out OK.

But Alonso was strong this weekend, wasn't he?

 

I think you are just describing the difference between a North American motor race and a European one. A North American motor racing presenter says that they are in the entertainment business and that exciting close racing is what they are trying to achieve. The European perspective is much more about a straight fight between constructors and drivers, which they will let the public watch if they pay enough.

If you build a dominant race car, you drive away from the front and there is never a race (think Button/Brawn a few years ago, which no-one expected). I think the mucking about with tyres is an effort to get more close racing without going down the route of a one-make formula.