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I watched Mario Andretti put his own fire out in his Ferrari in the '71 Spanish GP with the corner workers watching him.

 

It is not uncommon for a driver to grab a fire bottle away from a corner worker & use it themselves. Reason being they know that chemical can damage the car, so the driver only wants it sprayed where needed.

That being said where the heck were the marshal's with the fire bottles???

 

Just to be fair, from my viewing the marshalls were not that far behind Webber getting out of his car. When they showed the thermal image of the fire the extinguishers were already going.

 

Yeah, I reckon that beats Kimi's "just let me drive" any day.

 

Right after Grosjean's race engineer told him he was faster and to go after Kimi, the team manager came on and said to continue racing just the way they were - IOW - don't take points away from Kimi when he still has a (very small) mathematical chance at winning the championship. However, if Vettel wins it all in Japan, then I'll bet they turn Romain loose.....

 

Interesting, some of the F1 boards said that Grosjean ask the team to tell Kimi to let him by. The response back was to race each other.

From the teams perspective I understand not telling Kimi to move over. He still was a shot. On the other hand he is leaving and has seemed to be burning bridges behind him.

If I'm the team head after the next race I'm doing everything I can to help Grosjean beat Kimi for just the reason mentioned above.

 

I don't know, Kimi sure didn't have any compunctions about barging past RoGro like he was a cone on an autocross course. I'd like to see him go after the Kimster much like Checo was going after Jens in the earlier part of the season.

Can you believe how fast this season has gone by? Seems like only a few weeks ago they were in Australia......

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttXFErn9ego]Japan 3D Track Experience - YouTube[/ame]

 

Maybe Vettel has some help. (I'm old enough to remember the schumacher/benetton talk of the same ilk.)

Formula 1′s Leading Team Has a Big Secret

 

So, what is the article saying, that's it's some sort of conspiracy? that Red Bull doesn't want Mock Webba to win races? Gimme a break.......this is such old news. Typical British motoring press......if it's not about Hamilton or Jens winning, then it's a conspiracy to cheat by whoever is winning.

There is no question they've (Reds bull) figured something out, but so have other teams - look at the way the Sauber could pull away from Hammy in Korea, even he was amazed by how much more "traction" it had.

Does anyone seriously believe that Red Bull would take a chance on losing the championship (and all that TV money) by cheating? Or at least cheating in a way that could be found out?

I think they've probably come up with something extremely clever, that once found will be excluded in next years rules, or won't even matter because the rule changes already in place will exclude it.

And what's this about the teams having to PAY for the points they win?
Edit: that system is for next season

They have to write about something, don't they? And it's always so much better if they can drum up a nice juicy scandal.....too bad there isn't one really there.

 

As they say in racing, you're only cheating if you get caught. :wink:

 

Hoping for a good start. :fingerscrossed:

 

I assume this is photochop........if this is real Mr. Webba loses all credibility with me. Red bull has done nothing but give him the best car on the grid and the best team resources on the grid to make his championship run. The fact that he got beat consistently is no one's fault but his own.

 

Who's going to watch the live race at 2:00am eastern time?

 

Yep, Webber was used and thrown away to get Vettel to the lead.

Still love the quote from Webber after the British GP......"Not bad for a number 2 driver!"