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//Mike said:Apart from the FIA![]()
hey thats two times someone has done that to one of my sentances today! lol
//Mike said:Apart from the FIA![]()
aye, the last twist of my other sentance was funny too.... dam comedians everywhere!//Mike said:Lol, with good reason too I imagine.
Just having a laugh mate![]()
//Mike said:Loooking at the active users list, it appears Flibster is back!
Prepare for the longest rant ever guys![]()
Racing isnt just about who wins, but about the race itself.Fire 1 said:How come Rossi winning in 5 out 6 races MotoGP this year and the title for the past few years is exciting but when in F1 it is Ferrari and Shumacher winning it is boring?
Rossi dominating the series and it is good. Shumacher dominating the series and it is boring. Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
have you watched any racing this year? this season has been great for overtaking and battles.Harley said:Racing isnt just about who wins, but about the race itself.
With F1, we get a high speed progression round the track, and if were lucky, we get the occasional overtaking manouvre. But all too often, races are determined by choice of strategy, how many stops and even whether the pit crew get the fuel filler off quickly enough. That, to my mind, is not racing.
But with MotoGP, we often have the leaders changing numerous times during the race, and sometimes even in the last corner. Even when Rossi wins, it isn't by any means always a foregone conclusion that he's going to. And there's plenty of other racing going on further down the field with places changing all the time.
With MotoGP, I often find myself sitting on the edge of the seat, glued to the TV. With F1 I have been known, quite literally, to doze off. There's nothing hypocritical about that. One gets my adrenalin going, and the other holds about as much interest as watching paint dry.
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=33025 said:...snip...
But the FIA has suggested that not only is it the team's responsibility to ensure its car is safe to race, but that a car may be black-flagged if the stewards deemed its technical integrity to be in doubt.
"It should not be forgotten that a mechanical failure at high speed may involve a degree of risk to the spectating public," said Mosley in an open letter to the teams.
"If you are in any doubt about your car, you should always call it in.
"If you are still in doubt after checking the car in the pits, you should retire it from the race."
...snip
Excactly, in previous years I always had a favorite team, now I don't really care that much who wins (well, as long as it isn't the arrogant German) I just want to see an interesting race and see the best/fastest driver win (note driver, NOT car)Harley said:Racing isnt just about who wins, but about the race itself.
Dutch Guy said:I'm not too sure about the chicane thing as that would mean that the setup of the cars had to be changed drastically as it would mean that there was no long straight so that means more downforce and closer gear ratios and it would be a disadvantage to the Bridgestone runners as they also had to figure out new settings and perhaps strategies.
gord said:Rossi is an admirable opponent....he still has some questionable manouvers [such as this year with Sete Gibernau on that final corner] but it definitely wasnt like Schumacher's i'll take you off approach, as with motorbikes, its do or die, dive down the inside
the best thing was he went to a lower performance team and has brought them up which says a lot about a rider
ashtray_head said:I'd like to see shuey try that!!!!
It would be a disadvantage to the Bridgestone teams and I get the idea they didn't want to do that.Flibster said:...and the Michelin teams were prepared for a chicaine on the track and had the strategies all sorted without knowing what it would have looked like?
Everyone would have been galloping up diarrhoea drive without a saddle.
No one would have known what it would have done with the current setups - however this could have been done on Friday night and all ready to test on Saturday morning.
Hell - let Bridgestone change their tyres as well - all fair then.
Simon/~Flibster
All that tells me is that Bridgestone did their homework and Michelin did not, Michelin focused too much on being faster than Bridgestone that they didn't think about the fact the tyres were not hard enough, to me this is just stupid, they just made two compounds that wer both unsafe instead of doing the safe thing and make the hardest of the two a bit harder.SC04 said:We also hear that Bridgestone had another tyre - good for another 0.2s a lap at the IMS - but this wasn't taken to the USA due to "potential durability issues".