Caporegime
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- 18 Oct 2002
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Did anyone watch the season preview show with Eddie Jordan, Coulthard and a few others talking about stuff, Eddie Jordan was his usual argumentative hilarious self. THe other 4 would talk about something for 5 minutes then Eddie would pipe in with "you're all talking nonsense" and having a go at everything they've said, then they moved on to a new topic and the same thing happened time and time again.
Was even funnier when Eddie got the presenters name wrong and he pointed out they'd worked together for a year now
I'm actually really looking forward to this season, for the first time in over a decade.
Real qualifying, starting with race fuel, pit stops will sometimes still make a huge difference, IE getting lucky with things like coming in before a safety car right as it starts raining and being a minute up on everyone else by the time the rest have gone in the pits. But in general a lot of the tactical pitting is out the window, it won't be anywhere near as instrumental when and how they pit, so two people racing neck a neck will rarely end up 40 seconds apart due to a pit stop right before a safety car. Due to race fuel, you'd probably quite often see the lead car followed into the pit to avoid such a possible problem. While last year if the guy following was on a different strategy he couldn't follow him in to pit at the same time.
Lots of new rules but probably very few Brawn type massive difference in interpretation of the rules so massively different cars and no as big advantages that other cars simply can't match.
ITs really just the first season in ages I've seen a possibility for real even racing in qualifying and race conditions where I expect driver and car quality to be the biggest difference, not pit stop strategy which I think has been WAY to influencial for years.
Was even funnier when Eddie got the presenters name wrong and he pointed out they'd worked together for a year now
I'm actually really looking forward to this season, for the first time in over a decade.
Real qualifying, starting with race fuel, pit stops will sometimes still make a huge difference, IE getting lucky with things like coming in before a safety car right as it starts raining and being a minute up on everyone else by the time the rest have gone in the pits. But in general a lot of the tactical pitting is out the window, it won't be anywhere near as instrumental when and how they pit, so two people racing neck a neck will rarely end up 40 seconds apart due to a pit stop right before a safety car. Due to race fuel, you'd probably quite often see the lead car followed into the pit to avoid such a possible problem. While last year if the guy following was on a different strategy he couldn't follow him in to pit at the same time.
Lots of new rules but probably very few Brawn type massive difference in interpretation of the rules so massively different cars and no as big advantages that other cars simply can't match.
ITs really just the first season in ages I've seen a possibility for real even racing in qualifying and race conditions where I expect driver and car quality to be the biggest difference, not pit stop strategy which I think has been WAY to influencial for years.
