F1 2009 Season discussion/development thread

“The whole point will be, when they get to Melbourne for the first race, the guys will want to leave there with a gold medal. They don't want to leave with ten, eight or six points.”
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So, there is still a system for not finishing in the medal places and so they can still hold back if they have room to do so. This barmey system has no advantage whatsoever, even a commercial one.
 
It seems very much a case of "Its not broken, but lets fix it anyway"

I see Ecclestone and his wife have recently split, I would not wish a marriage breakdown on anyone but I guess she wasn't happy with the rule changes either.
 
Yesterdays official times

1 57 F1 Takuma SATO JPN Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:20.763 36 121 207.49
2 37 F1 Sebastien BUEMI SUI Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:21.071 29 117 0.308 0.308 206.70
3 38 F1 Alexander WURZ AUT Honda Racing F1 Team 1:21.198 18 77 0.435 0.127 206.38
4 41 F1 Pedro DE LA ROSA ESP Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1:21.417 20 65 0.654 0.219 205.82
5 61 F1 Gary PAFFETT GBR Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1:21.956 65 78 1.193 0.539 204.47
6 31 F1 Luca BADOER ITA Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 1:22.038 93 94 1.275 0.082 204.27
7 4 F1 Robert KUBICA POL BMW Sauber F1 Team 1:22.341 47 56 1.578 0.303 203.51
8 75 F1 Sebastien LOEB FRA Red Bull Racing 1:22.503 71 82 1.740 0.162 203.11
9 6 F1 Nelson PIQUET BRA ING Renault F1 1:22.560 78 80 1.797 0.057 202.97
10 32 F1 Christian KLIEN AUT BMW Sauber F1 Team 1:22.883 37 53 2.120 0.323 202.18
11 34 F1 Nico HULKENBERG GER AT&T Williams 1:23.467 79 116 2.704 0.584 200.77
12 40 F1 Vitantonio LIUZZI ITA Force India F1 1:23.794 68 86 3.031 0.327 199.99
13 20 F1 Adrian SUTIL GER Force India F1 1:23.832 81 88 3.069 0.038 199.89
14 71 F1 Marc GENE ESP Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 1:24.177 31 32 3.414 0.345 199.08
15 80 F1 Bruno SENNA BRA Honda Racing F1 Team 1:24.343 37 39 3.580 0.166 198.68
16 73 F1 Giedo van der GARDE NED ING Renault F1 1:24.908 27 32 4.145 0.565 197.36
17 79 F1 Lucas DI GRASSI BRA Honda Racing F1 Team 1:25.512 37 48 4.749 0.604 195.97
 
What you don't see is that the benchmark lap time is 55 seconds and that Sato just kept spinning off and hitting the other drivers and ended up being the fastest. ;):p
 
Ecclestone said:
Everybody understands gold medals and silver and bronze. Nearly all sports are done that way
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Let me think:

Motorsport: NO
Football: NO
Cricket: NO
Tennis: NO
Rugby: NO
Athletics: YES

So yeah "all" of them are done that way. Idiot :rolleyes:

If this scoring system had been in place for last season, Kubica wouldn't have been anywhere near where he was.
 
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