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Hear hear! I couldn't agree more. There seems to have been a disturbing trend in F1 lately, and in life in general, suggesting that if someone has things better then they must be cheating. The fact is that racing is all about being clever enough to find "the unfair advantage", as Mark Donohue called it. If you're not clever enough to do that, don't pull down everyone else who IS clever enough. Simply find an "unfair advantage" of your own and pull yourselves up to their level. If the thinking that surrounded F1 now was prevalent in the 1960's and 1970's, would we have seen wings, ground effect, slick tyres, turbos and so on? And I certainly don't remember anyone protesting Williams in 1992-93.jakesanson wrote: Interesting how the three "illegal" teams are the ones that are surprisingly competitive. I say, tough! If you couldn't make your cars better than those three, deal with it, grow up and sort out your own problems!!!
Amen. What Bernie and Max need to be doing right now is keeping teh focus on the public. We've had some bloody shambles in the last couple of years: USA 2005, Spygate 2007, Belgium 2008, etc. Let's try to make F1 a sport, please!!Greyhead wrote:Simply find an "unfair advantage" of your own and pull yourselves up to their level. If the thinking that surrounded F1 now was prevalent in the 1960's and 1970's, would we have seen wings, ground effect, slick tyres, turbos and so on? And I certainly don't remember anyone protesting Williams in 1992-93.
How often is that the case with the FIA? They should really have been able to check the cars over and make a proper judgement once and for all by now. There are NO excuses.AD wrote:What was missing was an official clarification before the start of the season that these devices were legal. Instead of that, they left the door wide open for this kind of conflict now by essentially saying, "We'll wait for the first race, if anyone wants to protest then, we'll deal with it when the time comes."
Has there ever been a team winning the race in it`s first attempt? I hope they can make it and the cars will hold.Well, we already have a FIAsco:MäxX wrote:Hopefully there will be no other FIAsco after the races and well, if a Brawn wins and a Ferrari is in 2nd, we all known that they will be disqualified and the new difusers are totally illegal
Only the BBC could make it THIS great!Greyhead wrote:Having watched the practice sessions on the excellent BBC interactive service (us British viewers are really being spoiled this year)
I have to admit I kind of agree with you. They look a bit odd from some angles, but it's worth it just for the standings!!!Greyhead wrote:...the cars don't look too bad in action.
In isolation they still don't look right but it only took about five minutes of seeing them at full speed to forget about the strange wings, and they look so much better without all the flick-ups and such.
Let's not forget that the Brawn is the result of 15 months of Honda-financed design work... Speaking of which, I see that the excellent Honda advert featuring cars, bikes etc from their past is back on, and still with a BAR-Honda in it...jakesanson wrote: This does mean that next year we may have some new teams come in thinking they can do a Brawn too. Which is a good thing in my view. More teams, means more competition (and full GP2 carsets!!!)
At the end of qualifying, the FIA released the weights of the cars and it showed that Brawn's cars were heavier than any of the others in the top 6!!!!! That means they were carrying more fuel!!!Greyhead wrote:Going back to Brawn, how easy did they make it look? It wasn't just that they locked out the front row, but the way they did it. You could see that it was just so much easier for Button and Barrichello than it was for everyone else. If one of them can win tomorrow it would be one of the great sporting stories of all time.
