Ive just sat thru 2 hours of the grand prix,thank f--k i havent brought tickets for silverstone. In 10yrs of watching f1 i have never seen such a boring drawn out race,even the master himself said with the new rules there will be no racing just a procession of very exspensive cars.COME ON F1 the new rules for 2011 should be
engine size 2000cc
turbo
slick tyres
drivers that are going to race to the last lap
tyre changes
fuel stops
no pit lane speed limit
gear stick
come on f1 2010 is going to be worse than 2009
can someone put me in touch with the rule makers of f1.
2hours of boredom.....the only one doing any overtaking was Hulkenberg due to his early pit-stop, the cameras would have been better concentrating on him and not the prossesion up front......:thumbs:
I'm pleased that they have stopped refueling..............the whole idea of a sprint race inbetween pitstops never materialised anyway, and pit strategy got in the way of drivers doing their work on the track. I think that the nature of the new Barhain track layout didn't help the overtaking issue................give it time, the season has only just begun. New teams,(great to see the Lotus livery back), at least 5 or 6 drivers that could take the title, and the frenzy of a 3 second pitstop simply make this a season to embrace for me. Bring on July, 3 days of beer, fast cars, and hopefully sunshine!:thumbs:
I can see your concern, but these speedy stops were being done way back in the late 80's. I remember when the Brabham team changed all 4 wheels in under 4 seconds during a race in the the 1989 season.
To be honest though, the pitcrews aren't rushing anymore than they ever have. And the absence of racing fuel being poured into hot cars can only be a good thing for safety.
I know what you mean... Raikonnen was lucky last year that he didn't get injured, BUT there is still a part of me that wants to see the odd fuel pipe being dragged down the pit lane... Naughty Olly.:tut:
I ended up taking the dog for a walk, massive anti-climax but glad Ferrari got a 1 - 2, but probably wouldn't have if Vettel's car didn't have a woopsie moment.
I did think that Webber's car had been prepped by Q from the bond films, deploying his smoke cloud too early though
they should remove all rules and regs, the skys the limit, as long as its open wheeled do what you want. huge turbos, nitrous, superchargers, huge wings, little wings, oh and drivers who give a damn. touring car drivers in F1, now that would be fun.
alas it will never hapen. way too dangerous.
did they forget to let the public in yesterday? there was nobody at the track, the cinic in me thinks bahrain only has the GP because they stuffed a huge wad in the poison dwarfs back pocket, but i could be way off the mark
just before the friday practice on the red button they showed the 1982 SA GP, way more entertaining than that dross yesterday.
they should remove all rules and regs, the skys the limit, as long as its open wheeled do what you want. huge turbos, nitrous, superchargers, huge wings, little wings, oh and drivers who give a damn. touring car drivers in F1, now that would be fun.
It was a rubbish race, but the need to overtake on track that's supposed to have been engineered isn't going to materialise until much later in the season. There's no point diving down the inside when there's not quite enough room and making a mess of it in the first race as you'll lose any points you could have got by staying where you were (and leave you a race behind everyone else), but in the last couple of races when one or two points could make the difference to who wins the championship that kind of gamble starts to make more sense.
Just means it'll be garbage until then unfortunately.
i agree with getting rid of downforce (the teams want to keep the wings for advertising space of course but they could be made to produce zero downforce,... like the one on my gtv), what i cant figure out is when mansell and senna were battling all those years ago they were heavily depenent on downforce too, so what has really changed? where has the racing gone?
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