lets hope it all comes crashing down and a better series arises from the ashes.
why couldnt they just put a chicane up?it would have made a real and safe race,its obvious the fans dont matter
Well. It looks like F1 regulations have finally allowed it to commit suicide. As per "F1 oh my gawd" postings. As they say on TV, American
litigation laws restrict it for obvious reasons.
It just goes to prove who runs F1, F1 promotors and regulators, or Ferrari, or the BULK of the F! teams. Surely it cannot survive.
I think that the only thing that should have happened is that Michelin should have officially
withdrawn from the race and released all of the teams to run on Bridgestone tires.
Will the teams face sanctions?
I think that knowing the americans and their panchant for litigation, I wouldn't be suprised if somebody sued the F1 organisers for their failure
to supply an F1 race as advertised. Either way I think that they are ( insert applicable word ) for future proper racing in America ( and possibly the
rest of the world ).
enjoy
as was mentioned by james allen,there is a power struggle going on,bernie and ferrari V the rest.
lets hope it all comes crashing down and a better series arises from the ashes.
why couldnt they just put a chicane up?it would have made a real and safe race,its obvious the fans dont matter
i think bernie was against the fia (and ferrari) this time wasnt he?! Yesterday he insisted that 20 cars would race, but the FIA ruined that by not
allowing the chicane - or was that ferraris work? i suppose that if everyone had refused to race, they would've had to add a chicane...
if only jordan could've been strong enough to not race, then it might have been only ferrari (paul stoddart said he only went out cos jordan did,
and he couldnt afford to lose points against them - fair enough point).
I think in Bernies mind yesterday he thought that all would race. However who knows what goes on in his mind. I doubt if he has the final say anymore. He prob thought as Martin brundle said "In the 80's Bernie told them to get in the cars and drive and they did without question." Changed for the safer now I think.
Never seen such a farce. what a total joke, the fans pay a lot of money to see the greatest motor racing show on earth and are rewarded with 6 cars
pootling around as an exscuse for a race. This is what its come to. Champagne display by Monteiro was pretty shameful, granted it was a podium
position but hardly earnt. Personally i would have not stood up there at all. I hope the fans get their money back and F1 can sort its self out like
it was back in the old days. Its very sad but somewhere F1 lost its way, i think after this everyone involved needs to take a good hard look at
how/why/where it got like this and how it can be resloved
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Originally posted by drmike54
I think that the only thing that should have happened is that Michelin should have officially
withdrawn from the race and released all of the teams to run on Bridgestone tires.
Will the teams face sanctions?
Ferrari deny that they objected to the chicane - they just had 'no opinion'' on the matter.....apparently !
I can't help feeling there was more to al;l this than we are being told
After listening to Mr Mosely on the Radio this afternoon. It seem's clear that Michelin dropped a major boolock. It was still very
unsporting of the Teams wearing michelin rubber to boycott the race. Now it seems that Michelin will have sanctions placed upon them.
Mr Mosely also stated that as far as he was concerned the 'fans' should receive their money back. He was negotiating on behalf of the fans
what action could be taken.
I'd say he was in the clear on this one - technically speaking. It's all a storm in a tea-cup again driven on by the media...
if the tyres were not safe to use then i think the teams were right not to race. would you put, potentially, your life on defective items ?
but there could have been a work around if they really wanted it, whether, they fitted bridgestones and had a penalty, like all the mitchelins
starting behind the bridgestone, whatever, the fans lost out big style, and being americans, they probably will sue
After watching F3 the other night, I wondered if some of their design principles could be applied to F1.
Imagine if the rules were:
The car has to fit in a 'control box' to limit size.
It must have a minimum ground clearance.
It must be a minimum weight.
It must be open-wheel.
It must meet safety requirements.
Otherwise you can do what you like - but you have to use standard fuel and you have to take air in through a standard hole in a FAI-supplied plate.
You can only get a certain amount of power from a given volume of air!
...but nothing as adventurous as that will ever happen.
DJ
DJ,
a good and proven idea, but in f1 we all know which team would spend the money on the development and get the best out of the regs, i don't think
it'd really change that much...
Ned.
Was the most F1 i've watched in a while, Praying that the ferraris would suffer reliablity problems. Either way between minardy and jordan they where garentied one podiam but three podiams would have been worth a laugh.
quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
After listening to Mr Mosely on the Radio this afternoon. It seem's clear that Michelin dropped a major boolock. It was still very unsporting of the Teams wearing michelin rubber to boycott the race. Now it seems that Michelin will have sanctions placed upon them.
Mr Mosely also stated that as far as he was concerned the 'fans' should receive their money back. He was negotiating on behalf of the fans what action could be taken.
I'd say he was in the clear on this one - technically speaking. It's all a storm in a tea-cup again driven on by the media...
quote:
Originally posted by steve_gus
but ferrari saw it as an opportunity for an easy win.