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What is so wrong with F1 that someone like Honda comes to a race after at least a year of engine development and looks like a bunch of kindergartens!
It defies belief. F1 is the 'pinnacle' (please excuse the cliché) of motor racing and it behoves those who aspire to compete in it to do so with equipment worthy not just of the discipline itself, but also of their own achievements and reputations. So, Ron, onwards and upwards? |
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I wonder where the Manor's will be in relation to the McLaren's when the former gets going?
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The testing ban didn't help Honda and I don't think it helps F1 in general
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The same may have applied to other teams. But as far as I am aware, no other team made public statements that the FIA should take action to peg back Red Bull, per se. They may have said that they should all, including themselves, agree to stop particular practices, but none of them said the Red Bull cars should be handicapped so that they could catch up. |
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I see where Red Bull are starting to throw all the toys out of the pram. They say they are going to pull out unless the rules are changed, seemingly they don't like engines!
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This is a luxury that doesn't exist on a modern single seater, although the radiators are in the the side but they are probably still smaller than on the average sports car. And to return to earlier comments made on this or another thread, nowadays it would seem evident that no matter how many hours the engineers run the PSUs in test beds, they can never replicate the reality of running them in the actual chassis on a real track. This truly shows how brilliant the engineers at Mercedes/Ilmor were/are as it would seem as though they were the only ones that produced a power-unit that worked pretty well as it was designed to do right from the get-go at the beginning of testing last year. I believe also that there are rumours along the pit lane that Mercedes are not even running their PSUs at their maximum potential, as so far no one else is really able to challenge them. |
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Well, Honda is an advanced company of the 21st century not too long after its last stint in the big league. I expected them to do better than stone blasted last, new regs or not. Dennis was blathering about wins at one point last year.
Kodus to Ferrari and this new guy though. I expected chaos but whatever magic beans that have been planted behind the scenes, they've certainly hit a sweet spot on track. |
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I thought that was partly down to the tyres going off.
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RB have no choice or rather they are between a rock and a hard place. There is no source of motors except MB and that is not going to happen for numerous reasons so they have to stick to what they have OR pull the pin and walk away.
It actually shows why the era of Cosworth was a such a good thing, the manufacturer did not compete and the engine supply was (supposedly) without bias to any team using the motor. MB are clearly not doing that with their customer teams and who could blame them. |
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In summary the AGP put on show the structural, management, ethical and rule problems that the present FOM & HIA administration have foisted on F1.
Firstly the diversion of so much of the income to the "dead hands" of FOM, CVC and Bernie means those at the level of producing the show, the teams and organisers, are budget limited. Hence Arnie becomes more interesting to many than the racing. The division of what trickles down by way of payment to teams diminishes the field. No Caterham at the meeting, no Marussia on the track and Sauber in a desperate pay driver bind in an effort to survive. The Sauber saga demonstrates that "contract law" and "ethics" are words that should no longer appear in the same sentence as "Formula One". The stupidity of the so called cost saving measures limiting testing and upgrading was put on show by the McLaren-Honda farce and the lack of progress by the other teams in closing the gap to Mercedes. Heaven save us from standardisation or parity rules, but freezing things for a season is not the "pinnacle of motor sport". Finally the post race name calling by team principals is sort of like a bunch of steroid hooked cage fighters hurling insults at each other while the organiser walks away with the bulk of the purse. Competitive instinct is fine. Stupidity in not cooperating for the common good never got anyone anywhere in the long haul. |
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