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Originally posted by BootsOntheSide
Brake problems are a natural outcome here this year - would the FIA have preferred to have a Toyota or Williams man in a hospital bed next to Massa?
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What a ludicrous statement!!!! There is nothing in the current regulations that make driving an F1 car overtly dangerous. If drivers decided to brake 50m earlier then there would be no great threat of brake failure even at Canada. But such is the natural competition in F1 that teams and drivers are compelled to go to the extreme limits. If Williams felt their drivers were in danger from brake failure, then they should have knocked some speed off.
The rules are the same for everyone. If teams like Minardi are able to survive the whole race without brake failure, then why cant teams like Williams and Toyota.
Any brake failures, or any failures for that matter, are not a result of any of the FIA regulations but rather engineering failures which the teams must be held responsible for.