Pelican Parts Forums - F1 Bahrain.......SPOILER!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Souk (Post 4630930)

Sea-Bass was never F1 material. Champ Car is a long long ways from F1.

Did you just edit that, I could swear I saw "Atlantic series" ;-) Yes, but he was pretty good in the F3000 feeder series and he was pretty good at Le Mans, and you don't win 4 Champcar crowns by being a bad driver... I had hopes for the guy. At least he's being brutally honest, he admits he can't drive that car well...

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Originally Posted by Souk (Post 4630930)

He lacks the confidence for F1 and lacks skills to tune the car. He was always blaming the car and he admitted in one interview that he didn't have confidence to drive hard...because of the car didn't inspire his confidence. Yet his team mate made the best of the same car!

I disagree on the skills and confidence, I read a lot about him over the years and I think he's pretty good at setup too... To me it's largely luck as to where you land in your first season. Hamilton got 2 good cars but if he had begun his career this year, he'd be nobody... But you are right, SB cannot adapt to a car that does not fit him, and his team-mate can, so he's gone... What gets me is that he complained about not having any rear end grip all of last year, and they rehired him knowing the cars were getting more front grip and even less rear grip this year ! You gotta wonder what Toro Rosso was smoking... Anyway, too bad, but I'm sure he has no financial worries!

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Originally Posted by Souk (Post 4630930)

You have to give Button some creds though...Rubens has the wisdom of age and experience of driving very capable cars and influences from some of the greats. So one would expect that he can make a good car a front runner. But Button out drives him in every race so far...so give Button his due.

Oh absolutely, either you misread me or I mistyped.. I'm very much amused that the guy was an "also ran" last year and and is a hero this year! I always thought he was a nice guy, and he's been classy enough not to say "told you so, up yours" this year ! Like I said he has destroyed Barichello so far, no small feat since RB handed him his ass last year ! impressive, and I love seing him kick Hamilton's butt too !

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Originally Posted by Souk (Post 4630930)

As commented on Speed - when the other teams saw BrawnGP testing...why didn't they think to work on a similar solution instead of whining about the spirit of the rule? It would have costed them a lot less to do that then compared to what they are spending now.

Dunno, seems to me the $$$ cost is the same whenever you start developing it, they were hoping not to have to develop it at all.... just that the sooner you do the sooner you score points, as it turns out. Also some teams asked for a ruling on this from Whiting and were told "illegal", others "legal". It looks bad for the FIA, and it's a stupid way to spend $$$ in these tough times !

But in what other series do you have a problem clearly exposed before the season and the governing body giving itself 4 races to rule on it ? (edit: OK, 2, 3 whatever - it'll be 5 races before they all have the trick aero) It's pretty sad, either way someone was getting burned. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the "in your face" from the 3 ex-loser teams to the big teams, but by the same token, you watch F1 to see the big guys fight it out, so it's a little strange with this mish-mash of radically different tires, cars with and withouth KERS, cars with and without diffusers... Too many variables, almost ! The issue to me is how many points can Button sock away before Ferrari and McLaren recover ? Assuming of course McLaren does not get penalized again next week for the lie-gate !