Dean. You clearly do not understand F1. Every statement in your rant exudes misinformation about F1 and exemplifies that you do not know what you're talking about.
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I disagree. You do if it is going to pour during the first lap!!! The cars that wrecked (according to this and this) were in grid spots 17,18,19 and 21. The leaders managed to make it through without dumping their cars, so it was clearly drivable. Yes, Button was up behind Massa and Alonso, but they managed to make the corner when he didn't. And cars from the other grid positions in between and after made it as well... So the cars are not undriveable, or the whole field would be piled up against the tires. |
The leaders got through because they were in front where a) they could see better than those behind due to less spray and b) because
it wasn't raining that hard as they went through. I think you don't understand what happens when a deluge breaks loose... it goes from driveable track to undriveable track in 2 seconds as the runoff floods across the road.
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22 of the supposed best drivers in the world in the best equipment in the world should be able to make it through at least the first damn lap without colliding or crashing, wet or dry, but they just don't appear to be able to. I'm not positive, but I don't recall an F1 race I've seen this year where every car has completed lap one unscathed. That is just plain stupid, and the stewards and teams/owners shouldn't put up with it.
43 or so "bumpkins" in multiple series can often manage to go 3-4 wide on an oval and 2 wide on road course through the first lap and sometimes many more without destroying any cars.
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NASCAR vs F1 has been done to death, but think about this: if you bump two cup cars together, you might just bend some sheet metal. If you bump two F1 cars together, they explode in a cloud of carbon fiber dust.
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And why don't they know what the track conditions are? What, nobody on the team can get in the Ferrari red $50,000 golf cart and go look or call a buddy with a cell phone in F1? Or is it that they don't know how to tune one of the 57 LCD displays they have to the F'ing weather channel or better yet, the race broadcast?
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Like I said earlier, there's no way some dude in the stands with a cell phone is going to be able to call the pits, talk to someone about the track conditions, and get that info relayed to the driver in the 2 seconds between a wet track and an undriveable track. The only warning those guys get are the yellow flags, and even then with all the spray in the air, the up-track flaggers might not even be able see the incident, meaning no yellows until the flaggers at the incident can contact race control and get the info relayed to the flaggers on the straight. You've been to FNC school... imagine the situation from that perspective. By your logic, a car should never crash into a stopped car... yet you see oil on the track shunt multiple cars into each other all the time, no?
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And what the hell good is a V8 turning 19000 RPM at 4MPG. How is that state of the art. That sounds dumber than a race series still running push rod V-8s with carburetors. I know they are talking about taking F1 "green", but they should have been leading the way, not bowing to environmental pressure.
Where is the 2000lb lithium-air battery or fuel cell powered F1 car capable of 4-500WHP and 60 laps without "refueling". Now that would be technologically advanced.
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How about reading the upcoming sporting regulation rumors.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/55951
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And single nut wheels were used because it was the only reasonable way to mount a spoked wheel. That is how they did it on the Conestoga wagons, it must still be good enough for F1.  Why not invent some cool 5 pin cam lock thingy and heaven forbid a way to monitor if the damn thing is loose??? |
WTF is this about? Let me see... five lug nuts take... OMG!!
five times longer than one!?! I never would have guessed that's why F1 went from multiple lugs on the old cars to center-lugs. Oh, not to mention the rules that require them to use a single lug and a provided air gun.
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ALMS is more advanced than F1 and the technology is much more likely to make it into street cars.
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And ALMS is going out of business. Looks like FIA is doing something right that ALMS isn't.
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F1 is not racing, it is 22 companies with to much money and not enough common sense and drivers to match.
F1 is a joke.
Again, thank you for participating in Dean's F1 rant thread...  |
Um... it's 11 teams (McLaren, Renault, Ferrari, Honda, BMW, Toyota, Red Bull, Williams, Toro Rosso, Spyker, and Super Aguri) and 10 companies (McLaren, Mercedes, Renault, Ferrari, Honda, BMW, Toyota, Red Bull, Williams, and Spyker) if you consider the parts sharing between chassis and engine manufacturers. But since you're such an expert on F1 and its problems, I'm sure that's what you meant.
Oh, and "too".
