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Originally Posted by Dean
I know what a deluge is, and this is total BS. The majority of the field was less than 5- 10 seconds apart, and the visibility for P3 vs P4 had to be negligible, and by P5, the yellows were flying, yet 3 cars post P17 also went off. You have failed to explain anything, just made excuses.Duh... All the more reason for the "best drivers in the world" not to bump them together!!! 50-70 year old drivers manage it in vintage cars, why can't these 19-30 something drivers?You missed my point. The "top" racing series should have the best track information and communication and they don't.Uh, I mentioned their "green" initiative, but it is a response, not leadership.Uh, the accident in qualifying... I mentioned this in my first post. Single lugs fail, and they are 500BC tech. They should have something better, or at least be able to monitor them... 5 lugs don't take 5 times longer with the right tool and I'm not saying that is the answer.I mentioned nothing about profitability but leadership, technology and it's application to future street cars.Sorry, I forgot they are two car teams with only one pit so in conditions like this, they can't both pit at the same time...  |
I'm not trying to say that the corner was unnavigable at any speed, just that despite the driver's skill, cars, communications, flaggers, etc, it's still an extreme situation that catches even the best out. Alonso made the corner, Hamilton did not. Everything else this season indicated the two drivers are at least equivalent in skill, if not a tip of the hat to Hamilton. They both had the same cars, the same team, the same information... hell Hamilton's info should have been better because Alonso should have radioed in the conditions... yet Hamilton went off. Why? Because he was at the back of the pack that had to go through the corner after the track flooded. And post P17... well those are the cars that have a hard time making corners in the dry.
Back to the dumb NASCAR analogy... I bet there's 400% more contact in NASCAR in one lap at Talladega, than a whole season of F1. It seems to me the F1 guys are doing a terrific job staying out of each others way. And those vintage drivers aren't exactly driving with the same intensity of an F1 race. I'm at a loss why you continue to attempt to find analogies where the comparison is sketchy at best. F1 is not like any other race series... it's a time trial more than a race, and the technology (aero specifically) is so different over other series, that the racing is truly different and nearly incomparable to other forms of motorsports.
Bitching about F1's green initiative indicates how out of touch with the sport you are. Of course it's difficult for FIA to change the sport... the number one driving element of the rules is politics. ALMS can step up to diesel and ethanol pretty easily, they have like 4 teams to appease. FIA has twice the teams, like 15 country's governments, and 100 times the money in the sport to dance around with. Not to mention: ALMS is
failing because their rules changes all the time make it hard to compete, meaning teams leave the sport for other series, meaning there's less prize money and prestige... etc.
And the single lug thing... it failed because either the air gun malfunctioned (unlikely) or because the mechanic putting the wheel on didn't leave the gun on long enough (very likely). Those single lugs have locks on them... it's been probably a decade (if not two) since a lug failed on its own. The same can't be said about those NASCAR 5-lug hubs. And I assure you, the center lug on an F1 is not like the lug on a wooden wagon wheel.
Give me a break. Are you going to argue next that the cars are made out of char-coal, which is why they break in wrecks so easily?
Dean, you are plainly out of touch with F1. I'll agree the sport has all sorts of problems, but you've touched on none of them.