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<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border: 1px inset;" class="alt2"> Pirelli backs artificial wet races </td> </tr> </tbody></table>
what the hell man??.. are we going to have 3-tyre cars in future just for the sake of excitement and to save Pirelli tires... don't understand where is F1 headed :S ... this gives me another reason to hate Pirellis.. i hope Bernie won't do such thing..
Dude, F1 is becoming a joke, that's what it is. The idea was floated by Bernie himself in a recent interview in a very subtle manner. This after he had suggested tracks use a chicane-that a driver could use two or three times in a race to overtake.
Steve's friend, Tilke will not stop until he destroys the remaining tracks, and the modern F1 driver is a wuss.
I hope Pirelli tires get a shellacking this season. Utter rubbish in the name of creating more excitement. Was 2010 not exciting enough ? I don't think it was a great season like some think but it was an exciting season. But the new generation F1 fan will not be happy unless there is overtaking for the sake of overtaking like it was in Champ car and now we see it in IRL.
What do you expect from a tire supplier that joins a series on the condition that it would have no competition for three years? That is part of their contract. F1 made Michelin run away after all that happened from `03 onwards, and they wanted a tire war, not a monopoly like Bridgestone wanted and has now been given to Pirelli.
Races are sure to be multi-stop. Schumacher's race simulation on both days at Barcelona were around a three stop strategy. This is supposedly the pinnacle of motor racing, best teams, best cars, best drivers, best technology.
Pirelli were asked to make less durable tires because Bridgestone were ultra conservative, but I don't think they were asked to make crap, where the drop off can be over 2-3 seconds between a new set of tires and a used one. That means a car running in third place roughly 3 seconds or less behind the leader can leapfrog the leader if it pits one lap before the front two. The front two being drivers X and Y, who are in first and second place either by virtue of being in a very good car or there because of their race craft and they get shafted because they were leading a race and could not react and cover the guy running in third place.
The F-duct was an innovation. Teams spent what ever amount of money to develop it through out the season and it gets banned on grounds of possibly not being safe and we get the movable rear wing, which itself has question marks over it.
If artificial excitement needs to be created, then why not put car numbers of leading teams and drivers in a hat and randomly pick three, four drivers each race and give them a drive through penalty and let them come through the pack so people are happy at seeing overtaking. The artificial wet race to me is as absurd as that.
@UK..
thanks for the link buddy... this msg is appearing for your consideration ..
"File corrupted or damaged" :S ...
The link to Bernie's old book?:S I downloaded it, didn't give me an error