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Originally Posted by iadom
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'Sadly Ferrari and the sport's governing body, the FIA, did not see it that way, refusing to acquiesce'
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More to the point, as I said above:
"I tried a million things and thought that if we could get them on the grid we were halfway there." - Bernie Ecclestone.
He figured he could call the team's bluff and that if they got to the grid they'd cave in and go ahead and race. Too late he found out they weren't bluffing.
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Originally Posted by andygrif
the dreadful diamondcut track surface
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The thing is, the diamondcut surface was designed to give Indy Cars greater grip as they're the ones that use that track most of the time, so it's not fair to describe it as dreadful simply because F1 cars are different.
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Originally Posted by j52c
What happened on Sunday was down to Bernie Ecclestone and friends. He has been talking about a 1 tyre supplier for the last couple of months,
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The irony is that, if they *had* only one tyre supplier and it had been Michelin, there wouldn't have *BEEN* a race without a chicane, full stop!
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Originally Posted by punky
The issue seems to be that the tyre couldn't run at high speed on that particular banked corner. Why not just brake down to a safe speed for the corner then?
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You can't have one lot of cars going through a corner at a slow speed with another lot blasting past at full whack, that would be a recipie for utter mayhem and definitely not safe.
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Originally Posted by punky
You would have thought someone, somewhere would have forseen this problem though? How can Michellin design a tyre, and not look at all the courses in the season? Surely before the season began, someone should have looked at the US course and knew the tyres wouldn't be safe.
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But they can't test at Indianapolis and that's the only one with a high speed banked corner in it, so there's no comparable data from other tracks for Michelin.
It wasn't until they took Ralph Schumacher's tyre away and analysed it at a laboratory that they realised what the problem actually was.
Bridgestone, OTOH, knew from Firestone what sort of stresses the tyres would encounter and manufactured accordingly.