All F1 2004 Discussions

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

even the commentators said ross brawn eating a banana was the most exciting bit

- the worst thing was that they were right, what a poor race

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by homealone

- the worst thing was that they were right, what a poor race

sad to say but i ff'ed it thru the last 10 laps to get it over with

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

sad to say but i ff'ed it thru the last 10 laps to get it over with

with the first 5 cars spread out by over a minute at the last pit stop, on a track with a 1 min 20 sec lap time, I don't blame you.

- on the bright side the cricket has been really good

[kronas]

i must admit i stopped watching F1 a long time ago...........but its still funny to see ferrari so far ahead.

even if the commentators faked some of the enthusiasm i saw towards the end of this race

[Gareth]

I actually missed today's race.... after reading about it, I'm kinda glad I did

On another note, did anyone else see the IT role that was on offer recently at Jordan? The job spec clearly stated that travelling would be a major part of the job... No kidding! If I didn't have a family, I'd have applied - would even take a pay cut for a role like that!

[Jonboy]

i have to admit i was nodin off meself

[iadom]

Excellent test match on at Old Trafford, Arsenal v Everton, Olympics. did I watch or miss F1, what do you think.

[basa]

..and I mowed the lawn !! I really hate gardening as well

[sherer]

yeah the most open race of the season on paper and Ferrari walked it.. Trouble is there is no overtaking going on further down the order either..

Just think back to France and Silverstone.. 2 of the best overtaking moves i've ever seen. It wasn't a late braking move down the inside.. Wasn't even a pass round the outside. No what happened was Shuey went quicker than the other car he was racing while it was in the pits and ended up in front. i remember i was talking about that for all of 0 seconds afterwards it was that good.

That i think is the problem with F1 at the moment. How many times have we heard people say " you can't pass i had to wait for the stops" and whenever the team engineers get interviewed mid race it's never were racing this car in front were are trying to go quicker and pass the car on the track it's we're trying to change the strategy to overtake.. We need to keep the cars on the track the whole time that way they HAVE to pass on the track.

If we had some overtaking further down the grid.. like we did in 92 when Mansell swept all before him on in 88 with McLaren won nearly all the races but still raced each other and we had battles further down the grid as well.

Think we also need to ban balast as well. it seems ludicrous that in the safety consious F1 we have today they build the cars underweight and then add balast to the cars to help the handling. Surely the extra weight should go into making the cars stronger ?

i think they should also ban all the telemetry \ sensors that way if you had the best driver in a Minardi he could use his own driver skill to set the car up better and would be able to make a different. At the moment it's all down to the computers and simulations.

NASCAR from Watkins Glen was good

Classic comment from the commentator. During the Racing the Home Depot Team were talking of changing driver due to him having stomach cramps. In the end they didnt change driver and he won the race. They did have to delay the victory celebrations due to the winning driver needing a clean fire suit!! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Flubflow]

This may have been thought or said many times before but I think it is time for David "Thunderbirds Puppet" Coulthard to realise that he needs to give it up. He has wasted a valuable seat in the McLaren for far too long.
It makes me laugh now when he used to criticise "old man" Damon Hill just because he hadn't taken the usual route of doing karting since he was an embryo and did not start F1 before he was old enough to shave. Look what Damon acheived in 6 years in F1 and look what Coulthard hasn't in 10.
The F1 audience is going down and the last thing it needs is vacuous square headed journeymen like Coulthard. It wouldn't be so bad if he had some personality to make up for his lack of spirit on the track.

[sherer]

Originally Posted by Flubflow

The F1 audience is going down and the last thing it needs is vacuous square headed journeymen like Coulthard. It wouldn't be so bad if he had some personality to make up for his lack of spirit on the track.

agree in part with this post. The problem is DC is that on his day he can produce great drives it's just that over a season he does one great drive and 16 bad ones.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by sherer

i think they should also ban all the telemetry \ sensors that way if you had the best driver in a Minardi he could use his own driver skill to set the car up better and would be able to make a different. At the moment it's all down to the computers and simulations.

Actually, the driver has a greater impact on the race than you appear to be saying. Remember how Ferrari went downhill when Micheal Schumacher broke his leg and was out for half the season two or three years back? You can have the best F1 car in the world, but if you don't have a good driver, you still won't get very far.

I still agree though. They do need to remove some of the safety features, reduce the team strategy a bit reduce the technology on board the cars (which I believe they are doing anyway).

[gazzae]

Originally Posted by scastle

Actually, the driver has a greater impact on the race than you appear to be saying. Remember how Ferrari went downhill when Micheal Schumacher broke his leg and was out for half the season two or three years back?

They hardly went downhill. Eddie Irvine was still challanging for the world championship at the last race of the season

[sherer]

Originally Posted by scastle

Actually, the driver has a greater impact on the race than you appear to be saying. Remember how Ferrari went downhill when Micheal Schumacher broke his leg and was out for half the season two or three years back? You can have the best F1 car in the world, but if you don't have a good driver, you still won't get very far.

think if that happened in the last 3 seasons then Rubens would still win the title as they now do have the best car on the grid.. That season Hakkinen was still challenging for the title as McLaren had produced a decent car then that was better than the Ferrari most days.

Would prefer to get tid of all the computers and technology but can't see it happening. it needs to be taken out of the teams hands really as they never can agree on anything.. they can't even agree that they don't agree