Except for the part about MS being afraid, T12 was correct about mostly everything else. But out of context yes. Typical. MS is anything but afraid of his competition, especially Kimi Raikkonen. He knew Raikkonen's weaknesses, he would have ended Kimi after one year, instead of the two. Kimi is incredibly fast, but incredibly not focused. Every driver, teamowner on the grid knew that about Kimi. LdM wanted them to be wrong......yea right. So he was the ONLY one chasing Kimi. LdM is what is wrong with Ferrari. Have you wondered why no one in F1, no one, is chasing Kimi today? Even Lotus would not have him. MS admitted Saturday that now he realizes he is tooooooooooooo old for F1. He is. I just prefer direct information than something in some journal that is biased. Autoweek, tends to be the exception, probably why they do not break much new news, they want more proof.
He is my son? That young woman I deflowered so many years ago? 46 times to be exact. I have often wondered.....now I know. Aircon, I will not appear on Maury, or on Jerry Springer. If I am your father, well, sorry.
Another thing Martin Brundle pointed out this race that hampers overtaking: the rev. limiter. We all know the engines are capable of much higher revs but are limited by the rules (18,000 rpm?) I forgot which cars were involved at Spa but one car that was much faster couldn't get by the slower one because it hit the limiter at the long Camel straight. If the revs were unlimited, would this solve this particular overtaking problem? Or is it more complicated than that (differences in aero, gear ratios)?
sorry dude, in the Aussie section we accuse Aircon's dad (initials are RP) of owning everyone's car so he HAS to agree with you as you own his car and are his dad Just so you know we aren't having a go at you but your username is a large part of the Aussie in-joke humour ...
Engine revs is not the point. Gear ratios are. They determine vmax if revs are equal and aero can be overcome...
true, but I think what the other poster was refering to was that Brundle kept saying the RB was hitting the rev limiter as it was chasing the Renault up Eau Rouge, so does this mean they had the RB geared wrong ? Secondly, how could he tell the rev limiter was being hit from the screen we were all watching but the Renault of Kubica's wasn't ? Maybe the rev limiter was being hit as it went past Brundle so he just assumed it would up Eau Rouge
Source please? I saw the interview he did with Coulthard... very candid. I heard him say that he doesn't believe it's possible for him as a 41 year old to be as good as he was as a 25 or 30 year old at the top of his game. But to my knowledge, he didn't say he was too old for F1. To the contrary- he said that he feels he still has a lot of speed and couldn't quantify how much has been lost becuase there are too many varialbles, the greatest being the time invested with old versus the new team. BTW- Am I the only one that thought IF one were to concede a spot to a team mate in higher standing without drawing team order questions- the Rosberg pass on SC restart would have been the way to do it.
now i understand why you keep repeating the crap you read....you believe what you want to believe. you need to stop doing that.
Has anyone determined whether Alonso's spin may have been due (at least in part) to a delayed rear suspension breakage after Barrichello's big hit on lap 1? I amazed that the Ferrari didn't break at that moment!
So as this is supposed to be the very top of motorsport, world wide, surely he is not up to this level against a bunch of guys that are actually on the top of their game? IMO he is simply taking a spot away from some young aspiring driver ... And if he does get to the top again, his comment above has just confirmed that winning in F1 is 99.99% the car, so hardly good for those 7 previous WDC's he er, sort of won. Time to quietly exit to another race series before he completely destroys his current and previous reputation. Pete
you can bag him Pete, but as a human being he has done some damn decent things and is not up himself plus he bought 5 championships to the Scuderia which I certainly appreciated after the 21 years drought. Sure he's done some terrible things (Hill, Villenueve, Monaco, Rubens) but nobody got killed or even hurt, and he has displayed some incredible talent. I hope for his sake he can get one more GP win just to show people he could still manage it
Agree that he has done some pretty decent things, done being the apt word. Every F1 race he now enters is undoing the image of those "done" things ... . Pete
Pete, I humbly disagree on all points. One mans midland performance can exceed anothers top. Obviously, he's top 50 percentile in a field of youngers guys I presume you believe to be at "the top of their game". There can only be 1 WDC per season- and this fact does't deminish the talent of the other 23 who didn't achieve that. Lots of factors play into being #1. Taking a spot?? It's the free market that determines how spots are awarded. Some get it on pure talent, others buy in, still others fall into it. To my knowledge, MS didn't have to co-erce or buy the spot. Merc had other options and they chose MS and Nico- both reasonable choices even if their results are below expectations. MS didn't "take" the spot any more than a younger driver failed to secure it. 99.9% the car? We can all agree the car plays a major role but whatever the result,- ascribing a numeric value to how much of a factor the car played is ridiculous. His comment no more confirms the car is 99.9% than 87.6% or 50.4%. Though disappointed that MS isn't doing better, I can't help but respect his new persona. On that point, I think he's impoved on the MS of old. On the racing part- I concede that he's lost something. Not enough to make him non-competitive in the right car- but enough that the old magic of "willing" a non-competitive car to do things it couldn't in the hands of another "appears" lost.
It was the RB vs Renault. If a driver was able to play with his revlimiter (ie set it to whatever the engine limits are) he could have easily passed Kubica. You could easily hear the car hitting the limiter, no rev counter thing needed. The car basically hit the wall and at that point Kubica's renault was still accelerating. Simple case of getting the gearing wrong.
If Schu were in a car to his liking and still underperforming, then yes I would agree with you. At the moment this is just not the case and everyone knows this. You see how both of these drivers have to wrestle that beast around the track. Alonso had to deal with it, Hamilton, Webber, allllllllll of them have had to deal with it where the car just was not performing and you never knew what it was going to be like from track to track. Should next year yield a fantastic red bull level of car and he is still performing under par, he will retire on his own. Beware of underestimating the Schu though.
You make a good point here. If the car was 99.9% and the driver the last tenth how would that explain Webber v Vettel as of late? Or Hamilton v Button or Nico v MS for that matter?
I believe it has a lot more to do with the driver's ability to facilitate his specific needs for a car to the engineers. It's definitely a team effort, but clearly some drivers are better at facilitating their needs to engineers than others, and some cars are better suited to certain drivers ie., the Mercedes/Brawn is better suited to Button's driving style as that's how HE wanted it.
