down right GAY! looked like mint oreo cookies that's for sure. Instead of doing that kind of publicity stunt, they should invest the money into garbage recycling around the track, if they haven't done so, would be more practical i think
Another attempt by racing to placate the tree huggers ... who don't like cars at all. (So they adorn their big guzzling SUVs with a marijuana leaf emblem to show their greenness. ) How about we just paint Bernie green? ... Hmm: then he'd look just like E.T. (ET Vodaphone home. ) It's going to be even more of a challenge to figure out which are the option tires, now. What are they going to do for the "option" slicks, next year? (Given that Bernie won't use the red sidewalls like CART.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but between development and production, aren't tires one of the most un-green components on a car?
I like what the commentators said last night during practice: "no one can tell who is on the option tire and who isn't, maybe it is Bridgestone's way of trying to add that element of excitement by the other teams guessing". I think it is a stupid stunt that is worthless to showing how committed to green they are.
*doing my best BE impression* "Well you know there JUST MIGHT be money in using ET as a mascot.....'ET Vodaphone home'......I LIKE IT!!!! Quick! tell montreal their race is cancelled unless they adopt this! I want more money!"
The reason for the "green" tires is the same reason for the rule that both compounds must be used in the race and one has white stripes. And that reason is, that once all teams are on a spec tire, then tires become uninteresting. Max wanted Michelin out. Bridgestone wanted to be the only supplier, but they wanted people talking about them. How to do that? Simple! Collude with Max to invent a stupid rule that teams must use both tires (for what reason other than to make tires "interesting"). It hurts the spectacle of the race, and it adds nothing interesting, except sometimes giving some drivers pot-luck positions they wouldn't otherwise have, like Rubens when he was lucky to switch to wets and gain 17+ seconds per lap and make it up front. So now Bridgestone need to come up with something else since people are getting bored with stupid tire rules that do nothing to add to anything other than B-stone's PR efforts... hey, lets do "green" tires! Brilliant! (not)
It's stupid. The notion that F1 should "go green" is about the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
indeed, are they trying to get eco-hippies to aprove of the sport, or even get them to watch it?! face it, they wont be satisfied until the cars run on electricity only and everyone attending F1 drives a prius... Even then they'll try and trying to do something about it!
Does anyone here recall when Bennetton painted their tires different pastel colors in the mid-80's ? I really need a slide scanner...
I'm so sick of all this green this green that, political correct stuff. Instead of green tires just go straight to a soapbox derby and get it over with. Next they want to go to a standard engine ( doubt it'll happen ).
Agree totally! The guy from Toyota said that he thinks Bernie and Max are using the standard engine as a negotiating tactic.... how stupid is that? How dumb is it that the head of the rules organization is frickin threatening the participants with killing the innovation (which is the reason for being in the sport!) if they don't do what he wants? If Max wasn't so corrupt, he would have done an honest deal with Bernie for the TV rights rather than selling them for a few million for the rest of the century in return for a $300mm bribe, then there would have been hundreds of millions of $$ available that could go back to the teams instead of going to CVC/Bernie. THAT would make a big difference in costs... alot more than a spec engine (which is as great of an idea as moving from V10's to V8's to 'save money').
