Issue with a certain driver

well, watching him run off the track during quali was funny. they should reconsider him i guess... no offence...

 

Then there are the drivers who spin on the parade lap, or behind the safety car, or crash behind the safety car.

Hmm: That would encompass most of the drivers in the field.

My instructor always said, "There are two kinds of pilots: Those who have landed with the gear up, and those who are going to." Or, as they put it in Thermodynamics: Sh*t Happens.

Look how long DeCrasheris was in F1.

The complaint about Ide is the same complaint I have about LeMans type racing: It's dangerous to have cars that much slower running around the same racetrack at the same time.

There's one real reason Ide is in F1.

So Sato doesn't look so bad.

 

Comic relief..........

 

Somebody has to finish last each week so I can get the 10 bonus points of F1Tipping. com.

 

You seem to be operating under the assumption that the only way you get into F1 is to be the best (but I know by your previous posts you know that isn't true).

Politics and money are big factors, there are many, maybe hundreds of drivers better than Ide. If I drove like he did, I think I would be too embarrassed to accept an F1 ride.

 

If, of course, you remembered to fill in your tips!
Wish they'd hurry up and post the results....

I've seen some no-hope drivers at the back of teh field in F1, but I really am struggling to rem one as bad as Ide. Anybody?

 

In the early going, it was to remind everybody to "Beware the Ides of March."

Now that March is over, I don't know what he's there for other than dead last f-1 tipping bonus points, for which I'm using Ide from here on out.

 

You can read about all the beloved backmarkers and dunces that have been in F1 at http://www.f1rejects.com/
Great site.

 

Ide makes Alex Yoong look racy

 

What happened to the F1 rule that all the cars in the field must be within X percentage of the pole car, speed or time-wise ?

Yeah, you would think a country like Japan, with it's industrials such as Honda, Nissan, Bridgestone, etc. surely would have a 'house' driver that would love a shot at qualifying a car, or at least have a handful of drivers show up for a testing session to see who is the best, and go from there. I guess they need to learn from Jack Roush, or Gurney, or a Tullius-type of organization.

 

Not being the sort of person to hold grudges, I'll sign up !

 

The "107% rule" got dropped with single lap qualifying. With the new WWF knock-down system, not only is the 107% rule not there, but often the 11th and 12th place drivers had quicker lap times (in session 2) than the 9th and 10th place drivers (in session 3 with race fuel). If you have enough rules, you effectively have none -- it's just a matter of which rules get enforced.

Just a guess, but I suspect that an issue with Japan is that it's considered rude to tell someone when they're acting like an arse. So they keep right on acting like an arse. Case in point: Bridgestone commercials. It's gotten pretty obvious that those commercials are made to appeal to the Bridgestone execs, rather than to the buying public.

Honda has a long history of attaching less than spectacular drivers to their engines. Back in the '80s, the story went that some visiting Honda execs were looking at the Honda engined Lotus. One commented on the business card sized mirrors and asked how anyone could see with them. A Lotus mechanic replied, "This is Nakajima's car -- there's never anyone behind him."

 

The US hasn't done that great either.

Only joking. Michael Andretti was great!

 

Yoong was racy - he won the A1GP Sprint race that was aired on OLN yesterday - granted it was the last race of the season but nevertheless he did win.

Carol