Absolutely agree - but wernt you arguing the opposite a while back ?
Formula 1 - 2008 Season
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Absolutely agree - but wernt you arguing the opposite a while back ?
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
That would work for the first race, but if you read the article properly, Patrick Head is suggesting that they race in reverse championship order. So if you're leading the championship, you start at the back. I assume there would be no qualifying, and if you want to win the championship, you need to win races, and doing that would move you to the back of the grid for the following race.
In fact, to stop the first race just being a load of people stopped on the track during a first race qualification, they might go by the previous championship standings, or random lottery to determine the first race grid.
Heck, they've tried everything else (unsuccessfully), they might as well try this - it could be quite entertaining except on the outdated tracks like Monaco that if racing (rather than money) were the consideration, they would have dumped a long time ago.
Head does have a point. F1 lines up with the faster cars at the front and the slower ones at the back - why should we then expect the slower cars at the back to be able to overtake the faster cars at the front?
Presumably first race is done normally, later races are done according to reverse season ranking up to that point.
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
And how should we expect the slow cars to keep up front if they start up front? they wont. Its useless and besides you are faking competition because some of the faster, but not top teams might win. But they wont win because they are better, they will win because they are given a headstart. Its like running a olymphic 10km marathon but tell the slower ones they only need to run 5. I dont want to see people win like that. You win because you are the best, not because you are given a headstart.
And what's to stop the top teams deliberately going as slow as possible (for example stopping on a "quick lap" with some fault, only to cross the line 7 minutes later and registering a time) to get to the front.
I have seen a rule similar to this in action somewhere and it worked (I think it was touring cars and only with the top 10 cars), but that's only because you can barge past people, literally, without ruining your race and theirs. Try that in F1 and the shards of carbon fibre would ruin everyones race
I have seen a rule similar to this in action somewhere and it worked (I think it was touring cars and only with the top 10 cars), but that's only because you can barge past people, literally, without ruining your race and theirs. Try that in F1 and the shards of carbon fibre would ruin everyones race
we know they will get overtaken + thats the point cos we like overtaking
nothing is stopping them, but why would they? their starting postion is based on championship standing not the time of a lap
or are you suggestion the top teams would finish a race last just to be on pole for the next race ?
Really funny to see all you none Brits pretending Hamilton isn't good or should that be hoping he isn't good and it was a fluke.
Definite top 3 finish, either first or second I reckon, depending on how fast the Ferrari is in Kimi's hands.
I think it's more of an issue of him not being able to handle the pressure well enough, I mean, we all saw what happened last year in Brazil, he had huge pressure on him, and it lead to many mistakes by him during the race.
Now with new season starting, even if he doesn't have that much pressure as in Brazil, there's still a lot, he has to show that he can beat the others, he can meet the expectations after great first year and so on, which might lead to more mistakes if he hasn't learned to control his nerves better, especially now when there's no TC to correct most of the small mistakes.
Unknown Soldier
Veteran
I think it'll be an uneventful race but the Ferrari's will be quickest.
1) Kimi
2) Massa
3) Lewis
US
1) Kimi
2) Massa
3) Lewis
US
Yes, but that is only one race and was with TC.
Alonso showed some real class when driving in the rain, like at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix when he went from 15th to 3rd, passing Michael Schumacher.
I rate Alonso as a better rain driver than Hamilton, but I rate Button higher still. I am just being realistic that the Honda probably is not yet up to scratch.
Well, he have had quite a lot of traction problems in the tests IIRC, at least in the beginning, so he's more or less in the same sea as everyone else with it (and there's other drivers too that were driving F2's or similar without TC before last season)
Didn't Kovalainen, in addition to Renault testing, drive F2's season before last season, too? Unless McLaren will put Lewis ahead by force, he could have just the same chances as Lewis, though that remains to be seen now that he has good performing (hopefully anyway) car
Indeed, re-checked, and he only tested Renault on 2006, not both testing & GP2
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