Formula 1 - 2010 Season

I hope he leaves F1 for good of other drivers. He is going nowhere, he won't achieve anything, just leave now... and I hope someone takes his 94 title off him :p
 
I don't see why those flex wings suddenly are such a big deal. Actually I'm suprised not everybody has them. It's not the first time this happend. Years ago Ferrari also had the flexing flaps on the front wing and if I remember correct that time they also passed the weight test but the wing would just start flexing at higher loads.
 
I think the big deal is that the wings are clearly flexing but are still passing the FIA's deflection tests which puts loads on the endplates of the wings or pulls them to see what happens. The FIA needs to increase the load and they are entitled to do this because there is a technical regulation which states that they can change the criteria for a load test at any time and they have to do it if they are serious about enforcing the regulations.

In the link Dave posted, there's a comment by someone that the FIA is also interested in the way the RB6's undertray is behaving.
 
Well yes ofcourse but I'm sure every designer knows those wings generate a whole lot more than 50kg of downforce so flexiwings shouldn't be a case of if a team builds one, but when a team builds one.

What goes on underneath the car is a whole lot more interresting I think. Particulairy because you can't see it.
 
F1 just loves to keep dicking with the rules and regulations so it leads to varied results and a close championship. The racing happens in the politics of the sports than on the track. If there a loophole in the regs, the teams creative enough to use it for an advantage should reap the awards accordingly. As long the loophole does not present a danger, you can close it out the following season. However, the teams have learned that if they fail to use a loophole to their advantage, they can continously whine and get their way. Ofcourse, their excuse and a legit one at that is the lack of testing. Having to use race weekends for testing parts means they can potentially fall behind many race weekends before coming to terms.

I'm not a fan of F1 in it's current state.
 
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I think this season so far has been great. Many different race winners, good stories on Red Bull having the fastest car but cocking it up, McLaren being plucky upstarts making the most of their inferior car, Ferrari starting well, making mistakes, letting their passion cloud their judgement and then building the second fastest car.

I also like Webber's story this season. He deserves this shot at the title, if the Austrians conspire to take it away from him, it will be to their detriment.

Spa is going to be very interesting.
 
I'm going to spa! :D But I agree this season is great.

@Robert: If you don't like F1 how it is now, did you ever like F1? I don't think it has ever been different for the past 20+ years.
 
I think it has never been better to be honest.
I think I have been watching F1 avidly since 1996 or so.

Stopped watching it during the Schumacher Ferrari era as I got bored of it.

Now almost every race is a complete mystery - I even remember when Mansell won almost every single race whilst at Williams with Patrese as his team mate and he gifted Patrese the Monza GP. Boy was that season mind numbling boring.
 
Bludd said:
Lucky man.
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Yeah :) But as I'm studying in the south of Holland for me its not hard to get there and I can just travel back the same day. Actually I wasn't planning on going as I think its too expensive and my friends don't like F1 and going alone isn't any fun I think but my friend from Japan will be here for a short holiday and he asked me if I wanted to go with him so that is why I decided to go. Got the cheapest tickets we could get, 150 euro :p Hopefully I will be standing somewhere where I can see a screen because when I checked the Spa website some places don't have a view on a screen.
 
Does anyone else think that the "unsafe release" incident between Renault and Force India was a direct result of the Renault pit crew getting distracted by a Mercedes tyre bouncing towards them? It seems a little harsh not taking that into account. If you watch the replay the collision happens right at the moment that the tyre is heading towards the garages.
 
Fruitfrenzy said:
Does anyone else think that the "unsafe release" incident between Renault and Force India was a direct result of the Renault pit crew getting distracted by a Mercedes tyre bouncing towards them? It seems a little harsh not taking that into account. If you watch the replay the collision happens right at the moment that the tyre is heading towards the garages.
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A fair point to be honest. It did all happen at once - tyre falls off goes bouncing down the pitlane, split second later the release of Kubica causes the collision.

Didn't really affect the result in any way did it? Kubica was well out of it anyway.
 
No I think the Renault lollypop man just didn't see the car. I think their punishment was fair (stop go and fine), but Kubica retired so meh.
 
And even if he was distracted, in that case he just shouldn't have released the car but instead wait untill he was sure it was safe. It seems rather strange that if you are distracted and not sure if it's safe you just release the car and pray nobody is there.
 
I meant distracted as in "Oh shit, here comes a tyre" resulting in him making involuntary arm movements which Kubica interpreted as a signal to go. I guess if that is what happened Renault would have said.

Obviously the stop-go penalty didn't make much difference to the race but I'm sure Renault would rather not have the $50k fine.
 
I bet they have insurance for that kind of thing or Gerard Lopez just pulls it out of his butt. :D
 
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