Comments on: Heidfeld reveals McLaren start system

By: oliver

oliver — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:24:45 +0000

This isn’t cheathing, what if Mclaren have an engine mode that allows them to take off using only one bank of cylingers then activating the other bank after the car is well in motion. When TC was banned I knew most teams will play around with engine modes. All teams posses the ability to set their engines to run much slower, they already do that when they want to conserve fuel and the engines, why not take it further.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:25:05 +0000

You can find the picture via the last link on this article: F1 in the blogs 33

(For South Park fans only – look at Vertigo’s picture of Kubica and imagine him saying “Timmy!”)

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:11:55 +0000

Trulli was on to this when he was referring to Ferrari being able to accelerate in practice whenever they wanted without losing traction I think.

@ Vertigo
I guess you didn’t see the picture that Keith posted last year of Flavio in a speedo.( it was a link,complete with a warning )

By: Vertigo

Vertigo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:11:34 +0000

I know this doesn’t strictly relate to this post but here’s a great shot of F1’s ugliest man: http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/photolarge.php?photoID=93435&catID=1101-3070

By: Haplo

Haplo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:37:31 +0000

You all fail to see the point, this is just McLaren giving better equipment and treatment to Lewis than to Alonso.

Oh wait…

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:08:01 +0000

It may be something as simple as the torque curve of the Mercedes engine being better than anyone elses.

The one thing you can guarantee in F1 is that the FIA can’t write water tight rules and that the teams will find the gaps and exploit them. The FIA are the same oraganisation who couldn’t write a rule on how to measure fuel temperature. If they cannot do that they have no chance of writing one that covers every possibilty of simulating traction control. Max isn’t that bright and he won’t let anyone else make a decision.

By: Cooperman

Cooperman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:26:46 +0000

Surely no-one’s suggesting that the FIA have left the rules so grey that the teams can circumnavigate a system that’s been banned???
I’ll be honest with you – I just can’t see that happening!

By: Sri

Sri — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:47:07 +0000

I completely agree with what you said here archi. LOLLLLLLL

By: Architrion

Architrion — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:54:49 +0000

noooo, that can’t be true…. I would argue that it’s the "out of this world" right foot sensibility Lewis has since he was born, in Peter Windsor words.