Comments on: The F1 teams’ plans: what’s good, what’s bad and what’s missing

By: Chaz

Chaz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:52:04 +0000

Great analysis and summary. I agree whole heartedly. Perhaps someday soon you will be at these very press conferences to ask these pertinent questions.

I look forward to Max’s and Bernie’s rebuttal…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:59:07 +0000

And it leads to situations like 1988, where Senna won the title despite Prost scoring more points.

By: PJA

PJA — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:54:59 +0000

I pretty much agree with the all points in the article.

I defiantly don’t want shorter races and I just can’t see any reason for points for fastest pit stops. I assume it would be timed by how long the car is stationary while having all 4 tyres changed, but they would have to improve the timing because a few times we see either no time on screen during pit stops or the clock not stopping when the car leaves.

I would have liked them to make some comment on the race calendar as well, considering it is such a large part of F1 and that the manufacturers have said in the past they didn’t want to lose the North American GPs, I am a bit surprised they didn’t say anything on the subject.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:34:38 +0000

I think a lot of people are forgetting that from 2010 there will be no fuel element to pitstops so it will purely be down to who can change the tires quickest. So there will be no compromising race strategy just for a faster pitstop and it will reward back-of-the-grid teams who can’t field a race winning car but can work quickly to change the cars tires. I’m all for them.

Shortening races, very bad idea…

Totally agree that the teams should have put something in place to protect the traditional races, perhaps we should start a petition and send it to FOTA…

By: Somers

Somers — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:54:02 +0000

Without fueling stops I feel we will lose some of what we have gained over the last few years (but we shall see) Stratergy in my mind has become an integral part of winning a race/championship and has involved the TEAM without this I feel F1 leans further and further towards a spec series with every rule change. It WILL bring closer racing but it will also take away a fundamental part of F1 I have certainly enjoyed speculating over for the past few years. (No more guessing fuel loads )

By: sumedh

sumedh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:46:31 +0000

On the other hand; I think shorter races is what the teams want ( probably desperate for ).

With 1 engine to be used for 3-4 races; I am pretty sure most teams are worried about reliability.

If you think closely; a shorter race also means lesser scope for change in race strategy; something an average F1 fan will welcome.

Overall; the reduction in length of races will be bad; but not as bad as most cynics here make it out to be.

By: Kester

Kester — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:32:53 +0000

Pitstops won’t go todd. Just the refuelling side of it.

As for points for quickest pitstop I kind of like that idea. As stated in the plan it would be a constructors point and not a drivers point, and therefore why should the quickest constructor get a point for getting there car back on track in than 3.2 seconds?

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:03:54 +0000

Duly fixed!

By: Nik

Nik — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:42:23 +0000

F1 is available on TV in Sweden, but the company that owns the rights just can’t decide what channel to put it on. It’s back on pay TV this year to the best of my knowledge

By: todd

todd — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:12:19 +0000

i liked pitstops and the strategy