Comments on: Qualifying fuel strategies to be revealed

By: Chaz

Chaz — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:56:47 +0000

All very sensible…

By: Paige

Paige — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:32:22 +0000

My response to the goal of increased driver access to the public is:

Let Kimi be Kimi.

By: DC

DC — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:53:11 +0000

Yes, I agree with the general consensus that not knowing fuel loads makes things more interesting.

“Is he faster because he’s lighter? Will so-and-so get a good gap before he has to pit?” Well, all that is out the window. No more fun speculation here.

I get the impression that the “fan survey” results had that fans wanted “more information” or some such terminology. This is a reaction to provide more info to the fans and wasn’t completely thought out, I think.

By: Bigbadderboom

Bigbadderboom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:23:51 +0000

I’m in agreement with the rather not know camp when it comes to post quali fuel loads. I usually watch the grand prix with my 3 brothers, much of the discussion regards strategy and potential running distances. We will soon enough know which car/driver is fastest so (just for example) knowing that Lewis is heaviest and on pole position sets the mood that the race is his to throw away. I know we all crave as many stats and as much info as poissible but there must remain some mystery and excitement in the sport. Sometime the not knowing is the fun!

By: todd

todd — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:56:22 +0000

yeah, i much rather being surprised about who is pitting when rather than knowing they had low fuel or what not.

it adds to the suspense and strategy.

the only reason it would be tedious not to know would be the lack of interest the racing and the sport.

do you really want to know who’s got the best chance to win before the race has started?

in essence that’s what it is.

do you remember turkey when hamilton was very fast, you were sure he had to stop again but you didn’t really know what fuel load he was on, and vettel in brazil, you were all wishing he had to stop again and he did, if you knew it you wouldn’t care about the racing on track as much, it’ll all be ‘eh, he has to stop in 3 laps any way’

sure you can guesstimate it now, but if they run 2-3 more laps than that guesstimation, the state of the game changes and all of a sudden those extra laps you didn’t think they could do will bring them out on track in a much better position.

i’d hate to know that in advance. can pick the whole race before it gets going.

with reliability the way it is, and DC not in there anymore to cause accidents, there’s little surprise to be had

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:15:37 +0000

When did a driver last say what he relly thinks? They’ll just reel out the usual innane team talk, or else.

By: sherlokuk

sherlokuk — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:34:16 +0000

loving the tv interviews with the drivers but imagine them talking to massa after silverstone!

By: Pingguest

Pingguest — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:46:00 +0000

I think it would had been a better idea to (partially) abolish the post-qualifying parc fermé. Drivers should always be allowed to refuel and change the setup between qualifying and race.

By: Mark S

Mark S — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:13:35 +0000

Its good to get more access to the drivers. Ideally this would be extended to include some of the teams staff (eg. the race engineers) to get a fuller picture.

I’m also hoping that somewhere on the net would have all these interviews, so we can see those which the TV companies don’t have a chance to show.

By: ajokay

ajokay — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:58:54 +0000

I should think he’ll probably become so irritated and bored by the end of the season that he’ll leave F1 to explore other avenues.