Comments on: Giancarlo Fisichella scores first points for Force India in Spa (pictures)

By: mm

mm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:27:58 +0000

master of track?

He is not the best driver out there in my opinion. By all means it was a good drive and he is a brilliant driver and yes one of the best on the track. He’s completed 8 seasons in F1 now, 5 times finishing higher than his team mates, but 3 times lower to Heidfield, Coulthard & Massa – all good drivers but you can’t call everyone a master else it kinda defeats calling someone one.

(Also to note is twice when he beat his team mates they didnt even complete a whole season I believe.)

Kimi won this race by a fantastic start using kers, and a good restart after the safety car again using kers. Then a good defence using kers. By all means a good drive and excellent use of kers, but without the restart force India would have left him for dust.

By: Alex Tan

Alex Tan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:08:44 +0000

force india means nothing as its pretty much a McLaren.

Hmmm You make it sound like FIF1 is like STR’08 which was essentially a redbull clone. From what is known though McLaren has offloaded some woking staff to the team, its not that FIF1 are cloning McLaren Car. They are developing their car independently of Macca and that their car doesn’t even have KERS (Which Macca has) is enough proof of the independent development by the Silverstone based team

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:35:05 +0000

I’m surprised by the bitterness exhibited by some Raikkonen fans to what I think is entirely just praise of the good work done by Fisichella and Force India this weekend. It doesn’t diminish Raikkonen’s achievement at all to praise the guy he beat.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:33:25 +0000

Who won the race? Kimi Raikonnen or Fisichella ? So long for serious journalism…

This is an article on an F1 team scoring their first point. It doesn’t happen very often. Do you really think it’s not worthy of comment?

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:09:16 +0000

Indeed. Kimi seems to get a lot of flak for eating ice cream after his car breaks down, but when he snatches the win from under the noses of several drivers in faster cars, no one seems to be paying attention.

Great drive from Kimi.

BTW did Renault send Alonso out again with an ill fitted front wheel? They put on the next fairing, but it really looked like they didn’t get it locked properly. It looked like it was locked but at the wrong angle.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:37:38 +0000

The race report is here: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/08/30/belgian-grand-prix-review/

For obvious reasons I thought Force India scoring their first ever point deserved an article of its own. It wasn’t an attempt to belittle Raikkonen’s achievement, he drove a very good race.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:05:47 +0000

force india means nothing as its pretty much a McLaren.

No it’s not. The fact one has KERS and the other doesn’t, and that the two cars look completely different, is a more-than-subtle hint.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:59:02 +0000

You mean these ones?

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/08/30/belgian-grand-prix-pictures/

By: MiguelPT

MiguelPT — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:56:03 +0000

i think findia inspire on the Ferrari f2000 they r very similar and ross brawn on another car that he has designed F2001

By: GP!

GP! — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:51:51 +0000

I thought that we are interested in who was best driver today ? Force India and Red Bull were best cars but best driver won. If Lewis had been driving like Kimi did, this would have been evidence that he is all time best . Are you guys little bit bitter when Kimi shows who is real master of track ?