Comments on: F1 2009: Year of controversy (Part 1)

By: Kassia

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By: AP

AP — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:53:59 +0000

no some cars didn’t ask in development phase, and just showed up in 09 pre-season saying look at us we are so clever.

By: Antoine

Antoine — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:22:00 +0000

you’ve got a point there.. either that or have 6 races at spa and monza each year……

By: Dougie

Dougie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:15 +0000

Absolutely, the fly away races are practically the only ones I can see Live while the family sleeps.

Not anymore though, thanks Bernie

By: Dougie

Dougie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:57:59 +0000

The threat of a breakaway series, as always, was all mouth and no trousers… or however the saying goes. It was a threat with no substance, and Max & Bernie knew that.

By: Dougie

Dougie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:54:42 +0000

yes in pre season they stopped being illegal…but when teams asked about using a DDD while developing the cars in 08 they were illegal…

What probably happened is that there are different routes to the DDD, some of which were illegal by the rules, it was these designs that were submitted during development.

The FIA are hardly going to say “yes your design is illegal, but this design submitted by Williams is considered legal… here, have a look” are they?

By: Antifia

Antifia — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:10:57 +0000

Nothing on the Renault race fixing hupla?

By: AP

AP — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:58:10 +0000

yes in pre season they stopped being illegal…but when teams asked about using a DDD while developing the cars in 08 they were illegal…

Then to help brawn win the WCC they took 3 races into season to make up their minds fully.

If I was RBR I would be still stewing over this.

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:39:13 +0000

Weren’t they even already declared legal during wintertesting?

McLaren had the beginning of their DDD already o nthe car during their last test and used a blocked off version for the first 2 races.

By: AP

AP — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:54:40 +0000

DDD were the biggest problem of 09…apart from the break away threats.

By: mp4-19b

mp4-19b — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:20:59 +0000

I’d love to have 26 Piquet Jr’s racing

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:23:14 +0000

If you are a FAN of F1 then you should watch it whenever it happens,arranging twilight race for that is folly.
I have to watch F1 races at 1800 hrs in the evening after the sunsets,and have to miss many races because of load shedding,for me it will better if I could watch it at midnight when everybody is sleeping in peace & I can rumble those 26 V8 @ 18,000 RPM.

By: HG

HG — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:06:06 +0000

i’m not convinced that the threat of a break away series caused any damage really, not compared to having the nazi sex romp scandal

By: HG

HG — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:34:53 +0000

ahhh the memories, good times…

By: Maciek

Maciek — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:47:57 +0000

… and the Malaysia fiasco was yet another demonstration of why Bernie Ecclestone is the single worst thing happening to Formula 1.

By: Maciek

Maciek — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:45:48 +0000

To everyone who finds that the controversies make up for boring races – perhaps if everyone connected with the sport would concentrate more on the sport rather than the battles around it, the sport would be better.

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:31:14 +0000

I would like unsincronised manual shifting and steel brakes

By: Joshy

Joshy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:24:40 +0000

I think Formula 1 should return to the good ol’ days of the 90s and below that’s when it was really racing. Not much money was involved, not much technology was involved, it was all very simple and only true car control and sisu was needed to win a race. I started watching F1 in 2002 and I don’t remember much because I was kid, but through the years I have seen pieces of old school F1 and it really was great. I think F1 should return to that.

Renault should return with their colors, McLaren should come back with their silver and black colors with Hakkinen behind the wheel. Williams should come back with their active suspension.

By: beneboy

beneboy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:11:51 +0000

I normally agree with you Ned but on this one I’m afraid I have to disagree.

The “sport” is being ruined by the constant political games being played out in the background.

It’s time F1 went back to being a racing series where the action takes place on the track instead of the, now all too regular, WMSC hearings.

By: steph90

steph90 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:07:02 +0000

True it gives us plenty to talk about and if it hadn’t been for it all then I would have been bored by quite a bit of the racing.
However, the breakaway threat and Singapore was just too much and damaged the sport and allows articles such as this http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/nov/05/toyota-ferrari-formula-one-f1 as Keith pointed out in the articles in brief section. It may keep us going for news but at what cost for the sports reputation?