F1 Fanatic

Sorry to rag on ol’ JB again, but for me it has to be people saying he is some sort of master strategist after his victories in in Australia and China this year. In Australia he had just destroyed his inters, as he himself said, and had to come in, China yes that was a good call but there was also Korea, which these people seem to conveniently forget. One good call does not a master make.

Were you watching Moza last year? If it weren’t for Alonso tagging him at the first corner, Button would have won the race.

Were you watching Moza last year? If it weren’t for Alonso tagging him at the first corner, Button would have won the race.

Well yes, albeit with Greek commentary, but for me that falls under the banner of set-up rather than strategy. Plus he was tagged by Alonso and regardless of whether or not that caused him to lose the lead and whether the collision was due to his choice of set-up in the first place (greater drag -> more fuel -> slower acceleration), he didn’t win. In the end he got a podium with a competitive, if somewhat unorthodox car, big whoop.

Well it’s not like he just left the f-duct on and hoped for the best, it was clearly working throughout practice and was a competitive set-up. Yes it was against the grain but due to the nature of the car it worked. Anyway I don’t class this as strategy, it may be semantics, but for me, strategy is the calls the driver makes about tyres etc., choosing how to set-up the car is exactly that – set-up. If you want to call that strategy then fine but it wasn’t what I was referring to and it didn’t strike me as amazingly inspired anyway, it seemed a perfectly reasonable choice.

Yup the amazing strategy one annoys me too.

One from 2010: Kubica as the best driver on the grid. His boss said it, then the fanboys followed suit.

He’s good, but hasn’t proven himself to be better than Alonso, Hamilton or even Vettel.

I think 2010 was a phenomenal performance, out-driving all season a car that was clearly a mid-field and sometimes worse car. I still think given a top car he will become WDC.

The one about Buttons driving style is my main annoyance.
Up until he jumped in a Brawn, outward impressions of his driving style were “not pushing hard enough.”

There’s also the whole thing about Vettel. People keep parroting “baby Schumacher” or “wunderkind.”

Since other people have mentioned annoyances with presenters, I must say I get a little annoyed every time Brundle says “sixth”
He says Sickth, as in one, two, three four, five, SICK.

“for sure”
alive and kicking in 2011, heard during the regie r31 launch!