F1 Fanatic

but surely you can strive to design a car which will be easier on its tyres at the expense of other performance areas? Even if you don’t have access to actual compound?

err. No. The tyres operate within set operating temperatures which are directly linked to the compound. So amending the compound to make it more durable will affect its temperature operating window, which some […]

I’m a Ferrari fan and rated it one. This was not a race as much as a Pirelli testing session. When drivers are being told not to race but stick to a delta time I get mad. All the drivers were basically driving […]

wow @robbie, for once I agree with (most of) what you say! :-)

@vasschu

Yes, as in the RBR case, you had 2 drivers of similar pace, being told to bring the cars home.
In the other case you had 1 driver with a problem(fuel) and another able to pressure the cars in front.

Makes […]

You have to look at each case separately. In RBR’s case, Webber was fast enough to keep Seb behind, and had up unitl then, beaten Vettel on merit and could have sped up to fend off Vettel(had the team not told him […]

@alex, I hate to bring this up but it was actually DH who punted MS off. @robbie, if you dIslike MS so much you must detest Senna, whose antics on track bordered on criminal at times.

So gutted to see him go. He gave us some of the finest drives ever seen on a racetrack and at times with cars that didn’t deserve to be near the front.

Add to that he took my beloved Ferrari and dragged them to […]

Jeez @Robbie, you never fail to amaze me with the level of nonsense you spout regarding MS and Ferrari. Your entire post is conjecture and fabrication and in fact bordering on ridiculous.

You talk about things […]

@keithcollantine Yes, however the drivers on 3 stops could not ‘push like hell’. they still had to drive well below their ultimate pace. I do agree the rules need changing, however I think the balance between tire […]

Keith, i think you blow your own argument out of the water with your very first example. A driver should have the option of either pushing like hell and needing another set of tires, or looking after his and […]

Honestly, I think even the casual viewer is smart enough to realize its a team sport. Its pretty obvious.

I’ll throw in a cricket analogy seeing as we’re referring to other team sports. a batsman is on 96 not […]

Cameltoe’s a bitch eh?

How many Formula 1 drivers does it take to change a headlight?

At the risk of being wrong, I think it was 2003. Martin Brundle commented on the fact that RB was so much closer to MS that year, mainly due to the nature of the longer wheelbase car. Ie. less oversteer. Having […]

@Robbie, you hatred for Ferrari and Schumacher is clear for all to see, but if Ferrari didn’t want Rubens to do well, why did they build their car to be more neutral handling rather than with oversteer the way MS […]

I thought the cars had ground effects in ’94? I might be wrong but I think one of the theories floating around was that he lost his ground effects after hitting the bump at tamburello which sent him off the circuit.

I ‘enjoyed’ the documentary, even if just for the footage alone.

It was a really sobering look into what breed racing drivers were in those days. I don’t think any of the current crop who came into the sport […]

Thats hilarious. You should do standup.