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The only race i actually feel asleep watching. It was that bad. Far worse than last year; or any other year for that matter. The only saving grace as already pointed out, is how Alonso won it.

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This is EXACTLY what i have been saying all along. Hembery thinks he is media savvy, but all he is doing is making his company look like a fool. Hemebry is the one who brought up the Red Bull […]

Pirelli are to blame for this sorry mess. No one asked them to make the 2103 tyres so marginal, nor to be on the limits of what is safe – the FIA and Bernie have confirmed this. Their remit was simply to spice up […]

Wasn’t there another delamination? I forget who it was. That picture should have been included, as it would have told a thousand words.

Will Buxton, emminent F1 journalist that is he, is clearly talking rubbish on this issue. His claims that Fearrari were pushing has been systematically debunked by quite a few people already via analysis of […]

I can’t see why anyone would find it difficult to see that the drivers are not maximising the cars in the race. If the cars are faster, Q3 times are faster, pole time is faster, but race time is generally slower, […]

Here my friend, is the solution –

- Consistent performance that allows a driver to race and push. Whatever amount of laps the tyres last for, the drivers should be able to get performance out of them during […]

Because Pirelli are deliberately obsfucating excatly what they intend to do. For a team who relish being in the limelight (Hembery with all his PR soundbites), they could have been more clear….like –
“No, these […]

Erm..NO. Even the car that won was NOT the fastest car, not was it driven as fast it actually is. There is something wrong with that.

Hysterics aside, the main issue with these tyres is that you simply cannot race on them. Yes you can win, but NOT by racing. If every one crawls around in a competition, somebody will still win. This is what a […]

Agree with all the points above. I posted a riposte to Buxtons claims on JAF1. Buxtons claims that Ferrari were “pushing” has now been debunked on so many levels.

Very well said.

You know something is really wrong with the tyres when the fFastest lap up to 7secs slower than pole time. In the days of old, the fastest laps sometimes beat the pole time.

Really?? You don’t say!

+1

But Lotus are not the only team in F1…so just because the tyres suit Lotus does not mean they are ok.

Even the tyres are a lottery for the manufacturers. If they don’t understand their own tyres, how do they expect the team to understand them??

Imagine if Pirelli had not changed the hard compound, it would have been 6 stoppers all the way – and some car started tyre saving from Lap 3! And another delamination. More durable my foot! Merc, the team that […]

This isnt racing this is an exercise in tyre conservation. The drivers are not really racing each other, they are trying to get from start to finish as fast as possible with the least amount of pits stops.

Very […]

(1) Congratulations to Ferrari. But because of the tyres, the next race is not guaranteed.
(2) Embarassing for Mercedes – their latest upgrades achieved exactly the opposite of what it was meant to do – increase […]