F1 Australian GP

tut · Post by **tut** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:43 pm

Entirely agree.

F1 is supposed to be the ultimate so it should be the best drivers racing the fastest cars flat out, not nursing tyres and fuel. Making F1 green is purely catering to the flat hats, it has no effect on the hundreds of millions, in fact billions now, that the teams need to spend annually to stay competitive.

I am not against developing a system such as KERS as this will appear more and more on road cars, even though it was developed along with DRS to allow artificial overtaking as this was happening less and less. Many of you are old enough now to remember the no holds barred racing in the 80's and 90's, never mind the 50's and 60's as I do, but unfortunately there is no turning back the clock.

tut

tut · Post by **tut** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 1:48 pm

Excellent Robin...........

Maldonado is supposedly paying £30m for his place.

tut

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 4:24 pm

Might be wrong but swapping cars is no longer allowed so if you bin it your screwed - end of.
From what we've seen so far it looks like there aren't many changes in fortune from last year apart from maybe Mercedes and McLaren have swapped pace - which maybe indicates Hamilton made the right move. Early days though and not really the conditions to indicate future form.

tut · Post by **tut** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 5:09 pm

McLaren are in trouble.......

tut

duggiesmith · Post by **duggiesmith** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:00 pm

For those that prefer the Good Old Days:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-21740060

Loving the refuelling pic.
Safety wasn't much of a consideration then.

Scottish Scrutineer · Post by **Scottish Scrutineer** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:29 pm

I think it'll take another couple of races before the true picture shows.

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BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 8:23 pm

duggiesmith wrote:Loving the refuelling pic.
Safety wasn't much of a consideration then.

I remember reading about a time (I think it was the 70's) when the fuel was put in the car under high pressure

tut · Post by **tut** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:59 am

Just watched qualifying, McLaren's desperation showed in sending both their cars out way to early on slicks.

Just about to watch the race, so hope it is dry for this first race of the season.

tut

Corranga · Post by **Corranga** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:16 pm

good race, good result. hopefully a sign of things to come.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:12 pm

Corranga wrote:good race, good result. hopefully a sign of things to come.

sendmyusername · Post by **sendmyusername** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:41 pm

Hulkenburg, dodgy car, no spare to jump into, no race...
I'm surprised it hasn't happened before...
The fastest lap gets money towards the team, i'm surprised they didn't fix fault and send him out on qualifying laps to try and get the purple sectors ?

Corranga · Post by **Corranga** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:21 pm

there is probably a rule that states a non-starter can't go out.

Tbh, if fastest lap gets a lot of money to the team, why don't the mid-field teams that are clearly not going to score points bring the driver in with 3 laps to go and stick some fresh rubber on...

iLotus · Post by **iLotus** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:52 pm

Hello,

Being my local race, well interstate-ish, we were obviously there. It was utterly glorious to see the seas of Red Bull supporters, about 90% of the crowd, drop there jaws as Maaaarrrrkk (local pronunciation) couldn't get a decent start.

Weather was rubbish though, they should move the race to Queensland

Lindsay

flyingscot68 · Post by **flyingscot68** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:35 pm

iLotus wrote:Hello,

Weather was rubbish though, they should move the race to Queensland

Lindsay

Brissy F1?

I'd come over for that

Come to think of it - Surfers F1 - now we're talking!

sendmyusername · Post by **sendmyusername** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:52 pm

It's not a lot of money, relatively speaking, but it is more than nothing .. Sure it's in the region of 50-80 grand (set of spark plugs ?)
But it also gives them the headlines, and press coverage. Desperately needed in the sponser dry times.
Tbh I don't know why a smaller team doesn't underfuel their car, batter around for twenty laps full chat and then pretend they have a car issue and bail out, especially at the last race of the season when trying to get sponsors for next years car.
Not sure about non starters, as i've seen cars go in damaged (mainly in the wet) and them take ten laps to fix it, but still send their cars out in case not enough people finish the race, plus first race of the season, with very little testing, any information they can gather about tyre degredation would be handy, just doing half a race could have given them valuable info.
Must be something that they must leave the pits within two laps at the start or something ?
Think there should be more testing allowed too.

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