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Re: F1 Oz

Post by rossybee » Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:41 am

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Re: F1 Oz

Post by jason » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:11 pm

Lazydonkey wrote:
tut wrote:Horner saying that the Renault engine is no way up to the job, and that the FIA should look at engine equalisation across the manufacturers.

No way hosay, afraid that you are all going to be second runners to Mercedes once again and we could be getting very boring races.

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I did laugh a lot when I read that. Apparently even when they were winning they didn't have the advantage merc had..... And yet the rules were changed to slow them down. Apparently.

I remember it being that they had interesting and possibly illegal interpretations of the rules! Either way it's stunning sour grapes.
Horner is hilarious. Constantly whining for performance assistance now Red Bull aren't winning all the time, just like he whined against rule clarifications when his team won all the time (with a favoured driver, thus often duller races). His team agreed to the engine freeze for this new formula. And now Helmut Marko is stirring the gossip that Dietrich Mateschitz is getting bored (though Red Bull are committed to 2020).

Toto Wolff's dismissive response was perfect. “If you come into Formula 1 and you try to eat each other, or perform on the highest level, and equalisation is what you need after the first race, and you cry out after the first race, it’s not how we’ve done things in the past and not how we’ve moaned,” Wolff said. “I think just get your f****** head down and work hard and try to sort it out.”

The constant sniping at Renault when they were winning, and now when they aren't. Yawn. Part of me hopes Renault walk away from them: strong rumours Renault fed up with their works team never crediting them for winning 4 champs, for developing exhaust blowing, etc, and have been asking other teams about works partnerships. Are McLaren whining like this with their far worse current predicament? Nope.

Mr Horner, if you want equalisation, then agree to the need for sharing the money pot more fairly… Oh, he ran off. Again.

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Re: F1 Oz

Post by Lazydonkey » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:26 pm

Good ranting jase :lol:

I know he's not everyone's cup of tea but i thought Ron was pretty balanced when he was being poked and prodded to say something newsworthy about Honda.
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Re: F1 Oz

Post by StiflerMR2 » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:34 pm

Corranga wrote: Button's antics with Perez pointless, and would inevitably end in tears. He should have simply moved out of the way and continued the official Honda Melbourne Test Session with a car that was the right shape to gather a full race worth of telemetry.
The day you do that is the day you should retire. It was his only chance of excitement and tbf, he did a cracking job keeping a much quicker car behind him. If i was his mechanic and he pulled over i'd be gutted. Good on him for fighting imo. His defense at turn 11 /12 was superb. But I am a Button fan boy :).

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Re: F1 Oz

Post by jason » Mon Mar 16, 2015 3:35 pm

I do feel better getting that off my chest :D

Though Horner and Marko's precious, "we don't like not winning, and want to change our minds about the rules now it's not locked-in an advantage for us as we'd hoped", deserves it IMHO.

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Re: F1 Oz

Post by Corranga » Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:25 pm

StiflerMR2 wrote:
Corranga wrote: Button's antics with Perez pointless, and would inevitably end in tears. He should have simply moved out of the way and continued the official Honda Melbourne Test Session with a car that was the right shape to gather a full race worth of telemetry.
The day you do that is the day you should retire. It was his only chance of excitement and tbf, he did a cracking job keeping a much quicker car behind him. If i was his mechanic and he pulled over i'd be gutted. Good on him for fighting imo. His defense at turn 11 /12 was superb. But I am a Button fan boy :).
In virtually every other scenario, I'd completely agree, but due to the ridiculous testing embargo in F1, McLaren really needed testing, testing and more testing. Giving them bags of data to build upon.
What they got was lots of data on how their car performs with a buggered floor because their moustachioed man decided to pick a fight with a hot head who has a history of driving into him* and it could so easily have been a retirement for them if the accident was worse. :thumbsup

*(though in this instance it looked to be more of a mutual coming together imo)

I like Button, just not as a driver ;) Its harsh that he seems to be pretty much right back in pre-Brawn Honda all over again, but with less years left in his career this time around.
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Re: F1 Oz

Post by Corranga » Mon Mar 16, 2015 5:25 pm

graeme wrote:Sh*t, there's two of them... Paging Sarah Conner, Sarah Conner to the pitlane please.
:ROFL

I really wanted to see an interview with those 2!
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Re: F1 Oz

Post by douglasgdmw » Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:20 pm

Looks like Alonso is going to do some simulator runs before Malyasia:
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/31923004

I wonder if they have reduced the RAM on the simulator to emulate the loss of power :D

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Re: F1 Oz

Post by Dominic » Tue Mar 17, 2015 2:56 pm

douglasgdmw wrote: I wonder if they have reduced the RAM on the simulator to emulate the loss of power :D

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Re: F1 Oz

Post by Claws » Wed Mar 18, 2015 12:43 am

Dominic wrote:
douglasgdmw wrote: I wonder if they have reduced the RAM on the simulator to emulate the loss of power :D

George
:damnfunny ..they will be using a type writer. :lol:
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