Good Race

I know the guys come in for a lot of stick but that was a blinder from Schumacher. 22 place to 5th at Monaco. That's impressive.

Feel sorry for Button. I know he said he was struggling with understeer but there was an early shot of him on full lock coming into the chicane at the end of the tunnel on full lock with the car going in a straight line.

Well impressive seeing a que of 10 cars all jockying for position for that first half of the race.

 

THAT CAPE WTF

 

Sorry F1 fans, but what a waste of 2hours of my life. One of these days I'll learn not to watch F1 anymore.

The cars are just too wide for the circuit, and it's little of no fun to watch on TV. Sure if your sat there, and Bernie's helped himself to several

 

You were either watching a different race to me or your ideas of what makes a good race are very different!

 

Was it a race we were watching?

To me anything less than 5 overtaking attempts through the whole field is pretty poor. But at least Monaco has always been poor, the rest of the circuits are just the same nowadays and they dont have the social draw that Monaco does. Bring back Spa, bring back turbo's and get rid of the PC brigade putting chicanes in the middle of straights. Is this really the very best car racing can offer?

Crap.

 

Great race, shame for Kimi and Webber. Funny that the podium was filled with Monaco winners, goes to show there really is some great talent on the grid this year.

Fisi was a madman, starting where Heidfeld left off last year with his classy manouvre on the Renault last year. Button must be cursing signing such a long deal with Honda, they really are shit. They had a fast car in 2004, but none of them knew why, and similarly they have no idea why their car has been so shit ever since...

Schumi was not really disdvantaged starting from the back, as he had the option to fill his car to the brim (since he started from the pit lane), so his result was predictable enough, and has been replicated by many other drivers starting from the same position. Nothing special.

So where does Kimi go next year? To a bunch of cheating bastards loved my many but hated by even more, or to the team seemingly with everything, except a reliable car? Decisions decisions...

 

Hell, if everyone can overtake so easily it becomes pretty pointless (one of the reasons I hate to watch oval racing) I'd much rather watch a race with tension and a couple of high risk or hard work overtaking moves.

That race you had the first 4 cars setting a stunning pace to get away with a VERY gutsy move by Hakkinen to get past Webber up the hill. The way the track curves to the left and right means it's very easy for a couple of cars to come together as they go up there. THat was very risky

You had Schumacher making a fair few moves as he blitzed up the field. That was some fairly impressive driving (he overtook 16+ cars so a few more than 5).

Fisichella put in a couple of very dicey moves to have a couple of people.

Lots of very close racing.

No heavy smashes generating lots of safety cars (a good thing in my opinion) although 1 from webbers retirement.

I'm with you about Spa. My favourite circuit and I really hope it gets back on the calendar next year.

Don't agree with Turbo's too finicky too many cars blowing engines and running out of fuel.

Personally I reckon the best thing they can do is give them back full slick tyres and widen the track of the cars thus adding mechanical grip whilst reducing/removing wings to remove downforce. This would make closer following far easier and make for much closer racing

 

yes..

the tyres should look like this..



if kimi's engine really starting cooking under the SC conditions.. then they must be really on the edge.. but you would think they would have a special map for that situation to help the engine out..

 

It happened in practise too, they were obviously aware of the problem, and his engine would have been a lot hotter than JPM's whilst chasing down Alonso, so going into the pits will have cooked it. If he'd had clear air in front of him for maybe enven one lap it may have lasted.

BTW, slicks next year is it not?

 

Remapping won't help it'll be latent heat from the engine running at high speed. Temperature surges as the energy that's still in the engine builds since the coolant system isn't working as efficiently. The temperature will come down since the engine loads are less and it's generating less energy but at least for a minute or two the temperatures will go up horrifically