F1 GP @ Silverstone - farce re rule changes

mmmmmm



Joined: 19/12/2008
Posts: 8398

Message Posted:
08/07/2011 23:04

So this weekend was designed to help the teams ( like Virgin) who weren't using the engine exhaust gases to press the car to the track - making for quicker cornering and braking..



Then Renault engined team - like Red Bull got an amendment that looks like it gives them MORE of an advantage... so Mercedes used a banned setting in the second practise to prove they could go quicker - compared to session 1 - they were NEARLY as quick as the Red Bull ..



The bosses of McLaren and Red Bull had a bit of a tiff at press conference and NO-ONE can agree on whether the new rules - which keep changing are 'fair'



This might be a race where there's more action OFF the track than on it ... ;)



http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/14076892.stm



As for the weather.. well Jenson Button did ask for "changeable conditions" .. :(

cavalryman


Joined: 08/11/2010
Posts: 314

Message Posted:
09/07/2011 08:46

Its getting to the stage where matbe they should run different classes in the race though have no idea how.Nothing they do to help the underdogs seems to work the first few teams seem to get round the rules somehow.

BigMart


Joined: 26/02/2009
Posts: 423

Message Posted:
09/07/2011 09:06

To make F1 interesting they should divide the contestants in to two groups, one lot should race around the circuit clockwise, the othe anticlockwise ! Its not a sport its a mode of transport.

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
09/07/2011 09:35

well it will be interesting weather wise not looking very settled at all here showery !