Ray wrote:Conceptual wrote:
I am very happy with the loss of TC, as it made the good drivers shine.
Chris
I disagree. It made the crappy drivers glaringly obvious. It also ruined quite a few others overall race by them being so crappy without TC. Like Massa. He's absolutely worthless without it and right or wrong he ruined DCs race. He should have been further up and not been racing with the likes of DC in a
FERRARI for cripes sake!
I think Bourdais did well because of all the retirements. Not because he's just that good. Look at Alonso. Do you honestly think Fisi would have wrung that much from that car? I highly doubt it.
Piquet. Go. Home.
And McLaren are miles ahead because of the close relationship of the designers of the common ECU. It's so blantantly obvious, yet the press is trying to shoo everyone away from that fact.
Well, the crappy drivers did become obvious, but Heidfeld as well as Alonso looked VERY good without TC. Rememeber, passing is very low in F1 due to the aero, not TC, so to say that someone only moved up because of retirements is like saying that they only moved up because their car is 2 seconds a lap quicker. Bourdais was on a new track, with last years car (that was NOT designed to run without TC, with a Ferrari engine that I am sure are the lowest performers on the dyno because I also sure that Ferrari keeps the best ones for themselves), in a high pressure debut and did fantastic. He may have landed a podium had he not retired.
And yes, it is glaringly obvious that McLaren have the inside track on the SECU due to the fact that THEY designed it, and have those engineers within shouting distance of the car engineers. I would REALLY like to see McLaren provide details on what "car" was used as the test-bed of that project. I doubt that they bought a Ferrari to do that development work.
Anyways, Hamilton was very consistant, and Heikki made Kimi blink a few times as well.
It looks like the early advantage goes to McLaren for obvious reasons, I just hope that the teams are able to overcome that disadvantage ASAP, since while those teams have to devote MORE development time to it, Mclaren has the original engineering team dealing with it, while their race team is free to devote to in-season car development.
Malaysia is going to be more of the same I fear. Lets just hope that during the break before the Euro season some of the other teams can fix some problems.
Does anyone know for sure how many retirements were down to SECU related problems? I think those teams are going to lodge a complaint with Whiting, and I think that they would be fully justified.
Chris