2013 Chinese Grand Prix Thread

**wedge** · 12th April 2013, 15:33

Man, those option tyres really suck. It's going to be like Oz all over again when you can accumulate the first stint with one hand.

Softs, Mediums and Hards - if allocated conservatively and still get decent racing.

**Tazio** · 12th April 2013, 16:07

I hope this "era" (puky tire compounds) soon goes into the annals of F1 history as just a bad experiment, because it may end up that someone gets injured due to staying out on a set of funky soft’s a lap too long, and that with bro really suck!

**steveaki13** · 12th April 2013, 20:07

Agree about these tyres. F1 is headind down a dangerous path with this dictating so much of the story of F1 in 2011 and 2012 and now 2013,

I really think its time to have a new tyre war with no mandatory stops and maybe bring back refueling? Just my opinion, but I am finding myself becoming less excited by F1 these days.

And dont get me started on DRS. (Again)

**gloomyDAY** · 12th April 2013, 22:25

Perez gave me flashbacks of 2007! Here's an album: Photo Album - Imgur

Enjoy!

**dj_bytedisaster** · 13th April 2013, 01:13

Originally Posted by steveaki13

Agree about these tyres. F1 is headind down a dangerous path with this dictating so much of the story of F1 in 2011 and 2012 and now 2013,

I really think its time to have a new tyre war with no mandatory stops and maybe bring back refueling? Just my opinion, but I am finding myself becoming less excited by F1 these days.

And dont get me started on DRS. (Again)

F1 is just going the same path that most things in our society go. Everything is becoming non-competetive. Back in my day we had school sports and you got an A for running the mile really fast. These days you can choose not to have school sports at all and if you have, you get an A for not falling over.
When I started watching F1, you had 6 or 7 engine suppliers, so many cars they had to do pre-qualifying and a development war on all fronts. Tracks had a soul and history instead of being copy-cat tilke-dromes with so wide paved run-off areas that driver errors don't really matter any more. F1 has mirrored the development of our society. Did we once go by the survival of the fittest and brightest, we now stunt them, so they don't exceed the level of the weak and the stupid, lest they make them feel bad.

**gloomyDAY** · 13th April 2013, 03:56

Originally Posted by dj_bytedisaster

F1 has mirrored the development of our society. Did we once go by the survival of the fittest and brightest, we now stunt them, so they don't exceed the level of the weak and the stupid, lest they make them feel bad.

Thank you, Philosopher dj_byteDISASTER.

**Robinho** · 13th April 2013, 07:06

Fascinating session we're having!

Sent from the North Korea using the dark network

**pino** · 13th April 2013, 07:36

Ups no more fuel in Webber car, what a joke

**longisland** · 13th April 2013, 07:42

This is dispicable! Third time Mark's been short changed by RBR. For crying out loud, RBR, It's silly to pretend both drivers are given equal treatment