when there were 4 computers linked togetherQuote:
Originally Posted by call_me_andrew
they could race untill the car run out of fuel and still get the concord money
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when there were 4 computers linked togetherQuote:
Originally Posted by call_me_andrew
they could race untill the car run out of fuel and still get the concord money
Quite right too.Quote:
Originally Posted by call_me_andrew
It is Peter Windsor AKA Mr Know-it-all, after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Can't blame them for trying to think of helpful suggestions. Can't imagine a retrofitted full race tank would do much help for handling, but at least a car to start with wouldn't be a bad suggestion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
It is a ridiculous suggestion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monaro Doorslammer
USF1 either does it the way they signed on for, or they step aside and offer the place to another competitor.
We are quickly reaching the point where the USF1 behavior changes from admirable to disgraceful.
And I'd say that when the FIA makes an announcement on USF1's unjust request to miss the first four races, they will say as much and eliminate the team from F1. This is dragging on and unfair to all the other teams.
I would have any team not making the last two tests be automatically eliminated for the season and any future request be considered onlyunder strict supervision and requirement.
Well that would be unfair i think on Campos seeing that they've got themselves sorted out and being liekly we'lls ee them in Bahrain (they may be off the pace yes, but at least they would be there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint Devote
As for the FIA kicking out USF1 for the 4 race absence request, im sure the Windsor & Anderson will attempt to sue the FIA if that happens, but they've got no case to answer, they've asked to miss the first 4 races which goes completely against the FIA's own rules and the agreement which they signed back when they were selected.
Money and grounds are required for a successful law suit - USF1 have neither.Quote:
Originally Posted by DazzlaF1
It would be too bad for Campos. The know the rules and they did not meet the requirements. It is not fair to either Virgin or Lotus.
Financing in any all ventures is the first that is required to be sorted out.
Whats the point in allowing teams that have not met requirements and will likely be far slower than any of the new teams that have kept to the agreement? Mobile chicanes are dangerous and part of F1 history. We known better now.
22 cars are fine.
Seems to me that the FIA deserves some of the blame though since they are they ones that approved of USF1 for 2010 in the first place.
I would think someone's reputation is at stake if the team fails. Or, maybe someone is hoping to have an "in" to the US market by approving of USF1 when, if my memory serves me, they did not have much financial backing last year.
The FIA is involved in the mismanagement of the selection process, but so is Bernie and the teams because nobody dared to raise their voices. As we all aware of the nanny-state that exists in the world today and in the management of F1.Quote:
Originally Posted by N. Jones
Ultimately, lefist politics in any sphere, ruins and destroys - it does so because it has a parasitic sacrificial nature that seeks out those who are outstanding or courageous and reduces them to mediocrity and nothingness.
The US response or reception to, or interest in F1 is a big as it will ever be. Anyone believing that the existence of a team called "USF1" or that being based in the heartland of Nascar or having an American driver in F1 is going to shift America towards the sport is pretending.
The peak of F1 was in the late 70's to the early 80's when there were at least two US GP's as great tracks like Watkins Glen and Long Beach and the most famous American driver in history, Mario Andretti became world champion with one of the greatest teams ever: Lotus - and even THEN F1 did not take-off.
Interest in F1 retained its usual strong core, able to fill a track but never - and will never - challenge to become a significant entity in American sport.
It is a different culture and the same reason why baseball can never become significant in England or continental Europe or why soccer will always be a "girl's sport" in the US rather than played by boys.
A greater impact will be if there is a grand prix at track that is not attached to something like the Indy 500 or whatever and establishes its own entity as did Watkins Glen.
The USF1 venture is/was a marketing gimmick that regardless if it works/ed will not impact the interest of Americans in any signficantly tangible way.
Morano: Just how do you propose a team take 2009 tub and put in a 30 to 40 percent larger fuel cell? There just is no room. Then the engine bay needs redesigning for a Cossie. The latter is no big deal but you would need a redesigned tub for fuel and it appears from all reports the USF1 do not have even their own built yet, so modifying an existing tub would be beyond them.