I wonder if the old boy will still be whinging about the tyres after setting the fastest time in qualifying?
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I wonder if the old boy will still be whinging about the tyres after setting the fastest time in qualifying?
Tyre management for qualy ie. "switching on the tyres" is a completely different skill to managing tyres over a stint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
Now, if you were smart, you would have figured out why he whined, moaned and groaned...........Ms says, Blast them, it is the supid tires......... and then old donKey Jote went out and got da Shoe a special set of supper softies.... ;) ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
the tactic seemed to work just fine, if you ask me. :D
Too bad the same approach did not work at the last race, when he called that idiot an idiot. Maybe he should have said, gee, I am so sorry, it was just a racing incident, I could not imagine why he was going so slow.....so i thought he was broke down and pulling over for me to go around, then he moved back on me before i could do anything--opps-------
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and given how hard it is to pass at Monaco, and how hard he can make it to be passed, Mr. MS might have easily been the winner tommorrow. :(
Button - "a little bit worried":
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But, typical of Formula One when it finally achieves what it set out to achieve, there is a growing feeling now that "unpredictable" may not be such a wonderful thing after all.
Michael Schumacher’s complaints about Pirelli’s hyper-sensitive tyres a couple of weeks ago were shot down as the grumblings of a sore loser, but it is clear that other drivers and teams have their concerns too.
McLaren’s Jenson Button conceded this week he was “a little bit” worried that races were becoming lotteries as teams struggled to get their tyres working. World champion Sebastian Vettel said he was confused by the radical shifts in form.
“It does worry me a little bit,” Button said, “but then again the car is quick. Lewis [Hamilton] put it on pole in Spain by a massive amount and that proves how strong our car is. It is very strange.
“Look at [Williams’ Pastor] Maldonado, he qualified 17th in Bahrain and qualified second in the next race. He was consistently qualifying down the order and then suddenly he was second.
“The fans love the fact it is exciting but I think it will get to a point where they will wonder who they are supporting and why someone is winning and someone is losing.
“Why is everyone a loser and everyone a winner? Hopefully it will get to a point where we all understand what is going on.”
Monaco Grand Prix 2012: Jenson Button says teams must get to grips with tyres - Telegraph
I hope that you are happy now - hard tyres, no lead changes, "pure" racing.
It's Monaco. At best its a train of cars and frustrating overtake attempts. It's the nature of Monaco. I have no problems.
Hard tyres? Not sure if you paid attention but drivers were having to conserve tyres to make the 1 stopper work.
If you can make 78 laps with 1 stop, the tire is good!
You could fit those tyres onto my Hyundai Matrix and I'd do 78 laps without stopping. That doesn't mean the tyres are any good, though...Quote:
Originally Posted by F1boat
Tell that to Kimi who was holding up a train of cars, tell that to McLaren who instructed to their drivers - on different strategies - to conserve their tyres.Quote:
Originally Posted by F1boat
Or compare against last year where the majority of the field did 3 stops. This year the majority chose one stop so it was their own decisions which forced them to conserve tyres.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge