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BMW would let their drivers race but in this instance Kubica was so much quicker that I believe he passed Heidfeld on merit, and there is no point in Heidfeld banging wheels with him in heavy defence. Heidfeld needed to be quicker after Kubica got past, and then he would have probably won.
How? Past it? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
So , if all is so clear why did they changed Nick's strategy ? Do tell .Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm
There's no point in banging wheels if you are crippled by your team .Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
Merit . Yeah , right .
Nope , Davey , screwed by the team into a support role , when he had every chance of winning .Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
He's recently defended Nick , as he's criticised for low quals , saying he's no #two .
But , now , Nick knows otherwise .
My point is that Nick's fastest lap was probably a one-off. Show me proof he did similar string of laptimes on that stint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
As I said, they ran separate strategies to cover their bases because you see the SC often in Montreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagwan
F1 is team sport to a degree and BMW wanted their first win badly.
Nick probably would've won the race if there was a subsequent SC period after his pit stop, because Kubica would need to stop again and Nick would have track position. Most likely BMW would've called off the race as most teams do at a final stint of a 2-stopper.
I've been thinking about the reasons that pushed BMW to ask Nick to let Kubica win.
BMW is a German manufacturer, Nick is a German driver, the top German driver at this moment in F1. You might bet that BMW wouldn't hurt their own image within the German market by asking Nick to let Kubica win if there wasn't a huge positive side in all this!
So what is it?! After all be it Nick or Kubica it would have certainly been a win and a BMW 1-2.
However if Nick won he would have got only 30 points in the championship while Kubica's win put him 1st in the WDC! I believe this is the reason why BMW did it, to put themselves at the top of one of the championships, and only Massa's storm through the field kept Ferrari on top of the Constructors Championship table, otherwise it would be BMW leading both!
I suppose that if Nick would have been in Kubica's points position before the race the team would have let him win it in order to get no.1 position in the Championship.
Just my 2 cents.
BMW are certainly taking steps to help Nick by altering their test schedule:http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/68194Quote:
Nick Heidfeld will get a chance to work on solving his qualifying problems at this week's test at Barcelona after his BMW Sauber team altered their planned schedule to give him some track time...the team have decided to give Heidfeld a day's testing this week, altering the schedule which had Kubica at the wheel all three days.
That doesn't seem like a team intent on favouring one driver over the other.
I'll disagree with you given that they had planned to have Kubica test afor the whole 3 days of testing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
Maybe they got some public pressure after they asked Nick to give up on the victory in Canada.
How on earth were they planning to have Kubica test for the whole 3 days when the other driver needs that testing time more?! Don't tell me, they believe they have a chance to win the WDC title?! :laugh:
Last year when Kimi had troubles adapting to the Ferrari he was given plenty of track time during testing, they were not planing to use only Felipe! :rolleyes:
Last year Fred did it four times ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan