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Ashberto

I would have expected them to have at least seconded an engineer to the McLaren team to learn as much as possible throughout 2014 Season? What am I missing ? I would have done that! That would require recruiting a Japanese engineer from Mercedes, if the stories about Honda's no-foreigner policy are...

Ashberto

No love for him from me. I saw him walking through the general access area at Hockenheim a few years back and I asked him if I can get a photo with him and he just ignored me and walked on. Fair play to him. Why should he stop and let everyone take a piece of him when he's got a job a job to be get...

Ashberto

I liked the way the tyres can go for two hours flat out, and the cars still going round corners on rails. Shows you can have durability with performance. Very pleased for Hulk. Since I watched him dominate A1GP years ago I thought he was a top driver, and it's great that le Mans can give him the cha...

Ashberto

When it rains.

Ashberto

I think a lot comes down to how many fans want to see a battle between drivers (and not just team mates), or a battle between engineers. Both have their place in motor sport, but which do the fans prefer?

Ashberto

Thanks. Then the obvious follow up question would be why don't they ban all the overly complicated front wings? I mean, they did it with all the little winglets that proliferated in the early 2000s. There must be more to it, surely? I think the cars should look like this : :D http://www.jpslotus.or...

Ashberto

No matter what the league or Series, if there is more than one team, somone is going to finish last. If you guys want a cookie cutter F1 (ie spec series) then you can go a long ways to control cost and glory be maybe the Marussias of this world can have an "easy" way to compete for the top rung. Em...

Ashberto

In online political discourse these days they call such arguments 'whataboutery'. I'm not a fan of these engines with their specific problems of cost and complexity, but pointing to them doesn't alter the fact that the control tyre was introduced for a good reason I disagree. These new tyres were i...

Ashberto

moby wrote:The golden era of racing?

When your 3 favorite drivers were fighting for the title, in your 3 favorite cars.

Cynical? me, nah

Ashberto

If I want entertainment I'll go and see a show. If I want to see a competition I'll go and see a sporting event. So sport is not supposed to entertain people? Are you a Chelsea fan by any chance? ;-) As I said above, I do respect the argument in favour of 'pure' racing, but don't expect it to be po...

Ashberto

In online political discourse these days they call such arguments 'whataboutery'. I'm not a fan of these engines with their specific problems of cost and complexity, but pointing to them doesn't alter the fact that the control tyre was introduced for a good reason I disagree. These new tyres were i...

Ashberto

If I want entertainment I'll go and see a show. If I want to see a competition I'll go and see a sporting event. So sport is not supposed to entertain people? Are you a Chelsea fan by any chance? ;-) As I said above, I do respect the argument in favour of 'pure' racing, but don't expect it to be po...

Ashberto

Moving to a single supplier has probably been the single biggest change affecting the way the cars (and drivers) drive than any other regulation for decades, if not all time. ... The tyres are the biggest obstacle to proper racing in F1 today IMO. The 'tyre war' days of Bridgestone and Michelin wer...

Ashberto

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/eccl-hami-bahr-1-886x591.jpg Bernie: So I've got these stupid engines that no-one can afford. I've got Red Bull threatening to leave, teams dead or dying, cars running with no sponsorship, classic circuits dropping out, empty grandstands and plu...

Ashberto

Moving to a single supplier has probably been the single biggest change affecting the way the cars (and drivers) drive than any other regulation for decades, if not all time. ... The tyres are the biggest obstacle to proper racing in F1 today IMO. The 'tyre war' days of Bridgestone and Michelin wer...

Ashberto

Oh, and I remember watching plenty of F1 processions in the 80s.

Ashberto

I don't see that without tyre gimmicks everything would automatically turn into a procession. The '80s are often referred to as the Golden Age of F1 and there wasn't a comedy tyre in sight. They still had different tyre compounds so the teams had to make the strategic choice between doing comparati...

Ashberto

:thumbup: I'm much more entertained by endurance racing. I love watching the strategies play out over a longer span of time and the fact that rules allow teams to try different approaches to the drive train. I hear this all the time from fellow F1 fans and honestly it baffles me. I can get respecti...

Ashberto

I voted for whichever had the best racing, which I suspect would be your GP1. F1's escalating costs have become competitively unsustainable, which is why it is in the current crisis. There is something wonderfully romantic about the idea of building a car and going racing, but these days are a long ...

Ashberto

owenmahamilton wrote:He's turning into Nigel Mansell

More like Keke Rosberg.

Ashberto

I'd like to see a Euro-Indy series, and would certainly go. F1 snobbery for spec-series is mistaken imo, and the so-called pinnacle of motor sport is over-rated, over-priced and increasingly over-there for European fans. Bring it on!

Ashberto

It's not what they should do (they created a damn fine car last year), it's what the FIA should do. It's what the FIA should have done all along. Open up PU development so manufacturers on the back foot actually have a chance to get back at the top. If that causes Mercedes to be even further up, th...

Ashberto

It's not what they should do (they created a damn fine car last year), it's what the FIA should do. It's what the FIA should have done all along. Open up PU development so manufacturers on the back foot actually have a chance to get back at the top. If that causes Mercedes to be even further up, th...

Ashberto

It's not what they should do (they created a damn fine car last year), it's what the FIA should do. It's what the FIA should have done all along. Open up PU development so manufacturers on the back foot actually have a chance to get back at the top. If that causes Mercedes to be even further up, th...

Ashberto

Maybe a bit more neutral OP next time and I'll vote. What's the point of a poll if the OP doesn't declare his own opinion? Surveys are supposed to be opinion-free in order to not "push" the surveyee in any direction. Granted the options themselves were fine. So basically, you couldn't trust yoursel...

Ashberto

It's not what they should do (they created a damn fine car last year), it's what the FIA should do. It's what the FIA should have done all along. Open up PU development so manufacturers on the back foot actually have a chance to get back at the top. If that causes Mercedes to be even further up, th...

Ashberto

The cost of the power plants is killing the smaller teams, and they are so complex that it's hard to get them to work at all, and developing them is even more expensive, hence the restrictions. To be fair to Ecclestone, didn't he oppose them?

Ashberto

davidheath461 wrote:re-united at last:

They had a rubbish car then too ... in 2002.

Ashberto

I like the way Jenson's comments hinted at maybe dumping them because of their uncompetitive car before they dump him. Fair play to him. He's done his time in slow cars, and doesn't need an F1 drive for the sake of it.

Ashberto

Prema, these teams were promised a budget cap, which was the reason they got into the sport. To use your analogy, it's more like going into a restaurant and being charged 3 times what it said on the menu. FWIW I have no love for Caterham, and agree that the 'begging bowl' is a sad state to see, but ...

Ashberto

I wouldn't have considered giving money to Caterham, but am tempted to do so after hearing Horner's comments. A super-rich team, buying years of success with free money from a drinks company, and trying to keep the poor teams poor by hogging the commercial revenues, and they want to even prevent Cat...

Ashberto

With actor Steve Coogan moving on to more serious work, David Coulthard auditions for the part of Paul Calf.

Ashberto

His finger-pointing after Japan were not nice either, if the quotes I've read are to be believed.

Ashberto

Good thread. In all the years of reading the opinions of F1 fans on the internet I don't recall often seeing JB's stock so high and it's nice to see the respect, as he's taken a lot of stick over the years. Perhaps the fine race he drove in Japan and getting to double his team-mate's points has some...

Ashberto

Eddie Jordan is fantastic for Sky. He must get them loads of viewers.

Ashberto

Seanie wrote: All this straight fight rubbish is rubbish.

No it isn't.

If driver X in the fastest team has multiple breakdowns but driver Y doesn't how can you dismiss driver X as not being good enough, especially if he keeps beating driver Y when his car doesn't break down?

Ashberto

So far I think Rosberg has beaten Hamilton an entire once in a straight fight, where the reverse is true around five times. Also, surely no objective analysis can ignore the mechanicals going heavily in Nico's favour so far, and how Nico has benefited from his own mistakes in Monaco, Canada and Belg...

Ashberto

Lots of Russophobic hysteria on here, but that is to be expected as it only reflects the one-sided commentaries people are probably exposed to by the newspapers and politicians in their countries. Russia has taken back Crimea (historically Russian but awarded to Ukraine within the USSR) for defensiv...

Ashberto

No - Lewis needs to prove it. I Dont think he s as good as Rosberg I think Nico's only beaten Lewis once in a fair fight this season. Nico benefitted from his own mistake in Monaco, and from from four mechanical failures to one on the reliability front. You have been complaining bitterly about Lewi...

Ashberto

DOLOMITE wrote:Drivers were on different strategies, letting Rosberg past *may* have optimised chance of team points...

Giving both drivers the fast strategy would have optimised the points. Merc were wrong not to put him on his unused options, and wrong for a second time when telling him to slow down for Nico.

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