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Paolo_Lasardi

Does Sauber still have Mexican sponsors? If not Gutierrez may be out (given his lack of performance) for 2014.

Paolo_Lasardi

Perhaps, they should give the worst teams the tyre tests - and allow the current car and current race drivers. Might improve the balance on the grid a bit and certainly improves tyre development (current cars).

Paolo_Lasardi

....after Turkey 2010? Had some spare time and thought i would have a look at the stats, and it surprised me somewhat. From the beginning of the 2009 season and up to and including Turkey 2010, the following; Webber 162.5 pts, 4 wins, 8 podiums. Vettel 162.0 pts, 5 wins, 6 podiums. So in all, prett...

Paolo_Lasardi

You are wrong. As soon as Vettel is confirmed wdc, Webber will be competitive again and get a farewell victory.

Paolo_Lasardi

Alonso

Paolo_Lasardi

Massa was always inconsistent. Ultra-fast on his day but average on other days. And always error-prone. Even in his arguably best season in 2008, he had almost ten spins and off-track incidents during the races of that campaign. He has been nursed by Ferrari all the way from feeder series. It is ove...

Paolo_Lasardi

Not sure - thought I read that somewhere.

Paolo_Lasardi

Might mean JEV + Grosjean for next year. Kimi to RBR is looking more likely with the recent Twitter rumours adding fuel to the fire. Although I think Ricciardo deserves a top seat more than JEV. Then there are also guys like Hulk, Di Resta or Bianchi who could use a better seat. Oh yes, Bianchi to ...

Paolo_Lasardi

Good call by Ferrari then, they finished as high as they could? On the other hand, Alonso would most probably have finished in exactly the same position if he had been on the standard strategy. Possibly but by taking the chance they opened up another strategy. But how does starting on the hard tyre...

Paolo_Lasardi

Water wrote:A fine of 30000€, apparently.

Much too lenient, if that is true. Teams will stretch risks at pitstops (and Red Bull is leading this approach) until someone dies. This penalty does not set incentives to take more caution.

Paolo_Lasardi

Neutrality wrote:Good call by Ferrari then, they finished as high as they could?

On the other hand, Alonso would most probably have finished in exactly the same position if he had been on the standard strategy.

Paolo_Lasardi

Toby. wrote:
Paolo_Lasardi wrote: This was the closest of someone getting killed during a F1 race for a long, long time!
Unfortunately that "long, long time" was now three races ago.

Yeah, that freak accident after (not during) the race.

Paolo_Lasardi

The poor guy was massively injured and Red Bull is a repeat offender in terms of letting cars go without the wheels properly fitted. Some punishments is due, IMO. They take too much risks in order to be quicker and quicker in doing the stops. This was the closest of someone getting killed during a F...

Paolo_Lasardi

As important as bringig new tyres (or even more important) are the following issues IMO: - FIA should enforce Pirelli recommendations as being mandatory rules in order to prevent extreme tyre pressures and cambers as well as swapping of tyres by the teams. Violations of the tyre manufacturers recomm...

Paolo_Lasardi

Well, the tyres were cut, most probably due to a specific curb (so it was always and only the left rear tyre). What does that imply? - first of all, curbs should not cut into tyres - second, high or low degrading, even hard or soft tyre is not related to the tyres getting dangerously cut - too low t...

Paolo_Lasardi

I can't believe that MOST people are siding with Pirelli! Pirelli should be booted out of F1 because they are bringing sport into danger! They are incompetent to create a product that complies with basic safety standards. Ban them with immediate effect! :lol: So, you are laughing at lack of the saf...

Paolo_Lasardi

Lt. Drebin wrote:I can't believe that MOST people are siding with Pirelli! Pirelli should be booted out of F1 because they are bringing sport into danger! They are incompetent to create a product that complies with basic safety standards.

Ban them with immediate effect!

Paolo_Lasardi

Bianchi beating Chilton in his living room by 1.7 s.

Paolo_Lasardi

Tio Ellinas will have at least one day in the Marussia. I think he's the only one confirmed so far. Otherwise I'd kind of expect the following: da Costa - Red Bull Frijns - Sauber Valsecchi - Lotus Magnussen (and assumably two more from Paffett/Turvey/Vandoorne) - McLaren Rossi/Canamasas - Caterham...

Paolo_Lasardi

Looking at the tables in your blog (section: explaining the methodology), I do understand how you come to table 1 as well as to the difference between teammate drivers in table 2. However, how do you arrive at the car ranking (or at the comparison of drivers from different teams - whatever you do f...

Paolo_Lasardi

Who would you put your money on for the title? Rubens in a 2004 Ferrari Button and Schumacher in 2004 BARs. I think Schumacher wins that title quite easily considering how many times Button managed to beat Rubens. Title goes to Barrichello ( if we assume there's no one in the other Ferrari ). Micha...

Paolo_Lasardi

Paolo-Lasardi and Iamo: the reason I have not explained my complete system is that in the past I have had some bad experiences from professional journalists/authors/statisticians and my earlier writing/analyses on GP racing and historical reasearch. My system has taken virtually a lifetime to devel...

Paolo_Lasardi

Looking at the tables in your blog (section: explaining the methodology), I do understand how you come to table 1 as well as to the difference between teammate drivers in table 2. However, how do you arrive at the car ranking (or at the comparison of drivers from different teams - whatever you do fi...

Paolo_Lasardi

IMO, the top scandal were the attempts to circumvent the prohibition of skirts in the early 80s with really dangerous systems that actually killed some drivers. Among the most active cheaters of those times was Bernie Ecclestone and his assistants (Charlie Whiting, Max Mosley, Herbie Blash, ...).

Paolo_Lasardi

Denying that Red Bull was the best car 2010-2012 is as obviously biased as denying that Vettel belongs into the Top 3-5 drivers of the current grid. ;-) Not at all, The Red Bull certainly was the best car to be in over the season. But there seems to be this belief that every time Vettel/Webber step...

Paolo_Lasardi

Denying that Red Bull was the best car 2010-2012 is as obviously biased as denying that Vettel belongs into the Top 3-5 drivers of the current grid.

Paolo_Lasardi

So we have here on the grid a three-time World Champion (very possibly four-time in the near future) who has blitzed the opposition in machinery that hasn't always been the best and yet many still don't think he's the best driver on the grid - a lot of people don't even put him in the top-4(!) But ...

Paolo_Lasardi

I actually agree that the current business model is not sustainable. And I also think that the sporting side of F1 must re-gain the lead over the commercial side. CVC is certainly not suited to run the sport. IMO, Ecclestone leaving creates the opportunity to re-set the power balance of F1 away from...

Paolo_Lasardi

I'm more concerned about the poor quality of GP2 graduates to F1 and the 2 backmarker teams still going nowhere after more than 3 seasons. First point: Yes, FR3.5 has outdone GP2 as the place to look for new talent. Second point: Yes again - thanks to an intransparent and partisan FIA selection pro...

Paolo_Lasardi

But I agree that getting rid of Ecclestone and all his buddies from the old Brabham days (Whiting, etc.) is an important key to solve nowadays problems. Unfortunately I don't think that would solve anything. Getting rid of Bernie would not change the ownership structure of the sport, the commercial...

Paolo_Lasardi

A bow to Red Bull - and a step towards boredom both within races and reg. the championship.

Paolo_Lasardi

But I agree that getting rid of Ecclestone and all his buddies from the old Brabham days (Whiting, etc.) is an important key to solve nowadays problems.

Paolo_Lasardi

I cannot remember a time when F1 was in a worse situation - can you? FISA-FOCA wars with boycotted races, cheating winners and F1 being on the brink of breaking up. Le Mans 1955 disaster and early to mid-1970s when a wave of fatal accidents threatened F1 to be banned on safety grounds in its core m...

Paolo_Lasardi

If Mercedes is found guilty by the tribunal - and I think they should be - then IMHO the only realistic penalty options are monetary fines and wcc points deduction. Certainly not a ban.

Paolo_Lasardi

Depends on the track conditions.

If tyre degradation is less of a problem, then
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Mercedes
Ferrari / Lotus
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McLaren/FI/Sauber

If tyre degradation is a major issue, then
Lotus
Ferrari
Red Bull
Mercedes
McLaren

Paolo_Lasardi

http://i.imgur.com/ZvoZYzX.png Alonso's times on the left, Massa's on the right. Felipe was slightly better with the option tyre , but on primes he lost a lot of time. Only as long as Alonso was stuck behind Hamilton. Once they both passed him, Alonso got away from Massa. Furthermore, it is a patte...

Paolo_Lasardi

Imagine Ferrari stacks Massa and he finished 40 sec behind all the same. We would have this same thread and people would be saying Ferrari screwed Massa and should have brought him in one lap later... It's no use arguing about this kind of stuff with some people...they'll always bring up the same t...

Paolo_Lasardi

Webber's fault. He thought the STR would go out of his way like they always do when Vettel is approaching. He should know better by now ...

Paolo_Lasardi

iAltair wrote:150ml left.

The person who fuel his car ought to be sacked.
(Document 21)

Lol.

Mark Webber nearly burst a blood vessel there.

No, he will receive the Marko-honour medal and a bonus.

Paolo_Lasardi

Only Räikkönen got the new updates, Grosjean had to drive an older spec. Same in Sepang.

http://www.nextgen-auto.com/Lotus-leave ... 58309.html

If this happened at Ferrari ...

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