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mkone

My opinion is that this tyre thing is primarily about the Americanisation of the sport. I actually enjoyed the tension when one driver was trying to pass another. I loved watching Montoya pass Michael Schumacher in Brazil in 2001 even though I was a Schumacher fan. 90% of the passes now are not even...

mkone

My take on it is that the current tyre situation is unfair for some drivers. Yes, some drivers are going to be adaptable than others when it comes to different constraints, but on some level, the tyre situation is forcing drivers to fundamentally change the way they have driven all their lives, and ...

mkone

Just watching GP Uncovered on the F1 channel, and I was quite interested in what Mark said about the tyre situation. Basically, drivers are having to tiptoe around the circuit to conserve tyres instead of flat out racing, and this can lead to confusion. In this case, there is a possibility that Vett...

mkone

Alonso has more respect because he beat Schumi straight up in 05 and 06 in a car many think was not as good as the ferrari, maybe equal. alonso and schumi had some great head to head battles. vettel won the 2010 championship after making many silly mistakes that season himself, but his car was so g...

mkone

My opinion is that Alonso dragged a car that was fourth best into a title fight. I consider what he did in 2012 as a great drive, and made him a worthy candidate for "driver of the year". It was one of the greatest drives of all time, despite falling short in the title chase. Vettel, despite his ma...

mkone

I am a Kimi fan, but there is no way anyone other than Schumacher deserved the title in 2003. The tragedy would have been Raikonnen winning the WDC with a single race win, and Schumi losing it with 6 races wins. The points system was pants, and good riddance.

mkone

Aren't they all bad losers? I remember Vettel crying after Jenson won in 2009. Then in a formula1.com interview he went on to say he hates losing and Red Bull should have won that year. I don't think you get to F1 level if you're ok with losing. Did Vettel say they deserved to win, or that they sho...

mkone

Alonso needed luck in Brazil to win the championship, and he almost got it. Yes, Vettel might have been lucky to not have crashed out of the race, but he would rather not have crashed and spent the whole racing nursing a stricken car. On a side note, anyone else drives a car having lost part of the ...

mkone

Qualifying positions 2012 ------MW---SV---FM---FA AUS---05---06---16---12 MAL---04---06---12---09 CHN---07---11---12---09 BAH---03---01---14---06 SPA---12---08---17---03 MON---02---10---07---06 CAN---04---01---06---03 EUR---19---01---13---11 GBR---02---04---05---01 GER---03---02---14---01 HUN---11-...

mkone

I realize that this guy doesn't know anything, or at least will be made to feel that way by the time some of you have set him straight, however, it seems as though his view of the Ferrari and of Alonso's performance differ just a bit with the vast knowledge we have seen here in the forum for severa...

mkone

mkone, it makes no difference whatsoever, it is a meaningless waste of time and exercise. It is based on "what ifs" and "if only" and if any one else were so bored, they could do up one of these threads for every driver in the field. It comes across as merely yet another attempt to discredit Alonso...

mkone

Math is hard! I will try to explain superuser's point. An F1 race is not like a maths test, where everyone can score maximum points. It's the very definition of a zero sum game, where every point you win, you also take from your competitor. So retiring from the lead of a GP means you lose more than ...

mkone

Alonso and Ham have already said it - It is Newey winning the races silly. If forumers out here think they know better, I am happy to leave them alone. Lewis and Alonso are better drivers than Vettel is and still by quite some margin. Lewis and Alonso had a flawless season whereas Vettel's mistakes...

mkone

Some times when a team has a dominant car, they allow them to race each other, at least until a set point in the race or season. I think the 'boredom' with Red Bull is that there was only ever one car in it. Like the Schuie days at Ferrari Had Webber been challenging more often it may not have been...

mkone

I have a theory. I think Massa is a driver who is slow to adapt to a new style of car, but once he is comfortable with the car, can be as fast as, if not faster than anyone. The problem for Massa is that testing is now severely limited, so he does not have as much of an opportunity to hone his skill...

mkone

This year has been more about tyres, and the Redbull has been excellent on tyres and the macca has been the worse of the top three in fact macca prob isn't in the top five, Macca might be fast in the race but when their stratagies are compromised by their shocking tyre wear it kinda negates that sp...

mkone

I reckon if Massa takes out Vettel, Ferrari will be thrown out of the championship.

mkone

The fact the JB has been behind both RBRs has not eluded me. JB has been pants in qualifying this season. He has trouble warming up the tyres and this is possibly due to his driving style. But the fact remains that the McLaren has been the fastest car out there nearly 50% more than the Red Bull. Bra...

mkone

A while ago I posted on the myth of the slow Ferrari. I think it is about time to address the other pervasive myth - the myth of the super fast Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton is in with a shout of winning his 5th race this year. He has also retired twice from pretty dominant leads, so we could have been t...

mkone

“If we win, we will be very happy but we know we need a strange combination of results,” said Alonso. “ If we don’t win, we will congratulate him and we will try next year . Nothing really surprising.” http://www.yallaf1.com/2012/11/23/alonso-we-have-nothing-really-to-lose/ now, thats what we calle...

mkone

All the FIA has to do is to make the gearbox penalty revokable if the stewards feel like it. This way, they could always reinstate cars in their original position if they feel a team is trying to take advantage and essentially force them to start from the pit lane if they really have to change their...

mkone

iknownothing wrote:Vodafone owns a controlling stake (45%) of Verizon.

They own 45% of Verizon Wireless. Verizon Communications owns 55% of Verizon Wireless and therefore the controlling stake. But obviously own enough of it to make changing the branding on the cars worth their while.

mkone

Also a lot of you are forgetting that RB would have done exactly the same in the same situation Absolute rubbish, the only person who would ever stoop to this level is Alonso. LOL. So it's no longer Ferrari but just pure and simply Alonso? I hate to break this to you, but Alonso is just an employee...

mkone

All you Vettel lovers saying Ferrari are wrong, blah blah blah Did you all agree that not putting enough fuel in Vettels car at the last race was sporting ? or all the other times they have manipulated the rules for their own gain That was a mistake. It would be a stupid thing for them to do becaus...

mkone

All you Vettel lovers saying Ferrari are wrong, blah blah blah Did you all agree that not putting enough fuel in Vettels car at the last race was sporting ? or all the other times they have manipulated the rules for their own gain That was a mistake. It would be a stupid thing for them to do becaus...

mkone

My problem with the tyres isn't with some drivers wearing them out faster than others. It's about the drivers needing to "switch on" the tyres. This, more than anything else, is what favours one driving style above another. If a driver cannot keep tyres temperatures within a specific window, the per...

mkone

One of Alonso's best strengths however, is the fact that he doesn't f**k about - he doesn't wait 5, 6, 7, 8 etc laps behind a car before overtaking, he just attacks and gets the job done... That's one of the things I give him great credit for, even though it's clear the Ferrari is very good in a st...

mkone

Tell me WTF this thread has to do with Hamilton? I mentioned LH in the original post as someone who I think most people could agree is Alonso's equal, more or less, and to then make the point that we can use their relative pace to judge the fundamental speed of their cars. I also wanted to point ou...

mkone

More impressive than the Ferrari top speed is Alonso's ability on the first lap. A driver can make more of a difference to his overall result if he can dice like Alonso does in the first few laps, grab a few positions whilst the cars are bunched and keep the gain whilst the cars naturally get stung...

mkone

You are kidding, right? What was so impressive about that overtake? Button was on primes and Vettel was on EIGHT LAPS YOUNGER OPTIONS . Impressive overtakes were Vettel's at the bus stop chicane (Spa), the setup for Alonso's pass on Perez in Malaysia, Alonso on Webber, Kimi, Grosjean in Valencia. A...

mkone

try comparing it to the Reb bull aswell you may get different results !! and is the Mclaren stupidity you talk about, the time when Hamilton drove it into a pit lane gravel trap at about 5mph? His tyres were well shot at that time, with the canvas underneath the rubber showing. F1 cars are not the ...

mkone

One of Alonso's best strengths however, is the fact that he doesn't f**k about - he doesn't wait 5, 6, 7, 8 etc laps behind a car before overtaking, he just attacks and gets the job done... That's one of the things I give him great credit for, even though it's clear the Ferrari is very good in a st...

mkone

One of the most defining things about this year's championship is the myth of the Ferrari. In particular, it is taken as given that the Ferrari is slow, and Alonso is taking it to places it shouldn't be. Leaving aside the physical impossibility of making a car go faster than it is capable of, this p...

mkone

Webber should have just indicated to the team where he would let him pass. All he had to do was say," I will let him pass in the DRS zone", which has the added benefit of giving your team mate a bit of help. While I get that he is a proud man, I think when he wakes up tomorrow, he will realise that ...

mkone

He has had people crashing into him and Vettel has not. That's also a disadvantage. About outdriving the car, its just a matter of how you express it. If you don't feel comfortable with the term "outdriving" then feel free to think that he can drive a difficult car at 100% whereas others can't. Tha...

mkone

TBH I'm very frustrated as a fan and its easy to understand why he is frustrated. But he is more awesome than I am and that's why he should do better. Alonso wants to win a bit too much. He needs to control himself. Can you really blame the guy this year though? It's been 5 years since his last tit...

mkone

and whether Jackie was driving a stone henge car or the McLaren T9000 that general idea is still true. Thats why Armstrong or Ali were great...they fought adversity....to win. Thats why Schumacher was great...because he took a sh*t team and turned them into champions. I am Schumacher's biggest fan,...

mkone

It's hard to get excited about a guy win based on sheer dominance of the car (similar to Schumi in the early 2000s), esp since he was no way near there prior to RedBull's latest upgrades. Good for Vettel but doesn't make exciting tv. Oh well... better him than Alonso. F1 is about the driver/car com...

mkone

Lewis has a car problem = conspiracy theory. Obviously. There really should be an essay entry test for membership of this forum. If they mention Lewis and how he should be assumed winner at the start of every race and that the conspire is out to get him then they shouldn't be allowed in. Get a grip...

mkone

Here are some amazing stats. Vettel has 25 race wins to his name, 5 fewer than Alonso. And more amazingly, he has done that in exactly half the number of races that Alonso has competed in. [Alonso has entered 194 races, started 192, and Vettel has entered 97 races and started 96 - exactly half (True...

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