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C'mon Heidfeld has not only missed those 2 races but has also had 3 engine failures (Webber's had none), and still was leading him with 4 points before the injury.
I agree that in terms of raw speed Webber is the better of the two, but his race cra…
Grandprix.com claims the deal is worth $35m and that Red Bull has agreed to keep the team in Italy in order to protect the jobs of the Minardi employees.
Seems that no decision has been made yet regarding the name so we can hope for the best.
We can only speculate at the moment but... Let's say Mateschitz buys that majority stake from Stoddart, doesn't change the name and the team stays at Faenza. Where does it leave Minardi?
After the Sauber buyout the only competitors that RBR will be …
Well Minardi's buyout has always been a matter of when Stoddart gets tired of being the Don Quixote of F1, not if :(
And we all know the only chance of retaining the Minardi name is to have another F1 fan and enthusiast buying it. Mateschitz clearly…
Haha. The days of Jos on this forum - that was something! :D
But you can't have everything you want, what's good for Minardi is somehow almost always bad for this site ;)
Just look, the last piece of entertainment was provided by the Stoddart debat…
Toccacelo was driving in the World Series by Renault this year where everyone has been crushed by Robert Kubica so far - the best race driver Poland ever had. Remember that name, the kid is the real deal!
RJ, the end justifies the means in this case. The problem is that Arabs are now going through something that Europe went through during the Middle Ages, it's just that the methods of killing 'unfaithful' people in the name of the only wise god have …
Ok even if it was possible and safe - and I don't think it was as I said - would have it been within the regs? The track can be altered by the FIA if there are any safety issues hence a chicane was legal, but can they just allow some of the competit…
Petrol and Emmett!
As you probably know blue flags can't force a driver to go off the line if he's not being lapped. So what could have happened if a Ferrari had attacked a Renault for position on that part of the track? The Renault has a right to m…
But just take a look at any onboard lap from there, t13 really isn't as wide or as long as one might think. Going from the end of t12 to the end of t13 the driver starts on the left side of the track, just skims the apex of the curve, and swings bac…
They don't have to drive through a banked corner at 300km/h while other cars around are at 200km/h there at LeMans and other mixed series races, do they?
Whiting's solution was crazy don't you really get it Viges? As Martin Brundle pointed out it would be extremely dangerous to have 14 cars accelerating slowly in one turn and the other 6 at full chat, especially at the first few laps.
I still don't get what part of "We brought crap tires and want the rest of you to jump through hoops so we can have an unfair advantage at your expense" is the right thing to get behind.
Because it was a force majeure situation, 14 cars not being a…
Xiola it is Minardi's fight. Michelin screwed up big time but the possibility of starting the event with only 6 cars was the problem of the whole F1 society. Stoddart understood that, unfortunately J.Todt didn't.
Today we can see Max blaming Michel…
Nevermind. The risk of some bizarre crashes would have been so high at the first few laps that there was no way the Michelin teams were to accept this one.
And something else. There was just no way the Michelin drivers would have been seeking the li…
I'd vote for the FIA solution. The Michelin teams race but they take the last corner in a lower gear, defacto cutting their cornering speed and tyre loads. The drivers can push as hard as they like but in a lower gear they would risk blowing their …
You're kidding right? While Michelin didn't physically prevent teams from participating, as far as I know the US legal system Michelin's "we advise you not to race" did effectively the same thing. If the teams were to run in spite of that statement …
You know what? We should blame Michelin for their mistake but what did FIA do? Component failures have happened before and will continue to happen. It's the duty of a racing organizations deal with them without making a farce of a race. The FIA refu…
You're missing my point MinardiSquad. Friesacher hasn't won any titles in F3000 or F3 because as I have already written in this topic he's nothing special.
What I only want to say is that he just have much more room to improve than Albers.
I don't k…
MinardiSquad, do you really think Minardi was closer to the rest in 2003 than they are now?? C'mon now it's not even clear which team will be the worst on which circuit and in 2003 we always knew Minardi would be behind Jordan by 1.5-2s.
As for Frie…
I think it's hard to compare Jos with Christijan as in 2003 the car was way behind the rest, now it's a bit closer and Wilson is also a much better driver than Friesacher. Still I think Jos did the best he could with the equipment he had.
The fact i…
Aww c'mon Albers ia average at best. Webber trashed him in F3000 when they were in the same team, in DTM he couldn't win a single championship with the best car alongside some old have beens, and now can't even beat the inexperienced and ragged Frie…