Although everyone said it was a forgone conclusion that the Brawns would do well, I was still very pleased to see them racing the nuts off their cars to try to beat each other. The drivers of both those cars were brilliant from start to finish. Excellent to see.
Oddest of all however, I’ve been reading that Barrichello is claimed to have said he would quit the sport if he discovered the Brawn team was favouring Button’s car. I find this utterly gobsmacking when the stuff I’ve read has pretty much said the opposite. Its the equivalent of someone saying “I’ll eat my hat if…”.
Brawn was always the good apple in the pile of mush that was the morally ambiguous Ferrari team of yesteryear. If he says there’s no favouritism, there isn’t any. That’s that.
Now on to the more comedy side of this week’s news. Ferrari and co saying they’ll quit F1 if the FIA don’t talk properly to the teams before handing down supreme judgements from on high. News flash lads, there is no FIA without the teams, grow up, realise that F1 is meant to be the pinnacle of motorsport, deal with it and move the hell on. Idiots!
To say I’m on the side of the teams would be an understatement. I’ve watched too many seasons decided by court battles and off track deals already. You throw in two sets of rules for the teams to scream about and its going to be utter bedlam.
Heaven help us!
May 14th, 2009 in
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Hey there boys and girls. I thought I’d put something up here about Carrie’s new baby website devoted to the stone carving festival the Harts Barn are about to host.
I didn’t want to put anything up here until we’d all heard about the ourcome of the World Motor Sport Council’s ruling regarding McLaren and the liegate scandal. Apart from the truely annoying habit of the press to stick gate on the end of everything, I was quite pleased with the outcome.
I know many would consider this to be the exact opposite of my usual opinion of McLaren, I think its fabulous that for once the championship has managed a number of rounds now without a single court ruling fouling up the whole thing. Rear diffuser legality, suspended three race bans; this is motorsport being run by the sane at last. Brilliant, now let’s get racing.
OK, belated again but here’s my take on the whole Bahrain race result.
We finally got to see the true pace of the cars for this season (well, the early part of it anyhow). Although you’d have to be certified nuts to think that the cars will remain the same all season, it can be an indicator of what may be to come for the foreseeable future at least.
Aware I’m rambling, I’ll cut this one short. Brawn GP need to improve their car if they’re going to win this season. Button’s wringing that thing’s neck and winning but that can only last so long. Ferrari need to burn their car and start again. There, I said it!
April 29th, 2009 in
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I know I’m leaving it a little late to go slapping up a Malaysia race rant the day before China’s qualifying but I’m just like that I guess!
What I wanted to do was wait until the diffuser row had finally blown over before commenting on what was a thoroughly bizarre race weekend for F1. McLaren caught blatantly cheating – resulting in suspension then resignation for Ryan, crazy driving conditions and a race the only yielded half points. You don’t see any of that very often (apart from rain in Malaysia when the sun goes down).
I can’t help but agree that the race should’ve ended up like that, expecting even millionaire drivers to cope with those conditions was a bit of a big ask. Shame they couldn’t just do what Moto GP did at their first race in Qatar last weekend, run it the day after to complete the race distance. Its silly but its a thought! 😀
Reading how it looks like heavy rain in China on Sunday, you can’t help but try to imagine a Ferrari with oars!
April 17th, 2009 in
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