All F1 2004 Discussions

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by iadom

And the theme tune was much better too. My PC boots up to the piece from Fleetwood Mac used by the BBC for F1. I sit there imagining all the cogs and gears in my PC slowly coming to life. sad I know but so what.:pp

Aha.. "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac..

*leaps around the room doing Air Guitar movements..

Originally Posted by scastle

ITV, AFAIK, do not provide the actual coverage of the Qualifying sessions or Race. They buy it in from a local TV station. If this is actually the case, they don't actually have much control over how long each car covered.

I think Martin Brundle pimped Ernies tv company during the qualy highlights, didn't he

Originally Posted by scastle

Aha.. "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac..

*leaps around the room doing Air Guitar movements..

- with ya there, Stu

[paulyoung666]

well , i am certainly looking forward to the bahrain gp , should be interesting to see what will happen about the sand on the track , apparently the attempted glueing down of it has been less than succesful , should make it interesting to say the least

[iadom]

Shame, no half naked women and no champers shower at the end.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by iadom

Shame, no half naked women and no champers shower at the end.

i thought that was supposed to apply in malaysia as well

[iadom]

Interesting article here from the business pages of the Telegraph.

If this takes of it could settle a few arguments as to who really is the best driver.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...31/ixcity.html

[sherer]

only just found this htead so i thought i'd my 2 penneth about the problems on Formula 1 at the moment.

The main problem is the refueling and the pitstops. This is mainly down to Max Mosley who likes the Chess strategy nature of Formula 1. It was introduced because they couldn't get any action on the track to tried to create artificial action with the refueling. Now most of the race is decided by a spreadsheet before the race even starts !! How many times since then have you heard a driver say "I couldn't pass so decided to wait for the stops.". I've heard this phrase hundreds of times. But what if there were no stops if all the action took place out on the track they would be forced into have to try an overtaking move.

Problem 2 is all the gadgets etc on the cars and the rows and rows of computers monitoring them. With all this a driver doesn't even have to know if he has oversteer or understeer because it is all recorded for him. We need to remove all the sensors from the cars so that it is all down the the driver rather than computer data. That way the driver has to know what the car is doing and work this out with his engineers for the setup rather than using a computer simulation. if more emphasis is placed on the driver then a good driver even in a Minardi can make a difference at the moment it's all down to software and aerodynamics so even if Schumacher was in a Minardi it wouldn't matter much.

There's other things as well like going back to clicks and smaller wings but just these 2 things would make a huge difference. The problem if they done that then the technology would be less which would mean the car manufacturers would get less out of the sport and want to spend less money on it or pull out altogether. You just can't win sometimes!!

What i'd like to see is rather than F1 being changed make these changes to GP2 ( currently F3000). There is less media intensity here and can be changed and experimented with. if they could do all the things the fans and F1 purists want here and then show to the F1 teams \ manufacturers what it has done to the racing etc then they would be forced into implementing it.

Sherer

[iadom]

Half an hour to go, strong winds, light rain, overnight sandstorms, should make it interesting.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by iadom

Half an hour to go, strong winds, light rain, overnight sandstorms, should make it interesting.

funny i was thinking much the same , it should be interesting to say the least , especially with some potential front runners being at the back of the grid



edit :- raining again , this is gonna be well interesting i reckon

[ian@huth]

The live timing at www.formula1.com looks interesting

[paulyoung666]

ok schumacher won , but ......................



go button go button go button go button go button



nuff said

[TigaSefi]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

funny i was thinking much the same , it should be interesting to say the least , especially with some potential front runners being at the back of the grid



edit :- raining again , this is gonna be well interesting i reckon

Interesting ? you're having a laugh, just give schumacher the title and be done with it. Saves tons of petrol in the long run.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by TigaSefi

Interesting ? you're having a laugh, just give schumacher the title and be done with it. Saves tons of petrol in the long run.

but looking into the future .................... , button on the podium 2 times in a row , now surely that has to say something

[iadom]

Anyone want to buy a Mercedes, needs slight attention

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by iadom

Anyone want to buy a Mercedes, needs slight attention

one half of engine needs slight attention