Red 5 by manek43509

Red 5

IT'S MANSELL'S CAR - I BLOODY KNEW IT!! WHY DID I WRITE THAT?!




I watched the Turkish Grand Prix today, and I'm afraid to say, I was slightly disappointed. I hadn't noticed so far, up until now, but I'm not all that keen on some of the changes that have been made this season. DRS, and short life-span Pirelli tyres, in particular!

Any other 365-ers follow F1 at all? What are your thoughts on the current season, so far?

Nikon P80 / Lightroom
Sorry to burst your bubble but that is Nigel's car from '92, The car Damon won the championship was the FW18 (it had a high nose). :-)

F1's 'Golden Era' coincided with those thirsty turbo charged engines, drivers spent large parts of the race conserving fuel and short bursts on full boost as necessary, there was also the boost button for overtaking (now that was artificial). If drivers misjudged their fuel usage they ran out, Imola one year several drivers lead and ran dry in the last few laps - Even Prost said "it's not racing is it?"

DRS is and answer to a problem, we all complain when a car is 2-3 seconds a lap faster and can't overtake, maybe it needs to be limited to say 10 activations to add a tactical element?

Pirelli have said they are looking at the tyres as there was too many pitstops, they need a bit of time to get it right and most overtakes happened due to the tyres being at different phases of their life/grip, Alonso admitted that he couldn't get past Rosberg even with GRS and Kers until Rosbergs tyres started to go off.

I think this is the best season I've seen in years (and I've been watching since the late 70's), Viewing figures are up, more people are watching F1 than ever and that's got to be good for the sport.
May 10th, 2011  
Sorry for the long reply but you did ask :-)
May 10th, 2011  
BTW if you are a big Damon fan you need to get to the Donnington collection if you can, amongst other things they have Damon's winning Jordan from Spa '98.
May 10th, 2011  
@pete21
B*gger!! It's true that I was a big Damon Hill fan - but I KNEW this was Mansell's car! Can't believe I got that wrong; how embarrassing... :/

Still, good to find another F1 fan here, Peter! Should be interesting to see how this season pans out, though...
May 10th, 2011  
@manek43509 LOL, I thought you had been sold a dummy!!

I'm really worried that the FIA will not take drivers views into account about the use of DRS at Monaco, If they say it's too dangerous the they should be listened too, and S Domenicalli is bang out of order telling them they should shut up about it! It's that sort of attitude that got drivers killed in the past.
May 11th, 2011  
I gave up on F1 when they banned slicks...
February 22nd, 2012  
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