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From: ChelseaTractorMan on 13 Mar 2010 10:14
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:15:22 -0000, "Miike G"
<miktoolman(a)miktoolman.plus.net> wrote:

>A good driver can still win races, even if his car isn't the quickest.
>Mike.

damon Hill almost won in an Arrows (it broke down in the lead near the
end of the race) Alonso has been fast in slow cars. Shumacher put
masses of input into improving Ferrari, its a team sport in which the
driver is very important.
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 15 Mar 2010 05:41
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:19:24 -0700 (PDT), NM <nik.morgan(a)mac.com>
wrote:

>That was a thunderingly boring race, the poison dwarfs rule changes
>have done nothing to make things more interesting, the opposite in
>fact.

I'm afraid so.

R4 report this am was really poor. They gave an impression of Ferrari
dominance, when in fact Vettel, whom they did not mention (did mention
the rest of the top 7 or so) and Red Bull would have won without a
breakdown.
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: Derek C on 15 Mar 2010 14:27
On 14 Mar, 14:19, NM <nik.mor...(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
> That was a thunderingly boring race, the poison dwarfs rule changes
> have done nothing to make things more interesting, the opposite in
> fact.
>
> I was toying with going to Spa, having seen just how 'intertesting'
> the rule changes have made things I'll save the nearly six hundered
> pounds it will cost me and probably go to LeMans instead and keep the
> change.
>
I think that watching paint drying would have been more interesting
than watching a load of top GP drivers conserving their tyres and
fuel, and not getting close to anyone in case their engines
overheated, on a boring looking circuit! (Yawn!)

The only real interest was could Michael Schumacher catch Vettel's
ailing Red Bull before the end of the race, but he didn't come close!
And maybe if the Lotus cars would finish! Otherwise it was just a
procession.

At least with refuelling stops, drivers and teams could use different
strategies and you got the occasional pit fire, or driver taking off
with the fuel hose still attached, to liven things up a bit.

Derek C
From: ChelseaTractorMan on 16 Mar 2010 08:21
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:41:22 -0700 (PDT), NM <nik.morgan(a)mac.com>
wrote:

>al will have
>to do something quick to avoid losing large quantities of punters,
>once the slide is noticed the advertising will fall off to follow.

I wonder what they could do? Removing the aerodynamics would be so
obvious they will not do it.
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Mike. .. .
Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
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