Second Barcelona Test - Day Three
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@Bart, not necessarily. I'm a Hamilton fan, not just because of his talent but partly because I'm a Brit married to a Grenadian. That doesn't stop me assessing Alonso as probably the best driver on the grid at the moment. Maybe it's because I've been a F1 fan for a long time, the first race I remember attending was the 1964 British GP so over the years I've been a fan of a good few drivers.
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F1 always has been a technological proving ground. Until recently that is! Its a delicate balance between driver skill and technical prowess. I do believe, however, that F1 should be slightly more toward the engineering performance as apposed to driver skill. Most of the divers on the grid are some of the best drivers in the world and have earned their seats through merit and years of competing in single make series. If you want to see true driver skill then this is what the single make series are for. F1 is very much different! Its about building the fastest most technically advanced race car in the world. Now you do need the best drivers in the world to handle the most advanced cars in the world. But in my opinion that is the extent of a drivers role within F1. It is a platform for some of the most talented technical minds and teams of engineers to display their talent. Also I think that F1 has forgotten its purpose in recent years. F1 is the biggest and, until the last decade, most successful R&D laboratories in the world. The intense competition has over the years given birth to some truly innovative creations which have the potential to impact the life of the average person. Just look at the impact it has had on saving the lives of prematurely born children. www.ted.com This is in my opinion is the only justification for the otherwise grotesque costs of the F1 circus! The recent shift to turbo hybrid engines is absolutely the right direction for F1 to go in. The problem is just that the headless chickens... sorry the rule makers have put too much of a restriction on this amazing technology for any meaningful developments to come from it. The same can be said about Formula E. Missed opportunity! Single team dominance, expensive budgets are just the nature of the beast. If you want to see a battle of the drivers; then it is much cheaper to go and see a go-kart race.
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I can't believe I'm quoting this guy but it's pretty much the smartest/funniest thing he ever said and it applies to testing: As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
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@Siddhesh, Honda are ready to race no doubt, they have ran in Formula 1 before, they run in Indycars as well as other high profile racing Series. There is no doubt they can pull out something amazing if it came to it, at least that is what Ron Dennis is probably thinking.
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Bart: exactly. But the way I see it, since F1 is - debatedly - regarded as the the pinnacle of all sports, the fans should also be the "pinnacle" of all fans :-), I mean everybody was angered by the booing of Vettel for instance, yet this happens in a lot of other sports every day. F1 actually ruined a sport like football for me, you do not normally for instance watch an F1 driver who's having an "off" day, like in football. IMO, F1 team fans should actually be more critical to their teams, rather than defending them. Also, I think it makes sense to defend a driver more than a team, he's in the end one man under enormous pressure, not a team.
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@Siddhesh, no one thing can be too ready for anything, but honda has the experience to get their stuff working. i hope it is not a repeat of 2004 with BAR, infamously with Sato in Monaco and poor Fisico. They will fix it, and even using the racing as a test session is acceptable.
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Sorry, F-1 only works at the intersection of world class drivers, world class engineering talent and world class team organization and leadership. This is how it has ALWAYS been. Shortcircuit any of the 3 legs and it crashes. The purpose of the rules should be to keep all of these entities in balance, prevent runaway spending and prevent practices that are not in the best interests of the sport.
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