Hungarian Grand Prix: 31 July

last SG · 2005-08-01T17:14:25+00:00

Bridgestone tyre really cannot mkae it… Schumi was bouncing all over in the last 5 laps…

Gedanken SG

Which creates a whole new set of problems such as drivers who play the percentages – boring. I much prefer the 11-best-results system of the late 80’s / early 90’s because it made for much better racing. With either system, the winner still had to finish, and the FIA just bollixed one more good thing by changing the rules.

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but an F1 race is a "sprint" category race. Those things u talk about are more applicable for endurance racing. And yes I've done both sprint races AND 24 hours endrance racing so I know the diff. U know what? The problem we're tackling here is component failure. Where the component fails due to manufacturing flaws u can conserve or u can push, trust me, it will still fail. I've suffered from that a few times. Besides, u're talking about a very low basic level of racing. The instructor HAS to teach u to finish races because when u start learning to race your skills are so unpolished that u basically create a lot of wear and tear when u change gear, turn the wheel, brake etc, ok? At my level we already no longer talk about that sort of basics because everybody is drilled in the art of driving without causing undue and unnecessary wear and tear on the machine. We're discussing a higher level where such basics are already covered and not within the scope of discussion. Laughing

A real racer like Ayrton Senna always pushed the machine to its limits. Just too bad that Maccies lasted longer back then. Alain Prost was more of a driver. Never really able to fight wheel to wheel like Kimi or Alonso or Montoya does. Michael Schumacher's another one who loses out fighting wheel to wheel. As for Jacques, well when he fights wheel to wheel, everybody loses out! Laughing

A driver, in the world of sprint racing, is someone who conserves the car. A racer is someone who goes all out.

As for race school, don't tell me u went to one. THAT's all they taught u?

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u know what? im just going to keep watching Dijon 79 over and over again and pretend I'm watching modern day F1. Laughing

siaokao SG

Of coz we are talking abt component failures! A car dun just go up in smoke.. surely some components failed. Sure, we are talking basics here and we may not be as polish a "race" driver as u, but i hope at your level, you have not fogotten your basics..

well.. looks like Heng has done it all.. and apparently know it all too. I guess the "race" schools i attended is nothing close to the 24hrs races he is doing now. And if he says F1 is a sprint race.. what else can I say?

Have a good day everyone..

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component failures due to manufacturing defects or design error WILL go 'boom' whether u try to conserve the car or not, because they're already flawed from the beginning. Here we're not talking about component failure arising from mistreatment of the machine by the driver. Think u need to understand that when we say "racer mentality" it doesn't mean driving the car ragged like a newbie. Maybe u need to consider that we're viewing the issue from 2 very different levels of playing field.

btw, u might want to consider what is actually classified as a sprint category race and what is considered an endurance event under FIA classification rules, not under our local SMSA's jargons.

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