Recent content by the_roadie

Curious. Massa's done exactly what's expected of a Ferrai No.2 which is to leave the leader to grab any glory going, and take any crap that the team picks up. When they don't even treat him as well as a cycling team treats a domestique they can't expect much, and that's exactly what they've...

Not much to be gained by dumping Massa at or near the second race - bear in mind that it's really "1st Race - Part II" because they've had no proper "factory time" between Oz and Malaysia. Massa knows the car better then anyone else bar Nando, and although Heidfeld (or Perez) would be a better...

The Interlagos pole proves he's capable of it, if the conditions are right. There are plenty of drivers who can't even when everything is right for them. Just like every other driver, he's not going to do it every time, but he's proved he can, if only fleetingly. If he's done it once he can do...

Maldonado, undoubtedly, will be popular - he'd done all the work then just pi55ed it all up against the wall, and to add insult to injury, in the last bleedin' lap for pete's sake, Jeez what a plonker! However, seeing as Maldonada and Massa have more then enough supporters in this thread, I'd...

For me Mercedes and Ferrari are top-tier teams along with McLaren and RedBull 'A' ForceIndia, Sauber, Lotus and the RedBull 'B' team are the mid-rankers and Williams, Caterham, HRT and Marussia are Tier-3. Ferrari have problems (their upgrades due for SpanishGP in May are so severe that they are...

Among pay-drivers it's true that he's probably the least able. I could not find him ever having done anything in his previous stint in F1 five or so years ago when his achievements amounted to him being carried (putting it charitably). He is also IMO unlikely to better that in this career...

I'm just prejudiced against pay drivers, and Williams have two. If you're not good enough to have teams knocking down your front door waving ready-signed contracts and blank cheques at you then you've no business seeking a race seat. If the only thing that demonstrates your fitness to a team...

Sporting Regs Rule 18.1 states: "The stewards may inflict the penalties specifically set out in these Sporting Regulations in addition to or instead of any other penalties available to them under the Code." So, in the event of three reprimands resulting in a totally meaningless 10-place grid...

The F1 website has reversed their original statement of the Kovaleinen/de la Rosa incident to now say that de la Rosa impeded Kovaleinen. They have also announced that de la Rosa has received a reprimand for impeding Kovaleinen. Karthhikeyan has received a reprimand for impeding Alonso. The...

Well, the Adam Cooper quote of the twitter feed is questionable - backwards, even. According to the F1 website Kovalainen is under investigation for impeding de la Rosa (and Karthikeyan was under investigation for impeding ALonso)

Just out of curiosity, where did you get that from, the bit about the reprimands? It's not on the FIA On-Event pages (hardly surprising because they're neanderthal in typing stuff up and publishing it) and I haven't found it on F1 website either!

He is, it was official from the moment Maldonado was announced as Williams driver with Valteri Bottas as test/reserve driver, long before they announced that Senna was coming in instead of Barrichello.

But last season they were hopeless in Quali and race, at least this time they pulled in a very respectable 8th (and 14th) in quali right at the very start of the season, something they could only have dreamed of last year when it's only by the thinnest of thin margins that in an entire season...

HRT are out of the race. http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/aus-document-32.pdf it says: The Stewards received a request from HRT F1 Team to allow car 22 Pedro de la Rosa and car 23 Narain Karthikeyan to take part in the race under exceptional circumstances having failed to...

Don't get me wrong, I'd be quite happy if he totally screwed up just to vindicate my opinion of him, it's just that there are enough screwups in F1 (no names no pack drill but HRT know who I'm talking about) not to need MSC to be another failed has-been bimbling around at the back of the pack.