At the end of the day... **** happens, Vettel lost his cool and had a rant. It will be forgotten by the end of the season. I think I'm more annoyed by Horner... The rest is racers blowing off steam.
Well if Horner didn't defend Vettel, then it would be bad management, he has to stick up for his drivers.
I have to agree with you Bhaji, although I let my views through a bit too strongly on Wednesday. Oh Mods, I have changed my username AGAIN. Sorry about that.
I disagree in that... More teams only benefits the sport. A more even distribution of the coffers would allow them to compete. It shouldn't be down to the big teams to have to give them hand-me-downs. The sport offered these teams a way in when the manufactures were bailing out left and right, then just leaves them to languish.
I would get rid of HRT, Marussia and Caterham, they offer the sport nothing at all, and are taking the places of potential manufacturers who are interested (VW)
And what happens when VW realize it's a money pit that brings not tangible return? F1 isn't about big manufacturers using the sport as a platform to promote crappy cars, it should be about innovators, people with a passion to race... not pump more cars off a production line.
I'm all in favour of big business, if the manufacturers want back in to F1 (BMW,Honda,Toyota) i'd welcome them with open arms. Thats 2 good teams and Toyota who left.
BMW, Toyota, Honda, Renault (can maybe count Ford in that) all walked... And most spent a crap load of cash to run midfield, then realized it was a waste of money. Only Merc remain as a true manufacturer. They are not the future of the sport.
Wouldn't be broke if the coffers were shared more evenly rather than going in Bernies back pocket. He cares nothing for the sport.
They should have known all this prior to signing up, they're just a bunch of useless ****es, who trundle around, generally being annoying. Like a wheeled version of James Allen.
When they signed up... the terms were not quite what they are now. I'd prefer a growing grid of competition than a dwindling grid.
And with some cash, they might not suck so bad. There will always be a top and bottom of the deck, but if those teams had a hand up from the sport, not only would they benefit but the whole sport would benefit. They need time and need some money. otherwise we'll have this never ending cycle of teams trying to enter the sport and then dropping out 3 years later.
Lol, shut it yourself. Its not 50/50. Why don't you accept the stewards decision? http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_media/Documents/mal-document-36.pdf From The FIA Stewards of the Meeting To The Team Manager HRT F1 Team Document 36 Date 25 March 2012 Time 19:40 The Stewards, having received a report from the Race Director, have considered the following matter, determine a breach of the regulations has been commited by the competitor named below and impose the penalty referred to. No / Driver 23 - Narain Karthikeyan Competitor HRT F1 Team Time 18:32:00 Session Race Fact Causing a collision with Car 1 Sebastian Vettel Offence Involved in an incident as defined by Article 16.1 of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations Decision Drive through penalty, imposed after the race in accordance with article 16.3 (20 seconds added to elapsed race time) Reason Self-explanatory The FIA Stewards of the Meeting Paul Gutjahr Roger Peart Johnny Herbert Allen Oh
It looks very different depending on the angle or footage that you look at it from. After looking at more footage it does seem that Vettel wasn't as guilty as first seemed. But that doesn't change the fact that people have opinions. Even the stewards decision is an opinion of sorts (though maybe much more educated). We're only two races in, there's going to be a whole lot of contentious incidents, so I say that we don't all fall out just yet. Otherwise we'll all be bored as buggery come the last race.
