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jacfan wrote:Maybe to save costs and make it easier for less financially secure teams to do well, he should do away with engines all together and just have pedal cars ... a la Fred Flintstone.

then narrow the chassis', limit wheels to two.........presto..Tour De Monaco.

Like everything, there are at least two ways to look at it, one is why force a less than ideal setup and the other is why not give them a bit of a challenge.

The issue I have with this is to do with safety. The FIA promotes safety and introduce many regulations to enforce safety yet they go and put in a rule that could increase the risks of a crash.

Just like in 2005 when they forced a single set of tyres for the race (and we all remember what happened to Kimi at the European Grand Prix and how he missed Button by a whisker). Now we have this rule that a driver has to race using both compounds.

One of the regulations that was announced for 2008 was to drop the minimum weight of the car by 55 kg to remove 'very expensive high density' ballast yet they were going to introduce weight limits for unscheduled engine and gearbox changes. See my point ?
(Gladly they woke up to this issue and reverted back to grid penalty - although not yet appearing in the actual regulations. The regulations have dropped the minimum weight of the car by 55 kg but ballast is still allowed!! - Go figure)

Ed wrote:Like everything, there are at least two ways to look at it, one is why force a less than ideal setup and the other is why not give them a bit of a challenge.

The issue I have with this is to do with safety. The FIA promotes safety and introduce many regulations to enforce safety yet they go and put in a rule that could increase the risks of a crash.

Just like in 2005 when they forced a single set of tyres for the race (and we all remember what happened to Kimi at the European Grand Prix and how he missed Button by a whisker). Now we have this rule that a driver has to race using both compounds.

One of the regulations that was announced for 2008 was to drop the minimum weight of the car by 55 kg to remove 'very expensive high density' ballast yet they were going to introduce weight limits for unscheduled engine and gearbox changes. See my point ?
(Gladly they woke up to this issue and reverted back to grid penalty - although not yet appearing in the actual regulations. The regulations have dropped the minimum weight of the car by 55 kg but ballast is still allowed!! - Go figure)

As I have said before, the FIA is a circus, run by a clown

A bunch of cowboys...

F1greyhound wrote:A bunch of cowboys...

Cowboys are hard workin, honest men.....remember that when you enjoy your next hamburger. If you ever have to eat a s..t sandwich, chances are it was prepared by, and served by Max

Julian Mayo wrote:

F1greyhound wrote:A bunch of cowboys...

Cowboys are hard workin, honest men.....remember that when you enjoy your next hamburger. If you ever have to eat a s..t sandwich, chances are it was prepared by, and served by Max

jacfan wrote:

Julian Mayo wrote:

F1greyhound wrote:A bunch of cowboys...

Cowboys are hard workin, honest men.....remember that when you enjoy your next hamburger. If you ever have to eat a s..t sandwich, chances are it was prepared by, and served by Max

Well, Julian is not too far off from the truth...

gkaytaz wrote:

jacfan wrote:

Julian Mayo wrote:
Cowboys are hard workin, honest men.....remember that when you enjoy your next hamburger. If you ever have to eat a s..t sandwich, chances are it was prepared by, and served by Max

Well, Julian is not too far off from the truth...

Speaking as an ex-australian "cowboy" I am, my loverlies.........I am never too far off the truth........occasionally I may be adjacent to it, but only ever for a "Rumour factory" comment.
From the time I get out of bed in the morning ....(and sometimes before ).....the twin T's follow me everywhere
Truth, Trouble, n me. The 3 Amigos

Well my occasionally tangential to the truth friend. I'd call you the three WTs rather:
Wicked Truth, Wholesome Trouble, and Wild Turkey Guess which one's Julian. A little trivia from yours truly

gkaytaz wrote:Well my occasionally tangential to the truth friend. I'd call you the three WTs rather:
Wicked Truth, Wholesome Trouble, and Wild Turkey Guess which one's Julian. A little trivia from yours truly

OH gee that is a hard one!!! which of those would be our friend... let's try to narrow it down....
Wicked truth....could be...Wholesome Trouble... well not too sure about the wholesome .... so that just leaves... what is the last one ...oh yes Wild.. yep... he is wild and turkey... No comment.
However given the choices I will opt for number three. Wild turkey type beasty thing.

gkaytaz wrote:Well my occasionally tangential to the truth friend. I'd call you the three WTs rather:
Wicked Truth, Wholesome Trouble, and Wild Turkey Guess which one's Julian. A little trivia from yours truly

goemetrically speaking, the cranky bird and I are but asymetrical aquaintanances these days....I grew tired of his home State being entirely dependent on me for its GDP annual increase.
Sadly there is now a quaint little village near the upper reaches of the Seinne, the inhabitants of which telephone me at odd hours to enquire as to my planned consumption......something to do with Family Planning, and the Local Economy, I suspect

Julian Mayo wrote:

gkaytaz wrote:Well my occasionally tangential to the truth friend. I'd call you the three WTs rather:
Wicked Truth, Wholesome Trouble, and Wild Turkey Guess which one's Julian. A little trivia from yours truly

goemetrically speaking, the cranky bird and I are but asymetrical aquaintanances these days....I grew tired of his home State being entirely dependent on me for its GDP annual increase.
Sadly there is now a quaint little village near the upper reaches of the Seinne, the inhabitants of which telephone me at odd hours to enquire as to my planned consumption......something to do with Family Planning, and the Local Economy, I suspect

What did he say????????

Did he say he was not drinking Wild Turkey????

YES!!
WELL......NOT NEARLY AS MUCH

Julian Mayo wrote:YES!!
WELL......NOT NEARLY AS MUCH

Oh no! The perfect civilization of ours as we know it is coming to an end then