The Motorsport Thread 2011

JJLehto wrote: sleeper wrote: I think the current points system gets a good balance. You should get well rewarded for winning, but not so much that its a joke. Oh and Alonso and Hamilton have been awarded 20 second penalties after the race (for Alonso's move and Hamilton for weaving on the streight in defence). Hamilton is now classed 8th, no change for Alonso. Frankly there's no need for any penalties. I liked the 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 system, or maybe one that would give a little more for podium/winning, but this one seemed a bit much to me actually. 25 for winning and 7 points to the runner up is a bit much IMO. It's all just opinion and I just thought it was interesting Europeans always liked one with more points towards the top. This was from my days on F1DB which no longer seems to be active... I did see that. I thought it was uncalled for but hey, the Stewards sometimes do silly things.

The current system was orignaly going to be 25-20-15 etc, but the teams didnt like it as it still offered the same proportional gap between first and second that the previous system did, and they didnt like that because the winner wasnt awarded enough.

^I dont think so. 2002 and 4 saw Ferrari race away with a 1+ second per lap advantage, then insulted the rest of us by only pretending to let their drivers race. Heck, if it wasnt for Montoyas banzai one lap pace in qualifying Ferrari would have been on poll for almost every race in 02.

This year though, the McLarens are definitely very close to Red Bull on one lap pace and their race pace isnt that far away either, and their ongoing reliability problems with KERS (Newey's extreme packaging requirments at work again) means they could be left vaunrable to McLaren. With their development ability I predict its only a metter of time before McLaren really start turning the screw.

^Remember 2008 as well, where Massa spun out of the first two races, but only just lost the title.

^But remember, though, he never even lead the championship at all in his career until he won the championship last year in the last race!  Anything can happen!

Qualifying tonight for the Chinese GP.
This is how it should be, racing every weekend!

Amen to that!

Smog in China? Never!

And seriously, I know anything can happen and all that jazz....but I am going to just assume Vettel has this in the bag
Prepared for it. And if things go differently then it will be an awesome surprise!

Ahhh I love that opening carousel turn in Shanghai.

That long, churny complex that gets progressively tighter and drops a bit...
Awesome.

Also crazy that a different driver has won the Chinese GP every year. Maybe this season will be Webber's turn!

Hahahahaha at Webber.

Not happy about Petrov though.

And I don't think it was solely down to a lack of KERS, Brian.  It didn't help though.

If Petrov is having issues then I may have to go for a Heidfeld pole... if he can get a quick lap in and not miss out on Q3.


Edited by James - April 16 2011 at 01:48

I don't know.
We will find out. They just said his KERS wasn't working so that's all I got.

That was awesome. A one lap sprint to get your lap in!

Petrov may be OK. They said if it's just a clutch issue that is fixable without the 5 spot penalty.
Heidfeld disappoints again, and Vettel has been topped each time thus far. Hoping for a good Q3


Edited by JJLehto - April 16 2011 at 01:57