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woah! that would be big news. Very interesting. they already have ferrari engines. now they'll have schuey and brawn to help them cheat their way to the top. I like it.

and troy, I think that could be a plan. maybe we could hit up paul sotddart for use of one of his old army transport planes. there would be plenty of room for 2 cars and a few strippers too just to keep us sustained for the journey.

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"The regulation was introduced just prior to the season and the three-centimetre diameter white circle that was painted on the soft tyres for the Australian Grand Prix proved to be not visible enough."

Isn't it funny how with all the money and brains in the formula 1 industry that they could think such a stupid idea would work. First of all you have the words 'Bridgestone Potenza' printed in white on the sidewall of the tyre, now spin that tyre at 300km/h and try and workout if you can see a white dot in it all, obviously they were all on the piss when they thought of that idea.

The new idea of a white ring around the tyre is interesting and looks a little bit cool, atleast it definitely works.

I for one don't understand the purpose of the regulation requiring teams to run two different compounds. Judging by the Melbourne GP two thing can & probably will happen.

1. No one uses them until the last, shortened stint in the race because as often as not they will grain & the teams don't want to risk it. Running them on a rubbered in track lessens the chance of graining, but by then the race is almost always over anyway.

2. Cars with suspension that is harder on their tyres (mostly the mid ranked teams) just become less competitive anyway.

There is a chance the harder of the two compounds will be the better option at some tracks. In which case whether or not you run them other than last entirely depends on if you believe you will get a pace car during the race.

As ever artificial means to "spice up the racing" inevitably works for about 10 minutes until everyone cottons onto the best strategy. Then everything just reverts back to normal - wasting time, money & peoples rapidly diminishing attention spans. If they want to make the racing more interesting give everyone proper soft compound tyres & get rid of re-fuelling.

I think as bridgestone refine the differences in both compounds, we'll start to see it become a more important part of stratagy making by the teams. Because this is such a new concept the tyres are still going through some development. I think eventually it will a good specticle to watch, but so far they're still teething

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you'd think with hack teams consistently performing in practice sessions, you guys would start to realise that it means sweet f**k all in real racing terms....they're out there running times because they need to be...where as major teams could be out there raping them without lube....

Of course this is just my personal opinion on this stuff, and yes there are big teams out there in the times above....but I wouldn't be reading too much into any of it :laugh:

The 2nd qualifying session is the only way to see who is fastest in F1.

The 1st qualifying session the top teams only do enough to get into the 2nd session and the 3rd session they are on their race fuel/strategy so that can lead to different results. The race speed well who knows what strategy or tyres they are on and the same with the practice days just testing new parts, tyres, etc not going their for outright lap speed.

The only times practice sessions mean anything is when you compare them to to the lap record.

If a car can sustain a time close to that of the fatest lap for that track over long distances than you know who stands where. Anyone can piss fart around for a day than pump in a quick one at the end for the sponsors... its anout knowing the breakdown of how and when they got the PB for that session.

Ferrari and Mclaren a so far infront its rediculous


you'd think with hack teams consistently performing in practice sessions, you guys would start to realise that it means sweet f**k all in real racing terms....they're out there running times because they need to be...where as major teams could be out there raping them without lube....

Of course this is just my personal opinion on this stuff, and yes there are big teams out there in the times above....but I wouldn't be reading too much into any of it :)

f**k you dezz.. that hurt... what about sato.. yer thats right.. sato,

Enough said.,

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