F1GP

[wkid_one]

Who watched the farce that was the F1GP this morning - 6 cars?!?!?! I would be pissed if I had paid for tickets, accomodation et al and finally got there only to see 3 teams rolling around the track....

Kinda makes a mockery of the sport really.

Atleast Michael will feel a bit better now....

[Motu]

Yeah,he's used to wins he doesn't deserve...

[dveus]

I didn't see the race just read the report on www.formula1.com, Once again there stupid tyre rules are doing more harm than good.

[sAsLEX]

yeah dont think it would of been a prob with the tyres being changed two or three time a race with the old rules, but hey they didn't ask me did they.....

[crashe]

Damn.... I forgot it was on.. and I always watch it..
Copied and pasted it over... damn it must have been a boring race to watch.
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Red one-two and a Jordan podium as Michelin withdraw

The US Grand Prix began to go wrong when all of the 14 Michelin runners came into the pits at the end of the green flag lap, leaving only Michael Schumacher on ‘pole position’ from Ferrari team mate Rubens Barrichello, the two Jordans of Tiago Monteiro and Narain Karthikeyan, and the two Minardis of Christijan Albers and Patrick Friesacher in front of the shocked 130,000 crowd.

After Ralf Schumacher’s left rear tyre failure on Friday afternoon, Michelin advised their runners that they could not guarantee their tyres for the race. Several ideas were mooted and the Michelin teams agreed to let the Bridgestone runners start ahead of them on the grid and to forego any championship points provided a chicane was erected in Turn 13.

However, the FIA had already stated that changing the track layout was not an option, informing Michelin that their teams could either use their existing tyres and run more slowly through 13, make tyre changes on safety grounds if necessary, or they could start with new tyres and risk being penalised for breaking the regulations.

At the start of the six-car race, Schumacher duly jumped ahead of Barrichello, with Monteiro third and Albers momentarily ousting Karthikeyan for fourth before the Jordan driver asserted himself.

Barrichello made the first of two stops on lap 24, but Schumacher’s stop a lap later occupied 16.8s as a left rear tyre had been damaged by a bottle thrown on to the track by an irate spectator and had to be changed. Barrichello thus led and kept the initiative until his next stop on lap 49.

Again Schumacher stopped a lap later, but this time he was at the end of the pit lane exit, where it feeds into Turn 1, at the very moment that Barrichello arrived there. The Brazilian was obliged to run off the road to avoid a collision, and after that the result was sealed.

Monteiro ran third throughout, with Karthikeyan, Albers and three-stopping Friesacher spread out.

Since nobody else went far enough to be classified, they were the only points scorers, and the race matched the 1961 Dutch Grand Prix as the only one in which all starters have finished.

Schumacher’s 10 point haul brings him up to third, behind Fernando Alonso on 59, and Kimi Raikkonen on 37. Barrichello moves to fourth, ahead of Jarno Trulli’s 27, with 29. Ferrari rise to joint second in the team standings on 63 points.

[Lou Girardin]

This could be the final straw for the FIA running F1.
They should hang Mosely and Ecclestone by their heels and let the Indy crowd at them.
Not to mention the excellent PR this represents for Michelin.

[wkid_one]

Did you hear Ecclestenes comments about Danicke Patrick from Indy?

He said

"You know, I've got one of these wonderful ideas that women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances,"

Classic!

[TonyB]

Did you hear Ecclestenes comments about Danicke Patrick from Indy?

He said

"You know, I've got one of these wonderful ideas that women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances,"

Classic!

Yep, he made that comment the day before the race. I therefore call what happened today KARMAH.
What a fricken debarcle- I don't normally watch the F1 but it was on as I was having my brekky. Couldn't believe what was happening! Hysterical- all these blokes running around the grids with trolley loads of tyres. Ecclestene and co looking like they were about to explode. Then the arrogant little fecker says you can either race slowly or pull out, those are the options. So ALL the Michelin teams pull into the pits and park their cars on the warmup lap
Then just to show how farcical F1 is, Ferrari ran the race according to team orders, with Barracello obediantly following Schumaker around despite the fact they were running slow pace!!!!

[dveus]

as a plus though, it's been ages since all the cars that started finished.

[Motu]

It was a show of power - Michelin saying ''look what your stupid fucking rules have done,we are taking our ball home and you can play with yourself'' and the FIA (Bernie) saying 'yeah,well you just go and do that,we don't need you,we got our own ball so there!' What a sad little spat to put before millions of viewers and gate paying spectators,Kimi and Alonso seeing their Championship race in jeapody and DC being robbed of what could of been a great race for him,dumb FIA,real dumb what you have done to F1...Bernie needs scalping,I really,really hate his hairdoo.

[Ghost Lemur]

I've been a F1 and Ferrari fan for as long as I can remember.

But to say I hate what the FIA has been doing for more than a couple of years with fucking with the rules would be an understatement.

Now their looking to change more rules (add more bs) so it's "cheaper for the teams".

It's the FIA that needs the overhaul not F1.

Now it looks like FIM and Dorna have been to the fucktard Burnie's school of race management and are starting to fuck with the rules just coz they can.

More and more reason to savour events like the IOMTT before fuckers like these get there greasy greedy tenticles on them.

[gav]

Never happen in motorcycling, would it? Or would it? Anyone remember what happened at the 1989 GP500 at Misano, OK, go dig out your Motocourse, rep points to the correct answer, what happened, who won etc....

[Kickaha]

Never happen in motorcycling, would it? Or would it? Anyone remember what happened at the 1989 GP500 at Misano, OK, go dig out your Motocourse, rep points to the correct answer, what happened, who won etc....

After an aborted start all the Factory riders and few non factory riders refused to race as they claimed the track to dangerous in the wet and Pierfrancesco Chili won with only 5 finishers, intersting that a lot of the bikes were on Michelin there as well

[Lou Girardin]

Then just to show how farcical F1 is, Ferrari ran the race according to team orders, with Barracello obediantly following Schumaker around despite the fact they were running slow pace!!!!

Barrechello led after the first pitstops until Shuey nearly took him out leaving the pits. There was nothing obediant about it.
Near the end they were down to 1m 12's which was real race pace.
It was farcical but not because of anything Ferrrari did,

[sAsLEX]

Barrechello led after the first pitstops until Shuey nearly took him out leaving the pits. ,

replay showed that barichello entered the corner way too fast and couldn't scrub off the speed to use a different line due to micheal being on the race line