Flying Finn

They didn't come up with competitive car quickly although it might seem so.

Two main reason why they are so competitive are because he (Brawn) is so brilliant (see previous success with Benetton & Ferrari) and because they were able to develop this car basically the whole last season (and this testing season) while especially Ferrari & McLaren had to fully keep working with their '08 car all the way until the end since they were fighting for the title.

Brawn has done this before in 1994 when Schumi won WDC, that car was developed during '03 season with '04 title in mind and basically no development went to '03 car.

Oh and to add to this whole Brawn thing, who thinks it's a coincidence that McLaren and Force India are the two teams that most likely have a new diffusor already in their cars at China...
(hint: Mercedes Benz)

ew928

I'm beginning to think Max and Bernie prescribe to the "Any Press is Good press" school of management.
Create stupid drama so F1 is always in the news.

insite

women's tennis doesn't have this much drama

ew928

But a LOT prettier to look at.

SpeedBump

Thanks for your help I'm burning dvd now, the rest of you pardon the interruption.

Flying Finn

OK, good to hear. Say cheers to your friend from Rennlist F1 nuts!

993-CT

I did like the Iceman image, but it turns out that Kimi was going nowhere - water had infiltrated the KERS system in his car - so his race was done already.

A.Wayne

Shhhhhhhh,

They just had their Milky , don't ruin the story .......................

ew928

Is it still considered energy recovery if you run a water-wheel to capture energy from the rain?

Flying Finn

Of course, he wouldn't just change clothes and start eating ice cream had there been a chance for him to return...

His car was on jacks on an insulator mat etc. so it was pretty obvious something was ****ed up with his car and the mat of course pointed to KERS. I don't think anyone thought (ok, maybe Wayne did) he'd just jump out during the race and start eating ice cream...
It was pretty funny though seeing him like that while others were still scrambling in their cars.

On a related note, Schumi won't be Ferrari's advisor in next two races... They say only in next two but he's pretty much out after the Malaysian fiasco.
This means there's a chance that Ferrari will get at least one correct tire selection this time...

A.Wayne

^^^ No finn , it just means KR won't have any excuses for his lack of
puuurrrrformance ..............

I heard KR was out and eating ice cream 10 mins before the team made the decision the car could not be raced .......



Button has a 15 point lead going into race 3 . The main protagonist have to keep him close going into the euro races .. This is way from being a done deal for Brawn mostly because of his driver pairing .....

multi21

First off there is no proof MS called the wet tire change on Kimi's car. Pure speculation. If the race engineer (Chris Dyer) allowed a "Consultant" to make that call, then he should be ashamed of himself.

Ferrari should have ran Kimi sans KERS last weekend. He had a smokey failure in 1st practice on Friday, failure at the end of 2nd practice and then the water in the KERS on Sunday. Of course it could have been MS that told the team to allow Kimi to run with KERS knowing that he had 2 failures prior to the race on teh weekend. It's a conspiracy man!

jakermc

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A.Wayne

Schumacher made the call pete , Suck it up

We know he is no Ross brawn ...................... or KR fan !

Asking Schumacher to pick KR's race strategy , would be akin to asking your
ex -wife to pick out your new girlfriend's birthday gift ...
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Hey , noticed the title , you are so much like a little girl pete , they left out the uck ....

I bet ITC loved the massages ................ you really worked for it....

Cory M

pic of massa's engineer: