agdamis

No buddy I'm good, thanks for checking. I look forward to next year maybe "radical" is what FA and Ferrari need.

My993C2

Alonso is the better driver than his teammate Massa. But don't forget that many times this season we witnessed Ferrari putting Massa on inferior race strategies that would benefit his teammate. Yesterday we saw it at the Brazilian Grand Prix where Ferrari kept Massa out there a long time in the hope that he was fast enough to make it hard on the Red Bulls to pass him while allowing Alonso to catch up and this happened in more than one race. It's hard to score podiums when your team is sacrificing your race to help the other guy. Yes Alonso is better than Massa, but the difference is not as big as the race results make it appear.

Turb-OH Brad

And how about when M. Schumacher did the same to R. Barichello? Ferrari forced the Brazilian aside several times for the benefit of the points leader. Many people claim Schumy to be the best of all time...

Ferrari were keeping Massa out to keep Button down. Button did make the pass, but Massa made it hard on him. Massa was also staying out because the weather folks said "rain in 10 minutes". no sense changing drys for drys when the track gets wet 2 laps later.

multi21

I wish it had rained yesterday.

Question for the technical engineering types: What is it about Interlagos that is so hard on transmissions? The cars today are incredibly reliable and yet, this track continues to brake trannys like it did 2 decades ago and 2 decades ago before that? Elevation changes? lateral load while going through elevation changes? Heavy engine braking on the down hill portions especially with KERS? It has to be the elevation doesn't it? That's all I can come up with that is different about this track vs. the other 18 on calender.

Nizer

And yet it doesn't make the top three according to this article:

http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2011/6/12197.html

P.S. Vettel's tranmission problem was a ruse.

500

James Allen, probably one of the most "inside" of F1 journalists wrote this moring that he saw the actual telemetry screens with the gearbox temperature data...

OK, if it was a ruse, it was a very comprehensive one.

Serge944

As soon as I heard tranny problems for vettel in the first quarter of the race, I thought it was contrived... As soon as Mclaren ran into the same problem, my suspicions went away.

Nizer

Yes, and Hamilton's tranny problems led to DNF while Vettel's were only "bad" enough to let Webber through....

multi21

But this is not logical since team orders are allowed. Why go through the charade?

multi21

I read the article and it says "toughest" based on number of gear shifts, but I don't recall many tranny failures at that race.

Even if Vettel's was a rouse, what about Hamilton and the other one (lost all gears, but I cant' recall if it was Maldonado, Perez or someone else) It seems this track eats them up.

Turb-OH Brad

Because Webbo is too proud.

multi21

Some drivers are fragile, but Webber is a seasoned veteran that knows Vettel is a far superior driver at this point in their careers. Even Hamilton said after Abu Dhabi that he only won because Vettel retired. If it comes out that this was all some plan to not hurt Webber's feelings then it's worse.

Nizer

Because nobody will forget the black eye Ferrari earned for letting another driver through that didn't earn the position, regardless of whether the rules allow it or not.

ltc

Which time?

Nizer

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