Can Webber finally compete with the best for the title in what could be his last season?
Which McLaren driver will be better? And can they match the Red Bull speed over the whole season to win the drivers title?
Is the Ferrari as bad as pre-season testing indicated and will Alonso's great driving abilities be again overshadowed by a poor car performance?
Are Schumi (in his third and maybe last F1 season) and Rosberg now able to be in the mix for race wins or does tyre usage and reliability again harm their results?
How strong will the Iceman return to the F1?
Which of the Toro Rosso youngsters wins the team duel which could earn them a Red Bull seat next season?
The list could go on forever, and that's why it will be an interesting and enjoyable 2012 season!
Edited by cio93 on 21-03-2012 00:26
YouTube Video "Hopefully in 2 years time I might win the Time Trial and be a credible Time Trial winner because I haven't beaten someone by 2 minutes."
- Bradley Wiggins a few years ago
"It's the Time Trial. The race against the truth!" - Phil Liggett, 2003 Vuelta
One thing I have always disliked about the F1 is that the yellow flag brings everything together. You can lead the race with minutes, but if the safety car is out, everything is nullified, making the X minutes of racing I spent watching pretty much meaningless.
Well, that's pretty much the only way to guarantee the driver and marshals safety in cases of danger.
And often, the driver being at the front was the fastest so far in the race. He still is after the restart and he gets a significant lead again.
Also, racing is much more intense after SC due to the small gaps, instead of the race being boring from about lap 3 onwards.
Edited by cio93 on 25-03-2012 12:05
CrueTrue wrote:
One thing I have always disliked about the F1 is that the yellow flag brings everything together. You can lead the race with minutes, but if the safety car is out, everything is nullified, making the X minutes of racing I spent watching pretty much meaningless.
I suppose you don't watch US series then, IndyCar, ALMS, Grand Am (probably Nascar as well). One car puts a tire off the track and brings some dust on it ? There we go for 10 laps of Full Course Caution (safety car, etc.) to clean it.
Some GT series have a Code 60 instead, all cars drive at 60 km/h, so the gaps are maintained, but that makes it complicated for marshals to clean the track, as cars keep coming all the time.
"Racing is life. Everything before or after is just waiting."
I don't watch a whole lot of racing. This was my first F1 race in years
Let's say there's a gap of 10 secs between #1 and #2, and the race is stopped like today (red flag). When the race is restarted, let #1 go first, wait 10 seconds (the gap between 1/2) and let the #2 go.
Also, racing is much more intense after SC due to the small gaps, instead of the race being boring from about lap 3 onwards.
Yes, it does make racing more interesting, but is it fair? I don't believe so.
Let's say there's a gap of 10 secs between #1 and #2, and the race is stopped like today (red flag). When the race is restarted, let #1 go first, wait 10 seconds (the gap between 1/2) and let the #2 go.
Restarts are done behind the SC because the tyres cool down too much to provide enough grip for full-speed racing. And regulating gaps while driving is quite impossible, I guess.
Edited by cio93 on 25-03-2012 12:20
But, technically, how do you expect to reproduce the same gaps (more or less) that there were before the interruption ? That's... complicated.
"Racing is life. Everything before or after is just waiting."
He's a member of the Ferrari academy, that might explain. [/conspiracy]
But he should still be thankful to Herman Tilke, see what happens nowadays in F1 : you go off the track and lose... 5 seconds, thanks to the parking lot built outside the curve.
"Racing is life. Everything before or after is just waiting."
Sauber messed it up in the pit stops for slick tyres. Perez would probably have won had he pitted the same lap as Alonso, rather than throwing away 6 seconds or so by staying out
