F1-race

[Duke]

Well I hope the FIA is happy, hope this race gave them enough excitement. But lets just forget the part that 10+ drivers today could have been seriously hurt. How can they so stupidly deny teams to have full wet tyres when its pouring rain. Unbelivable. Lets just hope Alonso is ok. And Kimi did not deserve to win that race. The jordan had him passed fair. But I guess you cant agrue with rules. I just hope the FIA releases new rules to allow to diffrent sets of weather tyres because what happened today in unexepable. The best drivers in the world, today,looked like 15 year olds driving go-karts.

[TJFitz]

You could not say it any better! That was crap, he should have not won. He got passed due to his own error. What is up with the tire deal? It was raining...would that not mean you need rain tires?

[Oaktree]

I believe a team is only allowed to have two sets of tires, thus they all had intermediate and dry tires.

[laverty]

Ecclestone strikes again

[Alfie]

True, they are allowed only two sets of tires. Before the start of the race teams were allowed to change there dry qualifying tires to there wet tires. Also, Raikkonen and Villeneuve were allowed engine swaps due to suspected cracks in the block. But wow what a choatic race. Turn 3 claimed 6 cars. I wouldn't say that it was the FIAs fault but their new rules don't help either. The cause for all these crashes was the wet track. What do you expect from a race that started with 7 laps of the safety car. Weber and Alonso's crashes were HUGE! Alonso should be ok, he gave a thumbs up before being taken away in the ambulance. I think the HANS device played a role in preventing more injury. As for Fisichella gettting second, rules are rules, Raikkonen was first in the two laps before Alonso slammed into Weber's broken wheel. Fisichella won't have won even if the race was continued cuz his cars was in flames in the pit. All in all a crazy ass race. I enjoyed it. I just hope Williams does better in San Marino.

F1 rule could get changed soon

[hectho]

What a race.
Winner Kimi Räikkönen.

[John]

Unfortunetly, non of the teams brought their full rain tires with them, so their decision to let them go to full rain specs was more or less useless aside from letting them run more downforce, which I'm sure helped but.... however they should have seen this coming.

Who knows what would have happened if they race was not stopped. Kimi could have very well repassed Fisichella. Its fair rule, imagin if Kimi was leading by 20 seconds and got taken out by a piece of wreckage right before the red flag? You can't allowed any leeway in the enforcing in the rule or everyone will start screaming favs.

[laverty]

can't allowed any leeway in the enforcing in the rule or everyone will start screaming favs.

Example: the entire 2002 season...

[viktorleivo]

Great race, and congrats to kimi, its 2 in a row now.

[Duke]

Did you guys see how Firmans right wheel just fell apart underbraking( i guess ) on the main straight. That was scary. That would have been a lot worst. A very eventful race. Shame Rubens engine blew up. It would be so sweet to see him win his home grand prix.

[Racer__X__Kidd]

i was watchin a bit of this race and even the comentators (sp?) were commenting on how some team put on dry tires even though there were sheets of water all over the track.

[Xride]

I dont think the new rules are very fair at all, maybe levels the playing field, but isnt alowing the advancement that had been made in the past years.
Ferrari was winning cause they had the best cars, and a remarkably talented driver. now they are forced to go backwards for it to be fair. I think its fair for everyone but the top two teams.
and yes I am biased I guess cause I want ferrari to win.

[John]

Ferrari still has the best car and the best driver, they just had some really bad luck they will be winning races again soon enough.

The really screwed up this is qualifying, with the fuel loads and tire compounds they can't adjust correctly to race day conditions.

[Xride]

Originally posted by J.M3
Ferrari still has the best car and the best driver, they just had some really bad luck they will be winning races again soon enough.

The really screwed up this is qualifying, with the fuel loads and tire compounds they can't adjust correctly to race day conditions.

I missed the qualifing , but its not as good as it was last year, last year it was all about the fastest car period. this year its too much strategy and not as fun to watch, I liked the "lets see what the hell we can push from this car befor it blows up" more then the "well we still want to be able to go x amount of laps on the fuel, and we think the conditions on race day will be different so lets make the car slower today, but faster tomorrow"

I cant wait till Ferrari brings in there new car, few more weeks.

[E31]

It looked like a NASCAR race with crashes every 10 laps. Since the new rules came in, it has been a complete fiasco. If they don't change them back, someone will die this year. I like BMW, but cannot stand Montoya as a driver...he's no Senna.