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13 Sep 2009, 09:20 (Ref:2539459) | #51 | |
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I'm mostly surprised all those that were screaming a few months ago how unbalanced things was pro Seat are so quiet now when BMW now suddenly is equal in both driver and manufacturer championships. It's not like they didnt even add to their long list of massive start of season screw ups with events in Porto and Brno... Personally Im happy the championship is heating up with multiple teams and drivers getting seriously into the mix. But it does amuse me to notice how calm things are when the "right" team & drivers score the big points.
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That explains why Andy and Augusto were smiling while Tarquini went along with the usual lines 'we're slower, it's going to be tough in Imola'. He might be right, but we'll see... So, IMO, there's nothing to calm down. As the ballast system calculations show, the SEATs are still extremely quick and in Imola they should be dominant because of all the different uphill accelerations there are at the Enzo e Dino Ferrari. Now that things havebeen equalized, like I was calling for at the beginning of the season, things are shaping up well as the cars are equal, and then it all depends on which track you race in, just the way a touring car championship is supposed to be. At least, it looks like it's going to be decided on the last race, and not in Okayama, as last year. Great...! |
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On top of this, when Seat got X, BMW made huge blunders (lone wolf qualifying strategy, utterly failing in wet setup etc), but when BMW got X points, it's still BMW that makes huge blunders (Porto,Brno). I think Seat, not to mention Chevy, needs to start to really make some stupid team decisions soon to make sure they get more points than BMW. |
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Marrakech was ridiculous, Chevys were 60 kgs lighter and SEATs were much faster on the straights. As I called for at the beninning of the year, things have now changed, and in fact the championship looks more equal, with at least three drivers fighting for the crown, from 2 different manufacturers. This is equalization, and Oschersleben showed how SEAT can make the most of its dark days, as they took 3 podium spots out of 6 in a BMW track. So why would BMW be dominant? Let's see in Imola. If BMWs are faster than SEATs, then something's wrong. If SEATs are faster, then it's just because it really depends on the tracks they race on. |
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I'm counting the races in which SEAT had an unfair advantage (as the Federation has stated), and if you count that you realize what I mean. Ches won in Morocco because of the waivers, so they really can't complain. Their car is new, the drivers are still getting to grips with it and it takes time to make a championship winner out of a racing car.
As for the Priaulx-Farfus thing, it would look much like the situation we have now, with SEAT having 2 drivers fighting for the championship and BMW just one. Farfus now has 90 points, so there's not much difference between 91 and 90. |
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You seem to forget that BMW didnt just sacrifice Prialux to get Farfus in top 8. They sacrificed Jörg as well. Both of them likely would have gotten more points that weekend than Farfus did from a 8th + 1st, so it likely would be a 2vs2 driver situation. Additionally, trading 2 high scoring drivers for 1 lower scoring severely affected BMW manufacturer title score as well since BMW lost points and Seat gained them.
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Also, your calculations completely miss the fact that when BWM drivers score more points, there are less points available for Seat drivers. You can probably drop at least 10 points each from Yvan, Gabrielli and Rickards total scores in your "Prialux gets 91" scenario. |
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Yeah, probably he lost 15 points: two when he had to stay behind Augusto and 10-12 in Porto. Big difference between 13-15 and 10... I never mentioned Seat drivers, I was only comparing Priaulx's and Farfus' performances. I was talking about the decision BMW took by backing Farfus from Porto, already, which was a bit too early IMO. |
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So I repeat, even though Seat has not tripped themselves over and BMW clearly has continued to do so, BMW has managed to close the gap and be neck and neck with Seat and way ahead of Chevy. Now where are those loud voices demanding equality at the start of the season that claimed to not be biased to a brand or driver? |
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Imola quali results are there to prove what I was saying. Seat IS dominant in "its" tracks and BMW is dominant in "its" tracks. The championship is now balanced, and Seat deserve to be dominant here as this is their home track. Not only this, but Chevys were in Q2 with all 3 cars, despite being charged another +20kgs a few days before the race.
Anyway, I never said Priaulx would be 10 points ahead of everyone, but that he would be on par with Farfus at this point in the championship. As for the points lost by BMW in the manufacturers', you seem to forget that Priaulx t everyone through at the last lap, so there wasn't much to try by then. Supposing that the extra motivation would give Jorg an extra 5-10 points is a bit stretched, as his contract is said to be expiring this year and he needs to prove himself. |
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If you put Priaulx in the place of Farfus, then nothing changes. Without Augusto winning, the same amount of points are available for the others.
BMWs were working together, too. I don't know if you saw quali, but Priaulx was slipstreaming Augusto and all Farfus could do was 0.029 faster than Andy. So, if SEAT have 7 tenths of teamwork in Imola, why not the same in Oschersleben, for instance? Truth is, this was a SEAT track and it pretty much showed. True, Chevy worked as a team as much as BMW, and they were ahead. Do you still believe SEATs are not dominant? This time it wasn't Augusto's fault, as everything was messy and it can happen. Having +6kph is pretty special in Imola. The championship is equal now, but they had too much of an advantage in the first few races. Tarquini and Yvan were in a class of their own yesterday. Was it down to team work that they had a 4s margin at the end of Race 2? What did BMW screw up this time? Certainly not strategies in quali. he TDis were simply faster, full stop. |
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And this week, apart from still not managing to sort out Q1 in a good manner, BMW did nothing wrong. Sometimes you can be just unlucky as well. |
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You keep mentioning Jorg, ignoring that he only let Augusto through in Porto.
Augusto was not ok with the car and the track this weekend, not as much as Priaulx. BMW Team UK and Italy-Spain worked together in Q1, maybe they didn't show it on the but it was pretty easy to see it from the pit wall. About Oschersleben, you actually said what I hoped you'd say to prove that sometimes teamwork is just not enough, and on certain tracks some cars are unbeatable, just like the TDi in Imola. So I think we can agree that SEAT having so many points ahead of BMW is not only down to teamwork, but also to the fact that the TDi is much faster on straights. Having a +6 kph in Imola compared to BMWs is quite special, I don't think it's a matter of teamwork but more a matter of engine. That is more than ok, and the championship is equalized properly now. Telling a driver that he doesn't know anything about slipstreaming is pretty unfair, but I take it as granted that you will be unpolite when talking to me. You only see what you want to see. Farfus had a faster laptime, but Gabriele and Yvan never had a clean lap as they were fighting against each other, while Augusto had the chance to have the slipstream from Félix and d'Aste during the race. Are you saying that Farfus was faster than Tarquini and Yvan Muller? If you look at Rydell's laptime, it's pretty clear. If you're still not convinced, you can look at their Race 1 pace to see where they were exactly. No question that the Leòn TDi was the fastest car in Imola, they had pole, fastest laptime during both races and 4 podium spots out of 6. If they had more than 2 drivers they were able to support (Rydell is being left a bit by himself and always gets bad luck) then they'd have been much more efficient during these weekend and could easily have had a 1-2-3-4-5, possibly with Alex being able to stand in between had he not had problems in quali. |
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We're getting too far with this Jorg thing. The right question is: would Jorg have the same points as Priaulx if BMW hadn't helped Farfus? The answer is absolutely no, as today's standings prove.
No, my point is that slipstreaming was useless in Imola, as it didn't work to make Augusto go better than expected, as Augusto simply didn't have the pace. And so did most of the other BMWs. Is the slow guy HernÃ*ndez, the one who had a laptime in quali that was 1 tenth off Priaulx's pace? Ok... The answer that you call "excuse" is that BMW does not have a coordination like SEAT and Chevy because the national teams are different teams working with the same cars. Or do you think that the flag they like the most is put on the cars? They do share data, but they're not in the same team. Helping the best placed driver is much different than working together, you can only do that if you have Menu and Larini working for a much faster Huff and Monteiro (ridicuolous), Genè and Rydell working for Tarquini and Yvan, all backed by the same investors. That's the simple difference you don't seem to understand. Sure, so Tarquini and Yvan slowed down in order to get Rydell to set the best laptime, just to give him the honour of that. Incredible: Seat dominates in Imola and you say that BMWs could have beaten them. Sure, so Zanardi slowed down before the speed trap to show the world that Seat has a different engine... Alex has a light car with 6 gears and a sequential, so why would he be slower? We were discussing, and you kept on claiming that teamwork makes SEAT successful, so I said that to prove that Tarquini hasn't taken two podium spots because of teamwork, and yet took the championship lead. As Dr Mario Theissen said to me, when they (and you) talk about teamwork as the main reason why Seat wins (and IMO will win again), you "forget the engine". |
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No, my point is that slipstreaming was useless in Imola,
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Out of context it sounds silly, but if you read the whole post it is clear that I mean that it didn't help Augusto in reaching a good starting position, as he could only manage a 0.029 faster than Priaulx. Maybe the best expression would have been 'proved to be useless for BMW'. It was a point to say that SEAT's advantage is not just down to teamwork, but also to an advantage brought by the engine (in Imola). BMW have had their advantages in Oschersleben, though. The championship is balanced now, it wasn't during the first 4 events (the first 3 towards SEAT, Pau towards BMW [mainly] and Chevy). A lot of mistakes were made and it's something everyone should reflect about.
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