Pit Lane Shuffle - No Ferrari Exclusive on Favoritism

[Spritle]

I guess they need the larger facilities to fit some larger egos:

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...13085156.shtml

[johntt]

The way I see it, the rule should be one car=one garage. Third cars (which for some reason are banned this year for cost cutting) should be left in the tranporters until they are needed imo. This would allow far more cars to enter.

[Ralf's Girl]

I had a feeling before I read the article that Bernie Ecclestone would have a hand in this...

[Super Hans]

Originally Posted by johntt

Third cars (which for some reason are banned this year for cost cutting) should be left in the tranporters until they are needed imo.

What if a driver needed to switch to the third car an hour before the race?

[johntt]

Originally Posted by Super Hans

What if a driver needed to switch to the third car an hour before the race?

Don't know, I don't think the FIA have really thought that one through.

Like a lot things they've done recently I suppose.

[Knowlesy]

This is outrageous! I shall never watch F1 again!

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Super Hans

What if a driver needed to switch to the third car an hour before the race?

If they can't get a car out of a transporter and onto the grid in an hour, that's pretty sad.

[Smokey 6 litre]

Maybe this is common sence prevailing in F1 (surely not!!)

Perhaps running to the exact letter of the law Mclaren should be at the end of the pit lane with tiny garages and pit boxes but whats the point of elavating a different team into the fancy garages if they're not going to make full use of them.
Keep Mclaren up close to the teams they're going to be racing, surely they were penalised last year anyway, and keep the racing good. After all, thats what we all want to see.

[TFHarv]

Its another sign of what is only describalbe as fiasco what with the spygate incident and the rest. Its getting more like a private eye agency or maybe 007 will be brought in to sleep with some of the pit girls and gain some juciy inside info this year

I bet at the end of the day tho Bernies businesses will have profited from the polotics several times over.

[Dutton]

Oh, man, I hope Ferrari protest this.

Not because I care, but because it would be quite amusing.

[Oldtony]

OK if it happens the teams that get bumped are RBR, Toyota, STR, Honda and SA. I presume Force India were still below McLaren.
Be interesting if any of them object or does the position 5 indicate who Bernie has been able to do a deal with?

[Super Hans]

Originally Posted by Matt

If they can't get a car out of a transporter and onto the grid in an hour, that's pretty sad.

It takes a lot to prepare and start-up an F1 car. I doubt it would be possible to get a car from transporter to track in one hour.

[Knowlesy]

They are in bits in the transporter in any case.

I think you have a chassis with the engine and main bodywork, suspension, wheels and everything else has to be bolted on when it is removed from the transporter (or something like that).

It probably takes 25 years for it to be lowered from the transporter.

[Gt_R]

Indeed amusing. seems like politics do come in handy for some

[Bononi]

Despite everything that happened, there's common sense that the show mut go on.

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by Gt_R

Indeed amusing. seems like politics do come in handy for some

i hate it when that happens

seriously though, a very sensible decision.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

They are in bits in the transporter in any case.

I think you have a chassis with the engine and main bodywork, suspension, wheels and everything else has to be bolted on when it is removed from the transporter (or something like that).

It probably takes 25 years for it to be lowered from the transporter.

Petty pathetic, imo. I'm gess I'm just used to the NASCAR way of being able to unload a ready to race racecar, and be out on the track, in less than a half hour. F1 really needs to step up their game.

[Bononi]

I thought it was 10 years.

[Knowlesy]

Originally Posted by Matt

Petty pathetic, imo. I'm gess I'm just used to the NASCAR way of being able to unload a ready to race racecar, and be out on the track, in less than a half hour. F1 really needs to step up their game.

Is the lowering of cars from transporters crucial to F1's gameplan?

It doesn't matter really, as long as they get out on track. F1 runs complicated beasts that need all kinds of fettling before they can think of running them.

I'm happy if it takes ten seconds or if it takes ten lifetimes.

[Super Hans]

Originally Posted by Matt

Petty pathetic, imo. I'm gess I'm just used to the NASCAR way of being able to unload a ready to race racecar, and be out on the track, in less than a half hour. F1 really needs to step up their game.

Well I can have my road car out of the garage and onto the road in a matter of seconds, so on this basis I must be at the cutting edge of motorsport technology.

[Bononi]

Originally Posted by Super Hans

Well I can have my road car out of the garage and onto the road in a matter of seconds, so on this basis I must be at the cutting edge of motorsport technology.

I guess mine is a little more complicated so I spend some good seconds to do it...

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by Bononi

I guess mine is a little more complicated so I spend some good seconds to do it...

Have you got a car with a 'starting handle' ?

Or one of those BMWs with "I-drive" ?

[Bononi]

Originally Posted by martyn bott

Have you got a car with a 'starting handle' ?

Or one of those BMWs with "I-drive" ?

No, it's a looong way down to the road...

[Marbot]

Originally Posted by Bononi

No, it's a looong way down to the road...

Have you considered taking up 'Ab-sailing' or 'Cliff-diving' ?

[Bononi]

Uhn... I like the traditional way.