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Winners:
Cosworth: I'm sure Christian Horner wished he hadn't chosen Ferrari engines when he saw Rosberg zooming past Klien. They should have another team to make engines for though, as they won't have the development budget to keep it up there.
Massa: Okay, he did the occasional "Massa" but his qualifying pace shows that he should be where he is, in the second red car.
Schu: What a comeback, makes you think he was just told to lay low for a while last year by Bernie.
Losers:
BARrichello: what's wrong with the guy? he was way off Button's pace all weekend
Toyota: My word, looks like they have come up with a complete brick. With their budget they should manage to do a little better than just staying ahead of Midland!
feel free to add :-)
Comments
kimi. He's great.
Schu. He's back.
massa. He's not that crap.
Nico. Well done, boy, well done.
loser: toyota (they should lend me some money, I'd use it better than they do, for sure)
Winner: Us. I found the qualification a lot more interesting.
Nico, Alonso, Kimi, an Michael were all winners this weekend too. I'd say Ide was a winner too, he lasted a lot longer than I thought he would and a mechanical problem kept him from finishing. Can't wait till Sato an Ide get a car that is worth anything, I'm sure they will be beating Midland and possibly Toyota.
Cosworth really do have a moster engine.
Rosberg is another gem; fastest lap and some ballsy overtaking - Jense, for that matter, was mega into turn one. Cosworth - well done guys, you should have people banging on your door. Has STR been protested yet?! Did I see Liuzzi motor past Klein?
Rubens lost 3rd gear - rather important.
Renault is the best car, Schumi was obviously lighter during quali 3.
Best thing? Four teams can win this one. Bring it on.
PS did anyone else hear Fisico's radio transmission? (his ECU was preventing top end performance)
Engineer: don't worry mate, you're doing a great job, we'll get you in the points, keep going.
Fisico: Yeah, but this is f*cking shit.
I do believe in the fellow......... like to see a nice guy do well....... time well tell whether I'm right or wrong..........
ciao y'all
Winner: Williams, they have a better car, great engine and now it looks as if they have two strong drivers. Webber had a solid performance aqnd Rosberg lifted strongly after his coming together with the driver who occupied his seat last year. Well done to both drivers, Williams and Ferrari were the surprises for me this time round.
Winner: Ferrari, Michael and the car look like they will fight for the title.
Losers: Massa, not a great start for the man. Juan (who I used to dislike and now think he is good fellow) is just not cutting the mustard with McLaren. I hope he gets better.
Losers: RedBull. How bad does it look for RB when the STR comes up to the back of DC, pulls out and takes him down the straight! Even though they are both RB cars it's not a great advertisment.
The actual crew that works on the cars do not deserve any bashing, they are just doing their job which is going racing as they have under many management changes.
[Edited on 14-3-0606 by Telstar]
I like Murph and agree with him that the STR bashing can get rather childish and wearing but that is life. It's no different to the endless Stoddie-bashing.
ForzaMinardi.com is at its best when there is a genuine, lively debate and not tiresome posturing. The next few months will be a big test without our team to cheer on. We must cheer on Faenza and anyone who doesn't is mad. The forum must remain relative and interesting but, most of, all fun. STR-bashing is dull. They bought the team. Move on.
- Rosberg !
The good:
- Williams performance
- Super Aguri (even with all the help from Honda, they made it on the grid after 5 months and Sato saw the flag.)
The bad:
- Toyota
- Sauber-BMW
- Red Bull & STR (especially STR after all the V10 hype)
Imagine leaving for your own team with your own engine and you're still shit.
They would not of liked the engine blowing up either.
Makes Williams look like they were right all along.
Winners
MS back at the top
Nico is a star.
Williams are oging to do well in Malaysia and Australia.
Losers
Toyota
Toyota
Toyota
How to blow $1 billion dollars plus and have a car that would compare to Minardi. If only we had a little of the money.
But after thinking about it, one could interpret it like "many (ignorant) people had a low esteem of Minardi and would make negative comments to you or would laugh at you if you said you'd work there."
Personal note: I know people at work that watch F1, but don't know more about it than what they see on TV on race-Sundays. They always said Minardi was crap, because all the info they had was that they were (almost) always the slowest cars on the grid !!!!
What they missed was a defective gas station and Ide's troubles with gears, which made it impossible for him to switch into Neutral in the pitlane.
Problem is most people don't care about the fine print or press releases / interviews from the drivers after the race or available budget and manpower.
[Edited on 15-3-0606 by bladerunner1]
Rubens was slow BEFORE loosing 3rd gear. After he was super slow.
By the way, nothing special about Schu's race, in my view.