Ferrari Mailing List: Re: **SPOILER** Don't any of you WATCH F1 any more?

[Graham Witt (gw.ferrari]

Being in Malaysia (still) it was at 5pm for us, which is about the stupidest
time to hold a race here.

It IS GOING TO RAIN and if it rains it IS going to RAIN properly. As it did.
Then the rubbish talk about doing 11 laps under the safety car to give full
points. Hmm. Imagine the safety car driver trying to keep it fast enough, on
the Island, for 11 or so laps. Then they do the figures and work out that
they wont finish the 11 laps before the 2hr time limit is up (at which time
it is getting dark, especially with overcast skies)

The Malaysian race was a perfect example of "the Poison Dwarf" bureaucracy
gone wrong.  Its all about being at a reasonable time for European viewers.
9am for them, on a Sunday...hmmm. I'm just glad I didnt pay to go and see
it.

Yes, I agree it was a very entertaining race until they stopped it, which
was probably the right decision considering the conditions. But it should
never have been at that time. It has rained at around 4pm every day for the
last 3 weeks. Serious tropical storms with massive downpours.

Ferrari strategy? Do we have any at the moment? Any one of us could have
done a better job in this race I think.

Supposedly McKlunken has one of the worst cars but they keep beating us.
Hmm

I hope we can get it right before they really get their act together.

Cheers
Graham

PS. Brawn - ex Ferrari, Barichello - ex Ferrari, Button - all around good
egg. Just a shame it doesnt have a Ferrari engine.... :-)

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> No kidding!  They may still have a pretty good car, and they have the same
> drivers as last year, but they seem to be missing the 'race strategy'
> necessary to be competitive.  They also have serious competition this year!
>  Still, Ferrari always rises to the challenge.  Let's just hope it doesn't
> take so long that the lag can't be overcome.
>
> I'm a die-hard Ferrari fan but I must admit...  I ordered a BrawnGP shirt
> the other day!  I like Ross.  And I wouldn't be surprised if Schumacher
> didn't eventually end up over there consulting.
>
> I need to get to the garage to affect a few repairs to my old Mercedes
> ponton BUT, I'll probably watch the replay on SPEED-TV at noon (Central).  I
> found last season, that some of the re-broadcasts were "edited for content"
> to fit the time slot.  And given that SPEED-TV is a NASCAR channel now, I
> wouldn't put it past them to edit-out interesting but non-crash things.
>
> So Dan, you've restored my faith. :-)  I wasn't alone at 3:30am. :-)
>
> In fact, the friend I used to watch F1 with, who now lives in Wellington,
> NZ, and my other close friend, Rui Gigante in Portugal, got together on a
> Skype conference chat during the race!  If you use that tool, please
> consider joining us.  My Skype ID is: rolindsay1
>
> regards,
>
> rick
>
>
> --- On Sun, 4/5/09, Dan Warlick <edwf430 [at] att.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Dan Warlick <edwf430 [at] att.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Ferrari] **SPOILER** Don't any of you WATCH F1 any more?
> > To: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> > Cc: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
> > Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009, 9:32 AM
>  > Half points. I would have loved for it to finish. I
> > wasn't too impressed. WTF was Ferrari thinking with the
> > full wets right away on Kimi? What a screw up....21 seconds
> > a lap loss to Button because of that....Good grief.... I
> > didn't know Ferrari had a girls team now. Send in the
> > second string cheerleaders.
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Lindsay"
> > <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
> > To: "Daniel" <edwf430 [at] att.net>
> > Cc: "The FerrariList"
> > <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:05 AM
> > Subject: [Ferrari] **SPOILER** Don't any of you WATCH
> > F1 any more?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Good morning Gang,
> > >
> > >   Yes, I know this season hasn't started well for
> > Ferrari but we're not just tifosi, we're F1 fans!
> > And F1 has been fun to watch, so far.
> > >
> > >   So other than me (and of course, Rob) did any of you
> > get up at stupid-o'clock to watch this race?  Until the
> > race officials interrupted, it was a fun race to watch.  I
> > love wet races - especially those that are wet-dry-wet-dry.
> > Well, we got dry-dunno-wet-freekin'_wet this time. :-P
> > >
> > >   Regards,
> > >
> > > rick
> > >
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