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

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Follow the money.

Bernie doesn't care if anybody shows up to watch the race at the track, 

that's the tracks problem. He want's the max revenue for the race. That 

means TV and if the locals loose that is ok by Bernie.

Stephen

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Robert W. Garven Jr." <rgarven [at] gmail.com>

To: "Stephen" <sherman [at] wildblue.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] **SPOILER** Don't any of you WATCH F1 any more?

All,

geez, they should run them at the best time for the crowd and racers,
I have a dvr but even 30 years ago i had a VHS. I think having them
for a certain
time zone is stupid.  If the race had started a 12 they could have
resumed after the rain stopped!

Robert W. Garven Jr.

in CA

rgarven [at] gmail.com

 "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special
vehicle and for most people it will remain a dream apart from for
those lucky few". Enzo Ferrari

On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Grahame Reinthal wrote:

Well, I guess we could run the races in these longitudes (Australian,
Malaysia, China, Japan) early in the day - maybe around breakfast
time, just
after sun-up. No-one would be there to watch (the potential crowd
would be
all tucked up in bed fast asleep) and the drivers would need a few
cups of
coffee or maybe a few cans of Red Bull to spark up. But it might
work for
Europe.

In Australia this time, running the race late in the afternoon did
introduce
two interesting issues; 1. driving into the setting sun, and 2. tyre
temperature challenges as the sun set and the track got cooler. All
interesting and challenging stuff.

In Malaysia, running the race late in the afternoon just introduced
silly
stuff because at this time of year it is going to BUCKET down late
in the
afternoon and so what we saw was what we should have expected, and
it was a
bit like that game kids play at parties when the all have to freeze
when the
music stops, because we knew it was going to rain heaps - the only
question
was when - and then the places were frozen.

Whatever, go the Brawn team, I say!

Cheers for now,

Grahame

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rui Gigante [mailto:rui.gigante [at] gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 6 April 2009 11:28 PM
To: Grahame
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] **SPOILER** Don't any of you WATCH F1 any more?

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 didn't pay to go
and see
it.

Graham, I'm not sure that the schedule change works for European
viewers. I
mean, motorheads like me wake up at ANY time needed. Most other
people don't
do it, be it 6:00AM or 10:00AM !! But maybe the price payed by local
TV's is
different depending on the time schedule.

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

My thoughts exactly! I truly believe that most of us would have done a
better job, strategy wise. I can't understand how Ferrari leaves one
car in
the grid and another in the pits. Why was Kimmi in his shorts and t-
shirt?
The only reason I can understand is that he was going to abandon
anyway. Massa did not look happy at all ...
Maybe the switch to rain tires for Kimmi means "we have nothing to
lose
anyway, let's try this ..."

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

Oh yes I do, too!

I agree that it was a very entertaining race, while it lasted. As
Rick, I
also like Ross Brawn and I like to see a team with a fraction of the
budget
of others winning so clearly. We have to remember that they are
about 6
months ahead in terms of development. They started before everyone
else, I
believe. That's strategy, too.

Let's hope for better days for Ferrari

Rui
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Re: SPOILER Don't any of you WATCH F1 any more?	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Stephen Sherman (shermanwildblue.net)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:19:41 -0700 (PDT)