Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Abu Dhabi F1 points, etc.

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

I think this was epitomized by the crash of Bianchi... and the whole "paid seat" driver issue in F1.  As soon as Bianchi was hurt and his paid seat money stopped, the team imploded around him.

I just don't see that there should be paid seats in F1.  F1 should be the best drivers in the best cars a team can field.  Instead we are looking at paid seats, no testing, crap tires, carnival points, frozen motor homologations, green cars (yeah, what they don't tell you is they are tossing $400K worth of toxic batteries every week...per car), cars that sound flatulent, technologies that might actually help road cars (FRIC) being banned... shall I go on?

And its all in the name of putting on an "appearance" that its something they are not...  anymore.

And this whole row over the motors... Mercedes will quit if they don't use turbo V6s... waaaah.  Some teams want the V8's back, some want a V12 again.  -EASY, get rid of most of the stinking regulations and go back to Formula One at its essence...  Weight, Wheelbase, Displacement (use a modifier for turbo vs. NA)...  add the safety/crash regs.  Then stand back and stay the F out of the designer's way.   Let them test but only on their home track  (see how many stay in rainy England).   OH, and get rid of Charlie Whiting and his moveable aero NAZIs!!  And get rid of DRS.  Its only viable if all drivers can use it everywhere... and then why have it?

<soap box mode off>

Rick

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From: Clyde Romero <clyderomerof4 [at] bellsouth.net>
To: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Abu Dhabi F1 points, etc.

I agree this has been the most lackluster season ever 

Clyde Romero

In Victory you deserve Champagne

In Defeat You Need It!

If you obey all the rules

You miss all the fun !

On Nov 18, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Gang,

You guys up for the last GP of the season? Yea, uhhh, me neither. I think the race may be pretty good but, who gives a wet damn who wins? The points abortion makes actual performance meaningless. The championship winner may well come down to randomizing elements! 

What we may see is some good back-marker racing. I mean, no one needs to protect the cars for the next race! Could be a good race back there. Up front, it could be a parade. Either way, I'll watch, on the DVR so I can deny  Formula 1 Group their advertising.

A point of interest: I just spent the last 10 days in Europe (Germany, Holland, France and Switzerland) and NO ONE was talking about F1. No news stories. No posters in windows. Nothing. That's pretty telling...

-rick

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