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Designers: Mario Almondo (Director of Operations), Aldo Costa (TD), and Gilles Simon (HE)
Drivers: Felipe Massa (3), Kimi Raikkonen (4)
I believe you have to engage it from the steering wheel...during testing, I can't imagine they would have bothered. Several years of being in that habit isn't easy to overcome in a few days...but he'll be trying his best.roost89 wrote:http://www.f1sa.com/index.php?option=co ... Itemid=219
Luca Badoer fined for speeding 4 times in the pit-lane. I thought the limiters almost prevented this? His weekend isn't going well
Well, his best is far from good enough.The FOZ wrote:I believe you have to engage it from the steering wheel...during testing, I can't imagine they would have bothered. Several years of being in that habit isn't easy to overcome in a few days...but he'll be trying his best.
Good enough for what?rjsa wrote:Well, his best is far from good enough.The FOZ wrote:I believe you have to engage it from the steering wheel...during testing, I can't imagine they would have bothered. Several years of being in that habit isn't easy to overcome in a few days...but he'll be trying his best.
This is F1, not an Adam Sandler's movie.The FOZ wrote:Good enough for what?rjsa wrote:Well, his best is far from good enough.The FOZ wrote:I believe you have to engage it from the steering wheel...during testing, I can't imagine they would have bothered. Several years of being in that habit isn't easy to overcome in a few days...but he'll be trying his best.
You'll notice the team chose him, and everyone, Schumacher included, have rallied behind him.
He has a giant task ahead of him, and despite knowing what he faces, he hasn't shied away.
I applaud him, and will be fully satisfied with whatever he can do, because I know it will be his best, and that's all that anyone can expect of him.
There's F1 smart and F1 stupid.rjsa wrote:This is F1, not an Adam Sandler's movie.
Sensible F1 would sack him right away, so he won't embarrass himself even more. Four speeding tickets and one crossing of the pit exit. More than 10 seconds slower in the first lap. And chickened to RG on the pit lane.The FOZ wrote:There's F1 smart and F1 stupid.rjsa wrote:This is F1, not an Adam Sandler's movie.
F1 stupid would be expecting Luca to recklessly push beyond his ability. This will most likely result in a situation like Piquet Jr., where pushing him and kicking him for not reaching expectations wound up singlehandedly creating a worldwide shortage of carbon fiber, and got the team precisely nothing for results, except a burned out driver that they had to can mid-season.
F1 smart is to give him full support and all the tools possible to do the best he can, and to bring the cars home in one piece.
There's no WDC or WCC at stake here, the car is approaching the end of it's development if it's not already there. Even with Schumacher, they could not have possibly won a WDC or WCC. Simply put - there's no reason to take any unnecessary risks and certainly is no reason to kick a guy who's been on the job for, essentially what, 3 days now? With zero preparation? At least Grosjean and Alguesuari knew their call up was coming well in advance.
Ferrari aren't having to pay much for Luca, he's getting a dream job for awhile, everybody wins. CLEARLY, if they had wanted to exercise another option, they would have grabbed Piquet, Jr. or Bourdais, or whomever. Bottom line, they chose Luca, and with him having worked for Ferrari for a decade now, knew EXACTLY what they were getting into with him, and chose him anyways.
However, please, if you feel I'm wrong, point out where I've fallen off base...
Because he was hit by RG. His fastest lap of the race is 1:40.590rjsa wrote:Sensible F1 would sack him right away, so he won't embarrass himself even more. Four speeding tickets and one crossing of the pit exit. More than 10 seconds slower in the first lap. And chickened to RG on the pit lane.