The Great Michelin INDY Failure
Stop Criticising people.If anyone is to be blamed its the French Marque.They are responsible for giving their teams with the safest tyres.It failed in its job.They went for a new spec for the two low downforce high speed circuits and it blew out of its place.They should have made a plan B for the tyre failure.Guess they dint go with the RMMM(Risk Mitigation Monitoring and Management) Plan.I remember Pujeri's words in PSG TECH 2 years back.That was a statement then but now i see its importance.
I cant c the point why people are blaming Ferrari.There is simply no point in it.Ferrari were having serious problems with their Tyre development at the start of the season.The tyre blew off twice on MS's F2005.Nobody bothered to raise a question about safety then.They did not withdraw from the race.They raced with the same spec tyres until Bahrain.And noone from the Scarlet team complained.That shows the magnanimity of a World Champion.
The teams ordered their drivers not to race citing safety reasons.Most outrageous attempt from the Michelin HQ was the request for a Chicane at turn 13 in the Brickyard.The Indy Motor Speedway Circuit was and is famous for the turn 13.And normal INDY and NASCARS do nothing more than rounding the oval at top speed.The reason why people love F1 in this unique circuit is for the very reason that F1 cars come flying out of the turn 13 into the brick-fenced stretch where the cars run flat out to 340kmph on an average.Putting a chicane at that point would've spoiled every li'l bit of fun in the otherwise-very normal race track.
Even if the chicane was kept in place at turn 13, all the Bridgestone runners had a high chance of winning.Most obviously Ferrari. They had got everything right at the race. They would'nt done it with sheer speed but with a bit of strategy.And the very reason for putting a chicane that Michelin mentioned to the FIA was silly.The chicane would slow down the car but would put more pressure on the left front and rear tyres and that would obviously become an advantage for Ferrari to overtake the Michelin clad front-runners.
okidoci...enough of the politics..the bottom line is Ferrari won it fair and square. Yeah it was a shame they did it without any opposition but even if the rivals were on track,their tires would've lasted only for 10 laps.The circuit was to be driven at flat out for 65% of the distance.It would've been a cake walk for the Scarlet Marque.
About the race, Ferrari's were impressive enough and MS n Rubeno had a bull fight going on.It was ok about the li'l shunt MS did at the first corner.He was racing and so was Rubeno.He has to calm down.And he is calm.Although that was a dangerous move I fancy what would've happened if they had collided with each other? Our own Narain who finished at 4th place after losing it out to Tiago would be on the second step of the Podium!!!
The jordan's were also very impressive.They managed to pull it off from the Minardi PS05's with the old car.The brand new EJ15B is all set to debut at MagnyCours next weekend.Hope that would be better challenge for Sauber n Redbull this season.
The latest news though is BMW has bought Sauber Racing.Thats a relief for Ferrari actually.They would be cut on the Engine supply to the Sauber's. They are already on the job for the F2006 - a brand new V8 (from next year F1 is gonna be raced on V8 engines - Listen to all the V10 howls this year people..V8's wont make som uch of a noise)
Well, thats it for now folks. Be back on Magnycours soon. Tyaga.. go read the statistics... Ferrari at 63 second place with Mclaren in Constructors. MS is just 25 points behind Alonso. It wont be long before he is caught up. And who told you Mclaren's are not consistent enough? It is not possible to pull off 3 wins (almost 4) with that non-consistent slow paced car.Wait and watch your king going off. And did you read this?? Kimi's management is talking with Ferrari for 2007.Hope it gets going. Then no stopping the ICEMAN!!! Hope Alonso would be there in Ferrari too by that time. It would be something like what you call HOLY F*KIN SHIT!!!!
I cant c the point why people are blaming Ferrari.There is simply no point in it.Ferrari were having serious problems with their Tyre development at the start of the season.The tyre blew off twice on MS's F2005.Nobody bothered to raise a question about safety then.They did not withdraw from the race.They raced with the same spec tyres until Bahrain.And noone from the Scarlet team complained.That shows the magnanimity of a World Champion.
The teams ordered their drivers not to race citing safety reasons.Most outrageous attempt from the Michelin HQ was the request for a Chicane at turn 13 in the Brickyard.The Indy Motor Speedway Circuit was and is famous for the turn 13.And normal INDY and NASCARS do nothing more than rounding the oval at top speed.The reason why people love F1 in this unique circuit is for the very reason that F1 cars come flying out of the turn 13 into the brick-fenced stretch where the cars run flat out to 340kmph on an average.Putting a chicane at that point would've spoiled every li'l bit of fun in the otherwise-very normal race track.
Even if the chicane was kept in place at turn 13, all the Bridgestone runners had a high chance of winning.Most obviously Ferrari. They had got everything right at the race. They would'nt done it with sheer speed but with a bit of strategy.And the very reason for putting a chicane that Michelin mentioned to the FIA was silly.The chicane would slow down the car but would put more pressure on the left front and rear tyres and that would obviously become an advantage for Ferrari to overtake the Michelin clad front-runners.
okidoci...enough of the politics..the bottom line is Ferrari won it fair and square. Yeah it was a shame they did it without any opposition but even if the rivals were on track,their tires would've lasted only for 10 laps.The circuit was to be driven at flat out for 65% of the distance.It would've been a cake walk for the Scarlet Marque.
About the race, Ferrari's were impressive enough and MS n Rubeno had a bull fight going on.It was ok about the li'l shunt MS did at the first corner.He was racing and so was Rubeno.He has to calm down.And he is calm.Although that was a dangerous move I fancy what would've happened if they had collided with each other? Our own Narain who finished at 4th place after losing it out to Tiago would be on the second step of the Podium!!!
The jordan's were also very impressive.They managed to pull it off from the Minardi PS05's with the old car.The brand new EJ15B is all set to debut at MagnyCours next weekend.Hope that would be better challenge for Sauber n Redbull this season.
The latest news though is BMW has bought Sauber Racing.Thats a relief for Ferrari actually.They would be cut on the Engine supply to the Sauber's. They are already on the job for the F2006 - a brand new V8 (from next year F1 is gonna be raced on V8 engines - Listen to all the V10 howls this year people..V8's wont make som uch of a noise)
Well, thats it for now folks. Be back on Magnycours soon. Tyaga.. go read the statistics... Ferrari at 63 second place with Mclaren in Constructors. MS is just 25 points behind Alonso. It wont be long before he is caught up. And who told you Mclaren's are not consistent enough? It is not possible to pull off 3 wins (almost 4) with that non-consistent slow paced car.Wait and watch your king going off. And did you read this?? Kimi's management is talking with Ferrari for 2007.Hope it gets going. Then no stopping the ICEMAN!!! Hope Alonso would be there in Ferrari too by that time. It would be something like what you call HOLY F*KIN SHIT!!!!
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posted by Arjun.C.N at 4:01 AM
1 Comments:
Well....if i need to truly comment it has to b a word by word retort...i'm not gonna do that...i'll do that as a post in my blog...
anyways...ferrari won it "fair and square"...true...coz reliablity is a part of the racing right...the seven michelin teams lost it due to the same reason......BUT.....had the teams raced...say hypothetically...with the chicane....i am not sure about the result as you are....anyways we'll never know coz it wont happen...and ICEMAN...he is great as always...but again Mclaren!....i understand the three race consistency but they'll need to do much more to compensate for the countless DNFs they have punished kimi with...who knows he might have been the 2004 champion?
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