- One pit stop? ONE? I felt like I was watching the new Formula 1 parade today.
Granted yes it's oh so exciting that Michael is back and Alonso is in a Ferrari... But c'mon!
It appears as well that Martin Witmarsh of McLaren and I are in agreement: See article
And as per Coulthard: "
"I hope Max Mosley, watching from his ivory tower after relinquishing his post as president of Formula 1's governing body last autumn, enjoyed the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday," wrote Coulthard in his column for the Daily Telegraph. "Revs limited to 18,000rpm, the ban on in-race refuelling, standardised gearboxes and engines, a single tyre supplier; all initiatives introduced during his tenure at the FIA, all of which appear to have done little for the show if Bahrain is anything to go on." - Thanks David...
I know this blog is about personalities but RED FLAG here. Note to Bernie & Company: When you manipulate and control too much, you end up creating the very thing you are trying to avoid - unexciting races.
They undertook multitudes of changes last year which the teams broke the rules on - namely the diffuser. The same with the whole KERS crap-ola. Same thing this year all over again. The thing that gets me is that everyone at the top of F1 want's their cake and eat it too. Either you reduce the rules enough where you get genuine competition ignited or you allow teams to create their own winning formulas so they can eclipse the field at will... I was hoping that with the coming to a close of the Max Mosley era, this kind of stuff would come to see it's end. Perhaps it's not long enough and we are still healing - seriously. The FIA and FOTA need to get back to basics again. Scrap all this over management. Stick to the rules you have that work. Make everyone comply to the diffuser ban. Stop already.
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