US Formula 1 race great for Ferarri, bad for Michelin
Cody Forbes
cody at 500tq.com
Sun Jun 19 18:12:08 EDT 2005
Robert Myers wrote:
> Most likely due to some rather severe contractual obligations.
>
> At 03:54 PM 6/19/2005, DGraber460 at aol.com wrote:
>>>> We build race tires, but they can't handle race conditions...
>>>>
>>>> I wonder why McLaren, etc didn't just borrow tires from
>>>> Bridgestone...
>>>
>
>
> Bob
> Http://Chips-Ur-S.com
All in all though, racing is racing and hardships are bound to happen. I
personally don't think it is such a dark day for F1, I just think that most
people out there are forgetting that racing hasn't always been what it is
today. Cars these days are built too well and are too reliable, it has taken
an entire aspect of the sport away.
Take Le Mans for example. 40 years ago it was just as hard to FINISH the
race as it was to win it. Today you see an Audi R8 that as long as nobody
sends it head on into an armco at full speed the car simply won't break. In
the middle of the night one bounched off the tire barrier at speed and
needed some new suspensioin bits and a new piece of front bodywork...15
years ago any GTP car that did that would have been out of the race.
People are taking for granted that every car is *supposed* to be in tip-top
condition to start a race, and that all of the racing is supposed to be done
by the driver. Sorry guys, this isn't NASCAR. The mechanics, the tire
engineers, the aerodynamicist, the strategists, the guy that torqued the
heads, the guy that *made* the heads, are all just as important a factor as
Mr. Schumacher is and thats the way it's going to be for a long time. IMO
todays events were just another racing occurance where man and machine were
tested to thier limits, and in this case the machine failed the test. It
happens, oh well, and even now after watching the race on TV I am upset that
I didn't have the abillity to be there. I would have applauded every minute,
just the same as I did when I attended the first USGP @ Indy 5 years ago.
-Cody Forbes
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