US Formula 1 race great for Ferarri, bad for Michelin
Cody Forbes
cody at 500tq.com
Tue Jun 21 17:30:28 EDT 2005
I see it as this. Lets say we are watching the Boston Marathon. During
training one group of runners get tangled up in each other and they all end
up with an injury, be it twisted ankles or whatnot. Now are we going to tell
the runners who weren't involved that we are going to strap 30lbs of weight
to each of thier ankles to make up for the other runners handicap? No. That
wouldn't be right. Just because some are handicaped there is no reason to
punish the fit people.
Michelin clad teams did not come prepared to race, Bridgestone teams did -
simple as that. It's not that Michelin simply couldn't race at all, they
were handicaped. They could have raced just fine if they would back off the
pace some, but no they chose to drop out. In thier eyes not racing is better
then being shown to be slow. Bridgestone could have easily used that as an
advertising campaign.... a picture of the finishing resultts with 6
Bridgestone clad cars leading ALL of the Michelin cars.
-Cody Forbes
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