Theissen: BMW not happy with recent results. File under Statements of the Obvious!!

or will BMW decide it just all too hard & pull the pin?

Most of the postings cannot accept that grandee teams are not entitled to monopolise F1 wins and championships. That is boring and not the fact that Brawn and Red Bull have produced a better car than Ferrari, McLaren and the rest. The comment that you need testing for safety or "to save lives" is spurious; the new bits they come up to put on the cars are endless aerodynamic variations. If someone is stupid enough to put bits that produce lift and turn the car into an airplane so be it. But then they shouldn't be in F1. Testing was banned to cut enormous costs and to level the playing field. It is about time that engineers and designers were constrained to be smarter instead of spending vast sums to see if this or that bit will make the car faster by a thousandth. After all they have Fridays like every other team to test their bits. Which brings back the intriguing idea of unlimited technology within tight budget constraints. That will separate the clever from the profligate. Cast your minds back to the most ingenuous and yet always short of funds team ever that is still the benchmark for genius-level innovation: Lotus, not Mclaren or Ferrari and certainly not Toyota. The mistake with "kers" was to limit its effectiveness (use only twice a lap and for not more than so many seconds and such nonsense), not making it mandatory for all teams or at least force non "kers" teams to restrict where to carry their ballast.

When and where are the tires being tested? No testing is lunacy. Running inferior tires is madness. But look who is running the show. If I were Ferrari, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Toyota, Honda, Renault, Cosworth... I'd concentrate on LeMans or anything but F1. It's world class Nascar boredom.

Yea quite right "gaspx".However "shlick" I dont think this season is less boring than watching Schumi win everything in the best car.

Cumon Mario gis a smile.

gaspx, very well put! In season testing is very important to the teams, not only from a technical advancement point of view, but also as a safety concern. Bolting untested components onto a car and having the drivers fly around the track at race speed not knowing the effect that the new components may have on the handling of the car, or if these components will withstand the rigors and punishment of driving in anger, is absolutely ludicrous. Safety should be considered as the number one priority in the sport of auto racing, saving lives is much more important than saving a few sheckles! The teams must have the opportunity to test any new parts before committing them to the car for race day!

Well then, Mario, next time don't come up with a rubbish car, especially one you sacrificed the previous season to develop.

gaspx you have hit the nail on the head, this season is the most boring season in the history of F1. But Button thinks he is the best for winning it, not much to boast about when you've won a season in which mclaren and Ferrari started with an inferior difuser, and hence wrong car model, and then deicide to just keep showing for conformance instead of racing.

Is anyone else of the opinion that banning in season testing is detrimental to F1? Its leaving teams that have wasted time developing KERS (notably Ferrari, McLaren and BMW) struggling with not a lot of chance for recovery during the season. Ferrari and McLaren have indicated that they're now concentrating on next years car, which leaves the championship free for the couple of teams that do have a good performing car. Surely we want the top teams to bring the fight to Brawn/Red Bull, rather than wait for next year before we see them competitive again ?

The sky is blue. BMW are not happy with their results.

Mario how about next year old chap.