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deepwater330

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

terrordales

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

Sukuma

"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. "

trpomeroy

"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."

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