mitadumapaga Wrote:
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> dear marcl,
>
> the examples you give are not exactly spot on,
> because:
>
> 1) button did it in canada, no penalty, no
> nothing
>
> 2) alonso did it with vettel into turn 3, by
> putting vettel on the grass which was quite
> dangerous, though people dont mention it- no
> penalty no nothing.
>
> 3) lewis did it.... like 100 times. Typical
> example was.. lets say malaysia 2010 with petrov,
> no penalty no nothing, or lets say monza 2008 on A
> VERY VERY WET TRACK when he put glock on the grass
> with approximately 250 km/h.
>
> In my opinion the leading bodies of F1 made this
> great, gladiators sport.. a whuss sport.
> Schumacher did NOTHING dangerous out there. No one
> could have died or got hurt, Whitmarsh and
> hamilton in the team radio were whining for
> obvoius (subjektive) reasons. The truth is,
> people are whining for stupid things like "he
> moved twice" he pushed him hard. But of course he
> will, what did senna say. "when you are a racing
> driver and there is a gap, you go for it,
> otherweise you are no longer a racing driver". Fia
> is going to make this sport have NO racing drivers
> at all, compared to what we had 10, even more 20
> years ago, and the climax of great battles in the
> 1970- ies. 1980- ies- If someone dies because he
> was pushed hard, so be it (listen to murrays
> speech after imola 1994). just stop putting the
> boring and whussy safety zones everywhere (lok at
> alonso vs massa at belgium 2 weekes ago, alonso
> should be gone for that running wide), stop
> removing great tracks from the f1 calendar because
> the races are either not safety enough or dont
> have enough money (what happened to imola, a1
> ring, estoril, mexico, kyalami, old hockenheim
> etc, etc, etc)- and then again, of course no one
> is going to die just from pushing him hard. look
> at fitipaldi spinning on a start finish line,
> senna at mexico 1990 i think, mansell at suzuka
> 1987 and piquet at tamburello in 1987, kubica at
> canada 2007 or lets say perez at monaco this year.
> All those incidents were in times when either
> thesafety was at a low level compared to now
> (except perez of course).
I Totally agree with you ........ all of a sudden every one is so scared to let racers race, it's frustrating for the drivers, confuseing for the sport and damn right boring for the spectators.
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