Jun 19, 2005 10:08:59 PM
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Marco 430 said:
Amazingly when Ferrari had to retire Rubens from Bahrain,due to excessive tire wear, and Michael had two tire failures in the spanish race,Bridgestone had the balls to say it was all there fault.I didnt see Ferrari\Bridgestone refusing to race due to excessive tire wear or poor one lap performance.
If this is about safety,just two GP'S ago we had Kimi\Ron Dennis saying "We would do it again",with regards to continuing with an extremely damaged tire.So was it okay for Kimi to die than.I didnt see Michelin forcing Mclaren to pull Kimi out the race,in the name of safety.
Michelin deserves to bare the full brunt.This is a multi Billion $ sport.How can you not prepare a proper tire?
If the roles were reversed and Ferrari didnt race,would all the other teams pull out aswell? I think not!
Jun 19, 2005 10:22:22 PM
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Carlos from Spain said:
BTW Dr.Phil, I see no mention in Ferrari's site to their performance in the Le Mans 24hrs race the best classified Ferrari in the GT1 class finished behind several Porsches from the GT2 class guess they must of forgot to mention that work by the Manarello technitians
Jun 19, 2005 10:35:13 PM
Jun 19, 2005 10:47:33 PM
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JimFlat6 said:
So Carlos, Michelin HAD flown in new tires for Indy, but FIA wouldnt let them be used??
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JimFlat6 said:What about the other 5 GP's at Indy and the "evil" turn 13???? Only Ralf had problems.
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JimFlat6 said:Nobody has any problems with the road surface or turns in IRL,CART or CAN-AM racing so whats up with Michelin and F1??
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Carlos from Spain said:
BTW Dr.Phil, I see no mention in Ferrari's site to their performance in the Le Mans 24hrs race the best classified Ferrari in the GT1 class finished behind several Porsches from the GT2 class guess they must of forgot to mention that work by the Manarello technitians
Indeed! However, I'm not that focused on Ferrari's lack of performance on Le Mans, but more on my fellow countrymen doing so great!
Tom Kristensen number 1 overall in the Audi and Jan Magnussen number one in GT2 class in his Vette!
Truly a little big nation in autosports!...if I may say so myself
Jun 19, 2005 10:54:27 PM
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Grant said:
As horrible the spectacle (and the race) was today, I still think all the fault rests with Michelin - not Bernie and not the track. They should be able to make a tire that will work there and the teams that use them shouldn't be given any favors because they were supplied with faulty tires.
A mobile chicane would not be fair to the teams who prepared their tires and cars to work with the original track layout.
I hated the race, but I really fault Michelin here - they should be ashamed (as well as the American fans who through debris on the track).
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JimFlat6 said:
Audi's and Corvette's margins of superior race car engineering is so high they can afford to actaully let a Dane drive a car and still win.
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JimFlat6 said:
You over reacted. It was tongue in cheek, not danish hoof in mouth!
Now go find some Mario Andretti wine and get over it.
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JimFlat6 said:
You over reacted. It was tongue in cheek, not danish hoof in mouth!
Now go find some Mario Andretti wine and get over it.
Isn't that funny! I was only kidding, too! Seems we were BOTH just kidding! Isn't that a coinsidence? Whoo-hoo-hoo.
Just kidding...I mean about being serious. Or was I being seriously kidding? Argh. Simply too hard to keep track of these things.
I'd better go check out the homepage about "fine american drivers of the century". Should take me about 30 seconds to finish.
JUST KIDDING!
Hey! This is neat! I can simply say ANYTHING, as long as I write or "Just kidding".
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JimFlat6 said:
.... so take your anti North and Anti South American and previous seemingly anti any Latin driver remarks and blow em up your myopic Nordic biased drain pipe.
Thats simple to understand, now isnt it!
Got it??