F1 Column - 2010 German GP Review

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Hun200kmh
Last poll in F1 Column asked us if Schumacher would finish the season, wasn't it? Well, this one asks us if Massa can challenge Alonso ... Maz, I know you are die-hard Alonso fan, I just hope for your idol's sake that your polls aren't jinxed! :D
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You and me both! I always felt I hid my own personal preferences pretty well and gave an unbiased and impartial account in my writing, but maybe not :lol:

Speaking of which, I just added something I found incredibly cool, a Wordle word cloud on the top right, just above the Ferrari poll :
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I plan to change it after each article so it reflects the majority of the words/phrases used and people talked about.

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All the best
Maz
 
Another insightful read Maz :cheers: Great recap of the events in the race, and you provide some excellent context regarding the shape of the season up to this point 👍
 
Hey, I totally missed this! EPIC review Maz, your best so far. Whle reading it I felt almost as watching a thriller, with such an excellent buiild up.

Keep it up with such a writing quality and I guess the guys writing their F1 columns/blogs at BBC should start worrying ;)

I'll say it again: Best so far! 👍
 
F1 Mid-season Review - With Silverstone pics!

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All the best
Maz
 
hummmm ... Webber > Vettel IMO, not equal. And to say that the Turkish collision could "easily be avoided" by Webber is funny.

And yes, Webber is "outspoken", but Vettel's "loony" finger gets no mention? Maz, I know there are no aussies in T&L (poles and germans yes :lol: ) but you gotta keep your opinion free from internal lobbyingt :lol:



PS - speaking of lobbying ... I want to see Rubens and Kobayashi in the top tenm you hear? :D ;)
 
I'd say Vettel and Webber are about equal. Vettel just has the edge on speed and Webber just on consistencey/overtaking.
But both have serious weaknesses which stop them from really beating each other.

Both of them seem to have trouble with their race craft, although both of them can pull off overtakes, they can just as much screw it up. Webber I don't need to explain but Vettel (as we saw at Silverstone versus Sutil) sometimes doesn't know where to try and where to not.
Both struggle with consistencey over the season. They can both reel off the wins but it seems (albeit also due to team errors and reliability) they can't do it all the time.

Webber tends to make the bone-headed moves into people. Vettel tends to hold back in traffic.
Both are great drivers but both need some polish yet to really beat each other.

Really though, their seasons have been as much ruined by the team more than anyone else. Be it strategy, reliability or the current team war.
 
Hun200kmh
hummmm ... Webber > Vettel IMO, not equal. And to say that the Turkish collision could "easily be avoided" by Webber is funny.
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I should probably have made it clearer that the avoidance could have been achieved more by the team as a whole than any particular thing Webber could do. As usual I think he squeezed a passing drive rto the very limit, but I do actually blame Vettel for the collision.

Hun200kmh
And yes, Webber is "outspoken", but Vettel's "loony" finger gets no mention? Maz, I know there are no aussies in T&L (poles and germans yes :lol: ) but you gotta keep your opinion free from internal lobbyingt :lol:
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Vettel's loony finger as you put it was a result of the heat of the moment, much like Rubens throwing his steering wheel into the middle of a racetrack, which I think was colossally ill-advised. Webber remains outspoken even after the moment has passed, in the media, and very publicly. Not always to his advantage. But I did say "the way Webber is resisting any possible attempts by RBR to engineer Vettel into the lead driver position could help to keep the team honest as every move they make is widely and publicly dissected". No internal T&L lobbying going on here :lol:

Hun200kmh
PS - speaking of lobbying ... I want to see Rubens and Kobayashi in the top tenm you hear? :D ;)
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6 - Nico Rosberg, 7 - Fernando Alonso, 8 - Jaime Alguersuari 9 - Heikki Kovalainen, 10 - Paul Di Resta

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I kid, I kid, put down the chainsaw.

All the best
Maz
 
2010 BRITISH GRAND PRIX REVIEW:

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All the best
Maz
 
Just one thing, I don't know if it was meant to be sarcastic or serious but:
" the team’s decision may for some contradict Ferrari’s usual emotional policy of rewarding loyal drivers like Luca Badoer. "
Could have rewarded Badoer back in 1999 instead of screwing him and going for Salo (who also had team orders not to win what would have been his only race victory). Giving Badoer a race drive 10 years late and after he's been out of racing in the same time is not really much of a reward :lol:. More like a "well, we couldn't find anyone else, so you finally get your chance".
Badoer was publicly humiliated by that, and very unfairly I must say considering the circumstances. Badoer was once a decent driver and although his results don't show it so much, he's very much an unlucky man.

If anything, Ferrari are the least emotional team in F1. Look at what they did to Ivan Capelli too!

*If it was meant as sarcasm, then I only add my own sarcasm :lol:
 
You know I'd love to say it was sarcasm, but it wasn't :lol:

I also meant to talk about how this new Ferrari structure had the chance to move its image away from the old style of management with the departure of Todt and Schumacher etc.

I think I'll try and get another sort of German GP fallout piece up midweek, because if any of the readers are like me, I constantly want to read more about the GP on Sunday :)

Thanks for the praise guys 👍

All the best
Maz
 
I think they should get rid of the Drivers championship and just have a team one. Then team orders would'nt matter.
Certainly, as far as Luca di Montezemolo feels
"If one races for Ferrari, then the interests of the team come before those of the individual," he added.
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I don't see how the team benefited from this debacle, though. The Team got the same number of points.

Also, Synwraith, good write-up.
 
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I don't see how the team benefited from this debacle, though. The Team got the same number of points.
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The "team" includes Fernando. In other words, he's saying Massa should be a team-player to support Fernando now.
 
slackbladder
I don't see how the team benefited from this debacle, though. The Team got the same number of points.
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They avoided a Vettel clash that may have happened from Massa defending from Alonso - thus they would have lost precious seconds, and Vettel may have come out on top. That and Ferrari didn't want to wreck the cars so late in the race, and then keep the points for sure.

But then again this is all coming out of what I have heard and my own mind, so take this with "a pinch of salt" so to speak
 

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