F1 2009

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I love the snow plow on the front of the Brawn.....very 70s!

But no doubt the teams running the rear diffusers will lose their points as the red team has yet to score! 

And no doubts Max's love affair with McLaren will continue with the Dave Ryan debacle!

I'm going to be spectacularly annoyed if the points are taken away from the diffuser teams. They should be ok, though as the cars were already declared legal; just a case of ruling whether diffusers are ok from this point on.

Ferrari? No points? With my reputation? BINGO!! 😐

PD wrote:

I'm going to be spectacularly annoyed if the points are taken away from the diffuser teams. They should be ok, though as the cars were already declared legal; just a case of ruling whether diffusers are ok from this point on.

Ferrari? No points? With my reputation? BINGO!! 😐

 

What great news, the rear diffusers have been declared legal. How long will it take the other teams to catch up? If you believe what the papers say some teams have already spent Β£5,000,000 trying to develop their own.

 

CraigπŸ™‚

Yeah, I can believe that. There's going to be some serious sulking at Ferrari over this one!! 😐

Come on Sunday. I'm fortunate enough to be in Shanghai at the moment so will experience my first live GP outside of OZ. 

Lucky sod, I'd love to go to another GP, I've clocked up 10 Silverstones & a Monza so far.

Nice to see some real battling at the front in qualifying, shame about Webber, though...

PD wrote:

Lucky sod, I'd love to go to another GP, I've clocked up 10 Silverstones & a Monza so far.

Nice to see some real battling at the front in qualifying, shame about Webber, though...

 

Yes shame about Webber, but he is only on the second row so lets hope he finally has a good race.

So, a 3 race ban suspended for 12 months, that seems about right. πŸ™‚

Will Button finally finish the business this weekend in Brazil, or will Rubens step up another gear at his home GP?

I would love to see Rubens or Vettel win the championship, not only because if they do, they will win in true style seeing as they're currently trailing behind by 15+ points, but also because I feel Rubens deserves a championship win during his career. If Vettel could also pull off some magic while the two Brawn boys mess up in the forecasted rain this weekend, I would be very excited for him. Yes he will no doubt be a champion of the future, but he could still do it this season too with the complexities that rain can bring.

As for Button, why hasn't he done it already? He cashed in at the start of the season with an unrivalled car while Rubens couldn't catch on quite as well. He practically won every race for the first third of the season until the other teams had a chance to catch up with the Brawn's who were the first team in 2008 to begin development on the 2009 car. In all honesty it was both Button and the team's fault that messed up his grid position in Suzuka, but if he cannot settle the championship this weekend, or get within 4th / 5th place then I will have lost any interest in him winning this year. Schumacher never won his 7 championships by "playing it safe."

As a driver, is Button in the same league as Raikkonen, Vettel, Hamilton and Alonso? No I don't think so.

Personally I feel that this has been the best season I have ever seen!  Button is a first class driver and deserved the victory, He just needed a a first class car.   Brawn is a rags to riches story, where they may of not even entered this season if it was not for honda giving them the cash to do a few races.  I liked the fact that the smaller teams got a chance to shine and that the larger ones struggled!

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