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Friday practice is looking alittle too thin on the time sheets. Does anybody have any ideas on what you guys would do make friday practice more exciting or should they scrap friday practice and make it a test session?
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I think that the way to make free practice session more exciting is to change the rule that they have to use 1 engine for 2 races! That's my idea about it!
I kinda of like the 2 engine rule, keeps cost down in the long run and it shows which engine company can make a reliable engine that is still packing the ponies.
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I like it too, believe me! But to improve and spice up friday practice sessions, they should have to scrap that rule. I don't have any other solution to make the practice sessions more interesting!
I have to agree Princepessa, teams are minimizing laps for the racers. The third cars are out there pounding laps (that will begin to pay huge dividends soon), but there's very little serious "practicing" going on. With everyone leery of the new V-8's reliability, and the lead Renault are slowly building, reliability is really becoming a major factor. So much so, fans are losing out on practice sessions.
The first Friday practice session was a farce, none of the contenders put in much laps. Alonso - 2. Shu - 5. Buttton - 0. Fisi - 2. Montoya - 2. Kimi - 5. Massa - 7. Webber - 0. JV - 16. Rosberg - 0. Ralf - 5. Klien - 7. Trulli - 2. Reubens - 1. DC - 9. Heidfeld - 1. Liuzzi - 2. Albers - 8. Montiero - 10. Speed - 8. Sato - 9. Ide - 19.
If I was there, or the track owner, I'd feel very ripped off.
Nick Fry "Friday is unnecessary and one of the ideas for Friday is to make it more of a promotional, sponsors and fun day and do different things at the circuit."
Norbert Haug "Not a six-hours test day, but a warm-up day or whatever and a promotion day," he said. "In the afternoon, you can give the possibility to young people to enter the race track for low costs, for promotion or whatever. We do not need a three-day event. If we could use a different engine and tires on Friday, you could certainly learn something for the weekend it could certainly be an entertaining day."
Sam Michael "Everyone has a certain amount of mileage they have to stick to so the only way to do it is to say it is a free test day - just two two-hour sessions or something like that - where you can run a test engine and put your race engine back in on Friday night."
m3_lover wrote:I kinda of like the 2 engine rule, keeps cost down in the long run and it shows which engine company can make a reliable engine that is still packing the ponies.
But it doesn't...that's what bugs me about that rule. Teams will continue to push the envelope just to squeeze out that extra "pony". The result: engines are not reliable and the drivers get punished. As a BMW fan, you should know that - I think that they've had the most engine-related incidents this year. And this is BMW we're talking about...if anything, these guys know how to build engines.
It is interesting to see how Mark Webber, a home-crowd favourite, did ZERO laps in the first session. How do you think the Aussie fans felt about that?
The 2-weekend rule will probably work, if the rules are stable for over 20 years. Much of the cost went to R&D. The penalties are ridiculous too. Like everybody else stated, the costs would be much less if they just used air-restricted V10s instead of devising a whole new engine. The one weekend rule was good by me.
What was the original reason for the V8? Cost-cutting or slowing down the cars?
Bring back wider rear wings, V10s, and tobacco advertisements
West wrote:The 2-weekend rule will probably work, if the rules are stable for over 20 years. Much of the cost went to R&D. The penalties are ridiculous too. Like everybody else stated, the costs would be much less if they just used air-restricted V10s instead of devising a whole new engine. The one weekend rule was good by me.
What was the original reason for the V8? Cost-cutting or slowing down the cars?
The latter. Although, it didn't do much. In 2004 (old aero rules, V10's, disposable tires), Montoya set the lap record of 1:34.223. This year, Alonso's fastest lap was 1:34.803.
I love innovation do not get me wrong, but if you do not control it very carefully you run the risk of losing teams I.E from 2004-2005 there was a lot uncertainity with teams coming and going, you need some stability and I hope that in 2008 that we get to see it.
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Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
f1.redbaron wrote:It is interesting to see how Mark Webber, a home-crowd favourite, did ZERO laps in the first session. How do you think the Aussie fans felt about that?
Who is Mark Webber? that is what most australians would ask you. And personally i'm not really a Webber fan so the less i see of him the better
