F1 Digest - Turkey Qualifying
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With the weather conditions changeable, it was bound to be an unpredictable qualifying session. Find out what happened in today’s F1 Digest.
Free Practice 3
A mixed up session with Webber and Coulthard dominating and the Ferrari boys struggling somewhat.
Qualifying
A couple of shock early exits, and Kovalainen beats his teammate to join Massa on the front row.
Conclusions
Some insights into team practice, with two bad tyre choices, a rant from Bourdais, and one half of Williams not getting his fair share.
May 10th, 2008 at 11:40 pmlou said:
Nice review Chritine. I really like the team by team analysis! I have not had time to check it today to it was really usefull! eee i got two mentions
thanks
May 11th, 2008 at 12:14 amNONSENSE said:
No Sato - no action. I bet Force India are now regretting their crusade on SA, being the slowest team is not such a fabulous idea after all. Although, I hear they’re planning to introduce a new car soon.
Never mind.
Kova for win!!!
May 11th, 2008 at 12:16 amme said:
i think that’s probably the case too. if STR’s new machine is as good as RBR’s then a new set of wheels isn’t going to help them much either.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:22 amSteven Roy said:
Good show Christine.
I have no idea how you manage live commenting and collecting all the information you need. Must be one of these female multi-tasking things.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:54 amAlianora La Canta said:
The whole thing about Force India going on a crusade against customer cars was to protect its long-term survival by preventing small constructors such as themselves from being squeezed out. It has the useful side effect of demonstrating that the Concorde Agreement is supposed to be complied with as well. Sure, they’re probably feeling a bit frustrated at being last this race, but at least they have a decent chance of being on the grid at the end of the decade…
May 11th, 2008 at 12:59 amme said:
granted yep. i do wonder that they may have slightly shot themselves in the foot in the short term, especially if STR find a decent backer.
i do agree on the whole that customer cars are bad, and we need a constructors championship but i still think they’re looking at the timesheets this evening with long faces.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:12 amDan Brunell said:
This is just a random question, but what is the price to buy the Toro Rosso stake and how much would of cost to buy out Super Aguri?
May 11th, 2008 at 10:34 amLadySnowcat said:
The price on Super A was mean’t to be about $150m in terms of investment needed given that the guys involved had suitable engineering back up on hand to support the constructor status … I haven’t heard the price on TR but perhaps we’d better be checking out e bay soon…
May 11th, 2008 at 10:55 amLadySnowcat said:
Following up on the dogs chat on the thermal imaging section…
They actually had dogs on the track for the GP2 race this morning…
And in the summing up section the less than lovely James Allen was mentioning that there are rumours that McLaren have some sort of problems with the tyres… I think he said Macca..
Did anyone else hear it?…
May 11th, 2008 at 11:05 amme said:
sounds very dangerous, brad has more here:
http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/sports/f1/?p=435
on the bright side, at least davidson’s not driving this weekend, he’s like a magnet to stray animals.
May 11th, 2008 at 11:15 amDan_Brunell said:
They are showing the GP2 race on Speed right now. (After finally getting back cable after putting up with my @#@^ cable company.)
With Super Aguri this is what I don’t get. There was interest from prospective buyers, despite their joke of a season this year they did do pretty good last year and showed some potential, and plus any deal spelled a pretty good profit for Honda in terms of the sale and a potential engine deal… so why did they just pull the plug? It seemed like they were in such a hurry to kill Super Aguri off.
One thing that tipped me off as strange is the ridiculous statements from both Honda’s spokesmen and “Mr Billionare with a bowl haircut which his mother did in the kitchen” (AKA Bernie) and the Checkered Flag podcast. Honda stated that it was Aguri decision to quit… really, so why did they send the transporters to Turkey. Bernie on the other hand was shoveling BS by stating that 20 cars is the idea number and it was what he always wanted.
I know people point to the sponsor fiasco, but how much did the team really need? They have no R&D department and many of the other things that a normal constructor needs. So why?
To me at least, Honda was so embarrassed by last year that they wanted their junior team gone.
May 11th, 2008 at 11:28 amLadySnowcat said:
From all the reading around the various sites I have gleaned that Aguri had had a lot of potential suitors in the last year that all still required Honda to put their hands in their pockets to some extent and didn’t pay off the tens if not hundreds of mill Honda were already owed… Weigl were another in that line…
They also didn’t answer the question of helping Super A to become constructors.. the Magma deal did this but none of the others did hence Honda’s support of that deal…
Bernie would have wanted Honda to guarantee support before shoe horning the SA trucks into the paddock as once they were in it would have been impossible to extract them… Honda had already done this in Spain on a “This is definitely the last time we do this” basis … it had to stop sometime and SA were well aware that Honda were not going along with more support …. I think Aguri Suzuki was trying to embarass Honda into an extra session but that wasn’t about to happen…
Sad as it is it had to stop sometime…
I think you’ll find Ross had told them that supporting another team when you can’t get results with one was a foolish folly…
May 11th, 2008 at 11:59 amAlianora La Canta said:
me, I agree with you that Force India have put themselves at a short-term disadvantage. Even the unofficial Force India message board had trouble staying optimistic after yesterday’s performance…
Dan, I’m not sure Red Bull itself has made its mind up how much it’s selling Toro Rosso for. One advantage Toro Rosso had over Super Aguri is that any sale would presumably involve Faenza, which has constructor facilities, however antiquated they must be by now. So the up-front price may well be more than Super Aguri wanted, but the price to make it compliant in the medium term would have been a lot lower.
I can just see Vettel being a magnet for the dogs (assuming he gets through the first corner) - he seems to have very bad luck generally.