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03-18-2009, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Ricracing' post='819315' date='Mar 17 2009, 08:16 PM

Bernie is the king of the F1 hill.

No doubt about that.

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03-18-2009, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by swajames' post='819653' date='Mar 18 2009, 01:38 AM

These latest round of changes are pretty pointless. It's tinkering for the sake of tinkering...

Hopefully it should make for more positive, exiting racing, but I just hope it doesn't backfire on them, with one driver winning lots of races early in the season, and the champion decided, with say, 5 or 6 rounds of the season to go...

One senareo could be that if the leader of the championship has say, a three race win lead, over his nearest rivals, and is leading the next race by some margin, what is the point of his rivals fighting for the remaining places, as the points (which would only be needed if there is a tie of race wins at the end of the season), would be practically meaningless.

I think this is only going to work if the rule changes to the cars for 2009 work as they hope, and the future budget restrictions bring more teams towards the front of the grid.

Here's hoping....

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03-18-2009, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Patrick E61' post='819949' date='Mar 18 2009, 01:14 AM

I totally disagree.

Now it is all about winning, not collecting points. This will completely change qualifying and race strategies for all of the teams.

And after thinking about it over night, I am no longer shocked. These changes are good for R?ikk?nen.

They're probably not at as good for Raikkonen as you might hope. He'll be one of those who will suffer as he tends to be so inconsistent. He would probably do better under the points system. He had a lot of 2nd and 3rd place finishes (and many lower scoring races) in his Championship winning year in 2007. It was the points for 2nd and 3rd that carried him through.

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03-18-2009, 07:33 PM

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Jean Todt has resigned from all of his duties at the automaker

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03-18-2009, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by pinguhk' post='820800' date='Mar 18 2009, 08:33 PM

Jean Todt has resigned from all of his duties at the automaker

Max Mosely is up for re-election this year as head of the FIA... What's the betting Todt stands against him?

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03-18-2009, 07:42 PM

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Max Mosely is up for re-election this year as head of the FIA... What's the betting Todt stands against him?

If it turns ugly, whomever takes on Max will have plenty of arrows in his quiver.

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03-20-2009, 11:16 AM

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And lo and behold they have now decided to can the new scoring system for this season after all...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/7955790.stm

So we're back to the way things were. What a total shambles!

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03-20-2009, 11:36 AM

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Bordering on amaturish, for the most watched sport in the world...

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03-22-2009, 06:59 PM

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