Well, looking at the rule changes, it looks like everytime that anything happens a new rule is made for it. There's basically no room for bending the rules or they are going to make sure that the rules are addapted in order to be certain that that bend cannot be used again.
I suppose that if somebody jumped a curbing and rolled their car that it might be illegal to touch curbing in the future. (Exageration of course, but that's the impression that I get, having little experiance with F1).
They've only put in completely uncertain terms a rule that everyone has been playing to anyway. Hence the reaction at monza, steward investigation, warning to MSC from Brawn.
I'm glad about the safety car rule, tbh they could get pushed back a lap, I wouldn't care, all that matters is that the leaders are together on track.
Looks like the track is basically flat. Sigh, I suppose that they are building a modern track, and I shouldn't have expected anything differently
Old track makers weren't afraid to take a piece of land that wasn't perfectly suitable for building a track and making a fun and unique track. Modern track builders just don't like making things overly unique.
120,000 seating.. Should fill up the first year, but it'll be interesting to see if it does the next year.. I hope so.
Seems like a decent choice. Petrov lost his seat when he shot his mouth off about the team a few weeks ago. Ranting against your own team is never a good move when your seat retention is in question.
Senna? He's reasonably solid, but I don't think he could match the top talents, including Grosjean.
I am surprised that they've discarded both of their drivers though.
"all about the money", well perhaps, but after all he's the GP2 champ, and isn't the way he went from absolute zero to the top of the feeder series ladder in only 18 months very impressive?
Petrov-Maldonado? Sounds like a perfect way to give lots of extra work time to those poor Williams mechanics.
And as Intrepid said, from midfield to the back it's all(or rather, mostly, since some teams still have enough common sence to pick drivers with both the money AND the talent, fortunately) about the money these days in F1.
I think grosjean could beat Kimi. It's a perfect situation for him. Kimi brings the reputation but probably not the form, so Grosjean's stock will sky rocket if he beats him
Solid move by Lotus. Now only depends on engineers
Petrov had enough opportunities and time to get better results. Ofcourse Vitaly was wrong to blame team becose of it(I still don't think that he lost his seat becose of that), but he was right at some point - Renault didn't worked on their car enough. No wonder why results were going worse and worse by every race.
On the another hand Lotus did it right - Romain know how things works. I'm pretty sure he familiar with current Lotus crew and I think his pace will be better this time. At least winning 2 GP2 championship on the same time is something that everyone can't do
I don't see the logic in dropping drivers who score point and podiums for a driver you had before, who was a bit rubbish (In the comparative scheme of things).
Grosjean's previous F1 experience is fairly irrelevent IMO, considering the very unusual difficulties he had to face.
He was in the middle of a successful GP2 campaign, then gets thrown in an F1 race seat, against a double world champion, with no testing whatsoever. He didn't even know most of the tracks. The car was a dog, remember - Alonso himself couldn't get further than Q1 in Abu Dhabi. On the top of it, his manager and now new boss is caught cheating and gets fired.
I fail to recall of any tougher F1 debults in the recent history.
Edit: Feeder series records clearly speak in favour of Grosjean also. Just to quote some discussions occuring on ten tenths' forums:
They will have to build one hell of a car to flatter the complete lack of talent behind the wheel. If they keeps Rubens and build a good car then they will do okay, but two shitty pay drivers will get them nowhere.
