He was answering to a post that I made I believe about Hamilton. He can't be the same as ITV as he seems to dispise Hamilton.
@ Tristan : That's more like it . TBH, you're right, Kubica is just great. Maybe he doesn't always get first place but he scores every race. His races are consistent and at a fast pace. I like his style of driving too. As for LH, I don't really hear of him with the media and such so I probably don't realise how cocky he really is and all I see is what happens on the track and sometimes with the press after the race.
In F1 racing I read he actually does some setup work, although not entirely since he can only predict what the racing driver wants from the car, according to their styles.
Who? PDLR? I don't think a professional racing driver will have much input into the design of a CAD/CFD/FEA Carbon Composite wing designed to work with the rest of the aerodynamic package... That is the job of highly skilled Engineers with years of experience, and many many man hours, not to mention thousands of computer hours.
I doubt a driver has had much to say about the actual design of a wing for years. They might give feedback on a design, but that is MILES different to actually designing it.
Setup is for individual drivers. PDR no doubt gives feedback on new components and how different setups interact with those components, giving the data to the race drivers and engineers so that they can tweak the car to their liking.
So some setup, but only for engineering feedback, not for actually setting it up for the race drivers.
but the baseline setup is mostly the same, you won't find setups too radically different on an F1 car because the performance window is pretty much controlled by the car design, and that's a pretty small window. for example spring/anti-roll/damping are all established to an extent in testing/setup rigs.
Perhaps you need to think a bit more about the differences between seeing a solution and emulating it (with tweaks to make it work with a cars particular design ethos), and effectively stealing design data to copy something.
There is a HUGE difference between copying other cars and gaining the actual design information in underhand ways then lying about it repeatedly.
Let me refresh your memory.
Ferrari got forced to change tyres at the Japanese GP in 2007 since they started under heavy rain on intermediate tyres and there was an e-mail by the race administration asking to all teams to use wet tyres.
Ferrari got the communication late and was forced by the race administration to change tyres. The email was proven to arrive 7 minutes into the race and it had to arrive before the start. If a proper email communication procedure was set up, this case wouldn't have happened.
It was just another FIA blunder, and rules for email communication changed later, while F1 News talked about private apologies from FIA to Ferrari since Ferrari was damaged by a poor communication system, although the result of the race wouldn't probably have changed at all.
So there was no stop and go, and Ferrari didn't get away scot-free as some people may like to believe: in fact, they paid for something that was proven not to be their fault. Domenicali told the press what happened, clarified there was no responsibility from Ferrari and then left it all behind.
. TBH, you're right, Kubica is just great. Maybe he doesn't always get first place but he scores every race. His races are consistent and at a fast pace. I like his style of driving too. As for LH, I don't really hear of him with the media and such so I probably don't realise how cocky he really is and all I see is what happens on the track and sometimes with the press after the race.
