It's quite simple.

If you are skilled enough, you have a much better start in a F1 car than other users.
The distance between the skilled drivers in the BMW F1's and a field of XFGti's is different.. different enough to warrant the group of "5" skilled drivers, to pull away from the field of unskilled drivers and thus avoid the first corner melee.

Now.. I'm an oval Junkie (hehehe) and there's a big difference betweenn doing 0-100 in 2.8 or 2.9 seconds for a skilled driver.. and the 3.5 to 4.5 seconds that the lesser drivers take.

Offcourse.. you can still be taken out by someone that has done 16.000 laps.. it all depends if someone sees you.

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On another note: Did anyone notice that Alonso nearly beat Schumi's time despite the yellow flags. I haven't seen Alonso's splits, but to back off and still get within a hundredth of Micheal's time he must have had a STORMING first part of the lap, and surely that would have been noticed by now? So why isn't Alonso penalised for not lifting during a yellow? Wasn't Senna penalised for not lifting at Spa in '92 following an accident?

I've watched dutch TV and it's commentator Olav Mol noticed that Alonse was a couple of tents fasther at interval 2 (about 2 to 3 tenths.)
So, since he finished that lap 0.98 slower, he lost at least 0.298 on the last part. more than enough for "lifting"

If I remember correct, Michael had the fastest first TIMED section of 19.3, but Fisichella did a 19.1 on his in-lap in Q2, showing that the renaults have some extra potential there, making it alltogether not unlikely that Alonso was that much faster in his last lap.

Why they didn't red flag qualifying because of that, is a different thing altogether.


Stop trying to cover for Schumi, ALL the evidence is against him...

Last edited by neliz, Sun 28 May 2006, 00:06.

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how is stopping.. cheating, i see it as a problem, but cheating is... for an advantage, not the opposite

The problem is that the GPDA and the FIA made clear rules about red flags and cars stopping on the track.

Schumi knew what he was doing, he knew that stopping there would create a double yellow situation just as he knew that steering into a williams car (adelaide and jerez) gives you a 50% chance to be a world champion..

He's a great driver, there's no denying that, but he doesn't have to cheat like that and the times at silverstone to be #1, I just don't know why he would do that.
I mean, who talks about Fangio being a cheat.. Senna being a cheat? hell.. Even Mansell, a quite agressive driver, isn't considered a cheat even though he did weird things to overtake people.. and that's the issue.. Overtaking instead of knocking out the overtaker.

Last edited by neliz, Sat 27 May 2006, 22:36.

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