F1

[The Goose]

I think you may be right Gio. Sadly. I love watching 'em go round and round... especially when they occasionally overtake each other. Like in motor racing.

Is there is bit of this planet which is not ruled by $$? Shame.

[Relaxed]

Hmm, the Red Bull tactics were very strange (as it seemed during the safety car pitstops) but they were in the same situation as a team as were Ferrari. Red Bull chose not to risk 'queueing' Webber, whereas Ferrari chose to 'queue' Massa behind Alonso. As it turned out (not solely because of the queueing) Massa lost a place to Hamilton.

Anyway, after those pitstops were out of the way, and Webber was leading (and bearing in mind that he was obliged to make a pit stop at some point before the finish) it was a perfectly sane recommendation/order from the Red Bull team to Vettel to hold up pursuers in order to allow Webber to get a decent lead before he had to pit. It's maybe fair to say that Vettel's crew took their eye off the ball, and failed to alert Vettel that he was more than ten car lengths behind, but whatever, it was either down to Vettel or to his crew that he got banged to rights.

Schumacher should (IMO) be banned from any further participation in F1 racing. Period.

[gio]

Yep over taking should indeed be something you see more of in F1 , but modern design be just that means its not as easy as it should be. As for the pit stops and queuing, yet again the FIA have got it all wrong, in these days of no fuel stops, there is no reason to have pit stops just as the safety car is about to come out, there is no risk of running out of fuel because you are low on fuel and the tyres will not go off regardless over a few extra laps at crawling pace.Although it does add to the thrill and uncertainty, but as a Ferrari fan i can name countless episodes where they have lost out big time, especially poor old Massa, indeed costing him a title and several race wins.Whilst the same might apply to other teams and drivers, its hard to recall anyone who has lost out in the same numbers as little Massa has.

Indeed Vettel should have been punished, he should know the rules concerning anything that might happen on the track, and as I said earlier for me the Team comes first, and red bull in my opinion can do what ever they like to try to get their cars first and second. my point is those that like seeing racing and lets call it fair racing ie driver V driver, sometimes miss the intricacies that take place, that if they knew how it effected the race might well call it cheating, because it does not sit right.
But F1 is a business first and a sporting event secondly........Plenty of good stuff still to come in this championship.