Am i wrong or is save fuel code for no racing your team mate (McLaren)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mot...am-orders.html
McLaren chief insist he would rather forfeit the championship than use team orders |
We know that the cars dont have enough fuel on full throttle to finish the race. We also know that all teams use coded team orders which are allowed to slip under the radar.
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Of course it is.
And it's not just McLaren. Christian Horner is a hypocritical 2@ Race engineer Ciaran Pilbeam was asked to tell his driver Webber to save fuel in Turkey when Vettel turned the wick up |
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Its a stupid rule and always has been because no matter how it has been worded, teams have and always will issue team orders in order to win the championship. It clearly hasn't stopped team ordersm
What they need to do is split the teams during the race so they all run independent of each other. No shared pit crews, no shared equipment, no shared pit boxes. Without refuelling there is no logical justification for still having 15-18 people servicing one car from the same pit box. Let, no, force everyone run independent strategies and beat each other fair and square head to head. Mandate a starting fuel weight that is clearly more than enough to prevent fuel conservation. |
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Allow team orders . Teams will still risk the same flack from the fans , but there wouldn't the farsical fan opinion-based "too obvious" penalty system . |
The last thing F1 needs is more rules or gimmicks.
We all know, or should, that in F1 or any other racing involving teams (excluding taxi cabs and most US racing) there have always been team orders. The only reason we got the ban was because Ferrari were so blatant about it and it upset the casual fan so a dumb rule was put in place. The smart thing to do would be to dump the rule, but with all the radio communications now public the casual fan would get upset again. So I guess we will have to live with coded messages. If Ferrari had not had Massa's engineer send the message or used the fuel save or brake code we would have been suspicious but that is all. |
BRING BACK REFUELLING please!
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There is a bit difference in telling team mates not to race each other compared with having them swap places.
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Isn't the REAL "save fuel" code something like, "switch to mixture setting 6," or some such technical talk instructing the driver to change his fuel mixture switch on the steering wheel?
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I've never imagined this Horner boy is such a hypocrite. After this last race I would have hidden in the bushes so I wouldn't have to answer those questions about team orders... And Withmarsh... I'm disappointed. He's behavior is rather pathetic. He's talking for half an hour about how he's not going to talk with the press about this situation. And why should Ferrari discuss its internal affairs with Withmarsh? He should be told to mind his damn business.
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How many times did FIA got involved in an internal team situation to make sure both driver are given fair treatment? And which one is that team?
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Plus Whitmarsh has not publically criticized Ferrari and stated that his discussions will be held in private. Lets put the guns away before we know more eh? |
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@SGWilko - yup.
Remember the message we heard Petrov (who most certainly wan't running line-astern with his teammate) get, telling him to short shift to save fuel or the team would cut his revs? |
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