Gerhard Berger has, as most have already noticed, sold its 50% partnership in Toro Rosso back to Dietrich Mateschitz and got out with immediate effect in STR. Not even as a consultant, he is still available.
It was for this step in advance and no evidence of the fact that he is completely passed by Red Bull and STR is already bemerkenswerst. Supposedly, everything happens on a continuing friendship basis. One wonders just only why Berger's done. In an interview with a short statement against autosport.com (Thanks dogfood), Berger says only that Red Bull STR 2009, donations to go back and he wants no more development potential the team sees. The statement raises even more questions right then.
If Mateschitz has no desire to invest more money in the STR, the customer car issue seems to be finally dead. To establish the idea that Red Bull Technology Development as a central station for both teams, then as superfluous, as the entire team of STR. A sale seems to be the only solution. Berger had in the course of the year already said several times that he will stay only if STR is a buyer who offers him a similar working environment, as did the Red Bull. Since only would a manufacturer or a billionaire Mallya a stroke. But such investors are not currently visible. From the auto industry says it only Hyundai is some interest in F1 after, but the rumor keeps for years and I'm not sure if the Koreans a) have the money and b) ever want. All other manufacturers have struggled with the economic crisis and you will hardly want to sink $ 200 million, if one has to think about the same time to lay off employees.
All this makes clear that the future of STR is anything but certain. It has no own production, you do not have their own sponsors, we have lost with Vettel's flagship, and now with Berger also one of the best Formula One team manager. The risk of the Formula One end of 2009, another team loses, is not exactly small, and that should bring Ecclestone then definitely in trouble, because the organizers of the British guarantees at least 20 cars.
The question is what makes Berger. He has, after his then somewhat surprising exit from BMW, ever taken a break, but no one can imagine that Berger is now once again indulges a long pause. He goes to Red Bull, I do not think it would be announced in one go. In addition, to have been the mood of Helmut Marko and Berger are not always the best. Question would be: where could dock Berger? In his claim, because not many opportunities remain. One option would be Toyota.
The resignation of Berger has a clearly a complicated background, it is quite likely in the next few weeks or months to break down.
F1: Ecclestone and the medals
I'm actually a joke that held a red herring, because it tinkering in the background to something else. But Bernie Ecclestone, the matter seems to be really serious about the medals. Waorum it about? Formula One boss would like to abolish the system of points for the series and in each race only, similar to the Olympic Games, medals are awarded. Who has the most gold medals at the end who wins.
That may surprise some, but I can easily imagine that the system has its own charm. There will always complained that too little is going forward. There is little to fight for the win, you're driving, as in Hamilton in Brazil, just only a few points. Ecclestone wants to ensure that the sharper team to victory and fight to go at the top more. That would bring the teams also help to have more risk. A fourth place is worthless, you will be world champion, you have to win. Which again may cause the team to engage in strategy and unusual means you get more excitement to the race.
But there's a catch, of course - what do you do when a first race win in a row and the season is virtually over in the summer? The current point system allows teams like the driver sometimes has to have a bad phase, without having to be completely out of the championship race. One would be a favor if you go seven or ten races that are virtually meaningless. Sure - there's still interested in the constructors' championship, but I honestly expected the little viewers.
There would be quite a few advantages that I must own, who considers himself more of a traditionalist to confess. But I think the system is not feasible. Much better is the idea to award for the poles and / or the fastest lap of one point. This has been in every series, using the system, as proven quite practical.
And what else?
If the rumors are true, then the Premiere League rights has again safely. Apparently the DFL has no desire to let go under Premiere and therefore waived on a couple of € revenue. Premiere would save the deal's neck. At the moment, two more banks, loans, or their redemption, subject to the condition that the sender gets the rights. Are you there, there is money again. Then again, the transmitter would have time to do other things.
I tinker around the next day on the machine in the background of racing blogs. Only a few, invisible little things lurking here for a long time on the to-do list and I did over the weekend finally some air. If there were something hook - the site is offline only briefly.
No race anywhere on the weekend. TV program is online, but there is reason only of repetitions.
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I see something different. This season there may be a scale. Struggled in recent years, as a genuine top drivers and teams organizations tend to the World Cup, could you look especially with the new points system, no error, much less allow for a bad phase. The best example in 2006, but last year Ferrari had the title actually already lost so far against the constant Hamiltonian.
One would never devalue the victory then any how it was done. This was known even then, but we just tried to reduce the dominance of Ferrari and Schumacher combination. Now you should just give the winner 12 points and finished.
Medals do not mean that the cars are faster suddenly behind 1st place. They do, however, to ensure that pilots can turn even 17-19 on Friday morning on gentle cycle and prepare for next's race.
Bernie clearly needs a hobby.
jaja Bernie ne, there is a nothing more to a ^ ^ Why is it not like the lottery, while the race turns to practice for a drum and triggers, in which round it is for keeping 2 extra points ^ ^ Therefore, that Constance wants to save and show the F1 changed too much. This confuses not only the spectators but also people who are more concerned with the matter. Berger expects that can not be good for Toro Rosso, and somehow I've never understood that they had renamed Minardi. Now Vettel and Toro Berger away and somehow unnecessary for Red Bull but I always thought that sitting still in Faenza, as it should be no problem to bake a chassis and buy the rear axle, including engine and transmission from one manufacturer. Not just for Machts Dallara also ^ ^
The problem is it simply due to how tight you the points system has staggered. A victory with only two points more rewarding is silly. Why would you impose for 2 points 8 points aufspiels only because of a rash move? Since I prefer to wait until he makes Nevertheless, errors or content myself with 8 points.
I see it still as NoteMe. In most Formula 1 races there are almost always a team or a driver who is the fastest on the weekend and took the vote at best. If the front moves, he moves forward and no medal at the world, no KERS and no matter how crazy the aerodynamics behind it make driving so much faster that it could suddenly overtake. See Valencia. But, just two drivers are about the same rate, then they fight but also mostly for the win. Anyone who sees a chance to try, as a rule but also to use them and attacks. See Spa.
Give me someone a race in 2008, which would have ended differently with medals ... I see none, except Brazil. And that one has the more recently described as the most exciting World Cup final of all time, unfortunately, seems to have been well forgotten.
The "most exciting World Cup final of all time" is the weather and no points standings have been due to. When the sun is the cause would have been gone for ten minutes.
I think the current points standings and would also be wrong to me a "tighter" NASCAR-like points standings wish, hoping the front with boredom, to give the driver's rear least not in the battle for 19th place to the edge.
But the fact remains that the basic problem is the cars and tracks that make up the race in most cases, a "time trial".
Of course, the tension was in the World Cup final was due to the weather, I do not deny that, yes. Because weather changes are now once one of the factors that can change at short notice on what balance of power. The others are technical defects and safety car periods. The basic problem is that overtaking happens to be a faster car behind a slower must be. The other way does not work. At least two must be equal to each other fast cars. If the grid does not allow it to happen just at the point of anything. Not even with all the rule changes in the world.
One should then also make it aware that it is motor-SPORT. If all of the fastest laps and wins lead with 30 seconds ahead, you should really celebrate and admire him, and instead only moaned. Sport is not a request program, and no event can be planned. No one can demand that guarantees something exciting and spectacular, sometimes it is simply the best and 08/15-Sport wins.
The more generally tinkering and intervention is carried out (reverse grid, fuel quantity rules, gratuitous Cautions), the more the sport of a show. But if I want to watch the show I watch that and not betting Formula 1 In football, so no one would come out that double doors for the team past the second Hakbzeit count to make it more exciting and more goals are scored, just to give an absurd example from another sport.
I am always a race like Valencia - it was so boring - rather than when the F1 is a Formula Super League soccer clubs without. The fact is for me more show than sporting value.
Addendum did, forget the most important thing.
My suggestion: points system with more emphasis on the victory (20-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1) change and emphasize especially the Parc ferme conditions for the qualification and, instead, the warm-up on Sunday morning reintroduce it. Then there is the possibility that due to different quality and race setups more interesting differences in the field and start-ups and thus hopefully resulting overtaking.
you should not just take something like Bahrain or Valencia.Früher the tracks were even better, as was sometimes the Überholproblem kaschiert.In Malaysia you can drive around 12m line width due to the third theory, but we can not just get because all the curves follow each other quickly. I would also introduce the warm up again, but as with NASCAR Saturday night from 19.00 to batten down the hatches and again at 7 to frühs. Must make no mechanic ne night shift, which was criticized earlier this yes ^ ^ build a stable regulations and not every year, new engines or aero or KERS.Hätte one time, the V10 to V8 slowed new place, you would have saved a few billion now . Then points for pole, fastest and most laps led, and so on.
I agree. When a team builds a rules-oriented car that is faster than the others and if masterfully drives this car, a driver, then I think it's definitely not boring, but fascinating. Although I naturally position battles are rather the place so often, but just later. Followed by the government often enough.
It is most boring, if the leader can then go very early in the gentle cycle. As one might think, but sometimes to extra points awarded for the size of the projection? Then no one could come to terms with his early position.
Of course it's boring fall for two hours driving pilots in a perfectly circular rotating watch. Since then I can sit down and a robot. No, the story is interesting only to the "uncertainties", for example in the form of competition or fighting position. Only then get a ride over the length, character.
If you set environment that encourages just this position battles, then you have to speak not of the same show event. This is a natural occurrence in the sport, which is not in a vacuum, but still belongs to the entertainment industry. And like any service provider in this area, the driver must make an especially: to entertain his customers.
If we all F1 races of the season pass in review, one need only here in the chat to see what was going on and how many people have cursed because of boredom. This has nothing to do with the fact that vehicles were traveling forwards randomly weaker or the power of the engines was not felt, but that's utterly boring strunz when F1 race feels over 75% of the time just like an individual time trial. And this year we have even had one of the more entertaining years, compared to the stuff that was going on before about 5 years.
Since I do not understand that everyone is complaining about the old qualifying format with the individual time trial, but welcome in the race just this state.
Over the last few years, I prefer very clear to the "militant" series, where man against man drives and those are in the broadest sense, the touring cars (WTCC, BTCC, Speecars, NASCAR (I said yes, touring car "in the broadest sense")) .
The question is: eh, how much "sport" is still in Formula One. Of course it's also about the driver that you can sometimes see Team Intern. But we are no longer in the 60s, 70s and 80s, when it played the driver an even greater role. Since the start of the works, since the computer has arrived, are sitting alone in a race seven engineers in the box, check the car and the driver. This briefing, de-securitization, analysis, etc. There is little left to chance, which has certainly led to a part in ensuring that the races are a bit antiseptic in part. With the sport has not necessarily anything to do with it but also have to say: Which sport has the day too.
You can throw in NASCAR with its sometimes a bit too obvious, "Debris Cautions" so ago that you do it only for television. But it served its purpose, as are all sitting at the restart on the chair edge and attention to the race rises again.
I'm not saying that we should introduce such a thing in Formula One, but if you can find items that make the races more exciting, then you can got to think about. I do not think that a new point system is the last word, but you can think about it even once.
But that is precisely the differences between the "formula" shows and touring cars. In F1, there was also little earlier, the number of position battles, as seen in good touring car series. Although one of the DTM can not see well, unfortunately that also decrease classic duels in the touring car in the extent to which increases the importance of technology.
The F1 was on the other hand has always been too fixated on achieving technical innovations with more speed. And that makes it also a part of their fascination. But when unifies the technology more and more and progress is slowed down, yet the race is no longer offering "classic racing action," it really is not much more. And it does so in F1 currently been canceled.
Don has mentioned it, meet the debridement-Cautions in NASCAR their purpose. The same is in Formula 1 but also wenns ne SC's top riders and some have their fuel near the bottom ;).
The problem in Europe yet, innovations are stupid, improvements of the event are also undesirable. But what is the Formula 1? A sports event. When it comes to so many millions, there's just always a show aspect.
NASCAR is wrestling, the WTCC is fair boxing and F1 and DTM are heavyweight boxing à la Henry Maske.
So this year I have switched off several NASCAR race because my fake Cautions were too many and too obvious. Something I do not want to see. A race developed so its interesting stories without having to intervene there.
And with "sport" I mean not only duels once the driver on the track. Motor sport is a competition for me the driver as well as the engineers at the same time. That is what I want to see. And if it's boring sometimes, but even then I moan sometimes, but anyway I'm looking forward to the next race again directly afterwards :-)
I see a great danger in the Medals: The revolution is on the technical side of it next year well be that a team dominated the first half of the season well. Is there a driver and then the medals won in the series in the summer season, just after the half of the race to be decided. With this system, MS 2004 would have been to 11 of 18 races through, he took the 14 (and even that was bad enough for Bernie).