Comments on: Sutil fastest, Fisichella slowest on Day 1 in Monza

By: alien

alien — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:59:56 +0000

I bet Fisi’s regretting his words at the Spa post race conference now…

By: rpaco

rpaco — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:24:09 +0000

I reckon one of the major problems Fisi has is the buttons switches and knobs being all different. Driving the car is a feeling thing but not pressing the right buttons instinctively and having to think of them must be slowing him down.
Here’s cost saving idea for you all to shoot at:
Why not have a standard steering wheel layout. Some teams would have more positions filled than others, but the armatures could be standard.
Then all drivers would instinctively know where to hit the carburettor button etc.

By: Jano

Jano — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:31:49 +0000

Like almost everyone did from what we all saw on TV.

By: James Allen

James Allen — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:57:57 +0000

Yes I didn’t express myself very well in the post. I was not criticising Fisi. He did the time in P1 because he put a set of softs on after flat spotting his first set of tyres. He was 20th, which is ironic, with his old car P1, but I don’t mean he performed like Badoer. He is clearly going to be miles closer to Raikkonen than that.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:57:20 +0000

I agree. Just checked to see the practice 1 times to see if he was also in last position, and he was 8th, just 0.8 off the lead time and the fastest time so far in either practice.

Usually good posts on here James, but this one is a little misleading.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:28:57 +0000

Apparently Fisi was among a very few who ran soft tires at the end of the session.

By: Snail

Snail — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:52:30 +0000

Meanwhile his former team mate, Giancarlo Fisichella, had his found himself in the Luca Badoer slot.

I think thats a bit unfair james. Its a practice day. You have no idea what he was trying out. The Ferrari will have a very different handling characteristic – it has the extra weight of KERS, a different engine, transmission and chassis.

If he had any sense he’d be trying different weight variations, trying to understand the different handling characteristics of the car today, rather than finding out tomorrow and Sunday when he should already know that.

If, after qualifying tomorrow, he is last, I think your comment may be appropriate. But until then, rather harsh.

By: Silverstoned

Silverstoned — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:39:26 +0000

Faster? actually Fisi was out on the super soft when he clocked 1/10 faster than the Iceman’s lap on the hard tyre.
It was just a piece of bogus management of the tv coverage by the famous pr firm “Smedley, Schumacher and [I forget the name of Fisi's agent]”

Sorry to disappoint ….

By: Silverstoned

Silverstoned — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:32:49 +0000

Luca Badoer’s smile when Fisi ended up no better than him in prac2 was the picture of the week

By: Dans

Dans — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:31:48 +0000

A bit bias on Fisi there. Unusual for you…