Comments on: Ferrari welcomes Massa back: “We’re not in a hurry”

By: Fuchsia

Fuchsia — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:15:24 +0000

Kimi scored Ferrari’s first points and first podium of the season. I’d say that Kimi and Massa are evenly matched.

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:25:42 +0000

Yeah, in press conference he’s all mushy over the team. That’s what they are told to do.

Read an interview with Massa outside of those blah blah press conferences. Then he blames the team and never himself.

He even went so far as to blame Renault for his lost championship. Not Ferrari who messed up his pitstop or himself who (at Valencia) caused the subsequent drive-through, but Renault.

By: Pepe

Pepe — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:02:57 +0000

He never “made emphasises” on the teams mistakes, did you see the Final conference in Brazil

what formula 1 were you watching.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:53:40 +0000

Hi Onyx,

Due to his the end of his current contract and the limits in testing, February is the first time Alonso will be allowed to drive in a Ferrari.

Thanks

Robert

By: James Allen

James Allen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:50:39 +0000

It’s not great waking up at 4am! But it’s soon over

By: James Allen

James Allen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:44:48 +0000

Spot on

By: James Allen

James Allen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:44:08 +0000

I don’t know the precise answer to that, Rudy, but certainly there will not be any loopholes in the contracts which allow others to exploit F1 in a non-championship event.

By: Rudy Pyatt

Rudy Pyatt — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:36:00 +0000

Agreed. Or else, let some promoters run some non-championship races, as used to be common, to accomplish the same thing.

James, a question on the notion of non-championship races, aside from its merits versus “official” group test sessions, and those sessions as such. Does Bernie’s Deal give him commercial control over all things “Formula One,” or does he have rights only to “the FIA Formula One World Championship?”

If a promoter wanted to hold an off/pre/post-season non-”Formula One World Championship” race at Estoril, say, would Bernie be entitled to a piece of the action? Would he be able to veto such a race, keep it from happening in the first place? As another example, would his commercial rights (CVC’s but you know what I mean) ownership prevent someone from resurrecting the Tasman Series? Does he have control over the tests that annually go on at Jerez and Silverstone?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:02:00 +0000

Actually the Alonso move is a negative for both Kimi and Felipe. If Ferrari thought either one of them could have gotten the job done than getting Alonso would not be necessary.

PS I think their all good.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:40:44 +0000

Mumm pay to be there on the podium. Don’t know whether thats a BE or a FIA earner.

So far the testing ban may have saved money but it has not improved the racing, except in the unusual results department. We’ll have a world champion who’s done nothing since mid season, cars which only do well on one kind of circuit and tyres which work on some cars but not on others etc.

I also think Massa would be crazy to get back in a Formula 1 car anytime soon but then he thinks he shoud have won the 2008 Singapore GP and the world championship.

We’ve also had replacement drivers who are not up to the job and who have been thrown in with no preparation.

And here we are talking about ‘the pinnacle of motorsport’.

Oh, should I mention a driver crashes his car on purpose to change a race situation.

I’ve been folowing Formula 1 for over 50 years and, regardless of the money, the motorhomes, the driver salaries, the websites, the hangers-on, the dim broads and the corporate speak it is still about the boys and their toys.

Cheers.