Comments on: One-term Todt reveals his “passion” to get things done

By: Trent

Trent — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:06:18 +0000

It’s not about intelligence, it’s about perception – which is rarely arrived at through a thorough factual analysis.

My feelings are that if F1 is seen to be doing nothing at all, it is sticking its head out and eventually it will get shot off. You might be right in that the measures talked about are ‘token’, but rightly or wrongly it’s the way these things seem to work.

By: machista

machista — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:12:57 +0000

football, basketball, tennis, tabletennis you neme it have kept stable regs for at least 50 years. is golf a sport? same applies. the fear of FIA/ bernie is stable regs will lead to predictable results, they need to go out and watch some other sports

By: machista

machista — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:02:50 +0000

Lame duck??? seriously? that statement made him a lot of powerful friends. Namely everyone with ambition to become next president @ next election called him today just to say hi.

By: machista

machista — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:58:02 +0000

interesting but flawed, as i said above there are only a few car manufacturers left in the sport.
why sould be the rest of the teams become involved in a green series?
Is rallying green? karting? Dakkar? gp2?

NASCAR? LOL. Motorsport, as human society since the industrial revolution, is not green just wake up to it

By: machista

machista — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:49:17 +0000

the problem begins with “But at least F1 can be seen to be doing things to help, like in fuel efficiency”

case 1. korean GP 100 miles away from the nearest hotel.

case 2. night races. sunlight zero CO2.

case 3. less CO2 emmisions per gp? cut down race distance to 275 km.

FIA is taking us for a ride on green issues for sure. Why else will they impose KERS development on teams? why they want to reintroduce it for 2011 with even less car manufacturers on the grid?

remaining manufacturers ( Merc to some extent and Ferrari ) make high performance cars. Maybe FIA wants to see them out of F1

By: anti feminista.

anti feminista. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:23:07 +0000

Hard to understand. They spend every dime they have on the things they like.

By: schindlers list

schindlers list — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:18:24 +0000

agree. They can go shopping.
We like power, and how are you going to get power without fuel consuption.

By: schindlers list

schindlers list — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:15:07 +0000

campos doesn’t stand a chance. Bernie wants the serbian money, and is not helping any new team. His mind is set, stefan gp is going to race, just need to know if he takes campos or usf1 spot.

By: Lilia

Lilia — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:30:44 +0000

How can anyone agree with 1 update package and this going green stupidity is beyond me.

With one update Brawn would have won even more easily last year. No Mclaren uprising or Red Bull catching up.
And if they feel so much for the environment they might as well change there flying plans that make them go back and forth. That will save a lot more that what the cars consume in the track. This green thing is nothing but a hypocrisy so they would appear that they care while they don’t.

By: Frankie Allen

Frankie Allen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:48:01 +0000

The reason we have all these “green initiatives” in f1 is because this is the major reason that manufacturers no longer see f1 as a viable method of promoting their name and brands. If you think that these small measures are going to change that perspective you are sadly wrong, it will still be totally unacceptable to this view. All you are doing is down grading a product that will see it lose it’s present customer base, to appeal to a customer base that does not want it in any form.

Take any major sporting and recreational attraction, then consider the fuel used by all the cars in a f1 race and the imbalance that brings, hardly significant. If Bernie would cut out the night races, you may even have an edge over some events. Extending this, you could have rock concerts with dimmed lighting and the sound turned down.

Trying to promote f1 as a proving ground for green technology is a misnomer. Toyota the world leader in energy recovery, already stated that f1 KERS would have a minimal take over into their standard products. As for fuel economy, that can be done many orders of magnitude more efficiently on a test bed. This is akin to dressing up pit bulls as poodles and showing them at Cruff’s to make them socially acceptable, it just will not wash for anyone with limited intelligence.