you dont give your best sniper a stick to take into battle!

Marco wrote:7UpJordan wrote:Do you mean a car breaker as in constantly crashing it a'la Sato/De Cesaris?
As in engine going bang, rather than crash-bang-wallop Salo!
Alien_SAP_Fiend wrote:Hello everyone!
I rate KR very highly as a driver and I do feel that he's been let down by Mercedes and that Illien is blaming him for breaking the engines. Yes, he did some strange things like put in fastest laps at the end of a race, when he didn't need to (like Bud says), but the car was much lighter, so was he really pushing the engine? Perhaps the team were telling him to push so that they could collect data for the next race. And how many DNF's did he have in 2006 due to him pushing the engine too hard? As for warming up tyres... have you noticed how Fonzo puts heat into his tyres? He makes Kimi look like a kitten.
Yes, he could have been kinder to his machinery, but he's a RACER fercrissakes. His duty is to get that car around the track as fast as is humanly possible and Illien's job was to build him an engine which could last the distance... one of them fulfilled his part of the bargain, then other left McLaren long ago.
Ferrari have had a very long time to plan for the Furious Finn and I am sure that they will a) give him the mechanical integrity he demands and b) tell him when to push and when to chill.