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[emma]

I've gone for Red Bull. If I'd based my decision just on the cars, it would have probably been Brawn, but I took into account the team as a whole, which includes it attitude towards fans, and so I went with Red Bull because they're good at giving something back to the fans. I even won a Vettel poster after the Japanses GP

[Jabberwocky]

I voted for a team that had no money/owner at the start of the year and finished they year as world champions

[texasmr2]

I voted for a team that had no money/owner at the start of the year and finished they year as world champions

[cap-dude]

It's starting to annoy me now. The McLaren was "2.5 seconds" off the pace. At Australia that gap was more like 9 tenths in qualifying. The first 3 races were all a bit skewed, and the first normal dry race we had at Bahrain, McLaren were 4 tenths of the fastest lap and 2 tenths of the fastest Q2 time. Then at the tracks like Barcelona and Turkey again it was more like 7 tenths. But 2.5 seconds, maybe on the very first day testing, but the car wasn't that bad. Just bad in high speed corners. I mean it look pretty damn quick around Monaco and Bahrain.

Force India on the other hand were actually about 1.5 seconds off for most of the early season, and I'd guess have less than a quarter of the resources. So I say, all the more respect to Force India.

[texasmr2]

Force India definitely imo deserves the most improved team of 2009 award.

[racechick]

It's starting to annoy me now. The McLaren was "2.5 seconds" off the pace. At Australia that gap was more like 9 tenths in qualifying. The first 3 races were all a bit skewed, and the first normal dry race we had at Bahrain, McLaren were 4 tenths of the fastest lap and 2 tenths of the fastest Q2 time. Then at the tracks like Barcelona and Turkey again it was more like 7 tenths. But 2.5 seconds, maybe on the very first day testing, but the car wasn't that bad. Just bad in high speed corners. I mean it look pretty damn quick around Monaco and Bahrain.

Force India on the other hand were actually about 1.5 seconds off for most of the early season, and I'd guess have less than a quarter of the resources. So I say, all the more respect to Force India.

Thats cos they had a driver who coluld make the gap up

[vaptin]

The point is they diddn't overall improve as much as the force india.

[Jensonb]

It's starting to annoy me now. The McLaren was "2.5 seconds" off the pace. At Australia that gap was more like 9 tenths in qualifying. The first 3 races were all a bit skewed, and the first normal dry race we had at Bahrain, McLaren were 4 tenths of the fastest lap and 2 tenths of the fastest Q2 time. Then at the tracks like Barcelona and Turkey again it was more like 7 tenths. But 2.5 seconds, maybe on the very first day testing, but the car wasn't that bad. Just bad in high speed corners. I mean it look pretty damn quick around Monaco and Bahrain.

Force India on the other hand were actually about 1.5 seconds off for most of the early season, and I'd guess have less than a quarter of the resources. So I say, all the more respect to Force India.

Thats cos they had a driver who coluld make the gap up

The car either was that far back or it wasn't.

It wasn't.

[BritishBear]

If Honda had poured millions into what became the Brawn GP001, why did they suck so much for so long with the cars they were running? I don't buy "sponsorship" reasons either, its not like Honda didn't have the facilities & the money to do things their own way.

Force India got my vote, they came from being alot further behind then the other options in the poll to really upsetting the balance of the mid - front runners by the end of the season, and with nowhere near as much money or expertise.

[Jensonb]

If Honda had poured millions into what became the Brawn GP001, why did they suck so much for so long with the cars they were running? I don't buy "sponsorship" reasons either, its not like Honda didn't have the facilities & the money to do things their own way.

Because the team was being managed abysmally.

[racechick]

It's starting to annoy me now. The McLaren was "2.5 seconds" off the pace. At Australia that gap was more like 9 tenths in qualifying. The first 3 races were all a bit skewed, and the first normal dry race we had at Bahrain, McLaren were 4 tenths of the fastest lap and 2 tenths of the fastest Q2 time. Then at the tracks like Barcelona and Turkey again it was more like 7 tenths. But 2.5 seconds, maybe on the very first day testing, but the car wasn't that bad. Just bad in high speed corners. I mean it look pretty damn quick around Monaco and Bahrain.

Force India on the other hand were actually about 1.5 seconds off for most of the early season, and I'd guess have less than a quarter of the resources. So I say, all the more respect to Force India.

Thats cos they had a driver who coluld make the gap up

The car either was that far back or it wasn't.

It wasn't.

Yeah it was. But Lewis took it by the scruff of the neck and hauled it forward

[vaptin]

That's still not the point, since lewis was a constant throughout the season he's actually irrelevant, he was x amount of the pace at the start, he finished y amount at the end. The point being made (whether accurately or not) is that force india was z amount of the pace at the start, and finished y amount. The gap between the latter two is bigger than McLaren. Unless you want to make the point that lewis was overdriving the car early on, but then later was underdriving it which masked the real difference in pace that mclaren made up his performances in the car aren't actually a factor.

My logic is if he could pull up the lack of pace at the start, therefore at the end of the season he still would be pulling out more pace of the mcalren, rendering his infulence in affecting the pace over the the season irrelevant to this point.

[texasmr2]

That's still not the point, since lewis was a constant throughout the season he's actually irrelevant, he was x amount of the pace at the start, he finished y amount at the end. The point being made (whether accurately or not) is that force india was z amount of the pace at the start, and finished y amount. The gap between the latter two is bigger than McLaren. Unless you want to make the point that lewis was overdriving the car early on, but then later was underdriving it which masked the real difference in pace that mclaren made up his performances in the car aren't actually a factor.

My logic is if he could pull up the lack of pace at the start, therefore at the end of the season he still would be pulling out more pace of the mcalren, rendering his infulence in affecting the pace over the the season irrelevant to this point.

Lewis is the TEAM aswell as the shiznit, the savior of F1 as we know it, I thought you knew that already .

[Chress]

Brawn or McLaren.