- 06 Nov 10, 13:45#223434Whilst it is bad that Bruno lost out to Klein so badly in that session, from memory he had numerous problems throughout that whole weekend with the car. I doubt that would happen again. I also think a lot of people are forgetting that Christian Klein has been around F1 for more than six years in some capacity or other, has raced close to 50GP's and will have covered probably in excess of 100,000 miles in testing and racing in that time, having been around long before the testing restrictions now in place. A lot of people after his time at Red Bull thought much in the same way as Heidfeld this season that he was incredibly unlucky not to have been picked up by another (at least) mid-grid team. He is a very competent driver. he made the transition between Jaguar and Red Bull and has experience of helping develop a new team.
Bruno on the other hand came into F1 on the back of a couple of test sessions with Honda resulting in an aborted F1 career start due to the Brawn takeover, then straight into racing in a car that hadn't been tested, has been removed from the race seat then brought back and has an extremely inexperienced team around him even in comparison to the other side of the garage in that team. That's not forgetting the fact that he had a DECADE out of racing... certainly not the norm in this day and age, and yet has in general this season outperformed or equaled his team-mate save for a couple of poor sessions.
I really don't know what some of you guys expect, and I don't think it is in fact an issue of him getting into F1 on the back of his family backgound, I think the reality is that many of you (of course not all) have unrealistic expectations of him because of his name alone and aren't actually looking objectively at what he has done well. He has been competent, he has done a decent if unremarkable job and he certainly hasn't embarrassed himself or the team in any way.
Also, many of you seem what I think is almost remarkably ignorant in relation to just how important the driver's chief race engineer and team are to the development of a car not just in the long term but also in terms of improving and choosing setup over the course of a weekend. They have to react to an unbelievably high amount of feedback that comes from different areas of the car and driver and tweak so many different parts of the car to improve slowly but surely. To repeat, the difference between a good engineering team and a bad one can literally be worth as much as .5 to 1 second per lap at a race, which in F1 terms is a massive difference, and a massive loss if you're the one on the wrong side of it. I'm not joking when I say that he appears to be making up a lot of time through his driving compared to his team-mates to equalise the balance, at many times resulting in (necessary) overdriving and a spin or two. If you look at his whole season to date that has been the pattern.
You know, I read a lot of what is written on this board and have done for a good few years. Some of you know a lot about what you're talking about and seem to understand beyond the basic tabloid level of reporting on the sport, whilst others seem to understand just that. The ones that actually know what they're talking about will understand the points I'm making and even if they don't agree with them - which is all I ask for. The ones that just spout nonsense with no backup or reasoning - I couldn't care less about because I'm confident that it is just that - nonsense.
I'm quite aware that much of this might sound perhaps a little pompous, but you know what, after reading a lot of codswallop on this forum over the years, I couldn't really care less when I'm confident that I'm right...
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and yamamoto does try his best in fairness...but he dont really deserve a seat at lotus...if anything what about NH?
