- 03 Nov 08, 13:00#78103
Before I write anything else, I want to make clear that I have been watching F1 for a long time, and have not missed a race since 1984. I'm not mentioning that as a boast or to claim authority over F1, I'm saying it to demonstrate that I have lived through and seen a number of controversies in F1. There was the Lauda / Prost championship where they ended up separated by just 0.5 of a point, there was Monaco 1984 with Prost winning over Senna, where it seemed the stewards bowed to pressure to halt the race when in just one lap Senna would have been leading. There were the various 'racing incidents' from 1989 and 1990. Then came the TC and LC issue with Benetton in 1994. The braking issues with McLaren in the late 90's. Right up to date there was Schumi-gate in Monaco 2006, spygate last year and this year we've had the steward issues, inexplicable decisions, Spa and more. I understand the technical issues relating to F1, the design issues, driving issues, logisitcs etc. I know how to interpret a lot of the data produced in terms of braking, acceleration, tyre pressures, G-force etc.
Yesterday however, was drama not controversy.
Anybody with an any decent F1 knowledge, that is over the age of 13 and not utterly blinkered beyond reason will know that Glock had an impossible task on his hands in trying to keep his car in contention in the conditions at the end of the race. I've seen some idiots / naive people here on other threads say it didn't look that wet. Well let me tell you that a wide camera view doesn't show you the detail. Close ups of the track, for anybody that has HD will show you that it was beginning to get very wet with around 2-3 laps to go. By the last lap it was beginning to tip down.
Glock was around 12 seconds off the pace on his second to last lap, and around 24 seconds off the pace in his last lap. If you watch just before Vettel and Hamilton pass, and just after, he is clearly fighting to keep the car pointing in the correct direction.
Dry tyres in the wet are near impossible to drive in as they retain no heat, and thus the tyre temperature drops reducing traction still further. It's a vicious circle that there is NO way out of unless you change to inters or wets.
Glock took the gamble that when everybody else pitted for inters or wets, he could stay out, get relatively high in the points then hope that the rain stopped, and he would benefit. It didn't, and he didn't end of story!
There is nothing more to it. There is no controversy. He took a gamble and it didn't pay off.
For those saying that isn't the case, you do realise that Glock did not cruise in directly behind Hamilton? He finished 6 seconds behind. Being so far off the pace (in the space of last corner to finishing line), attempting to resist a car on inters getting past was not only futile, it would have been outright dangerous. Two or three cars managed to unlap themselves from Glock in the process also not just Hamilton and Vettel!
To the blinkered idiots - as that is all that you are - stop clutching at straws, grow up and accept that the quickest driver over the course of the 18 race season won the title fair and square. There is no controversy about it.
Yesterday however, was drama not controversy.
Anybody with an any decent F1 knowledge, that is over the age of 13 and not utterly blinkered beyond reason will know that Glock had an impossible task on his hands in trying to keep his car in contention in the conditions at the end of the race. I've seen some idiots / naive people here on other threads say it didn't look that wet. Well let me tell you that a wide camera view doesn't show you the detail. Close ups of the track, for anybody that has HD will show you that it was beginning to get very wet with around 2-3 laps to go. By the last lap it was beginning to tip down.
Glock was around 12 seconds off the pace on his second to last lap, and around 24 seconds off the pace in his last lap. If you watch just before Vettel and Hamilton pass, and just after, he is clearly fighting to keep the car pointing in the correct direction.
Dry tyres in the wet are near impossible to drive in as they retain no heat, and thus the tyre temperature drops reducing traction still further. It's a vicious circle that there is NO way out of unless you change to inters or wets.
Glock took the gamble that when everybody else pitted for inters or wets, he could stay out, get relatively high in the points then hope that the rain stopped, and he would benefit. It didn't, and he didn't end of story!
There is nothing more to it. There is no controversy. He took a gamble and it didn't pay off.
For those saying that isn't the case, you do realise that Glock did not cruise in directly behind Hamilton? He finished 6 seconds behind. Being so far off the pace (in the space of last corner to finishing line), attempting to resist a car on inters getting past was not only futile, it would have been outright dangerous. Two or three cars managed to unlap themselves from Glock in the process also not just Hamilton and Vettel!
To the blinkered idiots - as that is all that you are - stop clutching at straws, grow up and accept that the quickest driver over the course of the 18 race season won the title fair and square. There is no controversy about it.
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