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Personally, I don't mind the safety car for the most part (I don't like safety car starts) and I think that there are times when a safety car is needed. Like when there is debris on the track which needs cleared. I think a lot of di Montezemolo is saying is because he is furious that Ferrari screwed up big style this weekend.
He expressed similar sentiments _before_ the race as well, so I don't think his comments are completely driven by the Ferrari farce. I sort of agree with him that the skyline, the fact that it was at night, and how good the cars looked under lights, should not be the most important aspects of F1. It must be incredibly frustrating for racing drivers who find it difficult to actually, you know, RACE. And that the biggest deal about the Singapore race was that it was at night (as Kimi said: "we don't look at the sky when we drive."). It was set to be another Valencia until the safety car came in.
I wish they would bring back the classics or hold more than one race at Spa, Monza, etc. Make it about racing again, these other things should be and remain bonuses.
ECCLESTONE HITS BACK AT DI MONTEZEMOLO
Sunday 5th October 2008
Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at Luca di Montezemolo after the Ferrari president likened the Singapore street circuit to a "circus".
Ferrari's hopes of winning the World Championship with Felipe Massa took a massive blow in Singapore after yet another botched pit stop saw Massa finish in 13th place while his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen once again failed to complete the race.
Di Montezemolo was highly critical of the Singapore track and claims Formula One only becomes interesting once a Safety Car is deployed.
The Italian told Gazzetta dello Sport: "Unfortunately when we race on tracks where staging a circus or something else would be better, anything can happen, because the spectacle is supplied by the Safety Car.
"This is humiliating for F1."
However, F1 supremo Ecclestone wasn't about to let an opportunity to rub Ferrari's nose in it pass him by.
"If the Ferrari president is right about the Singapore Grand Prix being a circus," Ecclestone told The Mail on Sunday, "then we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns.
"After the weekend Ferrari had, their president should have shut up and kept his head down.
"If Massa loses the World Championship, he will know the team were responsible. He would have destroyed everybody in Singapore if he had kept going."
Ecclestone believes Ferrari would be better off if they returned to the "lollipop man of old".
"If I wanted to be a smart-arse, I'd have devised a system so that the light goes green to release the driver at the same time as the coupling hose comes off the car," he said.
"If it's a matter of turning a switch, which I am led to believe is how it works, then why not stick with the "lollipop" man of old? Why do you want to have some other piece of technology that can go wrong? It's over the top."
ECCLESTONE HITS BACK AT DI MONTEZEMOLO
Sunday 5th October 2008
Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at Luca di Montezemolo after the Ferrari president likened the Singapore street circuit to a "circus".
Ferrari's hopes of winning the World Championship with Felipe Massa took a massive blow in Singapore after yet another botched pit stop saw Massa finish in 13th place while his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen once again failed to complete the race.
Di Montezemolo was highly critical of the Singapore track and claims Formula One only becomes interesting once a Safety Car is deployed.
The Italian told Gazzetta dello Sport: "Unfortunately when we race on tracks where staging a circus or something else would be better, anything can happen, because the spectacle is supplied by the Safety Car.
"This is humiliating for F1."
However, F1 supremo Ecclestone wasn't about to let an opportunity to rub Ferrari's nose in it pass him by.
"If the Ferrari president is right about the Singapore Grand Prix being a circus," Ecclestone told The Mail on Sunday, "then we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns.
"After the weekend Ferrari had, their president should have shut up and kept his head down.
"If Massa loses the World Championship, he will know the team were responsible. He would have destroyed everybody in Singapore if he had kept going."
Ecclestone believes Ferrari would be better off if they returned to the "lollipop man of old".
"If I wanted to be a smart-arse, I'd have devised a system so that the light goes green to release the driver at the same time as the coupling hose comes off the car," he said.
"If it's a matter of turning a switch, which I am led to believe is how it works, then why not stick with the "lollipop" man of old? Why do you want to have some other piece of technology that can go wrong? It's over the top."
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Don't you people have work to go to....
Theres far too many people on this forum for this time of the day
Don't you people have work to go to....
Theres far too many people on this forum for this time of the day
I walked home for lunch but luckily father is giving me a lift back
Don't you people have work to go to....
Theres far too many people on this forum for this time of the day
I've got the week off.
Don't you people have work to go to....
Theres far too many people on this forum for this time of the day
I've got the week off.
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