Re: pit stops

Graham Hodgson wrote in news:4cbdv2F1549b7U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

CatharticF1 wrote:
Graham Hodgson wrote in news:4cb03kF14f371U2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

CatharticF1 wrote:
Graham Hodgson wrote in news:4c8lm6F14m4ncU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Mark Jones wrote:
On 8 May 2006 12:54:43 +1100, CatharticF1 <eferrari@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: <snip>
The ITV commentary team certainly have an 'opinion' don't they?
Just ever so subtly tainting the win. I can just see Schu
quietly reclining while his pristine car is polished..

There were 3 practice sessions prior to qualifying. Here are the
number of laps done by each Ferrari:

MS 4 14 12
FM 0 18 10


Do the maths yourself..
That's great Brendan. Brundle's point was to do with the number of
sets of tyres used. You've just posted number of laps. It'd be
more interesting to see the laps done on each set.
I don't have that information - so I posted what I could find.
MS did more laps - which runs contrary to the thrust of the point
being made.
Hmm, I thought the thrust of the point being made was that Massa
chewed his tyres up in practice so he didn't have 3 new sets for the
race, unlike MS. Have I got that wrong?

Yes - James Allen said 'Donkey Work' a perjorative and inciteful term
deliberately chosen. A more correct explanation would have been:

Massa evaluated one more set of tyres than Schumacher in practice. It
is wise to evaluate the range of tyres likely to be suitable but
there is no point in both cars doing this. Schumacher however did
slightly more laps in the practice sessions and despite using fewer
tyres was always quicker than his teammate throughout practice.

The point still holds that he used more tyres than MS to allow MS to
have 3 new sets for the race, no? This was the original point, no
matter your spinning.

In the race prior to the change to the final set of tyres Schumacher
was comfortably ahead of Massa and had Alonso beaten - so the final
set was not even decisive.

And if MS had had to use an old set, would he have been able to blitz
those times in before his 2nd stop?

If (as I believe FM and FA did) he used them as his third set - 'yes'.
That was my point.

See - not the same without the ITV spin - is it?

:)

You're claiming James Allen as part of the FE crowd? From a man that
named his son Enzo? From someone who seems to fawn over Schumacher?
Please. Murray also thought MS was the best.

I'm not colouring my opinion with anything else. The statement he made
was what I'm commenting on.

Get over this leaning you have towards MJF's thoughts on UK bigotry
towards MS. There are thousands of Ferrari fans in the UK who support
MS, just because they don't post here doesn't mean they don't exist.
The first British GP I went to (Saturday, '02) I was amazed at just
how many people were wearing red, and they weren't Man Ure fans.

Now Graham - it may not suprise you to know that all of my grandparents
were from the UK. This is not a shot at all things British, but equally
you would recognise that - rightly or wrongly - taking a shot at
Schumacher is neither unpopular nor unusual in the UK media I see.

But this is simply about this instance - judge it alone. It was
unnecessary and derogatory. And demeaning of Massa, Schumacher and
Ferrari.

--
CatharticF1

'What you thought was freedom is just greed'
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