Cheers!
John
> - wasn't that Benetton's launch control software, principally Schumi's
> (with Brawn & Byrne)?
BB
Bauer hasn't spoken or made any admission since Sepang, AFAIK. And Atlas is
pro-Ferrari.
It's Max who made the statement, favouring the training-wheel assisted
Maranello world champions. ;-)
-Mike Wells
> > Here's more F1 merriment from AtlasF1 news service. By all means, draw
> > your own conclusions -- far be it from me to present my own opinion as
> > anything but pure banana oil:
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > Bauer Admits Mistake [so much for the infallibility of the FIA's tech
> > people AND measuring equipment -- BB]
> > Saturday October 23rd, 1999
> Bauer hasn't spoken or made any admission since Sepang, AFAIK. And Atlas is
> pro-Ferrari.
Cotton bud? (Sorry, couldn't resist...) :-)
Cheers!
John
John--
The phrase that most immediately popped into my noggin when all this
buzhwa came down was my favorite JFK quote: "Where there's smoke,
there's usually a smoke-making machine."
<<Call me cynical, but I'd be surprised if anyone who could afford to be
"up to something" wasn't "up to something">>
Hmmmm....well, that would have to include everyone in F1 with the
possible exceptions of Arrows and Minardi...
BB
> > I'm sorry, but if they are out of spec, they are illegal...
> OK, last time (really!): The tech steward Jo Bauer made an "opinion"
Wow that was some epistle! However just because a Kangaroo Court
let Ferrari off does not make it legal (remember OJ). They never said
the barge boards were within spec, they said that their instruments were
not capable of an accurate measurement, and the barge boards were
within the 5mm error. I find this excuse totally absurd. However... I say
that is all behind us, and Mclaren and Ferrari will settle it in about 48
hours :-)
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Now in my desk at the office I keep a 10 year old clear plastic
JALCARGO ruler that I use every day, which has been used to open
envelopes, throw at people, flick off the desk when thinking etc. With
that ruler I can resolve a measurement to the nearest millimetre, and
that is when the measurement is relatively meaningless. You have to
think that even if I was going to use that ruler to disqualify a
world-famous team from a world-famous event on which they have spent
one hundred million dollars or so....I'd be pretty careful about my
measurements? Maybe measure a couple of times, check the calibration,
maybe spring out the old plastic ruler and just make a triple check?
Still, as you say that's history, and the FIA(t) have overruled and
the money train rolls on to Suzuka. I can guarantee that this will be
only the second Grand Prix I haven't watched in 10 years, and I'm
equally sure that the FIA won't give a damn. Still, it's my small
protest at such open flouting of their own rules, and of ridiculing
the sport for the love of money.
Cheers!
John
Well that settles it. I would never think of not watching the race. So
I guess you are more *** about F1 than I am :-)
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> Wow that was some epistle! However just because a Kangaroo Court
> let Ferrari off does not make it legal
BB
> >Wow that was some epistle! However just because a Kangaroo Court
> >let Ferrari off does not make it legal (remember OJ). They never said
> >the barge boards were within spec, they said that their instruments were
> >not capable of an accurate measurement, and the barge boards were
> >within the 5mm error.
> You can definitely understand Ron Dennis' frustration - the board,
> which was out by 10mm and illegal, suddenly becomes in-spec, and the
> blame placed on a machine which is incapable of measuring accurately
> enough. A machine that is two years old, laser-caibrated and costing
> millions of dollars.
> Now in my desk at the office I keep a 10 year old clear plastic
> JALCARGO ruler that I use every day, which has been used to open
> envelopes, throw at people, flick off the desk when thinking etc. With
> that ruler I can resolve a measurement to the nearest millimetre, and
> that is when the measurement is relatively meaningless. You have to
> think that even if I was going to use that ruler to disqualify a
> world-famous team from a world-famous event on which they have spent
> one hundred million dollars or so....I'd be pretty careful about my
> measurements? Maybe measure a couple of times, check the calibration,
> maybe spring out the old plastic ruler and just make a triple check?
> Still, as you say that's history, and the FIA(t) have overruled and
> the money train rolls on to Suzuka. I can guarantee that this will be
> only the second Grand Prix I haven't watched in 10 years, and I'm
> equally sure that the FIA won't give a damn. Still, it's my small
> protest at such open flouting of their own rules, and of ridiculing
> the sport for the love of money.
> Cheers!
> John
> > Wow that was some epistle! However just because a Kangaroo Court
> > let Ferrari off does not make it legal
> Greg, do you suffer from some unfortunate learning disability, or is it
Yes. My prozac did not kick in when I posted that.
Are you a lawyer???
counseling...
Noted & filed...
Dork.
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> Who was it that said sometimes a cigar is just a cigar?
BB
> Dork.
BB
Cheers!
John
