Formula1 Drivers are Bad Rally Drivers!!!
I’m a diehard fan of Formula1 and wish to drive one, someday. I see these twenty men i.e. Formula1 drivers with high respect. This is simply the driving experience of a lifetime. I wish to experience the noise, the speed and sensation of living the life of my heroes – Michael Schumacher and others. Listen to the unmistakable roar of that pedigree engine as the famous horse prances on the steering wheel in your hands. You will feel and hear as you pull out of the pit lane and all of a sudden you will be roaring up to the first corner. To cut the long story short, it’s amazing!!!
But now, after Belgium Grand Prix I would you like to give it a second thought. Are formula1 drivers are safe drivers (Exception: Michael Schumacher). Think !
Now it’s time for a small story.
Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps circuit is among the most popular venues. Run on narrow public roads, the Spa layout is 7 km long and notoriously dangerous. The weather is also notoriously changeable (it can often be simultaneously raining on one part of the track and dry on another) with its high speed corners and sudden elevation change, maintains its reputation as one of Formula1 racing's most technically demanding corners.
In other words, you can say that it is a kind rally track i.e. handbrake turns, skid control, power slides, brake and gear control. It might be hair-raising, but power without control is not good, especially if you want to be a rally driver.
It was Sunday, and yes another race day. It dawned bright and sunny (obviously not in India, where I watched the race in front of my box); perfect weather for a great day's racing.
.
At 4:30 PM IST, all the drivers are inside their cockpits and the noise continuously increasing. All the eyes on the red lights, first…second…third…fourth …fifth…as the lights turned off, the Belgium Grand Prix started and yes as expected it delivered action right from the word go.
Mark Webber's Jaguar hit the back of Barrichello's Ferrari as his attempt to pass Fisichella's Sauber. Still not satisfied, Webber continued at racing speed and ran wide and clipped Sato, breaking BAR's left-rear corner and sending it spinning in front of the pack.
.
Hey guys it's just the trailer, for full movie move on!
In trying to avoid Webber, Baumgartner rammed the back of teammate Bruni, sending him into a spin. Just as the dust was settling Pantano's Jordan collected him, at which point the rear of another one to burst into flames.
Full Confusion...Full drama...All wrong!!!
.
As all the cars entering the pits, here comes the hero of the race, you guessed it, SAFETY CAR which is deployed out of the pits. When the hero again out of the sight (safety cars back to pits), the culprits are back in action.
There was hardly any driver who didn’t hit any one.
The first round of stops complete, Montoya too tried to pass Trulli, almost in desperation, and succeeded spinning Trulli into the wall.
.
Just as the second round of pit stops began, there was more drama as Button's rear tyre blew as he was lapping Baumgartner. The BAR spun to right, clipping the Minardi and taking both out of the race (if I’m not able to finish…I’d not let u also…njoy) – and prompting another safety car period. Schumacher immediately dived into the pits, what a brilliant strategy. Montoya's race was ended by a rear tyre failure and subsequent suspension failure.
.
The safety car was called on again. Coulthard was fighting his way through the field and had got a great run on the Jaguar of Christian Klien, but appeared to misjudge the overtaking move and clipped the rear of the Jaguar at 180mph. His front wing flew off and he clipped the barrier but managing to hold it in a straight line, but again sharp shards of carbon-fibre debris was all over the circuit. Zonta was out of luck as his engine blew spectacularly just after the restart. At the flag Raikkonen took a well-earned win, followed by Schumacher and Barrichello's.
After the race the photographers did not missed the look at parking lot. One thing is for sure, Formula1 drivers have good parking sense.
The End.
Abhi khatam nahi hua c*****! (“The End” was for the Story)
At the Hungarian Grand Prix, nearly everyone finished, but Spa presented such a challenge to cars and drivers that, almost incredibly, Renault, BAR and Williams and many others failed to get any of theirs to the end.
So I was wondering Are Formula1 Drivers are Bad Rally Drivers?? One more thing I would like to tell all the formula1 drivers: Don’t try this on the road!
But now, after Belgium Grand Prix I would you like to give it a second thought. Are formula1 drivers are safe drivers (Exception: Michael Schumacher). Think !
Now it’s time for a small story.
Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps circuit is among the most popular venues. Run on narrow public roads, the Spa layout is 7 km long and notoriously dangerous. The weather is also notoriously changeable (it can often be simultaneously raining on one part of the track and dry on another) with its high speed corners and sudden elevation change, maintains its reputation as one of Formula1 racing's most technically demanding corners.
In other words, you can say that it is a kind rally track i.e. handbrake turns, skid control, power slides, brake and gear control. It might be hair-raising, but power without control is not good, especially if you want to be a rally driver.
It was Sunday, and yes another race day. It dawned bright and sunny (obviously not in India, where I watched the race in front of my box); perfect weather for a great day's racing.
.
At 4:30 PM IST, all the drivers are inside their cockpits and the noise continuously increasing. All the eyes on the red lights, first…second…third…fourth …fifth…as the lights turned off, the Belgium Grand Prix started and yes as expected it delivered action right from the word go.
Mark Webber's Jaguar hit the back of Barrichello's Ferrari as his attempt to pass Fisichella's Sauber. Still not satisfied, Webber continued at racing speed and ran wide and clipped Sato, breaking BAR's left-rear corner and sending it spinning in front of the pack.
.
Hey guys it's just the trailer, for full movie move on!
In trying to avoid Webber, Baumgartner rammed the back of teammate Bruni, sending him into a spin. Just as the dust was settling Pantano's Jordan collected him, at which point the rear of another one to burst into flames.
Full Confusion...Full drama...All wrong!!!
.
As all the cars entering the pits, here comes the hero of the race, you guessed it, SAFETY CAR which is deployed out of the pits. When the hero again out of the sight (safety cars back to pits), the culprits are back in action.
There was hardly any driver who didn’t hit any one.
The first round of stops complete, Montoya too tried to pass Trulli, almost in desperation, and succeeded spinning Trulli into the wall.
.
Just as the second round of pit stops began, there was more drama as Button's rear tyre blew as he was lapping Baumgartner. The BAR spun to right, clipping the Minardi and taking both out of the race (if I’m not able to finish…I’d not let u also…njoy) – and prompting another safety car period. Schumacher immediately dived into the pits, what a brilliant strategy. Montoya's race was ended by a rear tyre failure and subsequent suspension failure.
.
The safety car was called on again. Coulthard was fighting his way through the field and had got a great run on the Jaguar of Christian Klien, but appeared to misjudge the overtaking move and clipped the rear of the Jaguar at 180mph. His front wing flew off and he clipped the barrier but managing to hold it in a straight line, but again sharp shards of carbon-fibre debris was all over the circuit. Zonta was out of luck as his engine blew spectacularly just after the restart. At the flag Raikkonen took a well-earned win, followed by Schumacher and Barrichello's.
After the race the photographers did not missed the look at parking lot. One thing is for sure, Formula1 drivers have good parking sense.
The End.
Abhi khatam nahi hua c*****! (“The End” was for the Story)
At the Hungarian Grand Prix, nearly everyone finished, but Spa presented such a challenge to cars and drivers that, almost incredibly, Renault, BAR and Williams and many others failed to get any of theirs to the end.
So I was wondering Are Formula1 Drivers are Bad Rally Drivers?? One more thing I would like to tell all the formula1 drivers: Don’t try this on the road!
posted by Saurabh at Friday, September 03, 2004
9 Comments:
Gr8 taz !!
That was a real die hard Formula 1 article. Im sure you enjoyed ur heart out while writing this.
hi saurabh,
wow maan.that was something u've written.i was as impressed by ur artical as i'm by watching formula one race.man,never really worried 'bout the aspect of the race that u brought to light..too good.
i wish we get some good articals like urs after every race to discuss it.this seems more genuine than the expert comments in the next day newspapers which seem to be biased
keep up the good job
gagan
hey mr saurabh
what crap.......bullshit....thats what ur artical is all about.....keep away from f1
alan
hey dude
f1 is different and so is rally driving.both cannot be taken in the same light.80% of the accidents in spa was due to car problems and not driver errors.the drivers gave us a chilling race and lets be happy with it.
okay dude,
Now I know why u drive so bad....
dont try to amaluate F1 on del roads man...
Follow ur own advice.
nice article though.
Yash
hi saurabh,
nice article about f1. i will not be able to try the f1 stunts on road ( at least not on indian roads)as the roads have to be as smooth as ones in f1 tracks.and by the way there won't be any marshalls or safety people to take me out of ditch.
i also missed the live race and had to be satisfied with the retelecast later in the day. well i see most of the accidents occured during first ten laps of the race since the drivers were quite close to each other. the moments which i enjoyed were
a) the overtaking of montoya aganist trulli. this reminded me the similar incident between alonso and button ( or montoya i am not sure ) in a few races ago.
b) the tactics of kimi to put schumi behind was superb.
c) the skidding of barichello and micheal during qualifying round but still regaining good pole positions.
c) i really feel pity for sato, for he is really "Fast And Furious" in the track.
regards,
HRH
This was the worst article I have ever read. One guy makes a mistake to take out other cars and your blaming the entire F1 field of being bad drivers?! As if thats not enough, you go on to say that the other drivers were also crashing themselves out, even when their tyres blew up (you refered to Jensen taking out Baumgartner). Even you should be able to control a blowout at 65 MPH, but at nearly 200? I think not. I believe in writing an un-biased article, but not when it is untrue.
great article buddy.. keep it goin!
Neha
I wish I could meet you man.. I've not met very many folks this crazy about F-1 and those who are, are after my own heart! I just loved that post.. My dream is not to drive an F-1 car. Its to merely become an F1 journalist. Now I know I'll face stiff competition from you.. ;) But maybe we could strike a deal.. Check out more of my blog to know how crazy I am about F-1. When we meet, maybe we should find out whoz crazier!! n' I don't care if Fat Dad is an Aussie, but Webber is the best driver after Kimi. The only part I hated abt this post wuz how you didn't even mention the winner! He happens to be my fave F1 driver. I see you're a Schumi fan. I admit he's GOOD, but after the underhand maneuver he carried out on JV in '97, I lost respect for him! However, I think you are one of those true F1 fans, n' not just some ignoramus harping on about Ferrari n' MSchumi. ;) Kudos to you.. n' please write oftener! I shall be a regular blogreader of yours in future! Keep up the excellent work!! n' I agree this should've been your second post ;) But it didn't make much difference to me, a die-hard F1 fan like you! :)
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