M Schumacher heavy crash in testing
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Don Vito Corleone
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The Ferrari is on Bridgestones actually... but yeah Michelin has been given a beatdown this whole season by Ferrari/Bridgestone. 
Funny thing is supposedly, after the crash Bridgestone engineers were investigating that portion of the track to see if any debris caused the puncture, but there were Michelin people there too picking up pieces of the tires and wouldn't give it back when Bridgestone asked for it... words were exchanged to say the least. lol. The drama.
Funny thing is supposedly, after the crash Bridgestone engineers were investigating that portion of the track to see if any debris caused the puncture, but there were Michelin people there too picking up pieces of the tires and wouldn't give it back when Bridgestone asked for it... words were exchanged to say the least. lol. The drama.
Originally posted by: bR
The Ferrari is on Bridgestones actually... but yeah Michelin has been given a beatdown this whole season by Ferrari/Bridgestone.
Funny thing is supposedly, after the crash Bridgestone engineers were investigating that portion of the track to see if any debris caused the puncture, but there were Michelin people there too picking up pieces of the tires and wouldn't give it back when Bridgestone asked for it... words were exchanged to say the least. lol. The drama.
hehe....the tire wars are responsible for the reduction in lap times these days.
btw, where do you get your F1 news from? I use www.itv-f1.com and www.f1-live.net.
Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN
Originally posted by: bR
The Ferrari is on Bridgestones actually... but yeah Michelin has been given a beatdown this whole season by Ferrari/Bridgestone.
Funny thing is supposedly, after the crash Bridgestone engineers were investigating that portion of the track to see if any debris caused the puncture, but there were Michelin people there too picking up pieces of the tires and wouldn't give it back when Bridgestone asked for it... words were exchanged to say the least. lol. The drama.
hehe....the tire wars are responsible for the reduction in lap times these days.
btw, where do you get your F1 news from? I use www.itv-f1.com and www.f1-live.net.
Same here...
But sometimes I leech of the forums of atlasf1.com... im not a subscriber but the people there still post these tidbits.
Originally posted by: MichaelD
How do you do "a heavy crash in testing?"
Me no get.
They have testing days in F1, where they test new parts & tires on the car for the upcoming race.
In this case, the tire blew at 200+mph as Schumacher was testing the car at Monza (race track in Italy; Ferrari's homeground).
Test days are valuable, because the teams collect important data on how the car behaves with these changes. Remember, no car is the same at every track, there are always minute to major changes applied to the car.
For instance, McLaren is designing some one-off aero parts just for this upcoming race track, to suit its high speed corners and keep less drag.
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Originally posted by: MichaelD
How do you do "a heavy crash in testing?"
Me no get.
What's not to get? They were doing testing for Monza next weekend, and he crashed.
Glad to hear he's okay--wouldn't be a great year for the Schumacher family if both brothers shunted out of the season (at least Michael's got the drivers' championship all sewn up
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Originally posted by: MichaelD
How do you do "a heavy crash in testing?"
Me no get.
950 bhp in a 1300-pound car - you do the math!
why leave.
Join hte discussion and learn about F1.
Maybe you'll get hooked on it and make it a point to watch every race.
Originally posted by: bR
Yeah and be crazy enough to wake up at 4-5am for west coasters
pshaww..just catch the 9PM replay on SpeedTV.
Only time I woke up early for F1 was at Spa's race because I don't get SpeedTV at my current location, so I followed the race in realtime online at Formula1.com.
Otherwise when I usually watch it at home, I watch it at 9PM.
Nah if i wait until 9 id eventually find out the results from somewhere.
But thanks to Ferrari for almost winning everything this year I can go back to sleep when the race is boring knowing that a red car will win anyway.
But thanks to Ferrari for almost winning everything this year I can go back to sleep when the race is boring knowing that a red car will win anyway.
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Originally posted by: bR
The Ferrari is on Bridgestones actually... but yeah Michelin has been given a beatdown this whole season by Ferrari/Bridgestone.
Funny thing is supposedly, after the crash Bridgestone engineers were investigating that portion of the track to see if any debris caused the puncture, but there were Michelin people there too picking up pieces of the tires and wouldn't give it back when Bridgestone asked for it... words were exchanged to say the least. lol. The drama.
My bad. Maybe Bridgestone secretely cloned a Michelin tire? That would be why the Michelin guys were trying to swipe some of the debris, "That tire sucks just like ours, let's see if they are stealing from us!"
Wow...I am glad he is alright...then again, for being the highest-paid sports person in the world, I guess this comes with the territory so to speak....gosh, what a stupid "sport" as well!
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