The real reason Button wants to stay at BAR?
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The real reason Button wants to stay at BAR:
OK here is one for the conspiracy theorists and statisticians amongst you.
Go back to Imola, when BAR were banned for “carrying fuel as ballast”.
Immediately after that event is when I noticed Buttons attitude changing about BAR and him making very positive statements about the team.
At the time of the “scandal” it was reported that there were a couple of other teams running the same interpretation of the rules. It was also reported that the FIA were “tipped off”.
Since Imola, to my subjective view, two teams who have had a drop off in performance are Williams and Ferrari and possibly Red Bull.
Just suppose it was Williams who tipped off the FIA and Button knows that.
That would be plenty reason for Button not to want to go to Williams.
OK here is one for the conspiracy theorists and statisticians amongst you.
Go back to Imola, when BAR were banned for “carrying fuel as ballast”.
Immediately after that event is when I noticed Buttons attitude changing about BAR and him making very positive statements about the team.
At the time of the “scandal” it was reported that there were a couple of other teams running the same interpretation of the rules. It was also reported that the FIA were “tipped off”.
Since Imola, to my subjective view, two teams who have had a drop off in performance are Williams and Ferrari and possibly Red Bull.
Just suppose it was Williams who tipped off the FIA and Button knows that.
That would be plenty reason for Button not to want to go to Williams.
It could have been someone from Williams who tipped off the FIA, although I thought that at the time the press was reporting that the most likely tipper might have been Joe Bloggs who had over the winter moved from BAR to Renault.
What would the connection be between Williams's performance decline and their possibly having tipped off the FIA?
What would the connection be between Williams's performance decline and their possibly having tipped off the FIA?
flemke said:
scuffham said:
because they were all doing the same perhaps?
In that case it would have made no sense for someone at another team that was using the same gimmick as BAR to alert the FIA.
Unless you have a performance related contract with a driver at BAR and your not getting on with your engine supplier and you need to attract some sponsors.
RobbieMeister said:Quite possible, although while Williams might have had a special motive to want to see BAR held back, surely any of their competitors would have wished for the same.
Unless you have a performance related contract with a driver at BAR and your not getting on with your engine supplier and you need to attract some sponsors.
At the time the press reported that all the teams had collectors, but what supposedly made BAR's unique and dubious was that it would hold something like 14 litres, whereas the other teams' held 2-3.
In any case, the decisive question wasn't whether BAR had a big collector; rather it was what the car weighed after every drop of fuel had been drained out. BAR argued that that since the car was designed to operate with a certain amount of fuel in this (suspectly big) collector at all times, it should have been measured against the 600kg minimum with the collector filled.
Presumably the most likely source of the tip-off would have been someone who had left BAR for a competitor at the end of last season, and who would have been in a position to be aware of the large collector tank. The universe of such people must be small, which is why the finger was soon pointed at one particular guy.
RobbieMeister said:I thought it was only James Allen that was stranger than fiction.
Please understand, this little scenario hit me while shaving one morning, if it's true it can be credited to a power higher than me.
If it's not true it's just a bit of fun.
But to paraphrase "F1 is stranger than fiction".....or should that be fact?
flemke said:
RobbieMeister said:
Please understand, this little scenario hit me while shaving one morning, if it's true it can be credited to a power higher than me.
If it's not true it's just a bit of fun.
But to paraphrase "F1 is stranger than fiction".....or should that be fact?
I thought it was only James Allen that was stranger than fiction.
Smirk, despite the lack of overtaking in F1, James Allen's tedious voice really is the last nail in the coffin for me.
flemke said:
Dakkon said:
Smirk, despite the lack of overtaking in F1, James Allen's tedious voice really is the last nail in the coffin for me.
I think that all of us should be shouting GO! GO! GO! to Allen, and then have him lifted by a crane and towed away.
Where do I make a donation?
i dunno james allen is ideal at the moment, GP is duller than ditchwater but when he gets all shouty and starts repeating himself something must have happened and i will put down my book watch the replay and then i can go back to the book so thank you james doing a perfect job :-) imho.
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