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Late 90s, I spent some time doing semi-pro race driver coaching. I paid particularly emphasis on the ‘addressing’ of the ambition surrounding what we were doing. What exactly were we trying to achieve, if something other than outright race winning?
When ambition was strong and resources (money) meagre, I often put forward the notion of producing one mind numbingly perfect performance, preferable at the first race or two of the year. This is the hope that you catch someone’s eye to redress the resource problem and hopefully sustain a proper championship winning effort.
I used to suggest, don’t go racing to come second EVER. Husband your resources, become a ‘specialist’ if you will, in order to come out ONE DAY and absolutely BLITZ the entire show.
I thought the Brawn show in Australia was a great example of how to do this. I most warmly congratulate every last cog in the machine (Brackley - good luck to those out of a job this week) on that performance that allowed the stars of the show to do their thing, hit that team ‘sweet spot’. The LAST thing Brawn (or any of the others) could have endured, was a lack-lustre mid field performance. I thought they rode their luck well.
Mind you, yesterday I thought there was some promise from all of the big players. I cannot recall anyone coming up with a bum show yesterday; maybe Renault were slightly disappointing (Brackley 2, Enstone 0) but they will be back. And who was Buemi? (Wow)
I thought Button was absolutely terrific. He is SO SMOOTH; we’ll see how good 2 years (more) in the boonies, has made his ability to mix it and improvise strongly, like Hamilton.
BBC, good (no adverts: the BEST!); on board, good; coverage alternatives all cool; all the F1 cars look amazingly noisy, fast and furious, hugely so. I think it the whole show is probably as good as it’s ever been.
Roll on Malaysia; can Brawn do without KERS for the year? Let’s hope technical wrangles don’t spoil the show. Most involved appear conscious of what prats they'd look in the current climate ...
When ambition was strong and resources (money) meagre, I often put forward the notion of producing one mind numbingly perfect performance, preferable at the first race or two of the year. This is the hope that you catch someone’s eye to redress the resource problem and hopefully sustain a proper championship winning effort.
I used to suggest, don’t go racing to come second EVER. Husband your resources, become a ‘specialist’ if you will, in order to come out ONE DAY and absolutely BLITZ the entire show.
I thought the Brawn show in Australia was a great example of how to do this. I most warmly congratulate every last cog in the machine (Brackley - good luck to those out of a job this week) on that performance that allowed the stars of the show to do their thing, hit that team ‘sweet spot’. The LAST thing Brawn (or any of the others) could have endured, was a lack-lustre mid field performance. I thought they rode their luck well.
Mind you, yesterday I thought there was some promise from all of the big players. I cannot recall anyone coming up with a bum show yesterday; maybe Renault were slightly disappointing (Brackley 2, Enstone 0) but they will be back. And who was Buemi? (Wow)
I thought Button was absolutely terrific. He is SO SMOOTH; we’ll see how good 2 years (more) in the boonies, has made his ability to mix it and improvise strongly, like Hamilton.
BBC, good (no adverts: the BEST!); on board, good; coverage alternatives all cool; all the F1 cars look amazingly noisy, fast and furious, hugely so. I think it the whole show is probably as good as it’s ever been.
Roll on Malaysia; can Brawn do without KERS for the year? Let’s hope technical wrangles don’t spoil the show. Most involved appear conscious of what prats they'd look in the current climate ...
Agree with everything there. As for Brawn KERS, I think they might be doing a similar long design phase to this years car to get it in and make it work well. Fitting KERS this year is a problem because it gives a disadvantage in less ballast when its fitted and weight at the back that they don't want. Brawn could be fine tuning the car design to have a properly balanced KERS car next year. Just a thought.
ajprice said:
Agree with everything there. As for Brawn KERS, I think they might be doing a similar long design phase to this years car to get it in and make it work well. Fitting KERS this year is a problem because it gives a disadvantage in less ballast when its fitted and weight at the back that they don't want. Brawn could be fine tuning the car design to have a properly balanced KERS car next year. Just a thought.
Of course, one advantage along with Button's driving, is that compared to others, they're not knocking 7 bells out of their rear tyres, are they on the Brawn? KERS extra dollop of power must tax the rears even harder. I'd overlooked that.Yep. they played a blinder. The car was good from the word go. The team seemed to all be on the same page of the book and barring losing a second or two in buttons last pitstop, it was a perfect performance.
The team deserve the victory, not because they were up in the air over the winter, but because they had a bloody good race with a fast car and a consistently fast driver.
The team deserve the victory, not because they were up in the air over the winter, but because they had a bloody good race with a fast car and a consistently fast driver.
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