Ferrari's 3 week test during summer testing ban

#51

"Iain Miller" <donot (AT) spam (DOT) me> wrote

Quote:

While the other teams honour the August testing ban, which has been in
place for five years, Ferrari returned to Monza (Italy) on Monday
morning.

There is no "August testing ban" as part of F1.

No, there is no ban - but all the teams have adhered to "no testing in
August" for years & no doubt a number of them could have benefited from
doing some testing during the summer break in recent years - but they
didn't break the "agreement"

Just because you have a few teams agreeing to fuck off for the month
while more serious times try to actually improve their
cars is not in any way a Ferrari problem.

....but I doubt it will win them many friends in the paddock - and one day
they might need them. The Ferrari "win at all costs" attitude is only good
for Ferrari & does nothing for F1 or any concept that there might be any
sportsmanship left in it. Of course its a business but to thrive as a
business it needs to at least still show a semblance of being a sport.
That's what the punters buy into.

FW he say....

"Along with eight other teams, BMW Williams will not be testing during the
'summer break' but back at the factory the squad continue to develop the
FW27 for the remaining rounds of the season."

I.

#52

"Emma" <Emma (AT) excalvehs (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote

Quote:

vetrano2 (AT) owt (DOT) com wrote:
Don't you think it's a bit absurd? Perhaps because I'm an American and
we don't get August off, but think of how silly it would be for Man U.
to take three weeks off from practice in the middle of the run-up to
the World Cup.

Americans will never really understand Soccer, will they?

"Some guy took some performance-enhancing drugs and hit a triple into the end zone during the fourth
quarter with a four under par, but was whistled down for interference.

Then there was a fight. "
(Neil Peart)

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