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**mylittlejewelaa** · 04-16-2010, 11:52 PM

I don't follow the F1 board that much, so perhaps someone can explain this to me.

How exactly is the team supposed to focus on one driver? Are they going to increase his skills or feel for the car? His racecraft? How he feels when he gets out of bed on a particular race morning?

Or is it the team's job to build the car and make the car as fast as possible? Aren't the two cars the team fields in every race essentially the same? Set ups different, yes. And perhaps one driver gets the latest development bits before the other. It's the same basic car though, right?

Crybaby drivers are a waste of everyone's time. He needs to find another profession. Of course, he'd be a crybaby there too.

I don't have a wisdom how f1 team function, but I think it's more much complicated than simple statement "they have the same cars". Team can build a car which fits more one driver than second, follow remarks given by one driver rather than second one, concentrate on solving problems of one driver etc. I read somewhere in the press that in 2008 Heidfeld had big problems in qualifying due to tyres performance, maybe they concentrated on this? Many, many times I heard drivers opinions that team support more on one driver than second. As I said before I don't have a knowledge how f1 team functions maybe somone who works/used to work in F1 team could explain it to us.

I don't think people from Renault consider Kubica as a crybaby and "waste of time" after how he performs (2nd in Australia, 4th in Malayisa, just 9 points less than leader in championship standings) this year...

04-16-2010, 11:52 PM	#30
mylittlejewelaa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 605 Senior Member	I don't follow the F1 board that much, so perhaps someone can explain this to me. How exactly is the team supposed to focus on one driver? Are they going to increase his skills or feel for the car? His racecraft? How he feels when he gets out of bed on a particular race morning? Or is it the team's job to build the car and make the car as fast as possible? Aren't the two cars the team fields in every race essentially the same? Set ups different, yes. And perhaps one driver gets the latest development bits before the other. It's the same basic car though, right? Crybaby drivers are a waste of everyone's time. He needs to find another profession. Of course, he'd be a crybaby there too. I don't have a wisdom how f1 team function, but I think it's more much complicated than simple statement "they have the same cars". Team can build a car which fits more one driver than second, follow remarks given by one driver rather than second one, concentrate on solving problems of one driver etc. I read somewhere in the press that in 2008 Heidfeld had big problems in qualifying due to tyres performance, maybe they concentrated on this? Many, many times I heard drivers opinions that team support more on one driver than second. As I said before I don't have a knowledge how f1 team functions maybe somone who works/used to work in F1 team could explain it to us. I don't think people from Renault consider Kubica as a crybaby and "waste of time" after how he performs (2nd in Australia, 4th in Malayisa, just 9 points less than leader in championship standings) this year...
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