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**AngegepeM** · 04-30-2012, 08:15 PM

I liked the magic with Ross and Michael did in the years with refueling, but with tons of overtaking thanks to the DRS and Pirelli, now F1 is more fun, I have to admit.

I think thats one of the key factors in Schumi's relative lack of performance since coming back to F1. Think back to Schumi's early career, it wasnt until '94 when refuelling was introduced that Schumi really came to the fore, him and Ross Brawn really worked the refuelling strategies to the full, aided by very consistant tyres. Now that F1 is no longer about sprints on low fuel and with tyres that need looking after I don't think it plays to his strengths and at 43 its pretty certain that Micheal is past his best and even he has acknowledged this.

Getting back on track of what this thread is about, i'm of the opinion that refuelling should never have been re-introduced in the 1st place, legend has it that Bernie tacked the suggestion of re-introducing refuelling onto the end of a meeting with the teams back in '93, the teams agreed in principle but then most of them tried to reverse it when they figured out the various implications of it, but Ferrari refused to agree to reverse the decision (at the time they were using a gorgeous sounding but thirsty V12, therefore in theory they had the most to gain from refuelling) so it was implemented for '94 where ironically it was a Ford V8 powered Benetton driven by Micheal Schumacher that won through amongst countless allegations of cheating (indeed, the car was found to have traction control software buried deep in it's ECU, along with McLaren though both claimed to use it for "testing purposes").

04-30-2012, 08:15 PM	#35
AngegepeM Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	I liked the magic with Ross and Michael did in the years with refueling, but with tons of overtaking thanks to the DRS and Pirelli, now F1 is more fun, I have to admit. I think thats one of the key factors in Schumi's relative lack of performance since coming back to F1. Think back to Schumi's early career, it wasnt until '94 when refuelling was introduced that Schumi really came to the fore, him and Ross Brawn really worked the refuelling strategies to the full, aided by very consistant tyres. Now that F1 is no longer about sprints on low fuel and with tyres that need looking after I don't think it plays to his strengths and at 43 its pretty certain that Micheal is past his best and even he has acknowledged this. Getting back on track of what this thread is about, i'm of the opinion that refuelling should never have been re-introduced in the 1st place, legend has it that Bernie tacked the suggestion of re-introducing refuelling onto the end of a meeting with the teams back in '93, the teams agreed in principle but then most of them tried to reverse it when they figured out the various implications of it, but Ferrari refused to agree to reverse the decision (at the time they were using a gorgeous sounding but thirsty V12, therefore in theory they had the most to gain from refuelling) so it was implemented for '94 where ironically it was a Ford V8 powered Benetton driven by Micheal Schumacher that won through amongst countless allegations of cheating (indeed, the car was found to have traction control software buried deep in it's ECU, along with McLaren though both claimed to use it for "testing purposes").
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