haha. I'll try

This season saw the introduction of loads of new rules and regulations, which meant all the teams had to build pretty much completely new cars.

Brawn, who were Honda last year, had such a sh*t car then that they basically gave up on the season half way thru, and started working on their new car for this year.

Whereas Maclaren had Hamilton in a really tight race for the championship, and so focused pretty much entirely on their current car, right up until the last race.

Maybe for that reason,, maybe for others, when this season started, Brawn had a car that was quicker than
anyone else's. (partly cos Ross Brawn appears to be a bit of a design genius.)

And Maclaren had a car that was among the slowest.

Button drove the fast Brawn really smoothly and well, and won 6 of the first 7 races.

As the season has gone on, all the teams have been finding out how to adapt to the new rules to improve their performance. In particular, Maclaren have made massive steps forwards.

Meanwhile, Brawn have actually gone backwards - they've made a change to the car which has actually made it handle worse. But they can't figure out which change they made f*cked it up, or why. (This can happen this year, because they're not allowed to do loads of between-races testing like they always could before.)

So Maclaren have got (loads) faster, everyone else have got a bit faster, and Brawn have got slower.

Was that too long?

Posted By: Tricky Hawes on July 27th 2009 at 20:17:52

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FAO Tricky Hawes (Other Sports) - Sugbad The Bad, Jul 27, 20:05:59
- FAO Tricky (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 27, 20:47:55
  - that ^^^ should've been in another thread... (n/m) (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 27, 20:51:10
    - that was interesting (Other Sports) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jul 27, 21:29:21
- haha. I'll try (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 27, 20:17:52
  - No, that was fine too, ta. (Other Sports) - Sugbad The Bad, Jul 27, 20:19:32
  - oops, just seen you already had an answer. Much the same tho, really. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 27, 20:19:21
- I watch a lot of F1, have done since I was a kid. (Other Sports) - conker, Jul 27, 20:13:39
  - Whats KERS? (n/m) (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 27, 20:43:19
    - Kinetic Energy Recovery System (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 27, 20:56:40
      - chairs! (n/m) (Other Sports) - shoddy, Jul 27, 21:26:09
  - *good* answer, ta. Much as I guessed, plus some detail. Thanks! (n/m) (Other Sports) - Sugbad The Bad, Jul 27, 20:15:26
    - ( I say 'guessed', but I mean guessed based on what had been explained to me earlier in th (n/m) (Other Sports) - Sugbad The Bad, Jul 27, 20:16:18

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