Back in May, I reported this about the fuel rig problem in Formula 1. It just happened one too many times in yesterday’s race at Indianapolis. Three times in total amongst three teams actually.
This time around, it cost Montoya’s chance of this year’s Driver’s Championship title, and possibly Williams Team Championship title as well. The same problem happened to Jordan as well as McLaren later on in the race. This immediately alarmed Ferrari, who apparently had worries that the same problem could just as well happen to their drivers, and saw them having both fuel rigs ready the entire time for Michael through out the remainder of the race.
I’d say enough of this. There are mighty number of car manufacturer and oil company giants there to fire the fuel rig manufacturer, scrap the crap, and come up with a much more reliable new rig.
Another non driver’s fault is that, I think, Honda of Team BAR has been overly criticizing their own former F1 Champion driver, Jacques Villeneuve, unfairly during this and last season. More than half of the races for Jacques, the engine blew and cost him any chance to do anything. In fact, I think the Honda engines are some of the most unreliable ones in the F1 history. Yet, BAR Honda is thinking of replacing Jacques for the lack of performance, and it could be as soon as between now and before the start of the next race at Suzuka, Japan - the last race of the season.
To further highlight this being unfair to Jacques - both BAR cars’ engines blew up in yesterday’s race which, for one, could have ended the former Champion’s F1 career in a sad way, as well as ended BAR’s own chance to a 1st place win where their second driver Jenson Button was leading the entire middle third of the race by as far as some 6 seconds with normal rounds of pit stops!
Whether BAR will continue their contract with Jacques, IMO, Honda should first figure out how to get its own act together to provide their drivers with reliable engines.
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