{"id":204,"date":"2005-06-21T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-21T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T14:00:36","slug":"ferrari-ever-the-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/21\/ferrari-ever-the-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari Ever the Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not even gotten started writing about my frustrations with last weekend\u2019s US Grand Prix debacle at Indy, but I will start building up steam.  Here is a beauty of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/story_20003.shtml\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/story_20003.shtml', 'quote');\" target=new>quote<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJacques Villeneuve, meanwhile, blamed Ferrari for their failure to agree to the introduction of a chicane: \u201cWe could have raced with a chicane, if a chicane had been put before the banking, but Ferrari didn\u2019t accept.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schumacher\u2019s comment, \u201cI don\u2019t know what Michelin\u2019s problem is, but this wasn\u2019t our problem,\u201d spoke volumes about Ferrari\u2019s intransigence ahead of F1\u2019s race of shame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is amazing that Ferrari could be built out as the bad guy in this mess.  There are lots of things that could have (dare I say should have) been done to prevent the weekend\u2019s fiasco from occurring, but even if Ferrari agreed to a new chicane, I doubt the FIA would have went along.<\/p>\n<p>Devil\u2019s advocate time \u2013 suppose Ferrari and the FIA would have agreed to add a chicane, how is that a better solution that multiple changes of tires for the Michelin runners?  Adding a chicane over running a slightly slower speed?  Using a chicane instead of ducking into the pits each lap to prevent the load on turn 13?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the potential solution, one was never found.  David Coulthard said it best<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe bottom line is Michelin made a mistake. But after that the FIA had it in their hands to find a solution and ensure we all raced out there. The most important people, the fans, have been forgotten in all of this,\u201d noted Coulthard.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fans were indeed screwed, and I find myself questioning why I bother to follow the sport I (used to?) love so dearly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not even gotten started writing about my frustrations with last weekend\u2019s US Grand Prix debacle at Indy, but I will start building up steam. Here is a beauty of a quote \u201cJacques Villeneuve, meanwhile, blamed Ferrari for their failure to agree to the introduction of a chicane: \u201cWe could have raced with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/21\/ferrari-ever-the-villain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ferrari Ever the Villain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}