{"id":1318,"date":"2005-06-20T04:05:05","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2005\/06\/20\/indianapolis-gp\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:48:17","slug":"indianapolis-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2005\/06\/20\/indianapolis-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything rotten in the kingdom of F1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/f1indy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"170\" alt=\"F1indy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/f1indy.jpg\" width=\"250\"  \/><\/a> One might wonder indeed. It was an unbelievable sight: after the formation lap, all the cars using Michelin tyres headed to the pits. Only six that were supplied for by Bridgestone remained on track and ran the race: 2 Ferraris, 2 Minardis and 2 <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Jordans<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<br \/><\/span><\/span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">How was such a situation made possible? First, last Friday, Ralf Schumacher crashed his car in Turn 13, a fast banked curve, presumably because of a faulty tyre. Given the violence of the shock, his doctor advised him not to run the GP two days after. On Saturday, replacing Ralf in the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Toyota <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">team, Ricardo Zonta met the same problem and had an accident too. Soon, <a href=\"http:\/\/prabhukrish.net\/2005\/06\/20\/ridiculous\/\">Michelin<\/a> agreed to say their tyres were not safe on this track and stated teams using them should not race unless they were allowed to use brand new tyres coming from <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">France<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">overnight. Arguing it was against the rules, the FIA said, no.<br \/><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>Then, Michelin claimed that speed should be reduced, by means of a chicane laid before Turn 13, to ensure certain level of safety. 9 teams agreed on this proposal, but once again, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intheagora.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/crash_at_the_tr.html\">FIA<\/a> turned it down, say it\u2019d be unfair for the teams running on Bridgestone tyres.<br \/><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>What was to happen happened: Michelin runners did not take part in the race. 14 cars quit the track and then, to the woos of the crowd, began the most ridiculous Formula 1 grand-prix in all times. Schumacher won, Barrichello came a close second. So close that the Ferrari drivers nearly had an accident. The next four are, by order of arrival, Monteiro, Karthikeyan, Albers and Friesachier. Bridgestone and these 3 teams got the job done: was it that difficult? There\u2019s one positive element though: Jordan and Minardi scored points, which will ensure them a financial income.<br \/><\/span><\/span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Speaking of money, will the 150,000 spectators be given theirs back? They widely incriminated Michelin and remarked they had not made it to <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Indianapolis <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">just to see Ferrari testing their cars.<br \/>Formula 1 was already struggling for a good image in <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">America<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, now, what shifted from a safety to a political issue made it look contemptible even in <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Europe<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One might wonder indeed. It was an unbelievable sight: after the formation lap, all the cars using Michelin tyres headed to the pits. Only six that were supplied for by Bridgestone remained on track and ran the race: 2 Ferraris, 2 Minardis and 2 Jordans.How was such a situation made possible? First, last Friday, Ralf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorsport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anything rotten in the kingdom of F1? - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2005\/06\/20\/indianapolis-gp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Anything rotten in the kingdom of F1? - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"One might wonder indeed. 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