Irvine slams current state of 'messy' F1

[Mothers Worry]

Irvine slams current state of 'messy' F1

From thef1times.com:

Irvine slams current state of 'messy' F1

Monday 12th September 2011

Eddie Irvine, former driver for Jordan, Ferrari and Jaguar, has slammed the current state of Formula 1, describing it as a "mess" which "doesn't make sense."

The four-time race winner was in the Monza paddock for the Italian GP and spoke to the BBC after the race, in which he took the time to share his view on KERS and DRS.

"Now you've got the dropping wing, you've got the button to push to make you go faster, so if you can't overtake with all that s**t going on it's like ... I think it's a mess," said the outspoken Northern Irishman.

"You don't know when they're on the limiter, you don't know if they've got the EPS [He means DRS], what is it, the wing drops down, the button push. It's a mess, the formula now is a mess.

"There's just too much f*****g s**t. You see an overtaking manoeuvre and you don't know if they did it with button, they did it with the wing, they did it with all of them, or they actually did something good. And now, everybody overtakes 50 times a race. It's like shooting for minnows, it doesn't make sense."

Emphasis added.



O.k. Eddie; whatever..........

[blacknwhite]

If only Senna threw a harder punch......

[bpratt]

And the worst part is that he could've been WDC the year Schumacher broke his leg at Silverstone.... well if Ferrari had've worked as a team rather than putting their whole effort behind Schumacher that year.

urk!   

[Mothers Worry]

People complained that there was not enough overtaking. Now they're complaining that there is too much.

[Oldtony]

Irvine is Irish, even worse he is Northern Irish! You really can't expect much in the way of logic can you?
By the way does this come under the heading of racial villification?

[Mothers Worry]

Irvine is Irish, even worse he is Northern Irish! You really can't expect much in the way of logic can you?
By the way does this come under the heading of racial villification?

I think he just hates Germans. He was a team member with Schumacher at Ferrari back in the day and, despite the fact that the Shoe went out of competition with a broken leg (1999), Irvine still couldn't clinch a WDC.




Eddie Irvine claims Michael Schumacher Formula 1 return a waste of time

From f1sa.com:

Eddie Irvine claims Michael Schumacher Formula 1 return a waste of time

Monday, 12 September 2011

The Irishman is convinced his Ferrari team-mate's return to Formula One is a "waste of time".

Michael Schumacher, who shared the Ferrari team with the outspoken racer from Ulster in the late 1990’s, had a strong weekend at Monza but his comeback has generally been regarded as mediocre.

"It's a waste of time," Irvine scolded on a visit to the Monza paddock, according to Der Spiegel newspaper.

"Schumacher is good but no longer good enough and he was already on the decline in 2005 and 2006 at Ferrari.

"I have no idea why Mercedes invests in such an old driver as the performance curve can only be downwards. He's too old now to beat the top drivers like Nico Rosberg," added Irvine.

If this championship (1999) had taken place using the current Formula 1 points system, awarding points from 1st place down to 8th place instead of just 6th, Eddie Irvine would have been Formula 1 World Champion.