“It’s Damn Cold in This Paddock!”
(The following events occur in the Australian paddock, March 2007 - ed)
Left Front Bridgestone (LFB): “Sum bitch, it’s feakin’ cold in the paddock this year!”
Right Front Bridgestone (RFB): “I just felt a chill wind myself, the Australian autumn is early this year.”
LFB: “Can’t be it LFB, it’s 25c on the million dollar temperature thingy on the wall. Somethin’ is missing LFB I just can’t put my valve stem on it.”
Left Rear Bridgestone (LRB): “Hey you two, shut the hell up, I’m trying to sleep back here.”
LFB: “LRB… Me and RFB been wondering, is it cold back there? We got goose bumps in our sidewalls up here”
LRB: “You two mental midgets would be lost without me and my right side partner pushing you along.” Have a gander down the paddock… do you see any tire warmers present? There ain’t none. You two nimrods wise up before Mad Max replaces us all with Coopers or somthing.”
LRB: “Besides, you two got nothing to complain about, you always got them young, hot Brolly Girls swinging their tushes in your faces. Now just shut up. I got some resting to do before Kimi takes this Prancing Horse out for another spin.”
(Editors note) Tire blankets will be banned at the end of the season, it was reported at Hockenheim. To compliment Bridgestone’s monopoly in 2007, the Technical Working Group voted on the change Saturday as a way of slowing the cars, because the Japanese supplier’s tires will need to be able to operate effectively at lower temperature.
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Ha Ha, great conversation, I wonder what tyres on the Toyota’s were saying at Melbourne.LOL
Seriously, I welcome getting rid of tyre warmers, one of the attractions of real racing is seeing what a driver can do with cold rubber. Ironically JPM-a master on cold tyres-won’t be there to take advantage of the the new system. I heard in the broadcast that Bridgestone will be providing a harder compound as the control tyre, great, if it makes the cars slide I’m all for it.
Now if they could just ban refuelling & traction control I could really celebrate.