BAR: The Sato Smoke-Screen

[MADDOG-99 0]

Right then should he have been black flagged or should his team pulled him in...

I have a sneaky susp**sion that Bar knew full well, right from the begining what they were up to. They sent Sato out with a faulty enging and told him to blast off the start in front of Schumi, which he did even if he did jump start.

Now this is where it gets intresting, He was not to overtake Button because of the immonent smoke skreen but to back him up and get him as close to the front as possible, At the crutial moment the engine blew and unleashed cahos on to the streets of Monte Carlo, slowing the advances and totaly eliminating some of the field, whilst JB and friends take hold of the leading positions.

Unluckily for BAR their main target, MS avoided destruction only to take himself out in one of the stupidest displays of stupidity i'v ever seen in F1

This is only a theory cooked up by me and i have no proof other than paranoid speculation to back this up but i would like to know what you think of this theory.

[Sato 0]

i think ur paranoid

[Senna 0]

I think BAR should have retired Sato if they knew his engine was about to blow but apparently they did not think that was the case

[Jet 0]

Had his engine grenaded after five laps I'd agree, but he was only on the third lap. Perhaps like Coulthard, they were trying to diagnosis the problem but couldn't. Plus why was Coulthard the only one to decide and stop in the smoke screen? Even da Matta figured that one out and he came after the accident.

[Sato 0]

yeah coulthard was going mega slow....like granny on the way to supermarkets kinda slow. i mean slow down sure...but going that slow is asking for trouble. but Fisichella didn't help by not slowing down at all just about.

[webber 0]

you may very well be right but that is a bit far fetched. it whould be a little cheap like M$ cheap to be doing that. i just hope that BER did not know what was happing and let him go. but Sato was Simling and did not seam p**sed off when his engine went.

[nojvnof1 0]

I read the teams race review and Geoff Willis said the blowup was sudden and unexpected. ROFL, what the hell was that smoke from the engine then Geoff??!! Talk about inept management, he definitely should have got a black flag.

[climber49 0]

If it's good enough for James Bond.........

[kiko01 0]

I don

[BARCode 0]

What DC was saying was right - BAR are a young team, and perhaps thought the problem might well be just a bit of an oil leakage and would last out. Lets face it - we saw MS nurse a sick Ferrari round to first place in Barcelona, its not unreasonable to think that Sato could hold out? But for conspiracies? I doubt it.

[AutoRacer5 0]

It was stupid. I had sauber all over my fantasy f1 teams. I was p**sed off.

[Sato 0]

I remember when the Mclarens used to smoke quite alot. I don't recall them bring their cars in then........ Suzuka one year comes to mind...it was happening mid race for many laps. I mean Sato had a power loss and some blue smoke.....so have alot of other cars. If it hadn't blown up so big in monaco noone would of said anything...and if somoene else does it next race and nothing bad happens it will be all sweet.

just kos a crash happened this time.......that means every team should pull there cars in if they see a puff of smoke