Monteiro Looks Forward To Montreal

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Monteiro looks forward to Montreal

New wing package on the Jordan EJ15

Monteiro has held the upper hand over

team-mate Karthikeyan in recent races

Tiago Monteiro heads to Montreal, a circuit he knows well from his time in Champ Car with Fittipaldi-Dingman Racing, keen to put on a good show for Jordan Toyota with a new front and rear wing package on the EJ15.

"I loved racing on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, because it is a very demanding layout," Monteiro told his official web site. "It offers many high speed straights and chicanes and a lot of hard braking zones which can deliver a very pleasing performance over the course of the entire lap."

"The test in Silverstone went well," the Portuguese racer said of last week's outing at the Northamptonshire circuit. "We will not only profit from a new front wing, but also from a new rear wing for the Canadian GP."

"I hope we

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Will Monterio make it 4 GPs in a row in which he has had the upper hand over his illustrious (for all the wrong reasons) team-mate?

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Will Monterio make it 4 GPs in a row in which he has had the upper hand over his illustrious (for all the wrong reasons) team-mate?

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Montreal is similar to Imola where Monteiro was desperately confused about the racing line through the chicanes and consequently lost handfuls of time on each lap. If he does not spend an adequate amount of time behind a competent driver measuring the correct lines through the all important high-speed chicanes, he will surely put in a similarly incompetent performance. However, I expect Narain to cause an accident and take himself and at least one other driver out of the race. Therefore, I will place my bets on the Portugese winning this round of the all important teammate battle.

My stinker of the race though is Takuma Sato. Surely he will obliterate his brakes and/or tyres by half or two-thirds distance at the latest and this of course while being comprehensively outperfromed by his teammate.

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Montreal is similar to Imola where Monteiro was desperately confused about the racing line through the chicanes and consequently lost handfuls of time on each lap. If he does not spend an adequate amount of time behind a competent driver measuring the correct lines through the all important high-speed chicanes, he will surely put in a similarly incompetent performance. However, I expect Narain to cause an accident and take himself and at least one other driver out of the race. Therefore, I will place my bets on the Portugese winning this round of the all important teammate battle.

My stinker of the race though is Takuma Sato. Surely he will obliterate his brakes and/or tyres by half or two-thirds distance at the latest and this of course while being comprehensively outperfromed by his teammate.

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That is a very good point, especially considering Takuma

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I'm not trying to defend Takuma, but BAR said it was a material problem, not a driver problem.

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I'm not trying to defend Takuma, but BAR said it was a material problem, not a driver problem.

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Montreal is similar to Imola where Monteiro was desperately confused about the racing line through the chicanes and consequently lost handfuls of time on each lap. If he does not spend an adequate amount of time behind a competent driver measuring the correct lines through the all important high-speed chicanes, he will surely put in a similarly incompetent performance. However, I expect Narain to cause an accident and take himself and at least one other driver out of the race. Therefore, I will place my bets on the Portugese winning this round of the all important teammate battle.

My stinker of the race though is Takuma Sato. Surely he will obliterate his brakes and/or tyres by half or two-thirds distance at the latest and this of course while being comprehensively outperfromed by his teammate.

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i aslo think monteiro will win the teammate battle, but not because narain will crash.

i'm surprised you didn't predcict sato to crash. i thought he was the crashaholic, not narain. i guess the rote criticisms of the drivers you personally dislike are easily transferrable for you.

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i aslo think monteiro will win the teammate battle, but not because narain will crash. 

i'm surprised you didn't predcict sato to crash.  i thought he was the crashaholic, not narain.  i guess the rote criticisms of the drivers you personally dislike are easily transferrable for you.

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Perhaps that

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I'm not trying to defend Takuma, but BAR said it was a material problem, not a driver problem.

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It should be a material problem, since they havent found any metal mix that could support the driving style of Sato.

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I'm not trying to defend Takuma, but BAR said it was a material problem, not a driver problem.

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That sounds awfully defensive to me, particularly when the forum examined the issue in such great detail and this information did not arise then.

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It should be a material problem, since they havent found any metal mix that could support the driving style of Sato.

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Actually, F1 limits the thickness of the carbon brake discs and the allowance has not changed for some years despite the cars putting more load into them through ever-greater levels of performance. This means that the team, effectively, cannot compensate for Sato's extreme wear profile at the more demanding tracks and this is why he has an abnormal number of failures. So, yes, in a way it is a material problem: For TS's car the brake discs should be some multiple of the thickness of Button's but this is not allowed in the regs.

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For TS's car the brake discs should be some multiple of the thickness of Button's but this is not allowed in the regs.

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Just the brake disks?, Ha! he needs a Tank!

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That sounds awfully defensive to me, particularly when the forum examined the issue in such great detail and this information did not arise then.

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As per usual the Sato fans are delusional and cannot accept that their man was solely responsible for such an embarrassing mistake as obliterating his brakes before half distance at the 2005 Bahrain GP. They continue to invent excuses for this episode as they do for many of Sato

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Just the brake disks?, Ha! he needs a Tank! 

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Perhaps the designers should take a more literal que from the name of certain parts, e.g. the barge boards.

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I'm not trying to defend Takuma, but BAR said it was a material problem, not a driver problem.

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it's ok young man, there's no harm done in defending takuma sato against the evil tirade.

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As per usual the Sato fans are delusional and cannot accept that their man was solely responsible for such an embarrassing mistake as obliterating his brakes before half distance at the 2005 Bahrain GP. They continue to invent excuses for this episode as they do for many of Sato

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who was that?  at the risk of sounding self-centred, it wasn't me!

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It must have been your twin Sato.

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That sounds awfully defensive to me, particularly when the forum examined the issue in such great detail and this information did not arise then.

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yes, both drivers' brakes were failing miserably. it has to be said that takuma's faded first, but neither were going to make it to the finish.

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yes, both drivers' brakes were failing miserably.  it has to be said that takuma's faded first, but neither were going to make it to the finish.

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Now I dont remember, but...wich was the reason of Button

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it's a fact his brakes were also fading badly though. if his clutch didn't fail him then he would have suffred the same fate as sato.

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It must have been your twin Sato.

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he doesn't make things up. he wouldn't have said it if he didn't read it somewhere.

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it's a fact his brakes were also fading badly though.  if his clutch didn't fail him then he would have suffred the same fate as sato.

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Maybe, but how much later and why so much later? Surely you will admit that this down to Sato's erratic driving style?

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Maybe, but how much later and why so much later? Surely you will admit that this down to Sato's erratic driving style?

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Whether he admits it or not it is evidently the truth.

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Bring Back Hockey...hmm

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Bring Back Hockey...hmm

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Haha, dring it back indeed. I miss the Toronto Maple Leafs greatly!