You might just be a little hard on Virgin there. They have taken quite a brave punt doing the whole car on CFD, but the reason they did that was because they didn't, or wouldn't have had the money to use a wind tunnel to help design their car running for 24 hours 7 days per week costing 5 grand an hour.
They've used a system which fitted the budget of 40 million quid they anticipated everyone would be using this year as Max Mosley former head of the FIA had said they would.
As always nothing is ever straight in F1. A budget compromise was reached, Max is gone and the various decisions regarding design/refuelling finally ratified. Not too late for the established teams to react but using CFD, Virgins car designers Nick Wirth's company had started the process before that some of those rules changed. It's embarrassing for them but as it is the new teams were forced to leap off a cliff without knowing what the rules would be. Very unfair on them. F1 is pretty much run by the established teams and they didn't want the new boys coming in anyway diluting their share of the dosh!
Not the first time this happened though and won't be the last. Don't forget that when Michelin pulled out a few years ago Renault made cock ups on tyre assumptions that sent them off on a false design course that lasted 3 seasons!
Look at Mclaren at the beginning of last season. What a dog that was. Virgin have nothing to be ashamed of.
As to the race I hope the Jenson haters will back off. He made a superb decision to change his tyres early. Word has it that without his brake problems Vettel couldn't have made his tyres last the race without a further change. This was another superb Button performance. I'm not his biggest fan but full credit where it is due.
No Hits, No Hype.......................Classic Rock Jan 2012
