Bridgestone tyre allocations for the 2009 opening races:

Australia - super soft, medium
Malaysia - soft, hard
China - super soft, medium
Bahrain - super soft, medium
Spain - soft, hard

See anything odd?

If you cant make the fastest cars on the grid slower and induce passing through bogus cost cutting measures, drastic rule changes and KERS for the sake of spectacle; FORCE IT through the introduction of extreme compound differences so that somebody, no matter how good the car is, be it McLaren, Ferrari or any of the pack will always be slower than somebody else.

The FIA may as well just say that for half the race the team must use only 80% of the 18K rpm. This soft/hard tyre compound manure (look up the synonyms yourself) is nothing short of the above. This is like making a sprinter run without running shoes for half the distance to make the slower guys look good.

They sold the idea in the past few years and now they are going for the ultimate goal of total race control.

Not so? How?

Any way you look at it, when the FIA together with Bridgestone decide what the teams bring to a track they are artificially manipulating the results of the race.

What happened to the fastest team wins?

No! Now we have the idea of hampering fast cars during the race to possibly, throw them mid pack for some passing? LAME!

Worse, slower teams are even more hampered by this as to the square eyed casual fan it looks like they are passing fast cars only to be passed again later in the race. Sure it looks like the driver duals of the 70s except this time it's artificial and fake.

WCW? WWF? RAW? oh!, it's Formula 1.