Originally Posted by Fred Hubbard

Again reread my post to truly grasp what I am saying. If the manufacturer is serious enough about being competitive then they will spare no expense to ensure that they are competitive, just like it was Serpent's choice not to do pre-event testing it was also Serpent's and every other manufacturers choice to do pre-event testing. You (not you directly) can't bitch, complain and cry if you don't do well if you didn't take advantage of spending the time doing testing. Once again damn near every track in the world is someone's home track so when a driver does well is that the default reason, it was his home track, that's so weak. Although I drive for HB I'm not trying to defend how we did but rather point out the weakness of character that invariably some drivers/teams are going to exhibit because they don't have the strength of character to be honest with themselves about their lack of competitiveness.