Thursday, April 20, 2006
A Man Riding a Dragon Throwing Wolves at Maggots (or, what's wrong with Rubens)
The title to this post comes from the latest edition of the Scary Movie franchise, and is in fact the only good line in an otherwise awful film. I think, however, that it neatly identifies the problem Rubens has at the moment: incompatibility. He is trying all the wrong things, in the wrong order, to get himself back up to speed. He is compromising himself too much, then aiming at the wrong targets, with the wrong weapons: trying to squash maggots by throwing wolves at them whilst riding atop a dragon. He needs to let his own legs carry him, and stamp on the maggots with his own big shiny boots...
Peter Windsor has summed all this up for us: "the sooner he goes back to right-foot-braking the better".
Peter Windsor has summed all this up for us: "the sooner he goes back to right-foot-braking the better".
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How much of a detriment would it be for Rubens to go back to right foot braking though?
Surely it must be clear by now that left-foot is the only way forward? It's not like it's a new thing? Michael was the one who came into the sport pioneering left foot breaking and he was so fast that everyone switched. Well almost everyone. Rubens was the last one to switch (Jean Alassi never switched and retired at the end of the season that was the last one before Rubens switched but I think I'm right in saying that Jean didn't race in the last Grand Prix of the season).
So now Rubens has been racing with left foot breaking for a few years so he has left foot memory now and he'll have lost some of his right foot memory. So why go back to right foot breaking now?
I suppose my argument mirrors that old story of asking for directions from a yokel and the yokel replies "well I wouldn't start from here".
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Surely it must be clear by now that left-foot is the only way forward? It's not like it's a new thing? Michael was the one who came into the sport pioneering left foot breaking and he was so fast that everyone switched. Well almost everyone. Rubens was the last one to switch (Jean Alassi never switched and retired at the end of the season that was the last one before Rubens switched but I think I'm right in saying that Jean didn't race in the last Grand Prix of the season).
So now Rubens has been racing with left foot breaking for a few years so he has left foot memory now and he'll have lost some of his right foot memory. So why go back to right foot breaking now?
I suppose my argument mirrors that old story of asking for directions from a yokel and the yokel replies "well I wouldn't start from here".
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