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  1. Stinker

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    #103 Stinker, Dec 9, 2013
    Is this getting silly or what!!!

    I claim #14.
     
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    #104 Steve, Dec 9, 2013
    I suppose the idea behind doubling the points for the final race might not be about keeping viewers interested so much as getting the teams to continue to work on improvements right up to the end rather than diverting all their resources to preparing for the next season. Might improve late season competition, I suppose, and viewer interest as a result...maybe.

    Hmmm...if that's the case it seems to me the teams are a bit more likely to care because of the big money awarded for the constructor's championship, points for which are also doubled, rather than the drivers' numbers which are more about prestige.

    Yet all the pundits are focused on this sort of thing.
     
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    #105 Steve, Dec 9, 2013
    One very unfortunate aspect of this biz is they're going to award twice as many points for winning Abu Dhabi (!) than __(fill in the blank with the name of any of the more deserving tracks)__.

    Spa, Monza, Silverstone, Suzuka, Austin, etc, all worth less than Abu Dhabi!

    I picture in my head a meeting between Muppet Head Bernie and the folks who write the checks to host the Abu Dhabi race. Bernie tells them about the plan to award double points for the last race and then tells them how much they'll have to pay to get that last, special spot on the calendar. "Sold, where do we sign?"
     
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    #111 Crashton, Dec 10, 2013
    I know Bernie is crazy, but heck rain makes a better race. Have the sprinkles pop up at unknown intervals. Like when the field heads for turn one on the first lap. :lol:
     
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    #112 Nathan, Dec 10, 2013
    Next Up....Budget Caps

    FIA to institute budget cap for Formula One teams beginning in 2015

    Amount teams will be allowed to spend will be determined before in mid-2014

    A cost cap in Formula One is coming, the FIA said in a surprising announcement on Monday. Although many teams are facing financial difficulties, the idea of compulsorily capping annual budgets has remained highly controversial.

    But FIA president Jean Todt told France's L'Equipe last week: "We need to focus on the problem of costs at all levels of motor sport, not only Formula One."

    So, after a Paris meeting of the sport's new strategy group and the F1 Commission, and with Todt declaring a "mandate," the sport's governing body said the "principle of a global cost cap has been adopted" for F1.

    "The limit will be applied from January 2015," the FIA said in a press release. "A working group will be established within the coming days comprising the FIA, representatives of the Commercial Rights Holder and Team representatives. The objective of the working group will be to have regulations approved by the end of June 2014."

    Current F1 team budgets are believed to range from about $60 million at the back of the grid, to several hundred million for the top spending teams, Red Bull and Ferrari.

    "If we're all at $50-100 million budgets, the show will be no different at all," Caterham boss Cyril Abiteboul argued recently.
    The actual dollar amount eventually set for the cap is therefore the crucial detail.

    "In the end," Lotus chief Eric Boullier added, "if we don't do this, it's going to be more and more difficult to survive."


    Source: FIA to institute budget cap for Formula One teams for 2015 - Autoweek Racing F1 news - Autoweek
     
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    #114 Steve, Dec 11, 2013
    Time flies. I wasn't expecting to see anything like this so soon.

    Sauber's 2014 F1 chassis passes crash test (GPUpdate.net)
     
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    #115 Steve, Dec 11, 2013
    Another surprise. Click the link at the end if you'd like to apply. :D

    FIA opens selection process for new team (GPUpdate.net)
     
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    #118 Nathan, Dec 11, 2013
    Mario said Michael would be all oer having a team if there were customer cars.

    My take is that these would still be mid-pack teams at best. You really think Ferrari is going to sell all the latest and greatest go ever so slightly faster parts to their customers.
     
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    #119 minimark, Dec 11, 2013
    Didn't overlook Michael, it was an omission. :rolleyes:
     
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    #120 beken, Dec 12, 2013
    ..and the new team will get double points if they beat Redbull in any race during the course of the season.
     
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    #121 mrntd, Dec 12, 2013
    I really like #3 from the "Lotus Rules"!:Thumbsup:
     
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    #123 Crashton, Dec 12, 2013
    Of course it's #4 for me. :donut1::donut1::donut1::donut1:
     
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    #124 Steve, Dec 12, 2013
    More drivers, extra tyres for first practice (GPUpdate.net)

    As a reminder, here's a snip on the penalty points system mentioned above:
     
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    #125 Steve, Dec 12, 2013
    Force India Announce Perez As Driver In 2014 (letstalkf1.com)
     
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    #126 minimark, Dec 12, 2013
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    Very telling that a team of Force India's caliber can wind up with a driver line up of this quality.....

    Edited brain fart out....thanks Steve. :rolleyes:
     
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    #127 Zapski, Dec 12, 2013
    I'm happy and sad. Happy for Checo, and the Hulk, but sad for DiResta.
     
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    #130 Nathan, Dec 13, 2013
    From Pitpass.com

     
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    #131 Nathan, Dec 13, 2013
    2014 F1 chassis crash test from Caterham. They passed.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTObVI2C8M]Watch a real 2014 F1 chassis crash test - YouTube[/ame]
     
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    #133 Zapski, Dec 13, 2013
    So, Captain Stabby has a seat this year... yay?
     
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    #134 Nathan, Dec 16, 2013
    Count Sebastian Vettel as one driver who is strongly opposed to a new points system for Formula One that will award double points for the season-ending race of the season, beginning with the 2014 F1 finale in Abu Dhabi.

    "This is absurd and punishes those who have worked hard for a whole season," the four-time champion Vettel told the German newspaper, Bild. "You can hardly imagine that on the last match of the Bundesliga season, [soccer] matches are suddenly worth twice as many points. I value the old traditions in Formula One and don't understand this rule.
    "Drivers, fans and experts are horrified."

    The new plan does not necessarily mean that the final race will change the course of championship history, as just three times in the last 20 years would there have been a different champion had the final race been worth double (50) points. The most recent of those times were 2012, when Fernando Alonso would have topped Vettel for the title, and Felipe Massa (and not Lewis Hamilton) would have been the champion in 2008. Alain Prost -- edged out by Niki Lauda by half a point in 1984 -- would have added a fifth title to his record.

    Going further back, Alan Jones would have won in 1981 ahead of Nelson Piquet, and Gilles Villeneuve would have won the title instead of Jody Scheckter in 1979.

    It is worth noting that one proposed plan by the F1 Strategy Group and Formula One Commission would have resulted in the final four races of the season -- Grands Prix in Russia, the United States, Brazil and Abu Dhabi -- being worth double points.

    The FIA said in the statement: "Double Drivers' and Constructors' points will be awarded at the final race of the Formula One season in order to maximize focus on the championship until the end of the campaign."

    The move is obviously a reaction to the 2013 season, which was utterly dominated by Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, with the title decided long before the Brazil finale.
    In 2014, the season finale will be Abu Dhabi, an often processional race that is nonetheless now worth double the points of classics like Monaco and Spa.

    Writing in the Daily Mail, correspondent Jonathan McEvoy said F1's decision-makers have "undermined the sport with a gimmick that should have been filed away with sprinklers and reversed grids in the file of batty ideas."


    Source: Critics, Sebastian Vettel bash plan for for Formula One double-points race - Autoweek Racing F1 news - Autoweek
     
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