More drivers, extra tyres for first practice (GPUpdate.net) As a reminder, here's a snip on the penalty points system mentioned above:
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.
There were so many new sporting rules just introduced they are going to need umpires, referees, instant replay, and time outs for review. I thought this was racing not football.:frown2::cryin:
This is going to be fun!! You know Kimi is going to try and prove Ferrari wrong for showing him the door for Alonso, and Alonso will do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.. Who else thinks we will see them take each other out at least once in 2014?
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I think you meant Force India. Coincidentally, the same mistake I made a week or so ago in the 2013 thread. But, speaking of Sauber drivers... Sutil moves to Sauber for 2014 (Racer.com)
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
Here's hoping there's plenty of coverage for a change. :fingerscrossed: Button: First 2014 test will be hilarious (racer.com)
Curious to see whether the new noses this year will be as bad as some have predicted. Even if they are, this definitely won't be the first time F1 cars have hit the track with ugly protuberances. Ligier JS5, 1976:
I love the fat rear tires they use to run. They may have to go back to them if the new engines make as much torque as they say. Those fronts are lower profile then the current ones.