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    #256 Steve, Feb 25, 2015
    F1 Australian Grand Prix: Manor to race in Australia, signs Will Stevens (crash.net)
     
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    #259 mrntd, Feb 27, 2015
    There was a fan video of Alonso's crash after the car stopped moving. There were a lot of people running but no one touched the car until the guy with the insulating gloves showed up. It was almost 60sec with nothing done.
     
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    #261 Steve, Feb 27, 2015
    The final test is in Barcelona. Here are today's times. For comparison, last year's pole lap was 1:25:232.

    Note Button in the Mc-Honda did over 100 laps and best time less than a half second slower than the 2014 pole time.

    DAY TWO TIMES

    Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5 Column 6
    Pos Driver Car Time Gap Laps
    1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m 22.792s 106
    2 Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes 1m 23.995s 1.203s 90
    3 Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari 1m 24.071s 1.279s 141
    4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1m 25.339s 2.547s 143
    5 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1m 25.590s 2.798s 101
    6 Pastor Maldonado Lotus/Mercedes 1m 26.705s 3.913s 140
    7 Max Verstappen Toro Rosso/Renault 1m 26.766s 3.974s 139
    8 Daniil Kvyat Red Bull/Renault 1m 26.965s 4.173s 84
    9 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m 28.412s 5.620s 77
     
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    #262 Minidave, Feb 27, 2015
    Sheesh, has MBZ been sandbagging a bit? Or was this just a banzai run to psyche out the other guys right before the first race?
     
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    #263 Crashton, Feb 27, 2015
    I'm sure many bags of sand were used. No one shows their hand until the first race.
     
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    #264 Steve, Feb 27, 2015
    Just to fuel the fires of speculation... :devil:

    Rosberg claims he wasn't even trying for a hot lap, also complained of being unhappy with the setup.

    Want more? Someone from another team said he happened to be watching during that 'banzai' run and claims Rosberg didn't even open his DRS.
     
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    #265 mrntd, Mar 2, 2015
    Looks like it could be a boring season with MB dominating again.

    Anymore it seems like every time there is a major rules change one team gets it right until the next major change. McLaren, Williams, Ferrari, Red Bull, now MB. Maybe there should be flipping the rules around every 2-3 years just to keep it interesting. Not making things tighter just different. It would get innovation going again.
     
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    #267 Zapski, Mar 2, 2015
    Also, RedBull finally revealed their "new" livery.

    Shoulda stuck with the camo.

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    #269 Steve, Mar 2, 2015
    I suspect Red Bull going back to what is essentially the same livery fits the same sort of ease-of-recognition logic blamed for the new helmet rule.

    Race promoters lobbied for helmet change ban (grandprix247.com)
     
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    #271 Red Bull, Mar 2, 2015
    Never liked how Infiniti is on the car and now it's larger, and a lot more visible! Then they have advertising like Infiniti has anything to do with the engineering and performance of the F1 cars.
     
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    #277 Crashton, Mar 3, 2015
    The fact that Infinkity doesn't have a part on the car doesn't bother me. It's only a badge $aying where a bunch of money came from.
     
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    #278 Zapski, Mar 3, 2015
    What gets me is the redundancy.

    Total is on both wings, and Infinity is not only the GIANT SIDEPOD logo, but also on the rear wing. Even the Red Bull charging logo is on there twice per side, with the words Red Bull as well. And that's not counting all the other repetitions visible from the front or rear.

    They really need to hire a better livery design firm, rather than Craigslisting an empty-nester with Corel Draw and MS Paint. :/
     
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    #281 Red Bull, Mar 3, 2015
    They were so identifiable that Philip Morris handled out cease and desist letters on PM letterhead at later events preventing the sale of Marlboro merchandise, even if it was licensed and didn't say Marlboro. They called it the "red roof" design. I have one and plan to display it with my Marlboro converted models.

    Even Penske and Honda merchandise,promo items, and advertising couldn't use the paint scheme. They were still running the Marlboro livery and logos, but Honda promo poster from 2000 had all red cars with Penske logos and the IRL diecasts were all white with Penske logos.
     
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    #283 Nathan, Mar 3, 2015
    I'm surprised we don't see a Dacia logo on the Red Bull too.

    I don't know if this needs mentioning so I will....

    Renault and Nissan are "partners" with each owning a decent size stake of the other. Infiniti is a Nissan brand that was primarily in the US for some time. The idea with the Red Bull sponsorship is to take the Infiniti brand worldwide.
     
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    #285 Crashton, Mar 3, 2015
    I remember the Mild Seven tobacco adverts on the Renault F1 cars. When they raced in a place that banned tobacco advertising they switch it up to say Wild Seven. Pretty brilliant.
     
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    #286 Red Bull, Mar 3, 2015
    :idea: Then they should at least badge the motor as an Infiniti like they did in the IRL.
     
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    #287 Steve, Mar 3, 2015
    I'm not disagreeing with your idea but that might be the last straw for Renault. They were already pissed because they didn't think they got enough credit when RB was doing well. It's even possible the Infiniti name on the RBs made it sting even worse since, despite the corporate connection with Nissan/Infiniti, Renault are in F1 to promote their own name. I think as Renault's works team RB get the engines free, thus increasing Renault's feeling of being snubbed when they didn't get the credit when RB was winning. Something tells me that contract wouldn't survive RB rebadging Renault's engines as Infinitis. RB may have already brought it up and had it shot down. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Renault think their name should be on those sidepods instead of Infiniti. As in, it's a Red Bull/Renault, not a Red Bull/Infiniti.

    Maybe if Nissan hadn't decided to spend their money going back to Le Mans prototype racing again RB might have been able to convince them to go in on an engine building/branding venture.
     
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    #288 Steve, Mar 3, 2015
    Whoa! Alonso won't drive in OZ!

    Fernando Alonso: A Medical Update (mclaren.com)
     
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    #292 Steve, Mar 5, 2015
    Bernie just keeps giving and giving. :D

    Ecclestone: Grid passes should be used for really glamorous ladies (grandprix247.com)
     
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    #293 mrntd, Mar 5, 2015
    When are they going to get ride of Bernie?:nonod:
     
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