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minimark · Mar 30, 2015

Ferrari snuck up on them this time, rest assured M/B's strategy in the future will be based upon the boys in red having a faster pace.. Hopefully Ferrari will improve even more and ruin many more M/B parties this season!!!

MCS02 · Mar 30, 2015

Nathan said: ↑

Kimi in an Oscar winning performance

Such excitement!

Kimi RaikkÃƒÂ¶nen videoÃƒÂ¼zenet - Nagy Futam III - YouTube
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That Kimi! He is such an animated guy.:lol::lol::lol:

Crashton · Mar 30, 2015

I have no preference over who wins, my preference is that there is a real race for the win. Me thinks it will be a good year & may the best driver & team win.

Zapski · Mar 30, 2015

I'm jazzed just to see a real Ferrari / Mercedes title fight. It's the first time since 1955.

What kills me though is that the Ferrari is faster in a straight line than the Merc. That's the exact opposite of how Seb won his championships. The RBs were quick in corners, slow (comparatively) in straights.

mrntd · Apr 2, 2015

Good one Steve

Steve · Apr 9, 2015

A refreshing change from the finger pointing coming from his bosses.

Ricciardo: We have problems with the whole RB11 package (grandprix247.com)

9 April, 2015

Daniel Ricciardo has admitted that Red Bull’s problems run deeper than Renault power, and in fact the entire RB11 package is not quite up to scratch.

Particularly after Australia, bosses of the former world championship-dominant team pointed the finger angrily at its French engine partner.

Renault hit back with equal venom, accusing Red Bull of pedalling “lies” about its only issue in 2015 being the struggling turbo V6.

Asked directly if it is right to say the engine is the only problem, senior Red Bull driver Ricciardo admitted ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend: “It’s the whole package. But this means that we have the opportunity now to look in many areas for improvement.”

After two races, Ricciardo lies a distant eighth in the 2015 drivers’ standings, despite finishing last season ‘best of the rest’ behind the Mercedes duo.

“Put it this way — it’s been challenging,” he smiled. “But the season is still young and many things can change. We will just have to have some patience.”

However, Ricciardo admitted it was difficult to cope two weeks ago when a driver he notably defeated last year – former teammate Sebastian Vettel – lapped him en route to victory in a Ferrari.

“I was surprised,” he said. “We saw in winter testing that Ferrari looks good, but to beat Mercedes in the second race of the season surprised everybody I think.”

“On the other hand, it’s good for our sport that another car is at the front — good for Ferrari obviously but also for everybody else. It shows that Mercedes is not unbeatable,” he added.
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Crashton · Apr 12, 2015

Le BOOM!!!! ostcount

Zapski · Apr 14, 2015

Expect the McLarens to start moving up the field, now that they've gotten their pre-season testing sorted out.

Crashton · Apr 15, 2015

Nice shirt. When I saw that I thought of a rally driver barking at his co-driver to tell him more & do it faster. Such different disciplines.

minimark · Apr 16, 2015

Agree on both points, and Nico needs to man up or become a bridesmaid forever....

Nathan · Apr 20, 2015

Bernie says if Audi joins the F1 ranks he'll leave.

Bernie Ecclestone has revealed he is willing to leave Formula One if it encourages Audi to join the grid.
Speculation has been rife that Audi is set to buy either Toro Rosso or Red Bull and therefore take a place in the field for the 2016 campaign.
However, it is widely reported that Volkswagen Group boss Ferdinand Piech does not like Ecclestone, thus delaying a possible foray into F1.
"If that is the case I'll leave," Ecclestone told BBC Sport. "I'd be happy to step down immediately to bring those people in. Absolutely serious."
In that same interview with the BBC, Ecclestone suggested that he does not particularly welcome Manor's presence in F1.
Manor - formerly the financially stricken Marussia - did not race in the season opener in Australia and have finished no higher than 15th in any of the two subsequent meetings.
In reaction to Ecclestone's comments, Manor team boss Graeme Lowdon said: "I think, with the greatest respect, the most important thing is if the fans want us there and the message we get loud and clear is the fans want us there.
"Bernie and our team have the same objective, we want to contribute more. When we contribute more Bernie will feel differently.
"We're a racing team, it's our job to move forward. We had a very difficult end to last season and a difficult start in terms of preparation.
"We're here and we're here to stay."

Steve · Apr 20, 2015

I can't figure this out. Did he not see the empty space right in front of him when he parked on the grid?

Maldonado Got A Penalty In Bahrain For The Most Hilarious Reason (wtf1.co.uk)

April 20, 2015

Pastor Maldonado is incredibly gifted… at picking up all sorts of penalties. Whether it’s speeding in the pitlane, deliberately crashing into his rivals or jumping the start; Yep, Pastor’s done them all.

But in Bahrain Pastor managed to add a new one to his ever growing collection of penalties.

He was meant to start the race from 16th, so where do you think he tried his luck starting from? 15th? 14th? Nope, 18th.

Yes, in a penalty that surely only Pastor Maldonado could have achieved, he managed to be penalised for starting two grid slots back from where he was meant to have started the race.

Cheating, you’re doing it wrong.
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Stinker · Apr 20, 2015

If it wasn't for the money he brings to Lotus or F-1 he wouldn't be there!

Steve · Apr 26, 2015

Interesting summary from Popular Mechanics.

The Real Problem with Formula 1 (popularmechanics.com)

The greatest racing on Earth isn't happening in the premier race series.

Apr 25, 2015 @ 1:00 PM

I've spent most of my adult life looking to Formula 1 for tech things innovative and buzzworthy. The mind-bending designs of Gordon Murray and Adrian Newey spawned teenage fantasies of moving to Europe and training to become an aerodynamicist. But in recent years, my inner compass has pointed away from Monaco.

For techno-geeks, motor racing has a new address, and it isn't on F1 honcho Bernie Ecclestone's yacht at Monte Carlo. It's pressed up against a fence at Le Mans or at Circuit of the Americas or at one of the six other playgrounds on the World Endurance Championship (WEC) calendar. The coolest cars in motorsportâ€”the seemingly LSD-fueled creations we'll look back on in amazement 20 years from nowâ€”are racing in the WEC's top LMP1-Hybrid class, where a liberal rulebook serves as almighty inspiration for those who thrive on creative expression.

The WEC has come up with the closest thing to the glory days of Can-Am and IMSA GTP racing, where a car's height, length, and width served as the most pressing limitations. Barring a few no-go zones, manufacturers are left to fill that cube with their radical versions of four-wheeled hell and fury. Consider the options: In P1, Audi's stump-pulling, 4.0-liter turbo*diesel V6 battles Porsche's bizarre, 2.0-liter single-turbo V4, but also Toyota's ornate, naturally aspirated, 3.7-liter V8, and a shrink-wrapped 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 from newcomer Nissan. Toyota's supercapacitor energy-recovery system (ERS) combines with its V8 to put nearly 1000 hp to the ground on deployment, while Porsche uses two forms of ERSâ€”turbo-fed and flywheel-basedâ€”to propel its lightweight challenger.

To win Le Mans last year, Audi went the traditional route: It championed the internal-combustion engine and used the smallest amount of ERS power possible. To compete in 2015, Nissan originally targeted the moon and tried to harvest the maximum from its mechanical ERS, settling on a total output of 1250 hp. That Nissan, which is covered in more detail on page 64, is also front-engined and front-wheel-drive. Its rivals are mid-engined and make use of all-wheel drive through ERSs routed to the front tires while the old-school engine roasts the rears.

This kind of insanity takes money, and lots of it. Manufacturers are committing F1-level budgets on a lesser-known series like the WEC because they can play on their own terms there, go into battle with their own technology, and keep a (mostly) straight face when they say that some of what they've learned in LMP1 will trickle into future road cars.

In Formula 1, the opposite is true. Ferrari, McLaren, Williams, and other teams from F1's pantheon of greats have opted into a perverted form of the sport where each constructor builds its version of the same rule-mandated car. Having lived through F1's engineering heights, I can't help but wonder if a kid building a Soap Box Derby car has more latitude for expression than his grand-prix counterparts. It's technical asphyxiation. Fixed engine specs have F1 manufacturers casting paint-by-number mills with the same 1.6-liter displacement, six cylinders, 24 valves, 90-degree vee, and central exhaust location. Silly maximum fuel-flow rates, instituted as a nod to environmental concerns, and a 15,000-rpm rev limit, far lower than engine speeds of a decade ago, are made worse by bans on teams making substantive improvements to a car over the course of a season. Combine that with restrictive chassis and bodywork dimensions, and you have the once-proud sport of kings reduced to little more than clone wars.

Even Newey, a design legend, recently decided it was time to step away. Maybe he'd grown tired of penning iteration after iteration of the same damn Red Bull F1 chassis. The situation is enough to leave you nostalgic for the days when new F1 cars warranted Zapruder-like analysis, journalists (and other teams!) struggling to grasp the radical concepts unveiled during preseason tests at Estoril or Paul Ricard. F1 teams, which once produced the most inspiring race cars on the planet, now hold emergency meetings to look for ways to turn back the clock.

Despite its shortcomings, F1 is still more popular than any other form of racing, but its narrative has definitely changed. The appeal is more basic. As the cars become less rolling laboratory and more appliance, F1's importance has been decoupled from its popularity. In the absence of frightfully fast and inspiring vehicles, the headlines move toward TMZ sensibilities as team-owner rifts and trash-talking teammates litter the news.

I've placed F1 on a personal, semipermanent time-out, and until it comes up with a better formula, I'll continue to find salvation in the Democratic Republic of Le Mans Prototypes. And I'm not alone. Discerning fans and a growing portion of the auto industry have also turned their interest to the home of endurance racing. Aston Martin, GM (through Corvette), and Porsche all fund massive programs to compete for GTE-class honors. Ford's due to join the party in 2016, the 50th anniversary of its first Le Mans win, with its revived GT.

WEC drivers are for the most part relatively unknown, but the cars they wield are unforgettable. The world's biggest stars race in F1, and the global awareness it offers manufacturers and sponsors is unparalleled. F1 dwarfs the WEC in almost every metric worth measuring, which makes the WEC's recent explosion in popularityâ€”and the growth from two LMP1 manufacturers in 2013 to four in 2015â€”a rather fascinating development. F1 will find its way out of the wilderness at some point, and when it does, the cars will earn their fair share of the spotlight. Until then, we have LMP1 to remind us that, while drivers come and go, the cars are the real stars.

Former race engineer and R&T contributing editor Marshall Pruett still prefers bias-ply tires.
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minirab · Apr 26, 2015

Speaking of the WEC, the Spa round is May 2nd. FOX will be showing all six

hours between FS-1 and FS-2.

Nathan · May 4, 2015

Minidave said: ↑

Why?
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Tradition!

Steve · May 6, 2015

I'm just glad they dumped the chrome.

Steve · May 8, 2015

NBC's broadcast schedule for Spain.

Steve · May 8, 2015

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSD-VllWlYg"]Your Favourite Spanish Grand Prix - 1991 Mansell & Senna - YouTube[/ame]

Steve · May 9, 2015

Good onboard video of the pole lap here.

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