Most liked posts in thread: F1 - 2010

farkus · Jan 27, 2010

...and the gap between the front of the grid and the rear widens with every passing day. :nonod:

Teams have also agreed that the top ten qualifiers will have to start the race on the tyres they use in Q3.

43 days......c'mon let's hurry up and get the season started before they come up with more new rules! :idea:

goaljnky · Jan 27, 2010

farkus said: ↑

...and the gap between the front of the grid and the rear widens with every passing day. :nonod:

Teams have also agreed that the top ten qualifiers will have to start the race on the tyres they use in Q3.

43 days......c'mon let's hurry up and get the season started before they come up with more new rules! :idea:
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They are getting silly with all the rules. I have an idea. How about they come up with say 50 different rules. Before every race, they pull 25 rules out of the hat and those will be the only ones in effect for the race. :ihih:

farkus · Jan 28, 2010

Ferrari launches the 2010 at Maranello.

Side by side comparisons of the 2009 and 2010...

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2010_ferrari_f10_compared_t.jpg

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2010_ferrari_f10_compared_f.jpg

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2010_ferrari_f10_compared_r.jpg

...and a split comparison...

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2010_ferrari_f10_split_t.jpg

McLaren tomorrow... :cornut:

Nathan · Jan 28, 2010

goaljnky · Jan 28, 2010

Is it me, or is the 2010 Marlboro bar code bigger then the 2009 one?

Steve · Mar 10, 2010

Ok, we all know the site took a dump today and there are now active threads with big gaps. Here's one! Meh, at least the missing content from this thread was mostly just off-season filler.

Nathan · Mar 10, 2010

Just over 1 Day till practice starts!!!

Steve · Mar 10, 2010

Nathan said: ↑

Just over 1 Day till practice starts!!!
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Yep, of course it'll be a bit odd since Hispania intend to use it as the first ever run and shake down for their cars. I can't believe there isn't a rule against that...yet.

Steve · Mar 10, 2010

Rome Grand Prix confirmed for 2013 (f1.gpupdate.net)

I highlighted that bit of Bernie's quote...seems like it should be followed by "OR ELSE!!"

A Grand Prix on the streets of Italian capital city Rome has been confirmed by Formula 1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone for the 2013 season. The addition to the calendar will come as it increases in size once again, to 20 races.

With 2010 hosting 19 Grands Prix - the highest amount in one season to date, as first seen in 2005 - the calendar is set to expand yet further in coming years as the 20 figure is hit for the first time.

With Rome having been named as a possible candidate for a race last year before Ecclestone seemingly drifted away from the idea, it now appears as though as deal has been struck.

"Rome will come into the programme for 2013," the Englishman told German magazine Speedweek. "We will have 20 races and the teams will be happy with it."

It is also believed that Ecclestone is still considering a return to the United States in the form of New York street race.
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Steve · Mar 12, 2010

Here's news some of us will take very well.

F1: Briatore Rules Out Return
Flavio Briatore says he will not return to Formula One...
(formula-one.speedtv.com)

Flavio Briatore has ruled out returning to Formula One.

The 59-year-old Italian said the FIA is pushing ahead with appealing a French court's overturning of his lifetime motor racing ban, in the wake of the 'crashgate' scandal.

But when asked about possibly returning to F1 as a manager or a team owner, the former Renault team boss told La Gazzetta dello Sport Friday: "I exclude it 100 per cent.

"I still have affection for F1 even if it would have been better to have left at the end of 2006 when Alonso won his second title."

Earlier this week, Briatore said he missed some aspects of his former involvement in the sport, but not F1 itself.

He also confirmed that he stepped down as chairman of the London football club Queens Park Rangers in order to spare the Football Association the "embarrassment" of being linked to the Singapore race-fixing story.
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Nathan · Mar 12, 2010

Yeah, he'll just slink off to Monaco with his millions...

Oh the horror.

bee1000 · Mar 12, 2010

Latest controversy - McLaren's driver-aided aero trick:

Mercedes GP team principal Ross Brawn thinks he and his fellow competitors have no option but to resign themselves to developing complicated venting systems in the wake of McLaren's ingenious device being approved by the FIA.

The F-duct vent system on the McLaren, which helps stall the rear wing for a straight-line speed boost via the driver covering a hole in the cockpit, has been the subject of intense controversy in the build-up to the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Some teams are unhappy that the FIA has deemed it legal - as they believe it is effectively a moveable aerodynamic device. However, the governing body has adopted the stance that the driver cannot be treated as a moving part of the car.
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ScottinBend · Mar 12, 2010

:crazy:

Steve · Mar 12, 2010

... and Renault's view of "Knee-Gate"

Renault boss furious over McLaren wing (uk.eurosport.yahoo.com)

Renault have accused rivals McLaren of opening up a Formula One arms race with their controversial rear wing even though it has been ruled legal by the sport's governing body.

"It is fundamentally clear that the McLaren wing design is totally illegal," Renault managing director Bob Bell told the BBC after the first practice session of the season at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

"They have driven a cart horse through the spirit of the rules and regulations," added Bell, whose team are competing under a suspended permanent ban after a race-fixing controversy that hung over last season.

"They have opened up another arms race, it's going to cost everybody a lot of money. The governing bodies need to be a lot stronger with these things."

The McLaren car passed inspections on Thursday at the Sakhir circuit and the team said they consulted the governing International Automobile Federation throughout the design process.

Williams co-owner and engineering director Patrick Head told Reuters that the rear wing had a slot that appeared to be fed by a duct that McLaren drivers Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton could block at will by body movement.

"I understand that (race director) Charlie (Whiting) is saying that article three of the regulations that would limit something like that don't apply to the driver, only to the car," he said.

"But I do remember when our active ride car was banned, it was banned on the grounds that a piston in the strut was moving and by virtue of doing so was influencing the aerodynamic performance of the car.

"What I'm told Charlie is saying is that Lewis or Jenson's knee, or whatever it is, is not part of the car."

Head said Williams might take another look at the McLaren system.

"It is a bit of a problem because if one car is suddenly able to gain five or six km an hour on the straight then we've all got to do it," he added.

He depicted a scenario where drivers might drive one-handed down the straight with the other covering the flow of air through a hole elsewhere in the cockpit to give an aerodynamic advantage.

"If anybody comes up with a way to make their car 0.3 or 0.4 of a second quicker around the track that other people haven't done, then they've been very clever," said Head.

"I'm not saying it's illegal but we've just got to look at Charlie's interpretation."

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, who first aired concerns about the McLaren device, said the wing had been declared legal so rival teams would have to come up with their own solutions.

"We questioned it some time ago," he said. "As the FIA have looked at it and deemed it to be okay, it's therefore a clever design as opposed to illegal design.

"So inevitably now there will be a wild goose chase I guess of all the teams chasing that loophole."

Reuters
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minimark · Mar 14, 2010

Bahrain = BORING

After countless hours of rule change debates by the suited egos in charge of F1; they have done nothing to improve the racing. In the moonscape of a circuit called Bahrain; the no fueling rule mearly reduced most of the race to drivers driving conservatively as they were forced to carry heavy fuel loads to last the entire race. With the final laps approaching and the hopes of the gloves being taken off and some good racing to ensue, the lack of fresh tires made the whole thing a rub with lap times mostly unchanged.....

Was nice to see Ferrari back and Massa fully recovered from his injuries last year. Shumacher after not racing for three years turned in a solid performance in his return finishing in the points and the new Lotus team finishing it's first race bodes well for them.

Maybe very small fuel cells to force lots of refueling and no need to conserve would lead to better racing..... But I'm sure the egos will figure something out.:lol:

Nathan · Mar 14, 2010

I'm torn as to where my loyalties lie this year...

I'm a huge fan of Ferrari, have been for 30 some years now, but Alonso is not a favorite. Would much rather see Massa leading the team.

Also a big fan of Schumacher, there is a lot to be said of his cold and calculating ways, but also not a fan of Mercedes.

goaljnky · Mar 14, 2010

very boring. a procession if I've ever seen one.

minimark · Mar 14, 2010

Has anyone else wondered if the fans in the stands at Bahrain are cardboard cut outs? Try as I might I've never detected any movement from the stands and the TV coverage never does a shot into the stands..... Only place I ever see live people is in the pits, start finish line and around the podium...:rolleyes5:

goaljnky · Mar 14, 2010

When in the desert you don't want to move too much during the day. You waste energy and moisture. You save the moving for night time.

minimark · Mar 14, 2010

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