F1 - 2011

With Charlie around there would not be a pipe big enough to share. But I hear what you're saying.

 

You can't be suggesting that Charlie might Bogart the pipe.......LOL

 

I am not suggesting. I am outright saying it.

 

Mercedes gains full ownership of Mercedes F1 race team

FRANKFURT -- Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz unit and its partner Aabar Investments PJS, have gained full ownership of the racing team Mercedes GP by buying the remaining 24.9 percent stake held by team principal Ross Brawn, the company said in an e-mailed statement.

The Mercedes Grand Prix racing team will continue to compete under Brawn's leadership, and cars and engines will continue to be developed and manufactured in England.

''We see our Formula One program as an important element of our brand history. The acquisition of a majority stake holding in our Silver Arrows team sends a clear signal that we intend to achieve technical and sporting success on world motorsport's biggest and most important stage – and to do so in cost-effective conditions" Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said in the statement.

Mercedes bought a 75.1 percent stake in the team in November 2009 together with its partner, Abu Dhabi investment company Aabar, which bought a 9.1 percent stake in Daimler in March 2009.

The team emerged from the former Honda team after a management buyout led by former Ferrari technical director Ross Brawn. Honda quit the sport for financial reasons



Source - Automotive News Europe

 

Yep, if they're going to run the full grand prix course at the Glen, he will need to work on his neck muscles - I imagine the forces an F1 car can generate as it goes thru the boot will be significant, if short lived....and they don't run that part of the track in NASCAR - I wonder why?

 

It might seem like a Kafkaesque scenario, but the affair relating to the name of the car with which Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa will tackle this year’s Formula 1 World Championship saw its final and decisive episode played out these past few days with the concomitant withdrawal by Ford of the summons. Therefore common sense has prevailed.

In order to avoid the slightest risk of anyone confusing a Formula 1 car with a pick-up truck, for their part, the men from Maranello have decided that the car will lose the F that precedes the number 150 and which stands for Ferrari, as it has done on numerous occasions when it’s come to giving a car a code name, be it for the race track or the road. It appears that this could have caused so much confusion in the minds of the consumer across the Pond that, at the same time as losing the F, the name will be completely Italianised, replacing the English “th” with the equivalent Italian symbol.

Therefore the name will now read as the Ferrari 150° Italia, which should make it clear even to the thickest of people that the name of the car is a tribute to the anniversary of the unification of our country. Let’s hope the matter is now definitely closed and that we can concentrate on more serious matters, namely ensuring that our car that already seems to be pretty good out of the box, becomes a real winner.

Source - The Horse Whisperer - Ferrari's Official Blog

 

I still say there ain't no way he is ever going to fit in the cocpit.......:lol:

Unless he gets Crisco as a sponsor!

 

CRISCO?!

That won't make him any THINNER, it's SHORTning!

[ cue rimshot ] "I'm here all week..."

hat tip to my old Boy Scout days....

_Dave_

 

BA....Dump...BUMP.....

 

(tap tap tap) "Is this thing on?..."

_Dave_

 

So on Wind Tunnel tonight they quoted Bernie Ecclestone as to be " contemplating " putting in tack side sprinklers to come on at random times to make things more " interesting ". F1/WWF

Randy

 

...and the random Clown running unexpectedly out on the track!!!

He truly does need to be put out to pasture......ridiculous.

 

That story has been making the rounds for over a week now. Even Pirelli has chimed in thinking thats a good idea. Our own goaljnky had this idea over a year ago. It's nice to see the Bernie is a M/A reader.

You have to admit that some of these tracks are downright boring and adding a "rain" event for a specified time at a specified point during the race would spice things up. However, I also think it is a bit contrived.

 

Then change or drop those boring tracks plain and simple... Gimmicks and contrived conditions such has water sprinklers turned on and off in an effort to improve racing do not belong in F1.

 

One of the most remarkable things we've seen in a long time is this deconstructed 2010 F1 car on display at Mercedes-Benz World in Surrey, UK. The Mercedes GP Petronas F1 comprises 3200 components and every one of them is hung in the display. The display itself was arranged by Dutch artist Paul Veroude and definitely fits into the "how can you do that?" category. Its subject is equally as fascinating, accounting for 90,000 man hours of design time, 200,000 man hours of manufacturing manifested as 600 kg finished form manufactured to the most exacting tolerances of the world's most exotic substances - carbon fiber, titanium, aluminum and magnesium. To look at, the car is predominantly carbon fiber (85% by volume) but it's so light that it accounts for only 30% of the mass.



Source - Gizmag

 

Love to see that in person!!!! Could stand there for hours on end studying it...