I haven't noticed a date yet for the tribunal. They get to keep racing in the meantime and everyone will, of course, continue to speculate. Mercedes welcomes International Tribunal opportunity (GPUpdate.net)
They will certainly keep their win no matter what is decided. Heck Alonso kept his win when Piquet crashed his car giving his team & Alonso the win. The show goes on....
Rosberg may keep the win. But the team may loose it. It looks like Rosberg spilled the beads to Vettel about the test on the Saturday after qualifying. Then Vettel blew the whistle. Between the bad press Pirelli is getting, the test mess, and no new contract for next year I would not be surprised to see them leave at the end of the year. Now Lotus says they won't allow the new tires for Silverstone. Michelin, Bridgestone and Hankook have played down them coming in. Any new supplier is going to get the same BS Pirelli has gotten. So why bother. So what is F1 going to do for tires?
I'm sure someone would step up & supply tires. I'd guess it would be a Korean or Chinese company. Who that is remains to be seen. PS How STUPID is Rosberg???
(In my best english accent) Well boys, tis about time to race and just about time to discover if MB's sudden and stunning lack of tire degradation at Monte Carlo was a mere fluke.....:what:
Yep, a classic Vettel race, lead from the start and don't even bother to look back. "What's behind me, is not important"! But what was all that jeering and chanting during Jordan's interview? I think they were Alonso supporters, but the camera stayed off them so I'm not sure Hell of a charge by Alonso tho, and the MBZ's are still 3rd place cars except for the odd fluke wekend. However, it was amazing to see DiResta do 50+ laps on one set of tires, and the mid pack is slowly catching up to the front runners. I think if they gave this formula one more year before they change the engines and everything, you'd see some really close racing. But, alas.....not to be. Encouraging to see Mock Webba get a decent start for a change and he mounted a pretty good run too, just couldn't get it to the front to back up his teammate. Can Vettel/Red Bull win it all again this year? At this rate, I would not bet against them.....
MB's consistent third place cars before their private test and Monte Carlo, when? ... Note: For the second race in a row after that test they have been on the podium and have had no problems with excessive tire degradation... Nope, nothing to see here. Twas a great race second back with the battle between Hamilton and Alonso being the highlight of the day!!!
Spare a thought for the track worker who was killed while clearing the accident towards the end of the race.
Yes, I just found out about this.....he apparently dropped his radio, bent down to retrieve it, stumbled and fell under the wheels of the vehicle carrying Guitierrez's car off the track. Sad. On a second note, someone else might be "dead" too....... Toto Wolff has played down rumours Ross Brawn is shaping up as the sacrificial lamb in the Mercedes 'testgate' scandal. The German marque is touted to face the FIA's new international tribunal on June 20, but team boss Brawn seems to have paved the way for taking all the blame. "It was my decision to do the test, that's a fact", Briton Brawn, whose long-term future at the Brackley based team was already under a cloud, said in Canada. Asked if the team's new guard, Niki Lauda and Wolff, were informed of that highly contentious decision before the test took place, Brawn insisted: "That's not something I want to comment on." So the rumour is that Brawn will depart off the back of the 'test-gate' saga, with his undoubted successor Paddy Lowe now already at work at Brackley. "What I don't understand is that Paddy Lowe is committed to being team boss," former F1 team owner and principal Eddie Jordan told German Sky television in Montreal. "Can you have two team bosses? No," he answered himself. Mercedes' new co-owner and director Wolff, however, played down the speculation Brawn will be sacrificed. "We are a team, we are together, and the blame is not going to be pushed onto one individual, rather we support each other and we support Ross," he told Sky. Germany's Bild am Sonntag reports that Lauda sat down with Red Bull's Christian Horner and Dr Helmut Marko earlier this week to try to calm their anger, but to no avail. McLaren, however, has been almost silent. From Grandprix.com As I posted earlier, nothing seems to have come of Hamilton passing Guitierrez on lap 44 in a flashing yellow zone. It was clear as day on the replay, from both the behind and ahead camera perspectives
Thanks Nathan, I thought they were saying it was Hammy......still, why was that ignored? Some obscure rule I don't know about? I know, it's a conspiracy! so that Vettel doesn't seem to run away with the championship again this year!
I said earlier that when Lauda comes in Brawn will be forced out. It happens everywhere he goes. The testgate is just going to be the accuse they need. Oh no Merc didn't get any advantage from the testing. Now their ware rates on are par with everyone else. Their performance in Canada will just hurt them on the 20th.