Sport The Formula 1 Thread

[kiroquai]

Barcelona day one testing updates: http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/439

[Sidewaysbob]

There was a living timing page around for the first test at something like

WWW.F1test.cc

I don't suppose anyone has the correct address do they?

Cheers

[kiroquai]

Ta da!

http://f1tests.co.cc/2012.php?rev=on

[Sidewaysbob]

You star

[reani_]

I'd say the Merc isn't too bad. It looks quite slick and also the back is different to most other cars - compared to the Williams where the back is basically just the suspension. Apparently they are trying to put all the exhaust gases directly to the suspension. Yes, I know that sounds like all the other teams but the rear wheelmount was moved forward.

[kiroquai]

It looks really odd from the top view:

Loads of space between the rear wheels and the sidepods.

[wev]

It looks like the the car has been squeezed just before the rear wheels and the rest of the car has been pushed forwards. Their nose looks much shorter too.

[Sidewaysbob]

bluugh it looks horrible.

[Rattlehead.ie]

As long as its fast and brings a 5th team into the racing Im happy.

[kiroquai]

Yup . Plus, call me sentimental, but I'd love Schumacher to have at least one more win before he finally calls time on his career.

[dayte]

Someone needs to take the corset off that Merc

[Shimmyhill]

Yup . Plus, call me sentimental, but I'd love Schumacher to have at least one more win before he finally calls time on his career.

I would rather see Hill return for a race and clip Schumacher thus making him fail to win said race and never win a race again....

[Rattlehead.ie]

Are Sky streaming F1 as well? I'm wondering with my DNS rerouting service that get's me the US Netflix in Canada, if I'll be able to possibly stream F1 from the UK using my folks account.

Dude, if your parents have Sky HD or subscribed to the 2 main sports channels they get this channel free. That means it will be available via your parents Sky Go or Sky Online account ANYWHERE in the world. So get that sorted out get a loging and authorise your IPad or setup a PC attached to TV and enjoy

[kiroquai]

According to Adam Cooper Lotus have had to abandon the entire day due to an issue with their chassis.

[Shimmyhill]

According to Adam Cooper Lotus have had to abandon the entire day due to an issue with their chassis.

Aww thats a shame, poor old evil Lotus

[Sidewaysbob]

Don't tell me they've run out of money already.

Torro Rosso then ... running on fumes for the green backs or actually a fast car with potential ?

[kiroquai]

I'm going to be dull and go for an answer in the middle; quick car with potential, but probably running less fuel than those around it .

[Sidewaysbob]

Sauber i can understand, but Redbull are still bankrolling TR aren't they, so why run for the money ?

[kiroquai]

Because you can never have too much cash .

Red Bull do pay them a decent chunk, but I gather it's a lot less than it was in the team's first few years...

[SeanR]

[RFT]

Sauber i can understand, but Redbull are still bankrolling TR aren't they, so why run for the money ?

I think Mateschitz still has hopes of offloading the team, even if he's withdrawn the over "for sale" status it had a while ago.

[Dudley]

They are getting gradually more and more outside money onto the outside of the car certainly.

[Sidewaysbob]

Still they can't be short of a bob or two. Unlike the williams and Saubers of the grid they don't really have a need to be going out on fume jobs for headline time. I think they're going well and working on getting a good qualifying setup.

[kiroquai]

Am fairly convinced that other teams are on high fuel at the moment, so I suspect it's probably a medium fuel run . They're currently a good three seconds off last year's test times.

Merc apparently with a hydraulic issue of some sort, and quite possibly not having run DRS all day today.

[marsh]

Merc for the title.

Car is a fucking horrible thing to look at, but I think that back end has more secrets in it than a dead princess of wales.

[Trigg]

I know it's expensive and not to everyone tastes but the Sky coverage of the F1 should be great shouldn't it? I'm looking forward to the launch of the new channel and seeing how it all slots into place.

[myoozikk]

Wow serious issues at Lotus. They've totally pulled out of this test.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97616

[Sidewaysbob]

sounds interesting. some one missed the decimal point somewhere along the line.

[wev]

Hmm, whilst reading that an interview with Rosberg was playing on Autosports media player. In the background was the new Mercedes, theres an enormous hole in the very front of the nose. I know F1 cars tend to have a small air inlet on the nose, but the one on the Mercedes looks abnormally large.

[curium]

Just seen the calendar and I think it's the following races that will not be live on the BBC:

Australia 18/3
Malaysia 25/3
Bahrain 22/4
Canada 10/6
Germany 22/7
Hungary 29/7
Monza 9/9
Japan 7/10
India 28/10
USA 18/11

Sky have skillfully arranged things so that there are very few back-to-back races on the BBC (other than valencia-britain) and the new tracks like india and USA will not be live on the beeb either, not to mention that the first 2 races of the season won't be live.

Very hard for plebs like myself without Sky to maintain interest over the season unless it gets off to an absolute blinder. Unless it looks an exceptionally competitive start I probably won't bother