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LowCostMonkey

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I've been thinking about engines recently. Specifically at how much of a close run thing this eight engines for whole season has been. Sure, a lot of drivers have had no worries but a few have been precariously close to the limit. I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two drivers take a penalty for an engine change at the last race.

So a thought occurred to me, the rules aren't going to change for next year. I've checked. It's still going to be 8 engines for the whole year per driver. Except, while this year there were seventeen races, next year there will be nineteen! An extra 2 races will surely break the backs of a few of those powerplants. Here’s looking at you Renault!

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Christoph84

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Red Bull are also considering moving to Cosworth precisely because they think it will have an advantage.

So Campos, Lotus, Manor and US, all the new teams, are Cosworth.

Williams and now possibly Red Bull of the established teams also.

Half the grid.

Williams are very strongly engineering based, to them the driver is just another component, they would not have chosen Cosworth without good reasons.

You're right, they'd always pick the best engine, but the FIA said a few months back that they will constrain the performace of the top units so that they match the performace of the weaker engines.

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marsh

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While Toyota have allowed an option on Glock to lapse, Trulli has been offered a deal to race next season.

What the FUCK?

Are they on drugs? if kobuyashi puts in another drive like he did in Brazil he must be the perfect partner for Kimi. Trulli is toss, if Sutil wasn't a mary then he'd have kicked the living piss out of him.

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JPR

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There seems to be a split in Toyota, Howett wants to dump Trulli but the team principal Tadashi Yamashina likes him and wants him to stay and ultimately he's the higher ranking guy. I think this has always been Toyota's main problem, they have the potential to be a top team and have produced some decent cars but they just lack it in the driver department and it's not as if it's down to low funds, just ask Ralf. It's been like that for a few years now, they've needed drivers with a little extra to help them step up but they've not got them, now they're actually trying in Kimi and Kobayashi, you've got the head guy saying no let's keep Trulli. :angry:

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McSpeed

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Jarno is supposedly a very nice guy (a friend of mine is making his way into motorsport and has met him a couple of times over the years), but he just has very few brief moments of brilliance, mostly in qualifying. In a race however, he can't keep up driving for two hours: it's said that Renault engineers actually noticed him doze off by keeping track of the telemetry all the time, indicating that he might have some concentration issue.

Still, I think the best for Toyota would be to have Raikkonen and Kobayashi indeed.

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mexos

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So then, today is election day.

Whaddda we recon?

Ari-Vatanen4.jpg

A new beginning?...

or

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the beginning of the end.

WHO GOOOEEAAASS, YUEEW DECIADE.

:)

Oh & in other news, Donnington's gone tits up. What a surprise. Damon must have a wry smile on his face.

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Snowman

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The Donnington thing was an inevitability but what a waste of effort. The money they did raise for the project should have been used to spruce up Silverstone a bit.

As for the election, it's going to be Todd isn't it. I've got nothing against him but come on. Conflict of interest much?

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Bruciebabie

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So then, today is election day.

Whaddda we recon?

Ari-Vatanen4.jpg

A new beginning?...

or

_Jean_Todt_192472a.jpg

the beginning of the end.

WHO GOOOEEAAASS, YUEEW DECIADE.

:)

Oh & in other news, Donnington's gone tits up. What a surprise. Damon must have a wry smile on his face.

The Toad has the establishment behind him. Continuity and all that.

The truth is that you can't tell what they would be like till they actually did the job.

Max has actually done a brilliant, if controversial job. Motor racing worldwide has grown massively under his tenure. Many countries that had zero now have a thriving sport. He has built F1 from a backwater to one of the world's premier sports. He has had much to do with the advancement of technology. And his single minded drive for road car safety has saved tens of thousands of lives.

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mexos

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They lost the US GP, when arguably the US market was more important to the major players than the UK. Nothing is certain at all.

It all reminds me of the end of the football season when teams are deemed to be 'too good/big to go down'. And then it happens.

The worry is that knowing now that they hold *some* cards, the BRDC could play hardball. Result? Bernie gets pissed off again and tells them to GTF.

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