Sport The Formula 1 Thread

[p1nseeker]

Thought i'd post this as it's so awesome!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/20...v_coverage.html

[RFT]

Dallara was an F1 team, running Ferrari customer engines...

The team was "Scuderia italia", they bought chassis off Dallara, but it wasn't a Dallara team. Scuderia Italia merged with minardi some time in the 90's

[Dudley]

At the end of 1993 to be precise although they demerged a year or two later and Scuderia Italia still run successfully in GT racing.

Dallara built the 1999 Honda prototype I believe too.

[dam_aks]

Dallara built the 1999 Honda prototype I believe too.

Was that the one that was apparently very fast but wasn't exactly legal?

[Dudley]

Was that the one that was apparently very fast but wasn't exactly legal?

Let's just say it never ran anywhere it needed to be legal and made Jos Verstappen look like some kind of driving ace.

So yeah, pretty much.

[JohnC]

What's that all about then? Anywhere with more information on the awesome sounding illegalities of it?

[dam_aks]

What's that all about then? Anywhere with more information on the awesome sounding illegalities of it?

Autosport (could have been Autocar actually...) did a little feature on the full history of Honda in F1 within the last 12 months. They mentioned a fair bit about it all.

[Dudley]

What's that all about then? Anywhere with more information on the awesome sounding illegalities of it?

Not so much awesome as just suspicions they were running well underweight.

[Sigourney Beaver]

This is a great series. Brundle talks about driving an F1 car with such love and passion.

[JohnC]

Icy track, what F1 is missing.

[Sigourney Beaver]

Not F1 but a totally weird incident!

[JohnC]

Rome street race probably joining the line-up in 2012. It's in the EUR district, which I'd never heard of before, but it seems there won't be cars going around the Colosseum.

[JPR]

Can see a video of the proposed track here. This earlier news story has an earlier prediction, you can use it to find it and go around via Google street view. It looks OK, but I prefer without all the hairpins as some of the sections seem to flow quite nicely, but could be quite stop start with them, some nice gradient to the track. It's not the most scenic of locations, a few nice buildings and the cars could look good blasting through the tree sections at least.

[JohnC]

Looks rather odd.

[Sidewaysbob]

yet another street circuit is a bit shit shocker.

BERNIE fucking STOP IT

[Sigourney Beaver]

Err, more street tracks are good. We could do with less of the ultra modern shit.

[Hackign]

Err, more street tracks are good. We could do with less of the ultra modern shit.

Except it's being designed by Tilke again.

[Sigourney Beaver]

Ah, that's shit.

[myoozikk]

the only street circuit i'd have any interest in now would be in Manhattan.

[Dudley]

Plus, whatever they say, there's no way this is happening without us losing Monza.

[Sigourney Beaver]

Monza needs to stay. I'd trade any street track except Monaco for a historic track like Monza, Silverstone or Spa.

[myoozikk]

Valencia can fucking do one.

[RJames]

Thought i'd post this as it's so awesome!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/20...v_coverage.html

I thought this was awesome the first time I saw it. Goosebumps!

(although it does sound a bit like an M&S advert :/)

[Sng]

http://bit.ly/8y9PFK Schumacher is BACK!!!

[linkster]

I know. I hate the bastards cos now I want to spend £300 for the British grand prix, not knowing if he'll make the season long enough to be there. My only F1 experience was qualifying at Silverstone and seeing the great man spin out in the rain and have to walk back to the pit. The chance to see him race is almost too much to pass up. but it's lining Bernie's pocket.

So torn.

[LowCostMonkey]

I know. I hate the bastards cos now I want to spend £300 for the British grand prix, not knowing if he'll make the season long enough to be there. My only F1 experience was qualifying at Silverstone and seeing the great man spin out in the rain and have to walk back to the pit. The chance to see him race is almost too much to pass up. but it's lining Bernie's pocket.

So torn.

I was there that day too!

Well.

Mansell managed to win in his 40's but times were different then. This will be something to behold at least. Either something really good or really bad. I hope it's the former.

[linkster]

I believe he can do it. He is truly special.

Gnnnhhh.

[dayte]

What a great season line-up.

And is it true that Team USF1 are using a toaster for their engine?

[makkuwata]

The last two years have been pretty damn special, but fuck...this is going to be a good one.

[choddo]

I know. I hate the bastards cos now I want to spend £300 for the British grand prix, not knowing if he'll make the season long enough to be there. My only F1 experience was qualifying at Silverstone and seeing the great man spin out in the rain and have to walk back to the pit. The chance to see him race is almost too much to pass up. but it's lining Bernie's pocket.

So torn.

One of my two trips to British GPs involved watching him break both legs. A day of justice for all F1.

F1 2010 is going to be awesome.