Sport The Formula 1 Thread

[marsh]

'Competitive cars on the grid in Bahrain'

how the fuck are campos going to manage that? fuel them for a lap??

[Dudley]

Campos' problem is not the car, they have a car, probably a better one than Virgin or Lotus.

Their problem is paying Dallara for it.

[Dudley]

Stick a fork in USF1. They're admitting they're fucked unless they can miss the first FOUR races.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81616

[Christoph84]

Tell you what USF1, why don't you miss the next 19 races? Fucking farce.

[Sidewaysbob]

o/\o

[marsh]

Tell em to fuck off, that's clearly taking the piss. Mosley and the toad have alot to answer for.

[Hackign]

Kobayashi had some impressive stints today. Pretty much consistently in the 1.19 over multiple laps compared to everyone else who are doing a decent lap then having a dropoff in times.

Be funny as hell if Sauber are this years Brawn.

[Sigourney Beaver]

I hope they are. It would be awesome to see them actually win a race as Sauber in their own right.

[Sigourney Beaver]

Button up!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/8526245.stm

[Aardvark]

This year looks like it's going to be interesting, just seeing how Button and Hamilton compare in that car is going to be good.

[merman]

Is there any other sport that has such a strange attitude to new teams as F1? I can't think of any. Maybe it would be better to let the dust settle and give USF1 help to make the grid in 2011, rather than ridicule them for failing to make races in 2010...

[Sigourney Beaver]

It's ridiculous. They don't want it to look like some kind of enthusiast's club racing event. I suppose that if USF1 are in trouble and Bernie wants Stefan GP to be in, then I guess Stefan GP is in.

[GwiDan]

Anthony Davidson will be driving the #1 Peugeot LeMans entry with Alex Wurz and Marc Gene this season.

[Sidewaysbob]

Davidson did a stearling job last year, good to see some reward from the french mob.

[merman]

The FIA say they will try to help USF1 make the grid, but looks like it's odds on their driver will defect to Campos. And Bernie has his heart set on Stefan F1 joining in...

[Dudley]

Anthony Davidson will be driving the #1 Peugeot LeMans entry with Alex Wurz and Marc Gene this season.

And at Sebring. Where I will be!

[mexos]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81651

If Ferrari was one of your extended family members they'd be the rich, borderline racist uncle who pops up at family functions half cut, convinces your gran to sign over the entire family estate to him because he's 'special', bullies the younger siblings while harking on about 'the good old days', whilst incoherently ranting about how amazing they are and how awful everything and everyone else is.

[LowCostMonkey]

EPIC

[myoozikk]

whoa, they didn't hold back there did they.

[Sidewaysbob]

you have to love the smug "we told you" tone, don't you. Another classic from Ferrari

[Christoph84]

If Ferrari's superiority complex develops any further, they'll be a risk of disappearing entirely up their own, prancing, scarlet arse.

Good rant though.

[merman]

To some extent Ferrari do have a point. Mosley's posturing over the new Conchord Agreement almost led to the breakaway, and it's that legacy which has made it difficult (or nigh on impossible) for the new teams to reach the grid in a competitive state.

[shock33]

I think they're right, the loss of Toyota and BMW (and Renault on a thread) are hardly worth bringing in the likes of USF1 in my opinion.

[Sidewaysbob]

USF1 were in way before BMW and Toyota descided to quite though. They went because they were a the back of the grid and couldn't justify spending a gazillion dollars to move up 3 places. With markets hitting rock bottom they could get better bang for their bucks in ALMS, touring car, LMS and even NASCAR. So Max may well have been mad, but he didn't drive the manufactures away. They were going to go and he knew he needed to have teams ready to plug the holes left.

The fact that he choose Campos and USF1 over Lola and Prodrive showes he was mad and the system was fucked. But I think he had the long term future of the sport in mind. Despite what Ferrari say, they needed new blood in the sport. Because the manufacturers couldn't justify the expenditure for much longer.

[Christoph84]

Manufacturer teams will come and go as their markets and marketing budgets rise and fall. The sport needs some entrants whose business is purely racing, they won't come and go. Admittedly, Campos and USF1 aren't particularly good examples of these however.

[mexos]

Manufacturer teams will come and go as their markets and marketing budgets rise and fall. The sport needs some entrants whose business is purely racing, they won't come and go. Admittedly, Campos and USF1 aren't particularly good examples of these however.

Exactly. The manufacturer era was a bubble, they all knew it. If they did nothing, the future of F1 could become compromised. Not exactly sure they went about things the right way, (tbh, they blatently didn't) but they had the right intentions. For once.

[Dudley]

Red Bull's version of the same appeared on their twitter.

"Spoke to official sources who're still hopeful of a 26-car grid at the first race. Presumably that would be the Grand Prix of Narnia…"

[mexos]

NOOOOO!

http://www.auto123.com/en/racing-news/othe...campaign=racing

Looks like his attempt to rise into F1 is over. The team probably wanted to go with a more prove-en driver.

A sad day for F1 and the internets

[Hackign]

Oh crumbs

[Christoph84]

His career is toast.

(are we going to go through all of these again?)