LUKIE Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Kobayashi passed Vettel and he was pissed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsuya Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 So because the flag was waved too early, the race has been declared as ending on lap 54! Awkward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Despite Croft and Brundle saying otherwise, I thought Lewis had said that he saw the chequered flag on the penultimate lap. How strange. However, it didn't actually affect anything really in quite a dull race. Hamilton really is the man to beat at the moment, despite still being behind Nico in the standings. Lewis has now well and truly beaten him in Malaysia and China while even with better tyres, Nico couldn't get past him in Bahrain. Spain and Monaco could be crucial as Nico was quicker in both of those races last year although in his McLaren days, Lewis was fairly handy at both tracks. Elsewhere it was good to see Ricciardo bettering Vettel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted April 21, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 The real litmus test for Mercedes will be whether they can maintain this dominant lead now that the development race is well and truly said to start ahead of Barcelona in three weeks and the rest of the European season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted April 23, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted April 23, 2014 Kimi Raikkonen has hit back at suggestions his motivation is suffering as a result of his difficult start to the Formula 1 season. Raikkonen fired back at reporters when it was suggested his motivation might be suffering as a result of his disappointing start to 2014. "I don't know why you always come up with motivation - if I didn't have motivation I wouldn't be here," said Raikkonen. "It's f**k all to do with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted April 24, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted April 24, 2014 Formula 1 teams are pushing to make grand prix cars more visually spectacular, AUTOSPORT can reveal, with the return of sparks, glowing brake discs and vapour trails all being considered. Leading F1 outfits have grown concerned that recent design trends have robbed the sport of the drama that previous generations of cars provided. The teams involved in the Strategy Group now plan talks over the next few weeks to consider a range of proposals that can bring some of that excitement back. The discussions form part of a wide-ranging review document that has been prepared by F1's Strategy Group that maps out an improvement plan for the sport. The ideas are dominated by much-needed cost-cutting measures, but it also features proposals that are aimed simply at making F1 cars more thrilling to watch. The teams believe that changes to the car designs that will reduce costs could have benefits beyond making them cheaper. So a shift away from the current complicated brake ducts - that are being used more and more for aerodynamic benefit - will also make sure the concepts bring back the visual impact of glowing brake discs. Furthermore, the discussions about active suspension have also prompted debate over whether the system's return can help create a way of making cars spark once again - just as they did up until the early 1990s. The spectacular sparks, which were caused by titanium plates rubbing on the ground, became non-existent when underfloor planks were introduced during 1994 to stop teams running their cars too close to the ground for aerodynamic benefit. As well as potential aerodynamic tweaks to create vapour trails, other more wide-sweeping changes to the sport are also up for discussion. They include standing starts after safety cars, a potential reduction in race length, and the green light for higher technology to be used in pitstops to cut the time even further. The proposals will be evaluated by the Strategy Group over the next few weeks, with any agreement on changes for the future needing to be approved by the F1 Commission and then the FIA World Motor Sport Council. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Roland Ratzenberger and obviously tomorrow will be the same anniversary of the death of Ayrton Senna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 1, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 1, 2014 . Tributes from everywhere have been lovely though and Imola is open to the public today for a service. Azerbaijan claims that it has signed a deal that will result in it hosting Formula 1's European Grand Prix in 2016. The country's capital Baku has been linked with F1 for several months, but local political chiefs now suggest a contract has been agreed with Bernie Ecclestone to hold a street race in two years' time, a year after the former Soviet republic hosts the inaugural European Games. Azad Rahimov, Azerbaijan's Minister of Youth and Sports, was quoted as saying by the Inside the Games website that an official announcement confirming the race will be made imminently. "We have signed the deal with Bernie Ecclestone and will announce it officially with an event in Baku shortly," he said. Baku has hosted Azerbaijan's first international motor races over the past two years: the non-championship Baku City Challenge took place on a 1.33-mile street circuit in 2012 and last year it held the FIA GT Series finale on a new 2.72-mile layout. The city is scheduled to host the final round of this year's Blancpain Sprint Series, which takes over from FIA GTs, this November. It has yet to emerge whether the grand prix would run on the streets of Baku or on an all-new F1 facility near the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 3, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 3, 2014 Nigel Stepney, the former Ferrari mechanic who was at the centre of the 2007 Formula 1 'spygate' scandal, has died. The 56-year-old was involved in a road traffic accident in Kent in the early hours of Friday morning. A statement from the Kent Police said that investigations were underway as to the cause of the incident. PC Glen Braidwood of Kent Police's Serious Collision Investigation Unit said: "A silver VW caddy van, driven by a 56 year-old man from the Essex area, had stopped on the hard shoulder of the M20 Londonbound carriageway at Ashford. "For reasons yet to be established, the man appears to have entered the carriageway and was then in collision with an articulated goods vehicle. He was pronounced deceased at the scene." Stepney enjoyed a lengthy career in F1, working for Shadow, Lotus, Benetton and Ferrari. Having left F1 in the wake of the 2007 spy affair between McLaren and Ferrari, Stepney most recently worked in sportscars - joining the JRM outfit in 2010. James Rumsey, the owner of JRM, was one of the first to pay tribute to Stepney. "Nigel was an intense and fierce competitor and always strived for excellence in our racing," he said. "We certainly could not have achieved our level of success without his leadership and experience. "Away from the track, he was a focused, driven and passionate member of the JRM Group, and a loving father to his family. "The rest of the engineering and race team here at JRM learned an unimaginable amount from Nigel in the four short years he was with us and his death this morning has shocked everyone to the core. "Today, the motorsport world has lost one of its greatest characters and competitors. He will be sorely missed and we send our sincere condolences to his family and the many friends he leaves behind." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 10, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Jean-Eric Vergne has been given a 10-place grid penalty for the Spanish Grand Prix after his Toro Rosso lost a wheel in final practice. The team has also been given a €30,000 fine, as the stewards ruled that Vergne's car had been released from the pits in an unsafe condition. Caterham has parted company with technical director Mark Smith and formed a 'technical committee' in a bid to move it up the Formula 1 grid. The committee, which consists of former performance director John Iley, ex-deputy technical director Jody Egginton and chief engineer Gerry Hughes, will report directly to team principal Cyril Abiteboul. All three have also assumed new roles within the squad, with Iley becoming head of performance engineering and Eggington now head of design and manufacturing. Hughes retains his role as chief engineer but will combine that with the role of head of trackside operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Ffs maldonado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA! Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Pastor Maldonado is the fucking worst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUKIE Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Haha... Maldonado you are the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 10, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Just turrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA! Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 "Oh shit, I'm crashing. OH SHIT, I'M CRASHING BUT I'M NOWHERE NEAR THE WALL" *turns into wall* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainiac Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Crashtor Maldonado strikes again. As the commentators pointed out he wouldn't have crashed if he'd just continued the spin. Instead the stupid pillock tried to correct his position by turning the wheel the opposite way and as a result hit the wall, which he wasn't on course to hit until that point. He really is a muppet behind the wheel of a racing car isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 10, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hamilton pole. Rosberg 2nd, Ricciardo 3rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 God dammit Crashtor, you are the biggest knob in F1 right now. I am really starting to wonder if the money he brings in outweighs the price of replacement cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 God dammit Crashtor, you are the biggest knob in F1 right now. I am really starting to wonder if the money he brings in outweighs the price of replacement cars. Considering the government has limited his funding, I really doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUKIE Posted May 10, 2014 Report Share Posted May 10, 2014 I would not be surprised if Pic takes his drive half way through the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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