MJB Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 He didn't say anything though. His team-mate was the reason he didn't get his final lap in, how would you feel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 24, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 It was the fact that he didn't say anything though. He was totally passive aggressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 I'm glad it was Hamilton who was potentially screwed by the situation. BBC article kept referring to them as similar to Senna/Prost. Hamilton agreed somewhat and when asked what he'd do now he said that he liked how Senna dealt with it and would take that approach... ...Senna's approach being to drive Prost into a wall at 160mph. Sounds like Hamilton's style though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fry_4000 Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 (edited) Rosberg wins, cue endless moaning from Lewis. Points for Marussia Edited May 25, 2014 by Fry_4000 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 Interesting race. First points for Marussia too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris2K Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 Benderdict Cumberbatch needs to do all podium interviews. "Hi Dan, Benedict, nice to meet you, so how was the race?" So glad someone talented (i.e. Bianchi) got the first points in the Marussia/Caterham ranks rather than someone like, oh I don't know, Chilton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUKIE Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 Chilton is terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUKIE Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 Does anyone know where I can watch the GP2 Monaco race? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fry_4000 Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 Marussia are above Sauber Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted May 25, 2014 Report Share Posted May 25, 2014 Glad to see Rosberg won, regardless of what you might think of his qualifying stuff. I plain dislike Hamilton and I rather see Rosberg win every race. Also, Vettel is probably the most unlucky guy on the grid. Again his car lets him down, and if I was him I would be livid at everything and everyone. Maldo fucks up once more, and I wonder if this might be the final straw. With his sponsorship becoming less and less I wonder if Lotus will cut their losses and replace him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted May 26, 2014 Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 I think Vettel has had plenty of luck in previous years in particular with regard to his team mate's car which seemed cursed at times, it's quite nice to see him struggled for once. I'm sure him and Red Bull will be winning races by the end of the season. Hopefully Rosberg can win the championship as Hamilton is acting like a petulant child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted May 26, 2014 Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 I think Vettel has had plenty of luck in previous years in particular with regard to his team mate's car which seemed cursed at times, it's quite nice to see him struggled for once. I'm sure him and Red Bull will be winning races by the end of the season. Hopefully Rosberg can win the championship as Hamilton is acting like a petulant child. Oh my God, so many times this this this. Rosberg comes in second 4 races in a row, he stays classy and congratulates Hammy every time whilst playing the good team-player. Rosberg wins Monaco, and Lewis Hamilton has so much salt that he could kill every elephant on this planet. He refuses to shake the hand of his teammate and he berates his crew like they somehow sabotaged him during the race. Get the fuck over it Lewis and show some respect where it's due. I have never like Lewis thanks to his attitude, but this makes me dislike him even more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 26, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 Fuck everything else - Marussia!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 26, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 26, 2014 Tony Fernandes has put Caterham up for sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted May 28, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Caterham Formula 1 boss Tony Fernandes has insisted the team's parent company is not for sale. A Caterham statement claimed that Group chairmen Fernandes and Datuk Kamarudin Meranun "remain wholly committed to the Caterham brand". Fernandes added: "Caterham Group is not for sale. We love what we build and we are always looking for further investment. This is no different to how we started AirAsia [Fernandes's airline business]. "Yes, we are constantly challenging ourselves and making decisions on everything from the structure to projects within the Group. "That is normal business. That does not mean we are selling." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted June 3, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted June 3, 2014 The FIA is understood to have finally granted an entry to the Romanian-backed FRR F1 Team project, although no official announcement has been forthcoming. The FIA’s last public reference to the bid came on April 11, when the World Motor Sport Council granted an entry to Gene Haas but said it was “in the process of conducting further investigations for Forza Rossa,” using the name that forms part of the official FRR identity. For reasons unknown this extra vetting process dragged on for more than six weeks. However, the governing body appears to have finally acknowledged last week that the project is financially viable. While Haas has admitted that a 2015 start is highly unlikely FRR is believed to still be aiming for next year, despite the entry delay making life a lot tougher than it would be had it been granted alongside that of Haas on April 11. However, FRR has a lot more elements in place compared to Haas. It is planning to use a Renault power unit, while the car will be built and run by a team put together by former Force India and HRT boss Colin Kolles at his base near Munich. Front man for the project is Ion Bazac, a qualified doctor and former Romanian health minister. The 45-year-old has a number of business interests and is the country’s Ferrari importer, under the name Forza Rossa. Bazac is also the president a consortium of private and state funded investors whose motive is to promote the interests of Romania, and who have the support of the government. Indeed, the Romanian sports minister met with the FIA early in the bid process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted June 5, 2014 Author Admin Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 American businessman Gene Haas has revealed to Forbes that his team will join Formula One in 2016 and that he is considering locating its European headquarters in England where its engine department will be based. The design and aerodynamics department will be based at the team’s head office in Kannapolis North Carolina alongside the factory for the championship-winning Stewart-Haas NASCAR team which is co-owned by Mr Haas. “The plan is absolutely to launch in 2016 and we are fully committed to that. I don’t think there is any doubt about that whatsoever,” he says. “I think we will be a better team because we will have more time to plan and we will be able to do a lot more engineering in Kannapolis. We have been working on a building there since November of last year as part of the expansion of the NASCAR team. In about a month we will have the NASCAR site open then about a month later we will have the Formula One site operational so we can go in there.” He adds that “from a personal standpoint, I really would have liked to go racing in 2015. It was hard to sit there and say no. Trust me, I really wanted to go. The first year is always going to be going to be tough but I think that by waiting a year we will probably only have six months of it being really tough because we will be better prepared.” Locating the team in the United States is a bold move as it has only been done a handful of times in F1. However the risk comes with the potential for rich rewards as it would give the team a unique selling point and make it a national flagship. It comes at just the right time as interest in F1 is revving up in the US following the successful return of its home race in 2012. Mr Haas is the ideal man to steer the team to success. Not only does he have considerable experience in race team management, he also has the necessary resources to fuel his bid. He is the founder of Haas Automation which is one of the most respected engineering firms in the US and has annual revenue of around $1 billion. It is already being used to attract top names to the F1 outfit as Guenther Steiner, a former technical director of four-time champions Red Bull Racing, has been hired as team principal. In April Forbes revealed that Haas Formula had been given the green light by F1’s governing body the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). Since then Mr Haas has been deciding whether to launch the team in 2015 or 2016. Although his top priority was to go ahead next year he says this was not possible in the end due to a road-block to his initial plan to locate the team’s European headquarters in Milan. “We had a timetable and it seemed that all the events were being delayed, for whatever reason, by a month or so,” he says. “The final delay was that we were planning on opening a shop in Milan and then it came back from accountants that you can’t really have a presence in Milan because that will cause a tax presence so it just started getting convoluted. We decided that it would be better to be 100% sure we are going to make the race rather than scramble and not make the race.” Mr Haas confirms that “our plan is to have aero in Charlotte and engine work in Europe.” He adds “we are still looking at having a shop in Europe. England maybe would be the place to go because that’s where most of the Formula One teams are. We can’t do anything in Italy because of the tax presence there but you obviously have Formula One itself in the south of England so that would be a potential site.” F1 gives certain teams free air transport of their cars, equipment and spare parts to and from the races outside Europe and these flights leave from London and Munich so Haas Formula would be able to take advantage of them if it is based in England. It would also benefit from a ready supply of skilled specialist staff as a total of 8 of the 11 F1 teams are based in central England, largely in a cluster known as Motorsport Valley. Many F1 suppliers are also located in the area so being located there would would put Haas Formula in pole position for dealing with them. This is a task which Mr Haas will be beginning this weekend when he visits the Canadian Grand Prix. “I’m planning on going to Montreal,” he says. “There’s a lot of logistics that we are going to learn and this weekend we are going to be asking a lot of questions like ‘How do you get that box from here to there?’ ‘What are the logistics?’ ‘Where are all the airplanes that these things go in and what do they look like?’” He adds “we are going to be looking for parts and pieces and looking very closely at what other teams bring, especially pit equipment, support equipment and getting an idea of their IT layouts and pit boxes. We are kind of familiar with that from the NASCAR side but this is all different and new so we have to find the suppliers that build all that stuff.” It doesn’t come cheap. In April F1’s chief executive Bernie Ecclestone revealed the cost when he told Britain’s Independent newspaper that “a billion would last a new team owner four years.” Mr Haas admits that he is setting the barrier higher for himself by starting from a clean slate. “We are looking for transporters, infrastructure and pit boxes. We have got to buy all that stuff because we are starting from scratch. If you had that stuff in place that would make a big difference. We don’t have any of that at the moment. The good news is that it will all be new.” It should be a breath of fresh air for F1 and that alone is worth the wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUKIE Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 How will there be two new teams when there is only one spare spot? Or am I mis-reading something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 How will there be two new teams when there is only one spare spot? Or am I mis-reading something? Pretty sure there are 26 spots on the grid maximum, and I'm sure that's going to stay the maximum. I don't see pre-qualifying returning anytime soon either. It's been 19 years since the last 26 car grid (Monaco 95), and I'm wondering how they're going to sort out qualifying if it does happen again in the future. Quite frankly, I have 0 qualms with a full 26 car grid because it's more excitement even if Haas and Forza Rossa end up being backmarkers. Also more drivers will get a shot at racing, and that means more influx of talent into F1 and more shots for the smaller names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB Posted June 7, 2014 Report Share Posted June 7, 2014 Rosberg out-qualifies Hamilton in Canada. Extremely impressive and should make for a great race tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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