F1 09/10 Thread

[Bogus Dave]

And test match cricket.

Excuse me?!

[Jamiesfuturewife]

moto gp is far better than F1-fact

I agree cheekbones!! - I dream of marrying James Toseland and riding round in a special motorbike and side car that we have specially made

[Batch]

Excuse me?!

It's dull. Dull, dull, dull.

I can see going and getting a few beers in might be fun, but not watching it on TV.  I'll tune in for the last 20 overs, that'll do.

[flammableBen]

Midgets and zoo animals.

[Batch]

I see they have "deferred" the most wins system for a year following protests from the teams.

Sensible.

[Dazzza]

James Toseland shops in my Tesco, he likes Barry Norman's pickled onions.  Fact stalker fans!

[nochee]

I worked with a guy in the Williams clean room last year. We were the only STFC fans there.

Are you on here???

[Bennett]

I agree cheekbones!! - I dream of marrying James Toseland and riding round in a special motorbike and side car that we have specially made

i just enjoy it a lot more, i don't dream of marrying toseland...doesn't he sounds awfully northern?!

[pumbaa]

he likes Barry Norman's pickled onions.

I have a jar of those bad boys signed by the man himself. And they are delicious.....

[Luci]

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fsport&sl=es&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Always controversy somewhere.

I'll be interested to see if its a case of "were going to complain because theres new cars faster than we are" or whether they do have grounds to complain.

[Batch]

All clear on the diffuser front, well cleared to race by the stewards anyway:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73915

But.....

It is expected that the teams will appeal against the stewards' decision, which will force the matter to go to a hearing of the FIA's International Court of Appeal.

The appeal would probably not be heard until after the until after the Malaysian Grand Prix (April 5th). That means two GP results (Malaysia and Aus) would not be known. I'm sure the fans will be delighted.

[axs]

I'm intrigued by these KERS systems, not sure if they'll make a lot of difference or not. Find out on Sunday morning I guess. Interesting that Williams have gone down a different route to everyone else and used a flywheel.

[jonny72]

I find it amazing that there is still always someone in F1 trying to press the self destruct button.

First we get them fucking about with the points system just weeks away from the start of the new season, only to postpone it and go back to the original points system.

Then we have the diffuser row, whilst its been cleared we run the risk of it being deemed illegal on appeal which would result in the first and maybe second races having their results changed.

You'd have thought they would have learnt their lesson after the USA fiasco a while back but no, they just seem intent on fucking it all up every chance they get.

The drivers are all over paid as well. Scalextric F1 cars normally have to have plain coloured helmets, as the drivers want a large wedge of cash to use their actual helmet colouring and logo's (and we're talking 5 figures). Complete and utter wankers, as if they don't get paid enough already.

[reeves4england]

I find it amazing that there is still always someone in F1 trying to press the self destruct button.

First we get them fucking about with the points system just weeks away from the start of the new season, only to postpone it and go back to the original points system.

Then we have the diffuser row, whilst its been cleared we run the risk of it being deemed illegal on appeal which would result in the first and maybe second races having their results changed.

You'd have thought they would have learnt their lesson after the USA fiasco a while back but no, they just seem intent on fucking it all up every chance they get.

The drivers are all over paid as well. Scalextric F1 cars normally have to have plain coloured helmets, as the drivers want a large wedge of cash to use their actual helmet colouring and logo's (and we're talking 5 figures). Complete and utter wankers, as if they don't get paid enough already.

Nice little article in the paper today about how Nakajima lives in a pokey little flat in Oxford. Only the best 20(?) drivers in the world drive these cars in races, and not all of them get paid stupid amounts of money. Footballers are much worse.

[Batch]

It is possible that the 'diffuser 6' will be allowed to keep their points but the offending design still banned after the second race.

Meanwhile I'd imagine all the other teams will be coming up with their own versions just in case it isn't banned!
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Kers does look interesting, we'll see if it makes significant difference v the weight penalty it will come with.

I say see, presently there is no way for the commentators to know when it is engaged or not. FFS!
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McLaren really do look to have dropped a bollock. If that is right I wouldn't expect to see them improve until the Euro legs come around. And that's 5 races in
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I see that Bernie has alegedly screwed Braun by veto'ing their application to simply change the Honda team name to Braun. Even though there was no objection by the other teams. Instead they are a new entrant.

OK they lose their pit lot and get moved to the end of the pit lane  - but they forfeit Honda's F1 finances, 22 million euros!