Grand Prix Rejects

Captain Hammer

The new Mexico City layout has been finalised:

http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail ... agram.html

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I imagine that it would be sustained by second-tier drivers who could potentially make it in Formula 1, but wouldn't necessarily be the first choice for a drive.

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I am not entirely sure if bringing the series under their control would actually reduce costs in GP2 - one of the main complaints about cost inflation in GP2 is the fact that the component suppliers have a monopoly on the series and can therefore charge more or less what they want for spare parts, ...

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Perhaps that could be solved by the introduction of a second-tier licence - a prerequisite of a superlicence and needed to get into the top feeder series.

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I'm very curious to see how the FIA structure this new Formula 2 championship. The biggest problem with GP2 is that its ranks are full of pay drivers to the point where Formula 1 teams are recruiting drivers like Kvyat and Bottas straight out of GP3. If the trend continues, the GP2 is just going to ...

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Or maybe the delay is because everyone stops working for two weeks over Christmas.

Remember, there is the concession that will allow them to use the CT05 chassis, so there is less pressure to get physically ready.

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The only problem is that statement assumes it was interesting to begin with.

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And the FIA want it separate from the usual open-wheel feeder series. If they made it a series worth superlicence points, they would risk undermining the series by turning it into another feeder series rather than a genuine platform for the development of electric vehicles. Anyway, here is a list of...

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The whole thing is a big "f*** you" to Renault and it's championships, and basically forces drivers into the FOM-run feeder series of GP3 and GP2, or even more biased, the FIA's own series FR3.5 has become horribly unstable. Teams are stepping in and out of the series, or they're only ent...

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I think it's a bit cynical to doubt that there are potential buyers. Doubt their ability to run the team, but I see no reason to doubt their existence in the first place.

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As Keith Collantine pointed out on Twitter, the traditional Formula 1 fan's New Years' celebrations are to: 1) Sing Auld Lyne Sang 2) Nurse a hangover 3) Read stories about McLaren changing their livery Although I can see the rationale in this case - Honda have traditionally run white and red livery...

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Just like McLaren's colours of the 1980s and early 1990s! Just like McLaren-Honda in 1988! How could they not adopt those colours for 2015?!?!?! Tobacco advertising laws would get in the way. When Craig Lowndes raced a Peter Brock tribute livery at Bathurst a few years ago, they had to invert the d...

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Honda won't be at much of a disadvantage. Whatever disadvantage they have will not be remedied quickly. It will take time to gather data on the performance of the engine. That data needs to be turned into useful information, and only then can solutions be developed. Remember when it became apparent ...

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Ferrari have nobody to blame but themselves - they pass as much of the costs on to customers as they canm

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I'm so glad that I found this thread. My apartment is looking pretty bare, so I want to put pictures up. I've been scouring the Wikimedia Commons for days now, and while I have found a great shot of Elfyn Evans at the 2014 Rally Germany, I am yet to find a good Formula 1 photo. I'm going to print th...

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Simtek wrote:And I thought he was going to retire first.

I think he said that he would retire if he were to become a father.

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Abu Dhabi: m I tried to recreate it with some of Tilke's comments in mind - that a client wants to be able to drive at top speed. As much as the circuit is built for a Grand Prix, the Grand Prix (and support events) use it for three days in a year. For the other three hundred and sixty-two, it will ...

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I'm pretty sure mario is right - this isn't the first time that they've done this.

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The FIA have reportedly removed Korea from the schedule, having done it very discreetly over Christmas. Officially, the calendar remains at twenty-one Grands Prix, but there is no obvious alternative for the vacant slot short of reviving the Pacific Grand Prix at a circuit like Fuji (which has not b...

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"This is how I drove at Silverstone."

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dr-baker wrote:I knew next to nothing about FA

The same can be said of all of us.

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AustralianStig wrote:New nomination for the year - utterly biased articles from major broadcasters: http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/22058 ... son-awards

Sometimes I think Hamilton could be caught torturing puppies and the British press would argue that the puppies had it coming.

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Those numbers will be carried by drivers who consider them important. That's one of the main reasons why drivers have picked their numbers - Vettel, Ricciardo, Alonso, Button, Hamilton, Rosberg, Perez, Grosjean, Verstappen and Magnussen all chose their numbers for that reason. If I were a Formula 1 ...

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Felipe Nasr will be #12 next year, bucking the trend established by Carlofifty Fiveainz, Mfourx Chilton and Valterri Boseventy-sevenas of working a number into his name.

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Collantine's a self-important, over opinionated arse who lets his massive personal bias cloud 90% of all opinion pieces. Can't stand the man. This. His reputation precedes him in the F1 world. He used to be good, but he's heavily influenced by the comments section. If you don't like Raikkonen or Ha...

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I fail to see how that's interesting. Pages can have any id the webmaster likes. The pages were probably created before the calendar was created.

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Joe Saward has had a fit of common sense and has suggested that Gutierrez was taken on as a stopgap solution. The plan was to apparently promote Bianchi and draft Marciello into his place. But then Bianchi had his accident, and Ferrari felt Marciello wasn't ready to be promoted so quickly (and they ...

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More likely he wants it as a show car.

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And it makes sense for Slim to want to be associated with the team. They have far more commercial pulling power than Sauber do.

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Sounds like they were dumped when the thieves realised they were replicas.

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The current state of the Russian economy is mostly a result of falling commodity prices. They have been running the economy off their oil and gas reserves for over a decade, but the low prices are unsustainable - even for the major producers like Saudi Arabia - over the long term. They have put inte...

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Rob Dylan wrote:
Boomstick wrote:My couch got delivered the day after the F1 season ended.

What kind of a couch was it?

I think you're missing the more important question here: what was Boomstick sitting on before he got his couch?

Captain Hammer

According to F1 Fanatic, Haas has said he intends to bid on some of Marussia's assets at this week's auction.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8tpqZ-fyA It's official. I am now slightly concerned... It could be worse still, they could be showing front noses. I know, right? I mean, what happens when they get to the first pre-season test for 2016, unload the car, and it runs under its own power without assis...

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Cheaper? Not a chance. Sure, they cost less - but the manufacturers will jack the price up to recoup some of their losses on the hybrid V6s. And again, they will face opposition from the likes of Mercedes and Honda. They might argue that it's to cut costs, but Mercedes will take it as an attack on t...

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I doubt he could even count on Ferrari's support. Marchionne has said that Ferrari need to embrace change if they want to get back on top, so I'd say the days of bullying the FIA into doing their bidding from inside a hollowed-out volcano will be over sooner rather than later.

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If he tried that, he'd face an insurrection. He might get the popular support of Ferrari and Renault, but Mercedes and Honda would likely walk away on the spot. And no manufacturer in their right mind would want to join after that. Any such backlash would probably prompt CVC to remove him from his p...

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He's not indicating.

He has said it outright.

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Bernie has been lobbying against hybrids since the idea was first floated. He won't win, though - he will face massive opposition from the engine manufacturers who have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into the current engines.

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