Spare Parts (F1 odds and ends)

Jensons downfall in his 3 years at mclaren has been qualifying. Maybe the team can engineer around him more to improove this area

 

WTF???

http://www.f1today.net/en/news/drunk-sacked-hrt-mechanics-brawl-at-factory-in-madrid

 

What a way to go. Hahhahahah

 

Haha. Hopefully they were better at fighting than they were at building a good car.

 

Provisional 2013 dates

Jerez - 5th - 8th February
Barcelona Test 1 - 19th - 22nd February
Barcelona Test 2 - 28th February to 3rd March

So far away

 

Expect new cars to be released from end of Jan onwards? With little rule changes, maybe we could run a spot the difference comp?

 

Mercedes to release car a week before Aus?

 

If so, I bet LH wouldn't be too impressed!
I think he'd want the new car to be on the track come the first pre-season test session not a 2012 car with 2013 tweaks...

 

Remember the secret silverstone test before the season started. Everybody was thinking 'man! they must have something good they are keeping a secret from the rest'. Egg on our faces

 

Nothing wrong with a nice omelette, but Mercedes have made a habit of serving up raw eggs since their return in 2010...

 

Full list of penalties in 2012:

Pastor Maldonado - 14
Michael Schumacher - 9
Sergio Pérez - 9
Sebastian Vettel - 8 ???
Charles Pic - 7
Mark Webber - 5
Romain Grosjean - 5 - How?
Nico Hülkenberg - 5
Jean-Éric Vergne - 5
Kimi Räikkönen - 4
Kamui Kobayashi - 3
Bruno Senna - 3
Heikki Kovalainen - 3
Vitaly Petrov - 3
Pedro de la Rosa - 3
Lewis Hamilton - 2
Jenson Button - 2
Felipe Massa - 2
Nico Rosberg - 2
Narain Karthikeyan - 2
Paul di Resta - 1
Daniel Ricciardo - 1
Fernando Alonso - 0 - teachers pet
Timo Glock - 0
Jérôme d'Ambrosio - 0

 

Apparently Bernie's been making more noises about the state of Interlagos' facilities and may not renew its contract. Not surprising but would be a shame to lose that venue, although personally I can't see it happening as we have been in this situation before.

 

I thought Interlagos were building a new pit complex?

 

PIC was overtaken 70 times this season breaking the record set by Stefano Modena (68 times) in 1989

 

Unfortunately for Red Bull, being constructors champions means they have the highest entry fee next year, but it doesn't mean they'll receive the highest prize money.

 

bit of a random quote form Button from the Autosport awards:

Why does Button want to make Horner happy? lol

 

Why does Button want to make Horner happy? lol[/QUOTE]

It all sounds a bit homoerotic if you ask me.

 

Because Jenson and Seb are mates, and last time I checked Jenson and Alonso didn't really like each other much.

That and RBR is British, it's not unusual hoping a British teams wins over an Italian one.

 

Silver the last time you checked, no-one liked Alonso much and everyone was mates with Vettel

 

I assume JB wants to beat the Ferrari's and therefore make the Italian fans angry rather than giving Horner the... horn?
Well I certainly hope so for the sake of his job at McLaren and his lovely GF