Caterham and Marussia will be meeting up with Bernie to discuss ways to survive in f1. Cost of a 2014 spec engine being one point
Former Mercedes driver Michael Schumacher now back to his old roots, testing for tonykarts. [video=youtube;jvlnbLmMOUM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvlnbLmMOUM[/video] Some rumours spreading that he could test for Mercedes road cars. http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motoring/schumacher-work-mercedes-road-cars please log in to view this image
http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/8491502/Hulkenberg-s-feet-too-big-for-C32 I laughed a lot harder at that than I really should have
I wonder with whether his big feet are also causing problems with the fitting of his race harness........
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/105531 The new Williams-Renault FW35 has passed the final crash test ahead of its track debut at next week's Barcelona test
There's a fair few old drivers who have lost their marbles when they talk about modern-day F1 - thankfully DC isn't one of them. http://www.foxsports.com.au/motor-sports/formula-one/david-coulthard-says-anti-grand-prix-melburnians-are-selfish/story-e6frf3zl-1226576104576
Pirelli announce tyre choices for first few races: Australia - medium & super soft Malaysia - hard & medium China - medium & soft Bahrain - hard & soft First appearance of the super softs at Australia. I was under the impression that these tyres were meant to be softer than last years? If so we could well see 3 stops or more being made.
Like those choices, although, would like to have seen Hard and Softs for Malaysia, give the teams something to think about, speed of the softs or endurance of the hards..
Chinese F1 Team? http://www.f1today.net/en/news/chinese-le-mans-team-eyes-f1-future I predict another FIA competition for the 12th (and maybe the 13th) garage with Scorpion also looking to join
I'm also open to new teams, but (and hopefully without sounding Xenophobic) would be interested to see how a Chinese team would work, with regards IP rules. If manufacturers in China can get away with blatantly copying the road car models from European brands, then will this carry over into F1? At the moment obviously teams are highly influenced by each other, but mostly it's a case of working other teams' ideas into their own model. When regulations are stable, would we see this new bunch produce a car which was seemingly a carbon copy of the best car of the previous season? And would any case against them have to be in China, where road car manufacturers have had an incredibly difficult job winning cases? My second concern would be whether they'd employ an all-Chinese line-up, which is something I suppose we'll get an answer to from their Le Mans efforts. I've nothing against Chinese drivers per se, but would be concerned about the quality. Ma Qinghua had 4 test drives with HRT last season, but from what I can remember he was way, way off the pace, and it took significant funding for him to get that far. If he's the best China has to offer, a team reliant on him to qualify within 107%, potentially with one of the worst cars on the grid, could really struggle. Having said all this, I'm probably hugely over-reacting. The more teams in close racing the better to me, and opening up a new audience to F1 is usually good news (especially as Bernie can hardly give them a second track...I hope). As long as the new team, from whatever nation, play by the rules or get the book thrown at them, I'm happy.
Slightly OT here: It's Red Bull Racing, but not as we know it [video=youtube;f3bmPXaxvvQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3bmPXaxvvQ&feature=youtu.be[/video]
