F1 2014 Season: Lineup's - Rumours - News

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New buyers have been looking around Hinwil over the weekend. Apparently Raikkonen is something to do with it. I thought Kimi had links with the Lotus buy out too? Is he going around scamming everyone?
 
Autosport said:
Jenson Button believes the drivers' first on-track taste of the 2014 Formula 1 cars will be "hilarious".

The 2009 world champion suspects that the combination of the very different behaviour of the all-new turbocharged V6 engines, inevitable initial unreliability and cold temperatures at Jerez in January will make the first runs a bizarre experience.

"Winter testing is going to be hilarious in Jerez," said Button, who has tried the 2014 McLaren in the team's simulator.

"It will be cold, the tyres aren't going to work, the cars probably won't work either and when you do get a lap it is probably going to feel weird because you are running higher gears - you get into eighth gear before you get to seventh gear now.
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I'll get the Chaplin music ready :D
 
Anyone else think that the test in Bahrain tomorrow is pretty much pointless? If they're testing 2014 tyres I don't see how much use the data will be to the teams if they're running 2013 cars or older. The 2014 cars will be different in terms of torque and aerodynamics so the tyres will react differently.
 
Believe In Lewis said:
Anyone else think that the test in Bahrain tomorrow is pretty much pointless? If they're testing 2014 tyres I don't see how much use the data will be to the teams if they're running 2013 cars or older. The 2014 cars will be different in terms of torque and aerodynamics so the tyres will react differently.
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I think it's more of an extensive shake down for Pirelli to test the reliability of the tyres than anything else. The teams will just want to get any lead they can on the tyres and find out how they compare to this year's. I think Kvyat will be the only person who really gains anything from it.
 
AbsolutelyGlorious said:
I think it's more of an extensive shake down for Pirelli to test the reliability of the tyres than anything else. The teams will just want to get any lead they can on the tyres and find out how they compare to this year's. I think Kvyat will be the only person who really gains anything from it.
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And then when RBR kick off next year because they'r enot winning everything in sight, Pirelli will change compounds again to suit them and all the testing becomes a waste of time anyway .......... <whistle>
 
allsaintchris. said:
And then when RBR kick off next year because they'r enot winning everything in sight, Pirelli will change compounds again to suit them and all the testing becomes a waste of time anyway .......... <whistle>
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yeah, because it had nothing to do with the tyres blowing up at silverstone at all <whistle>
 
Kimi goes to Maranello, Ferrari confirm Spagnolo

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Ferrari.com said:
A friend of Santa’s comes down from the North

Maranello, 17 December –What comes after Father Christmas? After 25 December the next festivity on the calendar is the start of the new year, but in Maranello, everything happens early, because if there’s one thing that can’t be lost, it’s time. That’s how after last weekend, when all the drivers who fly the Prancing Horse flag on race tracks around the world, be they the Formula 1 drivers with the Scuderia, the youngsters from the Ferrari Driver Academy or those who have taken the 458 GT to victory all over the place, transformed themselves into Father Christmas, today, bringing an early taste of the new year, was someone who shares his nationality with the best loved Father Christmas by kids of all nationalities, given that according to legend, he operates out of a base right in the north of Finland.

Today in Maranello, that other resident of Finland, Kimi Raikkonen was on hand to meet Stefano Domenicali and the senior engineers from the Scuderia. It was an opportunity to go over the current state of play on the design of the 2014 car, as well as a chance for Kimi to meet up with many old friends who, in a few weeks time will once again be his team These include Antonio Spagnolo, who next season will the Finnish driver’s race engineer.

http://formula1.ferrari.com/news/friend-santas-north
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I would look so bad-ass in the lab with a Ferrari lab coat. Willing to bet they aren't for sale for sub-£100 though. And I'd spill something horrendous on it as soon as I got it.
 
allsaintchris. said:
If the regs weren;t changed, it would be frightening to think how fast the cars could now go. Sub 1 min possible?

Think is, if the cars are engineered to go as fast as the tracks will allow, it would reduce the chances of overtaking as there would simply be no scope for a following car to go faster.

There has to be a happy medium somewhere on the speed aspect before it detracts from the racing aspect.
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AN commenting on the new restrictions.

"If the regulations continue to become ever more restrictive we'll eventually get the point where the car's more or less designed by the rulebook," Newey told Autosport. "You'll then have, effectively, GP1 cars where the differentiators are the engine and the driver. For me, it's not Formula 1." - See more at: http://www.f1times.co.uk/news/display/08324#sthash.s7DqPkHw.dpuf
 
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