Watching the qualifying session for the F1 today something hit me that I'm amazed I'd not realised before. Obviously TF has stuck the QPR badge on the Caterham's, and I've known since it happened that Chelsea and the Sauber team had a partnership arrangement for finding sponsors. I'm assuming any of you who watch the F1 are fans of Caterham for the obvious connections even if you're main interest has come from supporting a particular driver or team for years, but are you starting to get the same kind of feeling of rivalry growing from seeing the QPR F1 team racing the Chelsea one as you get from the football.
I'm an armchair McLaren fan (if that's not a contradiction in terms). Love to get into Caterham but info on the lesser lights is a rarity - and the cameras don't often pick-up them up in races. As for Sauber, well... Short answer: no.
I'm a big Lewis Hamilton fan and I'm slightly sick of McClaren (poor stategy, poor development until today, poor pit-stops) who I think have held Lewis back this year particularly. Would like to see Lotus do well and definitely my second team, but no bitter rivalry with Sauber, that's for sure!
Keep half an eye open for Caterham. At the moment just hoping that I am watching when someone punches Maldonado.
I've always had a soft spot for Sauber and love Kobayashi's aggressive driving style but the main team I support is Ferrari
Yeah I follow Team Caterham and they're my main team (though I do like Other teams as well) but no to your question, they're way off each other, Caterham is a work in progress and won't be getting points for a while but continue to press on and do well. Nothing to do with football rivals at all
I love the oddity of the fact that there happens to be two teams who have their badges on formula 1 cars, and that those two teams happen to be QPR and Chelsea. Much like the two football teams QPR came first, and in QPR's case the connection between the football team and the formula 1 team is obvious. The connection between Sauber and Chelsea seems to be very tenuous to say the least (some corporate b*llox involving Samsung I think). The truth is though that there is little to no rivalry between Caterham and Sauber. At least not yet. Sauber has been in motor sport since the 70s, and in formula 1 since the early 90s and are an established major team. Caterham only appeared in F1 this year and have yet to score a point. They're doing well compared to the other new teams (HRT and Marussia), but are a long way off from challenging the established big boys just yet. That said though, Caterham like QPR is at the beginning of a journey. Hopefully better times lie ahead for both.
The Chelsea/Sauber linkup isn't just about Samsung, it's corporate bollocks about trying to do lots of joint sponsorship deals with as many companies as possible in the hope they'll both make more overall. I know there isn't any F1 rivalry between Caterham and Sauber (although this is just Caterham's first season under that name, they've done 2 years before that) but it was just a case of having seen people suggest that in your new banner you should have the plane and the Caterham car because they're both in your colours (well plane in colours and Caterham with the crest) wondering if QPR fans specifically who were also Caterham fans were starting to have a follow through of the football rivalry with Chelsea now that they were linked up with Sauber, in an if we can only beat a Sauber or a Torro Rosso I'd rather it be the Sauber way rather than an full on rivalry to the extent there is in the football. The main reason for asking though was that the A1GP series that Sky used to show before it went bust wasn't originally going to be teams representing countries. One of the really early proposals for it, probably about 5 or 6 years before it started was that teams would be representing different football clubs in order to try and gain an immediate audience and built in rivalries between teams. Since the idea they eventually adopted failed, and this is the nearest anything has come to having the idea they rejected I was wondering if they'd have been better going with that system, obviously not based on the reactions above.
If I was wumming I'd be posting on here on a different account that we were linked with a double move for Ephraim and Hulse just to get Flyer's hopes up, or that you were going to sign Caleb Folan, although that's more of a private joke.
