F1 2022 SEASON: NEWS - RUMOURS

Because they are over priced , over hyped crap !

Bose I mean .

 

100% agree with you.

 

Very pleased to see Honda staying on and therefore enjoying their season as champions, very well deserved.

It also stops VW Porsche or RBR power trains simply rebadging the hard work from Japan.

There is an advantage for Red Bull/VW Porsche too, who will now have concessionairy engine fees as a “new engine entrant” in 2026.

Seems like the right deal for all involved.

I wonder if Honda may indeed even stay afterwards and go and set up a works partnership with a works team- Williams? Or put things right and pair with …..McLaren?!

Interesting!

 

I feel strongly that Honda were dealt a bad card when they came into F1, I would like to see them stay and obtain some glory. I still want Lewis to get his 8th but beyond that I think the new generation of drivers are there to entertain us. Honda and McLaren, the management has changed, and drivers, so why not.
However, I find it odd that RBR and Honda must have signed a deal over IP etc and now are ripping it up. RBR must have been a wiling partner to this. Where does it leave the employees RBR poached from Mercedes?

 

So it looks like the first testing sessions in Barcelona are all closed so Bahrain can have the 'glory' ! So no public at the track or tv coverage of the first tests of the completely new cars!!! Can't believe that Bahrain just 'paid' to be the first track to have tv coverage of the new cars!! So much for liberty giving fans what they want!!!

We will get to see some mockup of the new cars at the launch events but I'm not happy that the first times these cars hit the track there will be no tv footage, even if it's a 'highlights' show it would be better than nothing.

I'm hoping that I have this wrong, please someone say there is tv coverage of the Barcelona tests!

 

Do you know what ?

I am not even slightly surprised if this is true , utterly pathetic .

 

No, no, according to F1 that's a "pre-season session" in Barcelona, to make sure that everything will be ok for actual testing in Bahrain. Perfectly normal and sane thing to do. I'm sure it's always happened that way before...



Except nobody told the teams, or they wouldn't be organise their own shakedowns before the real shakedown. Or the Circuit de Catalunya, who are advertising it as testing on their website.

 

Will Buxton has gone down in my opinion after this .

I know he’s the official spokesman, but even so

 

So Barcelona is not official?


I was thinking the other day. Now we have budget caps. Would it be a good idea to open up to more testing? What is cheaper and more beneficial? On track testing or simulation

 

Barcelona is an official 3 day pre-season event in which the teams run their cars around the track and test see how well they work.

Bahrain is an official 3 day test event in which the teams run their cars around the track and test how well they work.

Completely different. Hope that clears things up. Bahrain have definitely not paid a ton of money to have the first broadcast of the 2022 cars from their country, leaving F1 scrabbling to justify the behind closed doors "event" in Barcelona, which is normally not behind closed doors.

 

It's simple folks. It's just like qualifying to qualify. They're testing to test.

 

It doesn't say its 'official' just wondering if my F1 car can turn up? I mean we're not an official F1 team....I don't have the license points and my car doesn't pass F1 rules but...

 

I've got a trolley jack and some headphones, I'll come as pit crew.

 

And I'll chip in ten quid for any Liberty 'administration fees'. We know they don't need that kind of money, but they also won't be able to resist it.

 

what do we call oursleves? Bando Wagon F1? Maybe we should look into getting some sponsorship from Rich Energy, bite the biter so to speak.

 

And I'll come as a reporter to post opinion from the testing including all the talk from the 14th February meeting on the intended race management, rules interpretation and implementation of them after getting all the gossip from within the teams. That way the fans (the paymasters) can tell the the FIA and Liberty what they feel about the season changes.

 

This all sounds great guys but let's not make this too official

 

Genius!

 

6 days will we need the new red bull in all its glory with shiny golden #1 max verstappen pretending nothing ever happened.

exciting times.

Red Bull RB18 - February 9
Aston Martin AMR22 - February 10
McLaren MCL36 - February 11
AlphaTauri - February 14
Ferrari F1-75 - February 17
Mercedes W13 - February 18
Alpine A522 - February 22

looking forward to the Mclaren one.