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Formula 1 in 2015

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JUBJUB said:
For anyone interested,Mark Webber is featured on this monday nights Australian Story on Tony Abbotts favourite channel
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Would have been funny if it was a 2 minute brief bio followed by 20 minutes of Webber slamming the Government. :D

A couple of interesting bits in the doco. Didn't know Webbers relationship with his manager/partner went as far back as it did. And on his relationship with Vettel, surprised he gets on well with him again but they did get on well for 2009 and a bit of 2010. If Senna and Prost could get along again nothing's impossible. The title 'Driven' was a rather unfortunate choice and clearly Bernies price tag on using F1 footage was not within the budget.

Saw his book today in Dymocks. Looked a little light but will give it a read a bit later.
 
Didn't mention that Yellow Pages were going to sponsor the whole fford series. But Mark's relationship with that granny, meant the granny drew YP to sponsoring Mark instead. As far as getting by in Europe in the early days is concerned. With all the big name Austrlian sports stars that appeared on the show, no David Campese (who's a mate of Mark's dad). He gave them 10-100s thousands to fund his racing. Didn't have to pay it back too.
 
RolandF1 said:
Would have been funny if it was a 2 minute brief bio followed by 20 minutes of Webber slamming the Government. :D

A couple of interesting bits in the doco. Didn't know Webbers relationship with his manager/partner went as far back as it did. And on his relationship with Vettel, surprised he gets on well with him again but they did get on well for 2009 and a bit of 2010. If Senna and Prost could get along again nothing's impossible. The title 'Driven' was a rather unfortunate choice and clearly Bernies price tag on using F1 footage was not within the budget.

Saw his book today in Dymocks. Looked a little light but will give it a read a bit later.
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Sounds like they get on okay now.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/webber-blames-toothless-management-for-vettel-war
 
Red Bull to run Mercedes engines and feature Aston Martin branding in 2016? Would be the death blow for Renault IMO, but at least you'd expect a bit more competition at the front end of the field.

http://m.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119849
 

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ManWithNoName said:
Don't see the point. Mercedes wouldn't let them beat themselves.
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I don't think Mercedes fear anyone at the moment. I honestly believe they have the best engine, the best chassis, and the best aero package at the moment.

Further to the Autosport article, there is a distinct possibility that Renault want to re-enter as a constructor, and the purchase of a (presently) Mercedes engined team could be on the cards (Lotus anyone?) because Red Bull and Toro Rosso aren't for sale. If Mercedes were to lose a team engine supply contract then they would be look to replace that team with another.

Mercedes are quite happy to supply engines to Williams, and as Silverstone (and last year) showed they can be competitive with Mercedes at certain tracks. Adding Red Bull to the mix would be logical and would serve to take the fight to Ferrari.
 
Juan Pablo Montoya is pretty much on the mark with this statement:

Asked by this website [jamesallenonf1.com] how he would improve racing in Formula One, Montoya offered a simple solution.
“If you take away the tyre sensors, the temperature sensors, and just leave the pressures, the racing will get better by 10 per cent straight away. I’m certain of that,” he said.
“The driver is now lazy. There’s no feel. They see [the temperature] is too much they back off the pace. Look at the tyres, back off the pace, look at the brakes, back off the pace. If you take all that away it becomes a feel thing again. If you drive it too hard you’re going to wear the tyres off the car.
“The driver and the team just have too much information. It’s OK to have the information in practice, but that information shouldn’t be there in the race for the drivers. It’s got to be a feel thing. Also it will mean that you will start to see the talented people coming through.”
Montoya’s idea – or the thinking behind it at least – has supporters within the F1 ecosystem, who are in the process of framing rules to hand the cars back to the drivers with less input from engineers, especially via radio. This is the kind of measure which will come in soon.
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I like the idea of reducing the amount of information that the driver gets during the race. The amount of telemetry is just too high. I can understand telemetry for the engine, because the number of engines per season is limited. I like the idea that information on tyre and brake temperature is something to be gathered during practice and not during the race.
 
i ahte it when im watching it and hearing drivers be told how to drive how are you supposed to judge drivers on there on merits if all we here is the pit wall to slow down speed up. do you think prost? senna? schumacher? like to be told how to drive.
 
jabba5114 said:
i ahte it when im watching it and hearing drivers be told how to drive how are you supposed to judge drivers on there on merits if all we here is the pit wall to slow down speed up. do you think prost? senna? schumacher? like to be told how to drive.
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I imagine about as much as Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton do today. But they do it because that's what's required of them and Prost, Senna and Schumacher would do it too, if it was required of them at the time.

I do agree though, that all the toys should be taken away from the drivers, and an easy way to do this is to limit communications to a pit board and emergency radio communications only (i.e. we advise you to park the car due to an imminent failure).
 
Javelin said:
I imagine about as much as Alonso, Vettel and Hamilton do today. But they do it because that's what's required of them and Prost, Senna and Schumacher would do it too, if it was required of them at the time.

I do agree though, that all the toys should be taken away from the drivers, and an easy way to do this is to limit communications to a pit board and emergency radio communications only (i.e. we advise you to park the car due to an imminent failure).
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not so sure vettel and hamilton hate it they probably prefer it. i do think alonso hates it hell hes expressed it.
 
jabba5114 said:
i ahte it when im watching it and hearing drivers be told how to drive how are you supposed to judge drivers on there on merits if all we here is the pit wall to slow down speed up. do you think prost? senna? schumacher? like to be told how to drive.
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All of the great drives Schumacher's known for (in the dry, and with refuelling rules) were due to the pit telling him what to do.
 
Finally, a bit of sense regarding the exceeding the engine allocation rule - no more drive through penalties!

Formula 1's controversial engine-change grid penalty system has been simplified after the World Motor Sport Council approved changes submitted by the Strategy Group.
Penalties for exceeding a driver's engine allocation this year have been declared too harsh by some teams.
McLaren's Jenson Button was given a 25-place grid penalty in Austria for modifications and with the grid only 20 strong, he had to take the remainder of the penalty in the form of a drive-through during the race.
However, the WMSC approved a proposal that ensures the most a driver can be penalised is to be demoted to back of the grid, thus eliminating in-race penalties for these infractions.
A regulation that will mean an extra power unit per driver is granted for any new manufacturer entering F1 was also approved.
That brings the total to five - one more than the existing power unit suppliers - and will be applied retrospectively to Honda, which returned to F1 with McLaren this year, for the 2015 season.
The changes to the sporting regulations come into force with immediate effect, with the next grand prix taking place in Hungary on July 26.
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Russian Grand Prix in trouble?

This year's Russian Grand Prix is in danger of last-minute collapse, Russian media and Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper report.
Sochi is scheduled to host its second consecutive race on October 11, but organizers are reportedly desperately hoping for a $70 million bailout by the government in Moscow amid a deep economic crisis.
"If there is no credit, there will be no Formula One," said Veniamin Kondratiev, the interim governor of the Krasnodar region.
The reports said 20,000 tickets for the 2015 Russian Grand Prix have been sold to date.
But Kondratiev explained that, amid the crisis, funding for schools and funding are being prioritized.
"We will not use our regional funds for Formula One," he said.
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The Russian Grand Prix is currently planned to occur two weeks after Japan and two weeks before the US Grand Prix and we could be in for yet another month off from racing. The cancellation of the German Grand Prix has us in our current three week break (and that's before the 4 week Summer break) which is good news for the engine manufacturers like Renault and Honda, but no good for anyone else.

Roll on 2016, please!
 

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