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Posted 1 month ago #
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The most notably out of place teams are Force India, Renault and McLaren. But mostly McLaren!!!
Renault can be expected to move up in 2018 as this was, in many ways, their rookie year (the 2016 chassis was still very much a Lotus)
Posted 1 month ago # -
The future starts with an 'E'....
F1 should've seen it coming but they let Bernie rule for too long!
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Moe - FE is still very slow compared to F1 but it's getting more relevant every year. I'm guessing the 2021 F1 power units will be the last generation where the ICE is the most important part.
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If FE becomes more prominent I'd not be surprised to see Mr Musk turn up with a Telsa Formula E Team (sponsored by SpaceX and PayPal)!
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So Wehrlein is out despite scoring all of Sauber's points for the last two seasons. It's a shame to see his talent leave F1 but Ericsson brings the $$$$ so he gets to stay!
It's gonna be exciting to see how Charles Leclerc does next year in a (hopefully!) revamped Sauber. He's been breaking Hamilton's records as he charged his way up through the lower formulas:
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Yes! France and Germany back. All we need is the US GP to get over its scheduling spat with Mexico and it'll be sorted.
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All we need is the US GP to get over its scheduling spat with Mexico and it'll be sorted.
What spat is that?
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And to get rid of all the badly designed circuits that don't suit F1 cars - lookin at you Yas Marina...
Tilke did some great work but most of his good tracks aren't on the calendar any more.
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FE next year will see a move to a single car per driver due to improvements in battery tech. No more 1 minute put stops to change cars.
I don't see that it being slower than F1 is a big deal personally since the racing is much closer and there tends to be plenty of overtaking on street circuits. The nature of aero packages in F1 seems to severely limit the ability to overtake (especially if you drive a merc) and makes for less entertaining races (IMHO)
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What spat is that?
Think its more theres 2 big events close to each other back to back, which have to split audiences.If they had one at the start of the year and another at the end of the year it would be easier to maximize audiences at both events
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Yup but COTA are insisting Mexico change their date. They don't want to.
Posted 1 month ago # -
jairaj - Member
I have no idea why Williams have been struggling to get near the sharp endMaybe it was the panda-faced pace-o-phobe*
Hopefully they don't find another excuse to re-employ Massa. I know a bad thing happened to him and he's really well liked within the paddock but the main part of the job is driving really fast and he's just not up to it.
I know that Williams is a nice team and they can't bring themselves to give him a P45 but there's numerous guys you could pedal that car faster.* Credit: Sniffpetrol 2013
Posted 1 month ago # -
I think what will happen to Ricciardo next year is one of the most interesting things in F1 one right now. He clearly wants to step out from Verstappen's shadow and into a car that can beat the over talented little Dutch man. So that would mean Mercedes or Ferrari, and I think Mercedes are keen to hold on to Ocon so that it looks like Vettel may well be getting the only teammate who beat him on a regular basis back again..
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
He clearly wants to step out from Verstappen's shadow and into a car that can beat the over talented little Dutch man.
If he can't beat him in the same car, then Verstappen deserves to be No. 1. Ricciardo outscored MV over the year and pulled off more overtaking moves than any other driver. His only weakness was being outqualified by 13-7, from memory. However, the average gap was tiny, so the two drivers seem to be very evenly matched and I don't think DR is intimidated by MV. Wherever DR goes, he has to be prepared to beat a first class teammate, so I think that will be less of a consideration than whether Red Bull can produce a competitive car. Red Bull seem likely to be stuck with Honda engines from 2019, so if the Honda engine doesn't improve massively, he won't want to stick around.
Any driver on the grid would take a Mercedes seat if it was available, but chances of that seem slim. DR will obviously be looking at McLaren and Ferrari, and also how the Honda engine compares to the Renault next year. Red Bull and Mclaren will have the same engine, so that will make it obvious which car is better. Alonso's nearing the end of his career and won't want to stick around if the Renault engine isn't competitive right out of the box. Ferrari will be very disappointed with Vettel's meltdown this year, so Ricciardo might look attractive, he seems to be very tough mentally. Renault is another team he will obviously be looking at very closely.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
Ferrari will be very disappointed with Vettel's meltdown this year, so Ricciardo might look attractive, he seems to be very tough mentally.
I agree, I think DR will be in red from 2019 onwards, the only thing possibly barring his way is if Charles Leclerc puts in a storming debut next year...
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Kvyat gets Ferrari development role...
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/kvyat-joins-ferrari-development-driver-994378/
...could be the best thing for him. Perhaps work his way back into F1 with an Alfa/Sauber drive next year (surely they won't hang on to Ericsson for 2019!).
Posted 1 week ago # -
I bet finger boy will enjoy working with him
Posted 1 week ago # -
Ricciardo will need a complete personality transplant if he moves to Ferrari. He is far too personable and happy for the prancing horse. I mean he has a sense of humour and actually smiles. There is no way Ferrari would employ someone likeable FFS.
Posted 1 week ago # -
I read this over the holidays and thought it was interesting. Tiff's view on how to improve the Yas Marina circuit...
Posted 1 week ago # -
Most sense Lewis has talked in a while!
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/133873/hamilton-f1-needs-more-doningtonstyle-turns
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Posted 2 days ago #
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So Sirotkin gets the nod while Kooobica gets to be kept on the books in case sergei turns out to be a disaster. Oh, and to front up for Martini as the race drivers are too young.
Posted 1 day ago # -
Boom!...and down to 8th or 9th in the constructors table.
Posted 1 day ago # -
Williams - they just seem to be trying to find the next young-verstappen and hoping it will get them some notice, when in reality they are slipping further and further down the grid (even with that Merc engine in the back) with less and less sponsorship money --- and almost every race there is some excuse as to their problems with performance (doesnt suit us, tyres not heating up etc) - and i think they had a chance with Kubica to get a genuine talent with F1 experience and they went for ooodles of cash instead.
Personally if i was Kubica i'd have looked at another F1 team instead of backburner status.as for Formula E - plenty of big manufacturers coming in, and rumours are the new car for 2019 will be very much faster than the existing ones and there is already talk of them "out growing" some street circuits - when they start to get on to proper race circuits, then the F1 challenge will really begin.
There may be no need at all to try and change F1 against the manufacturers power base , because it might just simply fade away as they all jump ship into FE.
Posted 2 hours ago # -
I always thought there should be another league / Break away.
The big boys and spend what they want and do what they want to build the fastest cars possible while Sauber, Hass, Williams etc cass about making excuses for themselves in F 1 junior.They could be a support race for the Big teams
Posted 1 hour ago # -
when they start to get on to proper race circuits, then the F1 challenge will really begin.
Not for a while I'd wager. The current, tight, tracks make them look fast. If you copied the F1 calendar they'd look dismally slow in comparison. The speed will come, but then do you also want the teams spending millions and millions to match the aero performance?
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Oh, and to front up for Martini as the race drivers are too young.
Supposedly Kubica doesn't drink though...
Posted 1 hour ago # -
I always thought there should be another league / Break away.
The big boys and spend what they want and do what they want to build the fastest cars possible while Sauber, Hass, Williams etc cass about making excuses for themselves in F 1 junior.They could be a support race for the Big teams
What big boys, Merc, Ferrari and Renault? Would be dull as dishwater. F1 needs independents and it needs engine rules that allow them to be competitive.
Posted 23 minutes ago #
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