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Chuffy

Unfortunately Manor has last years Ferrari engine Why is that so? Because of money?? Then we will have another hopeless backmarker that is miles off the pace... A shame really. It'll be because they are running their 2014 car with a new nose on it. I believe they will get 2015 engines when they bui...

Chuffy

I dunno, numbers don't lie where as drivers do. Numbers don't lie, but they can't explain themselves either. It's a lot easier to misinterpret the numbers and go in the wrong direction than it is with driver feedback. I guess my point is that if you have a part that all the data says will make the ...

Chuffy

Volvo XC70 Previously: Alfa Romeo's Decided it was time to get a car that actually works half of the time. Don't get me wrong... I LOVE Alfa's and will do until I die, but I felt that when I needed to get to the firestation in a hurry I needed something a little more.....reliable. My Brera has had ...

Chuffy

Ferrari will let James Allison design a car first before they jettison him for Newey.

Chuffy

amngoogly87 wrote:Jenson answers a question, the title of the thread isn't a quote but an interpretation, and of course it turns into a typical Button hater bash thread. Pathetic.

I agree. It's a shame that the internet is littered with the ill-informed and the irrational.

Chuffy

It's off the point but no way was the Benetton better than the Williams in 94 or 95. I don't think anyone asks could Button ever win in anything but the best car, aside, that is, from people who actively dislike Button. As an Irishman, I do wonder why some British people have a problem with their o...

Chuffy

mmi16 wrote:When going into a season with massive rule changes - missing a test is never a good idea.

Exactly.

Who is to say that Lotus won't have the same issues in Bahrain? By which time the other teams could have over come them.

Chuffy

Anyone noticed that the actual wing bit of the front wings (the bits with the twiddly bits on them) are huge now? I'm sure they're like 30% bigger than last year's! Is that just an optical illusion caused by the odd noses? I think that is because the front wings are narrower than last year. So more...

Chuffy

As stated by Blinky, it is an interlagos issue. The track is notorious for rivers running across the track due to the slopes. They had even cut the track surface to try and channel water across the track. You could see the dark strips on the approach to the start finish straight and around the first...

Chuffy

Well as the OP I think I can pretty much eat my words after Jb's stunning drive to 4th place. Obviously, quali was a bit embarrassing again and who knows where he would have ended up if he had started higher up the grid? But at the end of the day it was a cracking drive with some superb over-taking...

Chuffy

Interesting comments by the SKY F1 team in their summery statements. When asked what they wouldn't miss from the 2013 season, Ted Kravitz said "Being ignored by Paul De Resta" and Simon lazenby said "I've had a few of those too". I get the impression that PDR hasn't helped himself in the way he has ...

Chuffy

Unless Massa brings in Brazilian sponsors I can't see many teams being interested in him. He has been inconsistent the last couple of seasons and ignoring a team order just because you are leaving the team is pretty petty when you have been obeying them for the last 4 years. If I was a team principl...

Chuffy

What's the point of moving from Sauber to FI?! It didn't make sense moving the other way last year (he challenged for top 5 in many races towards the end) and now the Sauber is in a similar position. All it takes is for a couple of the leaders to get together and he can challenge for wins; with Abu...

Chuffy

He certainly made a few quid from the Honda buy out and Brawn sell off to Mercedes. Whilst they won the title as Brawn, they had over half a season to design the car and it does seem to have been a bit of a flash in the pan. They haven't followed it up with much success since. I know that Brawn had ...

Chuffy

When Lucozade first appeared on the wings, there was talk of GSK getting more involved with a number of their consumer products. Now that GSK has sold off the Lucozade brand I'm not sure where that leaves them. I've read about the link to Gillette too. As for colours, Mclarens should be white and re...

Chuffy

I don't think Vettel cares about PR. I'm not sure the team do either. They have made so many public decisions to support Vettel over Webber whilst attempting to deny it. Then they don't punish Vettel when he ignores fairly soft team orders. Vettel also whinges on the team radio when the team don't g...

Chuffy

What's the point of moving from Sauber to FI?! It didn't make sense moving the other way last year (he challenged for top 5 in many races towards the end) and now the Sauber is in a similar position. All it takes is for a couple of the leaders to get together and he can challenge for wins; with Abu...

Chuffy

I can't see why McLaren would want him to leave. He is in the top tier of drivers regarding performance. I'm sure he's far easier to manage than some drivers. I don't recall him putting confidential information on twitter, or blackmailing the team principle for number 1 status. The sponsors love him...

Chuffy

Because Kimi is faster than Massa.

Chuffy

Get rid of Button. There are no top drivers available, so they will have to try a young star. It will be tough without experienced drivers, but they need to rebuild in anyway, and in my opinion Button is bringing the team down. I think Button gives very vague feedback when it comes to developing a ...

Chuffy

Haven't any of you listened to any of the drivers and ex drivers on TV? Tyre management has always been part of F1, and always be. This current formula is massively preferable to me than the days a few years ago when we pretty much knew who'd won the race on saturday. Indeed, this is just moaning f...

Chuffy

Having said that, I agree with you totally on your view in other manufacturers coming into the sport, would love to see Honda, Jaguar and Toyota all in there. I would be grateful to see a come back and that technology deployed to their road cars. I am really hope Jaguar can come back, with the back...

Chuffy

No,It is a team owned by Mallya and Roy of Sahara who happen to be Indian, nothing else is remotely indian about the team. You cant expect everybody to support the team because it has been named after the country and has indian owners. As said Ferrari is iconic and is a part of Italy's history. Not...

Chuffy

Last season they struggled at the start to understand the tyres. They soon learnt though and by the end of the season they were wearing far less.

This season will be no different.

Chuffy

while Im speculating and making some educated deduction,and non of us know the whole truth,its seems that Ron and co are angry that Lewis refuse to stand still and be humiliated or be subserviant,and more over how dare him Lewis bargin and negotiate with us.he should just take what we give him and ...

Chuffy

Jimbox01 wrote: Unfortunately, judging by most of the threads, F1 fans appear to be a silent majority on here.

Which is why I don't post that much.

Chuffy

The FIA are highly inconsistent and strange (Corrupt) when it comes to punishing cheating, 1994/1995 springs to mind where the team should of been DQ from both driver's and constructors but nothing. What happened in 1995? For which team? If I recall Bennetton was proven to have traction control or ...

Chuffy

Hulkenberg and DiResta seems like better options to me. But it's easy to be Captain Hindsight on this one. He's just been incredibly hotheaded and eager lately. If he has an incident which is clearly his fault again in the next race, we could see another race ban handed out. I think he's racing wit...

Chuffy

Lewis won in Italy! 2009 they started with a dog of a car and have never been in the WDC fight! The only was was up with this car, there was no pressure of a WDC fight on them. If McLaren was so glad to see him leave, why did they make him a offer to be the best paid driver in F1? My mistake it was...

Chuffy

1. It was nice too see Karthikeyan and Rosberg talking to one another after the crash as if nothing bad had happened. I great to see sportsmanship like that. 2. Start Designing those enclosed cockpits or other ways to protect the drivers. Implement them as soon as 2014 if possible. Drivers are beco...

Chuffy

He grew as a driver very well as you can see in every race this season! He manages the tyres much better than many others, he found out how to heat them up, way before his team mate and the most McLaren enginereers. He sets up his car much better than his team mate most of the time Remember Macca e...

Chuffy

OK, stick hot pokers up my backside, here it comes. I don't think McLaren would take Hamilton back. He's had six years at McLaren and delivered only one title. Although he's blindingly quick over one lap, he's tactically deficient, his growth as a driver is sub par, he's high maintenance, historica...

Chuffy

What about Vettel's alternator problems. Is that red Bull trying to sabotage Vettel?

Chuffy

you maybe right but i am quite sure that drivers usually consider their teammates a lot of the time as they see him as the first person to beat. what i was getting at was, did Jenson make Lewis' relationship with the team a bit harder? and the problem here may not be Lewis but Mclaren as they now h...

Chuffy

is it just me or does F1 attract some of the most moronic internet 'fans' of all sports?

Chuffy

irietuning wrote:I really think that he has to go now......

It would be great if he took Jenson along with him too

I see the Muppets are out in force tonight.

Chuffy

jamei wrote:Surely the solution is to extend the roll hoop structure behind the drivers head to come forward over the top of the the head like a kind of mini roof. The would stop large objects from striking the helmet but still allow unrestricted vision.

How do they then get in and out of the car in a hurry?

Chuffy

Obviously driver and spectator safety is of paramount importance in Formula 1 and racing in general, but could we theoretically reach a point when racing becomes too safe? I'm in no way saying that this 'roll-hoop' is that tipping point, but surely one of the reasons that drivers love what they do,...

Chuffy

pfft if you want strawmen go and watch the wizard of oz Stating that motorsport is inherently dangerous and always will be while humans are involved is not a strawman argument, thanks for trying that though :o It even says so on the ticket when you go to a track to watch. Take to a track and you ha...

Chuffy

Yes they do. As they did in the sixties. And, if that attitude prevailed, we would not have seatbelts, Hans devices, crash structures, Kevlar bags for fuel, tethers for wheels, drivers' feet behind axle lines, etc, etc . Let me just say that, for me, F1 is an open wheel, open cockpit formula, and I...

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