A hole further up the exhaust pipe would be completely illegal I believe. As for the engine mapping, I think it's more to do with facility they had to reduce the torque the drivers had coming out of slow corners reducing wheel spin thus aiding traction, than anything else. Indeed, I believe a car i...

WHEN ARE THE STEWARDS GOING TO STOP TEAMS CHEATING BY BENDING THE RULES

I think Paddy Lowe is right. Nothing fundamentally wrong with the car. Their drivers are not able to find the right set up and are folding under pressure during races. If they had Alonso for example - he would be leading the championship by a larger margin because he would be able to provide great ...

Driver drops manager and that means Lewis might be swapping seats ? Come on guys and girls lets not jump conclusions. It could be as simple as Di Resta not thinking he was up to the job anymore (You know like Lewis did) . Can I have a link where Lewis said his dad was not up to the job? Can't be ar...

The best car in the fly away races and all we have to show for it is second place in both championships. Too many mistakes, you do not win championships like that, ever! Every season McLaren make scandalous mistakes in the pits, be it poor strategy calls or poor pit stops. Every season it's more of...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iaIaypJPORlxMJkLY39Dt6fg_K4g?docId=N0091171340635035934A On Sunday, a new McLaren front jack system failed, forcing the team to scramble to use the spare, and resulting in a 14-second stop that cost him three positions to rivals at the time. Wh...

the thing is that we were robbed of a might-have-been a stellar finish! I think that Alonso would have pushed all the way to the flag Not in a million years. Vettel was faster than everybody. Alonso, though he came to the front when Sebastian was forced to retire, would have at best f i do think th...

3 places lost in yet another botched stop. This is becoming a serious comedy of errors. Is it time for some heads to roll? For a team like Macca it is totally inexcusable. Long long ago here at the forum I made a public call for McLaren's pit crew to be summarily fired, immediately. I was laughed a...

This was big big mistake, they had 2nd place granted. Now Lewis is just 2 points behind. Still it's just first time when they made mistake this season. I hope they will learn from mistakes. edit: Lewis leads WDC No Lewis is two points ahead :nod: :nod: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Seems like the hole in the floor was not the only illegal detail that the RB8 was running so far this year. According to this and this , they have been running these illegal brake cooling ducts since the start of this season. Makes you wonder why FIA runs this sport different to others where athlet...

so they have won races, and points with this illegal car... yet no punishment? F1 really is a farce! AND THIS FORUM CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH. :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh:

What I don't get is, how it's been here for previous races. It has Passed scrutineering, and then once the teams start complaining about it, it becomes illegal. Surely that's changing the rules mid season or just poor scrutineering I put it down to the poor scrutineering. On the flip side, I'm happ...

On the radio Lewis mentioned someone was dropping things onto his head as he drive passed the pitwall! What was going on there? Ferarri or Red Bull who do you think i cannot understand why it was not investigated and acted on team points deductions etc. :o :o :o :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

I believe he favoured Button in the beginning but realised later that wasn't going to win him any championships so he has slightly changed his focus to the driver that SHOULD have been properly supported from Day 1. I think the PR egg on his face finally knocked some sense into him FINALLY! Most pr...

McLaren's Jenson Button has said he is 'excited' ahead of his trip to Hungary next week, where he will run through the streets of Budapest in his F1 car. Button's demo will take place on Tuesday, May 1 – the same day as testing kicks off at Mugello in Italy – and will bring the curtain down on a we...

I HOPE NOT! replacing one Massa with another just does not make sense to me. Sorry have to agree, Webber has done a good job hitting 4th but now with Vettel race winning capable is he really a "great" driver? Last season Webber should of done a better job - thats a fact. And as Vikram states they a...

Loopholes. It's not only the new kids that try to find them. Every team does, no? :nod: Mercedes may be the latest "winner" of the loophole lottery with the DDRS, though the jury's still out. I'm posting this topic since I think this is what the "formula" is all about, seeing who interprets it the ...

If I was hamilton I would question bringing in Button before me in the 1st round of pitstops. What happened to lead driver gets priority on pits :? I would also question the lack of race pace, where they have been out fought and out smarted by their nearest competitor Yes the do but how do we know ...

The best car in the fly away races and all we have to show for it is second place in both championships. Too many mistakes, you do not win championships like that, ever! Every season McLaren make scandalous mistakes in the pits, be it poor strategy calls or poor pit stops. Every season it's more of...

http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/7682566/-Rule-Changes-Made-To-Weaken-Bulls- What a lot of CRY BABIES they got away with it for two years shows VETTELS METAL :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :x "Sebastian Vettel needs a car in which certain conditions are met - and our car doesn't have these," Marko ...

got his DAD back now should see the difference

No Whitmarsh needs to stop favouring Jensen why do you think that Lewis has not signed a contract yet????

Ferrari have not been the same since Ross Braun took his sabatical. and then got Jensen the world title

Vettel had a good race in my opinion, the team gave him a good strategy and helped him out of the quali hole he dug, shame that on the slow down lap he just bitched instead of thanking the team for getting him into some good points. What has been proved is that his 2 championships have been down to...

Saw the Kimi overtake and was looking forward to an overtake on Perez after Vettel came out behind him until Perez ran wide. A mediocre drive from Vettel in my opinion. was not a real overtake as that happened when Kimi's tyres went off, then everyone was overtaking him, so in fact he did not realy...

this will show what Vettel is made of!!!!

Relax, almost all teams protested Brawns' diffusers. And Brawn was right that DD was always legal. I don't think he would ever built car around something that is barely legal. His DRS gizmo will be deemed legal. It's not just the outcome that I'm worried about. Its all the distraction we're going t...

Instead of using the commenting system on one of the articles about the Bahrain race I thought this would be a better way to gauge the consensus on this topic :). To be honest, nothing has changed much in the last few months or weeks, these protests have been going on for more than a year now. As s...

Dam_Noir wrote:Cancel it, Istanbul Park is a better track anyway.

move it to france

It was McLaren themselfs that lost Lewis the race Bring back RON

I think that Jensen got a slight edge on Hamilton and capitalised on it, Hamilton was very unlucky only that the safety car gave Vettel the edge. GOOD RACING by all three of them