Some "non-reliable" reports from the track saying that the Force India looks like its a handful, Ferrari and McLaren handling well but the Red Bull looks planted to the road. Yeah, many of them look like a handfull (surprise, surprise it's testing). The other one is Williams. Torro Rosso looks like...

Would love to see Petrov in a Marussia (makes more sense with the Russian connection).

Post-Edit: Oh dang. Was a good thought though.

Laura23 wrote:Razia has just been confirmed.

https://twitter.com/marussia_f1team/sta ... 6690452480

Great shot of the Mercedes/Rosberg fire causing the red flag..

Is this true? JA.F1 says Bianchi, diResta and Rossiter will all test in Jerez...which means Bianchi is the No. 2 driver? http://www.facebook.com/forceindiaf1/posts/366577926772977?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+jaf1%2FForceIndiaF1sFacebookWall+%28Force+India+F1%27s+Fac...

talk about diverting the original content of the thread...

Narain Karthikeyan. Brings expertise. Speed. And Tata sponsorship.

Glock departure to be confirmed soon...

http://adamcooperf1.com/2013/01/21/gloc ... rmed-soon/

Which drivers? In no certain order: 1. Lewis Hamilton 2. Nico Hulkenberg 3. Jules Bianchi (there's a gut-feeling about this guy). Lewis is of course a real possibility, but what on earth makes you believe two drivers that have won nothing in F1 (the latter one hasn't even participated in a single r...

Juan Pablo Montoya was impressive in his debut race.

It's ridiculous the cavalier attitude with which Caterham holds for their drivers… === Senna is also rumored to take Caterham seat? Also waiting on the final pieces of the 2013 grid to take shape is Bruno Senna, who has been linked with the other remaining race seat, at Caterham Link Caterham also h...

Which drivers? In no certain order:

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Nico Hulkenberg
3. Jules Bianchi (there's a gut-feeling about this guy).

It's ridiculous the cavalier attitude Caterham holds for their drivers..

Though he appears to struggle at times, I've little doubt in my mind he'd have been able to challenge the likes of Senna if he was born 20 years earlier. The man is one of the quickest things on four wheels. He's cool, calm and collected, hiding his fierce determination and mind-blowing ability beh...

Few moments that I reminisce (please don't ask me the years, I reminisce as I type): Prost vs. Senna battles in the early nineties. Damon Hill's drive in that underperforming albeit beautiful-to-look-at Arrows (Hungaroring?) where he was leading but alas, in the very last lap his tire blew up and ga...

Perhaps Ferrari may have stabler engines than Merc for the 2014 regulation changes? Or perhaps Force-India's Mercedes engine deal expires by end-2013 which probably means a hike in securing these engines for 2014? No idea - but nevertheless should be interesting to see Bianchi. He might want to impr...

BlackSG5 wrote:for one thing i don't think him and schumi were in good terms personally. both germans but not got on well. stems from pre-F1 as far as i know.

You should ask HH Frentzen's girlfriend.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/bianchi-set-to-secure-force-india-seat-report/ http://www.inautonews.com/bianchi-set-to-secure-force-india-seat-report Finland’s Turun Sanomat newspaper said the new favourite is 2012 Force India reserve Bianchi, a 23-year-old rookie who is backed by Ferrari and man...

Early nineties - Murray Walker's excited commentary drew me to the sport. But gradually lost interest when Schumacher kept winning race after race. I don't get much time to watch F1 now, but I have a keen interest on the lower to middle order teams just to see how they fare.

1995 McLaren

Would be interesting to see how much of that money translates FI to a good performing car with podium finishes

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aryaputhra wrote:Di Resta's personality is written in the stars.

Could be. He looked like he was seeing stars for most of the second half of the season.

I checked. He didn't have that many retirements, the last race of course was a biggie.

Stereotyping a lot here, but I think that it was a huge culture clash, Raikkonen was/is too quiet and reserved for the team. They need a more flamboyant person who makes a lot of fuss. Looking back to the Bahrain winners room, the unfit and overweight Raikkonen was happily joking and talking with V...

Formula1Fan. wrote:Button will try to be his Daddy, but Perez will son him.

Sounds like the start of a joke: "So an Englishman and a Mexican went to this pub right..."

RedBull – I would expect no change as the top team, mainly because of Adrian Newey & Vettel/Webber. Lotus – a newfound faith after the latter half of 2012 season (thanks to Raikkonnen) should give them new hopes. And with a more consistent teammate this team can make a few jumps perhaps even ending...

It's rare for a driver to jump into a front-running car and be fighting for the title straight away - especially when they've got as little success and experience as Sergio. Before looking at titles, he's got to focus on beating Button. Jenson's no slouch and held his own against Lewis. All this ta...

I don't get why Red Bull needs a sister team... just doesn't make any sense.

Covalent wrote:Not sure if serious...

Don't pooh-pooh astrology buddy.

Hulk had an enforced sabbatical and it's not done him any harm! True, it hasn't done Hulk any harm. :-P But he's also fairly bit younger to Sutil and probably had the ambition/drive to get noticed in the 2012 season. Whereas Sutil will be at a veteran age (30 next year) in F1 terms to do anything r...

I think Ferrari has team orders for yonk years, at least since Schumi's days or perhaps even before? Gerhard Berger/Alesi days.. So why would anybody expect Massa to outperform Alonso? I agree he probably needs to be closer to Alonso in the overall point standings though. Which is an indication of h...

In most likelihood, Force India will bring back Sutil, thanks to Mallya's preference for him. But expectations of Sutil in such a comeback session are just average. He's probably lost his pizzazz after a year outside the limelight. What would be more promising is if Force India could get an even you...

Di Resta's personality is written in the stars. He is a fearless tiger (Chinese astrological sign is "Tiger". Combine that with the fact that he's an Aries, which is a no-nonsense 'fire' zodiac sign. Don't expect him to be great in 'marketing' skills expected in today's politically correct F1 driver...