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thegamer23 wrote:Charles Pic is replacing Ho-Ping Tung in China Racing. Updated OP!

Good. Pic is competent, Ho-Pin is useless. It always makes me sad when he pops up in racing series.

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Looking forward to this! Hopefully I'm still awake after getting up for Melbourne quali.

Hoping for a good result for Sam Bird. I've always been a fan and think he's a quick driver but never quite seems to have cracked it, always just missing out

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My understanding is that VDG's entitlement to drive for Sauber in 2015 was determined by a Swiss court. However, a judgement of the courts of one country is not usually automatically enforceable in another country. Accordingly, VDG brought legal proceedings in Australia in order to obtain the autho...

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Would it be a crazy idea if Bernie allowed them to share 2 drives between 3 drivers, just so this mess doesn't get worse? Some sort of seat-sharing arrangement? Anything else just makes it worse. It's certainly happened before - I remember Brundle and Suzuki sharing a seat at Ligier in 1995 (well, ...

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I think the RB7 is woefully under rated. The car was a beast in clean air. But why couldn't Webber -a proven race winner with RB5 and RB6- win a race with it UNTIL the last race? I guess Webber was not any worse than Barrichello. He just never got to grips with the Pirellis. He had a decemt first h...

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Not really surprising, the swiss have already ruled in his favour, the Aussies didn't really have a reason not to. Can't see Nasr getting the boot because of his sponsorship, I look forward to some tasty Ericsson flavoured press releases.

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Here's a suggestion, Sauber to run a third car for VDG... Or perhaps pay Manor to run one of Nasr, Ericksson or VDG... You know it makes sense :nod: puts up hoody, ducks and runs for cover Putting Ericsson in the Manor and letting VDG and Nasr race the Sauber seems like a sensible solution for ever...

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wolfticket wrote:Are these two related to the Formula E drivers?

Yes - Bruno Senna is Ayrton's nephew and Nicolas Prost is Alain's son.

Unless that was a comment on the standard of their driving compared to their more famous relatives, in which case you can probably hear the whooooosh of it going over my head.

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While it will be super hard there's a spirit about these guys that makes you think they could just make it. Proper racers who got back on the grid properly and not because of some gimmick like Caterham did for Abu Dhabi last year. I'm going to stay positive about these guys. They did their return r...

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I am always glad to see smaller teams compete, and I hope they do make a sucess of it. They are working to one heck of a tight schedule though - the race is next weekend and we have no crash tested car and no second driver. So the car will be a total unknown as it hasn't run in any test, and the dr...

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GrandPrix.com has a list of rumoured drivers and the drivers they have listed are: Magnussen, Vandoorne, Van der Garde and Merhi. The first two seem to be the guesses of British media because of the McLaren link, the third of the Finish media (odd since GvdG is Dutch), and the fourth of the Spanish...

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Car looks nice, hope it works out for them, FI have improved every year since they entered which is an impressive feat.

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Kinda sad that it looks like Chilton won't be with the team this year. He seemed genuinely gutted on the interview he did on the F1 show just after Abu Dhabi & he's always seemed like a team player. And personally I don't think he was that bad a driver, in the first few races of 2014 he looked faste...

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I can't find the mock up I saw but I would have loved them to do the camo livery but coloured in. It looked outrageously good. Out of the two options, I prefer the test livery. Edit: Here we go... http://i.imgur.com/cvMD8ve.jpg *orgasm face* I just had a crisis. I prefer that mockup, then 2013's, t...

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Last year's & 2013's was better, I really liked how subtle the purple was. This is... very purple.

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It'd be better than nothing, but I kinda hope Mclaren can shove him in one of the Manor cars so he at least stays in F1. He wasn't as good as Button last season but didn't do a huge amount wrong either, I think with a couple of season's experience under his belt he'll develop into a good little pedd...

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I thought Huertas was less than useless last season, almost always qualified last and never did anything of note during the race except for the freak result in the wet race in Houston. I assume he was literally only there to bring money to fund Wilson's drive, it'd be nice if they could get someone ...

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You are kidding that they are not looking for a return on investment with Maldonado right? Why would they sponsor him? Why would they put the name "Venezuala" on the back of the car? And you are backing up what I am saying by using those drivers as examples. The sponsors got them into F1. They didn...

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That McLaren Marlboro livery was great. Simple yet elegant. OK, my turn: Williams, Rothmans livery. Hated it from the moment I saw it coming out of the pit box for the first time (didn't have broadband internet back then so I first watched it on TV). Agreed, I've never been a fan of the Rothmans li...

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All your gripes are down to "these teams have money, its so not fair, wahh." Disregarding STR because Red Bull make their driver decisions or Sauber because they're linked to Ferrari in a tenuous way is nonsense. Did you see how happy the team were when they won in 2008? And judging from last year t...

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mikey wrote:The times on Top Gear mean nothing and are not comparable as the times are set over different conditions and some years apart.

I disagree completely for the reasons stated in posts above. Same car, same track, in dry conditions the differences are fairly negligible.

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babararacucudada wrote:Dan Gurney's Eagle.

The one that won a race and finished on the podium in another?

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He didn't interview as well as I thought he would, he seemed a bit nervous and I seem to remember a joke towards the beginning backfired prompting an "ooooooh" from the audience. Shame if that's the only impression Jo Public gets of him! Impressive time though. Not entirely unexpected after his perf...

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Sounds sensible, I was one of the few Sutil sympathisers until last season, but he looked bad compared to Gutierrez and that's unforgivable. Of course, gutted it didn't work out for Kobayashi. I'm not sure the result was likely to be anything different to how it turned out but he's still a very stro...

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It's interesting that the new system will keep out the future Stevens, Ericsson's, van der Garde's, Chilton's, Pic's and d'Ambrosio's so it's not so bad. Well actually, van der Garde had enough points to join F1 in 2011. And I disagree, for reasons I posted above. The system should not be retroacti...

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mcdo wrote: Oh right, well fair play on being able to type with your buttcheeks

I don't want to condone such childishness, but that comment made me laugh so much that I had to explain to my line manager why I was laughing. I defer to your wit sir.

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To be honest I've quite liked the Marussias/Virgins throughout. The 2012 model is pretty striking:

Source: Badger GP via Google Image Search

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After reading this thread apparently my definition of fast (2012 Ferrari wasn't slow by any stretch, Alonso should've won the championship in it and probably would have if not for Grosjean) and pretty (I like the Brawn GP :'() is so wildly different to the rest of the world that I have nothing to co...

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Thx mds On topic is it game over for Caterham now? It's February now and no more news of a possible buyer. It must be. No news, no new car even mentioned and testing is well under way. No chance they'll make the season now. HRT made it to the first race for 3 years without ever seeing a winter test...

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Good stuff, I was impressed last time out! Not a huge fan of these part-time programs though, it means you can't mount a championship challenge.

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With the way everyone else's liveries are going.... http://i.imgur.com/tBJ0L19l.jpg I know its blasphemous because Ferraris are read... but damn that's a pretty car. How so it's just a Ferrari version of John Player Lotus Being similar to another car doesn't make it bad. I think it looks more simil...

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Black_Flag_11 wrote:With the way everyone else's liveries are going....

I know its blasphemous because Ferraris are read... but damn that's a pretty car.

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Baby's first F1 car. Clearly meant to look like Nasr's GP2 car but they haven't done a great job with it. Shame they didn't keep Simona on and use that green and blue livery that they put on the 2012 Sauber, i thought that was quite cool.

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According to James Allen the best sounding engine was the Life W12. People from all teams would gather round to listen to it being fired up, mainly because they know they'd rarely hear it going around a track!

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Naff livery, I quite like the nose though. Not much different to the 90s noses with the fairly sharp drop at a constant angle. Actually fairly close to the 2010 RB which works for me.

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Looks like a proper F1 car for the first time since the 2012 Marussia! Nice.

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I've noticed the PF1 main site always suspiciously posts stories a couple of hours after a forum thread about the story appears; even if they're not watching the forum to work out which news stories to post, you're probably better off just reading the forum anyway. But yeah, ads are dreadful. Auto-p...

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Surprised at the generally negative reaction, I think it looks pretty good!

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I voted for a manufacturer to buy them because I believe the team is likely to be more stable with manufacturer backing, but I'd kinda like to see Mclaren buy them and put Magnussen and Vandoorne there. Both drivers without a seat in F1 who probably deserve one.

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The way Vergne was running up front from the beginning makes me think RB have made a mistake dropping him. OK, the guys he's against aren't world beaters but there are some pretty strong drivers in that field, if he's beating them comfortably that says a lot about his talent. Hope he gets another F1...

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