Merc has backed Di Resta for along time, he was their golden boy in DTM and is currently driving a Merc powered car (coincidence?) He won't move from merc unless Shumi decides to drive for another year, I'm seriously doubting FI's commitment to the sport as kingfisher and VJ are in pretty dire strai...

havnt we been over this on the old forum? Like above poster says, the pool for women drivers is scant at best. Motor sport is a sport when both male and female can compete on the same level. Lela lombardi anyone? Danica actually won in indy. Women are smaller(generally) and lighter than men(sorry ma...

lauda, by half a point over prost, 84. Why do i feel so old alluva sudden

here we go for china
1, vettel
2, button
3, hamilton
4, webber
5, alonso
6, raikonnen
7, maldonado
8, shumacher
9, rosberg
10, grojean

whos got the bigger sh/t eating grin?

FOTD. Narain K should go back to truckin in the states. Doesnt even deserve a car... Or the priviledge of turning right.

moments of inertia, weight transfer, suspension geometry. If a car flexes, it leans on its tires more. Slip angles also, thats the angle between where the car is going and where the tries are pointed. More driver inputs hurt tires. The engine not being able to put power down due to unbalanced suspen...

I'm admittedly an Alonso fan. Is he the absolute quickest over a single (quali) lap? No, but hes very close. I would say thats Hamilton. Is he the best car/fuel manager, maybe not but hes right up there with Button. The thing with Fernando is he does all these thing very very well, maybe not the top...

I don't care if he is rude. why not? I will translate OP into real situation: Two drivers of the F1 team that has little to do with the until-recently-state-owned company that is deeply in fairy cakes were invited to the head office of the mentioned company. Lotus Group promised a lot but didn't re...

I'd enforce. 1,2 is too risky to let go of considering mclarens history. Plus IMHO lewis' idea of racing tends involve tangling with other cars. Button, massa, maldonado and so on. Just too risky. The leader at the end of corner 1 (its malaysia and the turn is waaaaay out there) priority goes to fir...

i think the comparison lies in the adaptability of the car to small changes. Its 'sensitivity' if you will. I remember DC talking about the best car he drove was the williams because it could 'adapt to small changes very well', meaning if you changed a damper rate it wouldnt throw a wrench into the ...

It's not really an issue of being offended by it, surely. It's that porn is for losers . . . a bit like F2 at the moment it would seem. What's the implication . . . that all F2 viewers are w**nk*rs ? That's a pretty bold assumption to make. There sure must be a lot of losers in this world according...

race 2 sepang
1, hamilton
2, vettel
3, button
4, webber
5, rosberg
6, raikonnen
7, shumacher
8, alonso
9, maldonado
10, kobayashi

canada: attrition valencia: crap monza: parabolica monaco: dollars singapore: glitzy china: commies malaysia: squirelly britain: storied spa: maxed brazil: aryton suzuka: 130r abu dhabi: facility texas cota: non-tilke-ish korea: pennyless bahrain: amnesty barcelona: fernando! Hungary: tough hockenhi...

maldonado was quick all weekend and dominated senna. But to throw it away on the last lap? Unreal. My verdict is to use both for the sponsorship money they bring, then boot em both for alguersuari and sutil when uve made enough money to build a decent car. Not the biggest fan of either of em

No Massa will not be racing next week oh I mean HRT.... Almost as slow as a HRT. He might as well be in one! :lol: But back on topic, it doesn't help that HRT had no pre-season testing (again). Down to money (or lack of it) that may be, but in this day and age, there should be no excuse. OK so you'...

Kovi wouldn't go to Ferrari for a few reasons. 1, the reason he joined lotus/caterham "I have a better shot at winning a title here than I ever did at Mclaren." Obviously he was second driver, and during the interview without bashing McLaren too badly, he basically stated he wasn't getting equal tre...

Red Bull haven't turned up the engines yet, sandbagging. :twisted: McLaren are quick, will mount a serious challenge to the establishment. :D Ferrari is a dog. Watching Alonso struggle with that beast and watching Massa show what the car really is (twitchy and unbalanced) x( Merc is bloody quick, al...

Last time I checked, SD is not the technical director. He doesn't design the cars. They definitely might need some new technical leadership but the team principal has done a decent job in my opinion. If you want him fired, who do you think should replace him? Well.. he may have done a decent job, i...

There seems to be a bit of discussion about whether Red Bull are using their exhaust gases for aerodynamic purposes. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97897 The FIA could have avoided questions like this by ruling that the exhaust had to exit straight back behind the rear axle. Another ex...

every weekend me and my buddies follow the season in f1 2011, with our own point structures and full wheel and race seat setup. Ive set up my road car with adjustable suspension which i change weekly depending on where my sunday drive will take me, sometimes i wear a bucket..... My nickname in that ...

Im a huge Fernando fan, but I will admit the new car looks terrible. Turn in understeer and exit oversteer? Rubbish. I think the reason is the pull rod front suspension, to quote Gary Anderson, it doesn't allow itself much in the way of tunability compared to the pushrod style. Why they took this ro...

bring back customer teams and have a group 'b', or some kind of slow car direvation to make the rear field competetive, can u imagine a mclaren torro rosso or a williams junior squad? I think having development teams would be spectacular as far as entertainment is concerned, and when trying to lap b...

Lella Lombardi anyone? First woman to score f1 points....er, half a point. Point is, this isn't a new thing, the reason there hasnt been many more is very few females can withstand the g forces these cars can produce. Patrick would be a good candidate, if she wasn't a terrible, hollywoodized driver,...

the point of these regs is to keep costs from getting ludicris. Im all for bunching up the feild and making it competitive, but restricting innovations seems to be oxymoronic to the entire ideal of f1. Id say keep the engines limited, along with the gear boxes, but loosen the aero formula, say for a...

i think the sandbagging idea is pretty spot on. If they have a new part they dont know anything about, set the engine to 80 percent in case it does or doesnt, that way only the engineers know how good it went. You never sned your guys out on max attack with new gear, webber evaluated it, seb went wi...

this is sooo cool, first time at it, so ill have to pay close attention
1, button
2, vettel
3, hamilton
4, alonso
5, webber
6, raikkonen (cant spell his name for beans, Kimi then)
7, rosberg
8, massa
9, schumacher
10, perez

spam is awful, wt hell happened to our beloved forum?!