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Post by Trident on Sept 21, 2015 23:10:45 GMT
Engines are not decisive on track in Singapore - but there was a lot of talk off it! Eddie Jordan is known to get the future precise (Look at Michael Schumacher and then Lewis Hamilton) and now he's speculated that Red Bull will run with Ferrari powered engines for the next 2 seasons, and Volkswagen taking over the team for an entry as an engine manufacturer in 2018 (Most likely Audi). I'm sure a split with Renault is imminent as I can't see why they'll want to struggle through with poorly made engines. It's barely become more powerful since the Hybrid era begun and not enough effort has been put into the engine. A shame really. I do hope Renault pull up their socks like Ferrari did this year and hopefully in the next few seasons can have a competitive engine, if they do take over Lotus and make it a full works team again.
On track was certainly unexpected and a surprise and you wouldn't have expected Mercedes to struggle like they did over the weekend. I highly doubt they've completely lost their superiority just based on one weekend, the W06 is a fantastic car and I think normal service will resume on Friday. I'm guessing it's down to the Singapore climate. In Monaco they were strong with the super softs but because Singapore is hotter it places more dependance on tyre management. Perhaps hinting Mercedes struggles? A similar scenario to Malaysia but even there they had the pace but just had bad tyre life. I think it's good that we get different winners to Mercedes and usually (Well in the last 2 years) it's more of the exciting races, a lot of fans on Twitter are bored of Mercedes dominance and I think they'll feel refreshed a bit after what happened over the weekend. I highly doubt anyone will stop Mercedes this year, but if Ferrari can continue this upward trend from this season they could pose as big threats.
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Post by YY13VKP on Oct 27, 2015 11:36:19 GMT
Lewis Hamilton won his third world title in Austin on Sunday by winning after a spectacular race, which saw lots of safety cars/virtual safety cars and lead changes. Rosberg was really unhappy as he made a mistake and gifted the lead to Hamilton. Both Williams cars were out of the race, as was Raikonnen and Kvyat
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Post by YY13VKP on Oct 31, 2015 11:17:20 GMT
Esteban Gutierrez has been confirmed to partner Romain Grosjean at Haas next year
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Post by YY13VKP on Nov 29, 2015 23:22:53 GMT
F1 for 2015 has ended today with Nico Rosberg winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ahead of Hamilton and Raikkonen.
As a Hamilton fan, i think this year has been the best yet! But hopefully Mercedes will return stronger next year with work on their new car well underway! Im also looking forward to see if Ferrari can challenge them!
Im gonna miss this season, but i can't wait for F1 to return to our screens on 20/03/16!
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Post by Paul on Nov 29, 2015 23:29:23 GMT
Im gonna miss this season........... Really? I've been a fan for over 20 years but this season has really tested me despite one of my favourite drivers being in the best car. I've found a lot of the racing dull beyond belief to the extent that I didn't even bother watching today's race (watched the tennis instead) and just followed it on Twitter To be fair I've felt like this towards the end of the season for the past few years now and have always felt the enthusiasm returning as Melbourne approaches but if it's more of the same in 2016 I may well find other things to do on a Sunday afternoon, at least until 2017 anyway when changes to the regs should shuffle the deck somewhat |
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Post by Trident on Nov 30, 2015 0:45:56 GMT
My favourite moment of the season was when the season finished. So yeah apart from 3 amazing races (Silverstone, Hungary and USA) whats really to talk about in 2015?
The racing was a turn off for me most of the time and it's actually quite funny how the Top 10 in the championship are actually in formation of the Top 5 teams in the constructors standings. If costs were a lot cheaper then I can see a lot closer racing but sadly, I can pretty much see 2016 being too much of a political season with more engine fights because Renault & Honda are still a long way off Mercedes & Ferrari.
I'd hope to talk more about on track than engines next year...
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Post by John tuthill on Nov 30, 2015 11:38:12 GMT
My favourite moment of the season was when the season finished. So yeah apart from 3 amazing races (Silverstone, Hungary and USA) whats really to talk about in 2015? The racing was a turn off for me most of the time and it's actually quite funny how the Top 10 in the championship are actually in formation of the Top 5 teams in the constructors standings. If costs were a lot cheaper then I can see a lot closer racing but sadly, I can pretty much see 2016 being too much of a political season with more engine fights because Renault & Honda are still a long way off Mercedes & Ferrari. I'd hope to talk more about on track than engines next year... I agree. When you see the camera shots of the steering wheels 'play station' comes to mind. Safety of everyone was, is and must always be paramount, but please lets give the drivers back control of the cars. Can you imagine someone like James Hunt being told by someone on the end of a computer how to drive his car?  |
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Post by John tuthill on Nov 30, 2015 11:41:55 GMT
Esteban Gutierrez has been confirmed to partner Romain Grosjean at Haas next year Should do well in Scrabble then?  |
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Post by YY13VKP on Dec 21, 2015 13:07:46 GMT
The BBC have announced they will no longer be showing Formula 1 races from next season. Channel 4 will show F1 Races instead of the BBC and will do this until 2018. Sky Sports F1 are unaffected by this
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Post by John tuthill on Dec 21, 2015 13:28:26 GMT
The BBC have announced they will no longer be showing Formula 1 races from next season. Channel 4 will show F1 Races instead of the BBC and will do this until 2018. Sky Sports F1 are unaffected by this "The BBC is proud to announce it is cancelling all make over, cooking, Z list celebrities, banality in general and reducing the management pyramid by 99.9%" Now that would be news!  |
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Post by ohdear on Dec 21, 2015 13:58:37 GMT
The BBC have announced they will no longer be showing Formula 1 races from next season. Channel 4 will show F1 Races instead of the BBC and will do this until 2018. Sky Sports F1 are unaffected by this "The BBC is proud to announce it is cancelling all make over, cooking, Z list celebrities, banality in general and reducing the management pyramid by 99.9%" Now that would be news! They are hardly going to cancel programmes that get higher viewing figures than the F1 coverage |
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Post by John tuthill on Dec 21, 2015 14:58:42 GMT
"The BBC is proud to announce it is cancelling all make over, cooking, Z list celebrities, banality in general and reducing the management pyramid by 99.9%" Now that would be news! They are hardly going to cancel programmes that get higher viewing figures than the F1 coverage To paraphrase Brian Connelly: "Its a puppet joke." |
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Post by Trident on Jan 11, 2016 22:09:07 GMT
This comes as no surprise but David Coulthard will be part of the Channel 4 coverage this coming season with the company he co founded, Whisper films winning the rights to produce Channel 4's F1 coverage.
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Post by Trident on Jan 19, 2016 0:02:54 GMT
For those who stick with free to air TV, Channel 4 will be broadcasting the Bahrain, Spanish, European, British, Hungarian, Belgium, Italian, Malaysian, Mexican & Abu Dhabi Grand Prix races live with the remainder exclusively live on Sky Sports.
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Post by T.R. on Jan 19, 2016 16:15:24 GMT
For those who stick with free to air TV, Channel 4 will be broadcasting the Bahrain, Spanish, European, British, Hungarian, Belgium, Italian, Malaysian, Mexican & Abu Dhabi Grand Prix races live with the remainder exclusively live on Sky Sports. I take it C4 won't be showing highlights of the other races? |
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