De la Rosa: “There won’t be another Spanish F1 team”
F1 Fanatic round-up
In the round-up: Pedro de la Rosa is pessimistic about the potential for a successor to HRT.
Links
Top F1 links from the past 24 hours:
De la Rosa: “No volverá a haber nunca un equipo español” (Marca, Spanish)
Pedro de la Rosa says he doesn’t think there will ever be a Spanish F1 team following the failure of HRT.
Pirelli: Teams ready for aggressive tyres (Autosport)
Pirelli chief technical officer Maurizio Boicchi: “What we would like to do in 2013 is to come back to be a little bit more aggressive in our compound choice in order to introduce more pit stops and strategy for the teams.”
Ferrari president di Montezemolo plans to remain head of race team (AutoWeek)
“The Ferrari boss, who met [Italian president Mario] Monti before Thursday’s annual end-of-season address, acknowledged Thursday that it would be hard to combine the two roles, but said it’s possible. ‘I did it when I was president of Fiat and (Italian employers’ federation) Confindustria,’ he said. ‘The first three tears were really hard, I don’t know how I did it. But I managed to. For me, Ferrari remains fundamental.’”
Nigel Roebuck’s top 10 (MotorSport)
The top four’s the same as mine but Felipe Massa at number ten?
Car Trekking: When Patrick Stewart met Stirling Moss (BBC)
Trailer for a new programme.
Tweets
Training for 2013. From 700 meters to the top of the 2000 meter mountain with snow shoes… twitter.com/nico_rosberg/s…
— Nico Rosberg (@nico_rosberg) December 23, 2012
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Comment of the day
@Younger-Hamii spotted an unfortunate trend for Hamilton’s British fans who don’t have Sky:
- Out of all the race winners this season, Hamilton is the only driver not to have won a race the BBC have shown live, coupled with this fact here are his results in the races the BBC have shown live:
- Who will be the Next new champion?
China – 3rd
Spain – 8th
Monaco – 5th
Valencia – DNF
Silverstone – 8th
Spa – DNF
Singapore – DNF
Korea – 10th
Abu Dhabi – DNF
Brazil – DNF
@Younger-Hamii
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On this day in F1
Four years ago we debated whether any of the drivers on the grid at the time would beat Michael Schumacher’s tally of wins and world championships.
There were a lot of mentions for Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, but just a few for Germany’s emerging new star who had just won his first race:
Image © HRT F1 Team
TED BELL said on 24th December 2012, 17:10
HRT
What a complete waste of time and money. First off they were just plain lousy. A team with absoluetly no chance of doing a single thing in Formula One. From their early on circus carnival paint theme to the promise of a all conquering Spanish based team, these guys simply should have never been allowed to race in F1. This futile effort will go down in the ranks as one of the all time worst teams period. They should have been banned when they first showed up with that checker board paintwork. Formula One is about becoming the best not who can be the remain the worst. Formula One is for the best because of them…NOW
Girts (@girts) said on 24th December 2012, 17:40
I’m not sure if we really need a Spanish F1 team, just like I don’t think that we necessarily need a British team or a German team in F1. I wouldn’t support a Latvian F1 team just because the people there possessed the same nationality as I do. I’d rather share the values of my favourite team.
I watch F1 on the German TV and the focus on German drivers is what I don’t like most about their broadcasts. And I’m tired of you’re-praising-Hamilton-just-because-you’re-British-and-he’s-British comments on the web, too. F1 needs new teams a lot but they don’t have to be national teams.