F1 Fanatic

I do believe those “rich kid snipes” are related to the fact that many feel there are better drivers out there looking to make their way into F1, of which I am one of. Really, the whole system needs to be […]

Did they try? I’d say it would be a bit of a futile task!

@keithcollantine how about Alonso’s front wing failure in Malaysia, or indeed the podium there? I’m sure there’d be a few puns you could make with that!

There’s still that element of selling the brand as always but BMW are doing just fine in that department anyway!

@coefficient there is some development I suppose which is useful and the competitive environment of a racing series does drive innovation, but only where the regulations permit. In that sense I think F1 stopped […]

@anele-mbethe exactly: people should at least stick to their guns and not just simply follow the tide!

@keeleyobsessed the rumours are he’s going to Ferrari, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if he went to Mercedes…

I don’t think there’s ever been such a high-profile line-up at one team: all I wonder is how much this has cost them (Hamilton and all the technical directors)!

Is it just turning into another spending war I wonder…?

@cornflakes I think the instruction from the Mercedes board was “BUY ALL ZE TECHNICAL DIRECTORS, THEN ZEY CANNOT COMPETE WITH US”.

Bascially they’re buying all the competition so there is no competition, […]

He didn’t look very kingly yesterday Rossi! But yes, meeting Elvis would be very lucky indeed as long as it was his less drug-addicted self!

@kingshark if he’d been going full pelt on the new tyres then yes, I think he’d have had a delamination and maybe gone for a trip through the forest!

As has been said though, these are harder demonstration tyres.

@coefficient hence the “”marks ;)

I do see their logic though: it has more technical freedom in the areas relevant to road cars and obviously more testing and more track time. So really I can see where they’re […]

They’ve already commited to Endurance Racing for the “greater road relevance”.

Indeed, I feel they may have been turned off though by the change to V6′s perhaps. It’d be nice to see BMW back though: the M12/13 was indeed the most powerful F1 engine ever @marcusaurelius, if inherently unreliable!

@phildick the only reason I didn’t like it (and I shall re-iterrate here) is that this is off the back of whining. Otherwise, I will have taken it for what it’s worth – a joke!

@keithcollantine I wouldn’t have minded but for the fact that I feel this is linked to Ferrari’s earlier comments (specifically the Horse Whisperer). I appreciate the fact it’s a joke and intended in good humour […]

Senna definitely got better as the seasons progressed though in the races, which is why I referred to 1991 and 1993 (where in the first the Williams was maybe faster and the second definitely faster).

Bear in mind though that is their active strengths: Rosberg and Webber have always been good qualifiers, not quite as good racers.

@damleda +1. My particular footballing analogy involved the ball, specially the Jabulani (a very troublesome beast which few players could get to grips with) but they both do the same job (I’d probably have a […]

@klaas rather!