F1 Fanatic

As @greg-morland mentioned, the economy precludes new start-ups happening (and being competitive) and I also don’t think there’s much chance of a works manufacturer pulling out, funding a new car AND selling a […]

Sky covered portions of the last Barcelona test live

You do understand that those series allow multiple car crews because there are no resource restrictions, right?

Bringing the tyres into this is circumstantial at best, misdirection at worse.

The issue, as outlined in the article, is the test being conducted in violation of the sporting regs with current drivers and a […]

Probably worth reminding that he took to the wheel of both the RB6 and the Leyton House he designed last year for the BBC.

He lapped both of them around Silverstone.

Pirelli have been incredibly vocal about the issue of developing tyres for the current season and next on a completely unrepresentative platform that is their 2010 Renault.

It seems they initially approached […]

Ferrari initially only asked for a clarification, mainly because they’d already tested but used a legal car.

I’m not sure when they officially joined in the protest.

Bet Ferrari are wishing they’d stayed schtum now…

Unlikely. Japanese car companies are very vertically aligned – there’s not a lot of cross-pollination between the marques.

KK was a Toyota man.

Having said that ^^
They probably should’ve designed their car more heavily around the tyres (like Lotus and Ferrari have done VERY well).

Isn’t that the point? If every team had built their cars around tyre […]

That’s pretty much it – they said when they launched the 28 that the 27 was itself a development of the 25 and 26. They were basically in the same position as Red Bull are where they had hit the theoretical […]

They can’t bring back 2012′s tyres because the external shape and construction are different.

They’re just making changes to stop them exploding.

I wondered when this would be brought up. If you think the current Pirelli’s are unsafe, think back to this era, when the ends of races we boring drudges because everyone went ultra conservative… We also had the […]

Alonso had a puncture ahead of his first pit-stop.

Also, Pirelli revealed they added a metal/kevlar belt into the tyre to keep its structure together. Alonso would have been out of the race if not for that.

If I am sitting in the grandstand without any radio or telephone or whatever, you only see cars passing. Is it too much confusion for the spectators?

You could argue that F1 is a pretty rubbish spectator sport […]

Not really, because the current tyres get ruined if stuck in the sort of air that you need to run in to be allowed to use DRS.

None of the proposed penalty points would affect duelling race cars unless one put the other into a wall.

Slight corrections (IMO of course)-

2009 – McLaren, like Ferrari, were compromised with their 2008 championship challenge. They (along with BMW & Renault) also went all-in on KERS development and missed the […]

Is it just a language barrier thing, because I don’t understand why people are struggling to understand that this is a penalty point system, *not* a deduction against their WDC points total.

In that situation, maybe the driver needs to look inwards first to work out why he ended up with eleven points that allowed him to get banned for someone else’s mistake.

Now, if the team has 12 straight unsafe […]