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I guess there is a difference between starting up a new team and claiming you will be successful within sort notice and buying into a team that has all the facilities, and a good technical team, but lacks the […]

LOL @omarr-pepper!

It indeed looks like a combination of shambles from both HRT and Lotus. Now the Kodewa (Kolles) team running the cars and the companies that built them are suing each other over money and parts in the run-up to […]

Its exactly that. So for next year, when the first race will be 2. march, it means the last test day has to be 20. Februari and then they cannot test until the next year.

Well, yes, @npf1, at straight line tests a FIA representative is indeed present. But at the test Ferrari conducted for Pirelli no one was, as they were as much uninformed about details of it as they were of the […]

Indeed, the common ECU was one of the principal things that made a TC ban viable in practice, and teams, MES and the FIA would be very much on it if they had the slightest doubt a team would be using something like that.

Yes, @jeff1s, so far the teams have contracts with FOM, but as there is no Concorde Agreement signed they do not have a contract with the FIA over governance.

But by entering the championship, they […]

I guess we can only congratulate you on being able to field that bill then @willaim-brierty!

Have a great time at the Silverstone race

The test was conducted by Pirelli though, but they used Mercedes cars and had Mercedes bring the drives and most likely at least part of the engineers @jonsan. I am not saying that makes it a clear Pirelli test, […]

not sure what you are talking about there q85.

If you mean the gimmick on the exhaust exit during pre-season testing, that was not something Williams ever intended to use. Its purpose was more to both attrackt […]

Personally I feel the most important thing that can come from this is that the FIA Tribunal will (or will not) be established as credible by a transparent procedure leading to a well argued decision and a fair […]

I have seen that during last week on F1 Technical – a discussion forum – where the guys more or less came to the conclusion its interesting to see, but not them doing anything illegal.

Craig Scarborough […]

LOL @maciek

It defenitely explains why there was no need for things like DRS or tyres manufactured to last only a 3rd of the race – the cars themselves (and the tyres) offered enough trouble/challenges for the drivers as it was!

It also perfectly shows how the current KERS rules (and potentially the new ones too) are not all that great an idea of how to use a hybrid power train, instead of making it a boost (push to pass button) they […]

That video with Ron Dennis and Jenson Button promises theres a lot more interesting things to be heard.

Funny that “Lotus-Praga” combination. An demised but recently resurrected (although not building cars) Czech luxury car brand and an almost defunct but still in operation sports car company from the UK on one LMP2 […]

LOL @david-a

I would say there’s so much to do, and only a limited amount of hours in the day to do them, so having others take on certain tasks is a sign of the site growing, who knows, maybe in time F1Fanatic will be able to […]

I am pretty sure none have a positive balance (if you count out state subventions) and the best of them run at about break-even level.