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only two teams have actually oposed the changes. By logical deduction it is therefore safe to assume the other teams are not against the changes and indeed for them to go ahead in the first place there will have […]

Maybe the brain cells that control the horse whisperer’s memory also forget that unlike 2011, this years race was run on the two hardest tyre compounds available to the supplier… hence the need to remake the […]

So since Honda are not competing themselves as a team in F1, McLaren (I suppose) would be their preferred (or primary) customer thereby being the Works team.

@force-maikel Consider the following. Ferrari and Mercedes are supplying engines to other constructors while competing as a constructor themselves. Here Sauber, Toro Rosso, McLaren and Force India are their […]

@andae23 May be there was no need for all teams to agree for such change, perhaps as noted by @keithcollantine below. So that vindicates both Ferrari and Lotus then.

Thanks a lot for clearing my doubt @bascb :)

@prisoner-monkeys and @bascb I was wondering whether this new announcement would impact the relationship between McLaren and Mercedes in that their co-operation. May be my sentence was not clear in that post.

*(apart from Honda McLaren of course)* #facepalm

that still doesn’t justify it: Red Bull aren’t the ones changing the compounds!

@vettel1 They are not Pirelli to change it themselves. But they have brought Bernie into their bandwagon on their way to get what […]

The politics of the sport are handled by different members of the team than those who develop the car. Do you really think the same team who developed their way to the world championship last year after having a […]

@lajo With the increased degradation compared to the two previous seasons, the compounds have become softer and hence you cannot compare this season’s hard blindly with 2011′s hard. I doubt if Pirelli did not […]

Yeah, with the Soft and Hard compounds.

In 2013, with Medium and Hard tyres – both with more degradation.

The more I think about who else would move to Honda engines, the more it looks it is unlikely to happen at least in 2015. With just one year in between the introduction of the turbos and the availability of Honda […]

A small team like Marussia can’t afford the huge cost of shifting to an engine supplier for just one season and then moving to another. It would burn their pockets, especially considering the huge costs of these […]

For me what is pleasing is the entry/re-entry of another engine supplier into Formula 1, than the partnership of McLaren and Honda. Though Whitmarsh highlights the company’s ability with Turbocharged engines, I […]

Bianchi is too young to have attained saturation point already, isn’t he? It is more to the car than the drivers’ learning curve, I suppose.

So Mclaren-Honda from 2015 it is! I wish I had answers to the following questions as well. Will this announcement have a bearing on the McLaren-Mercedes pairing for 2013 and 2014 seasons? And will there be more […]

As much as I like Marussia to finish ahead of Caterham, I have to admit it looks like the developments to their car has put Caterham ahead of Marussia. Marussia have Jules, but how much he can extract from a car […]

So the teams do not develop their cars after winter testing. They just test how all the parts of the car works together on a circuit and send them straight to the first GP of the year.

I think in Bahrain GP, there were few more good performers such as Paul, Fernando etc. so the votes were split. But in Spain, well I don’t need to explain it I guess.