F1 Fanatic

You forgot the ice cream, that’s why :P

@tdog mine’s gone as well – it is related to the site problems.

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.