2010 Formula 1 Season - Official Discussion Thread
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
Cool. As long as we get to see it...
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
James Allen wrote:In a separate story, there is a suggestion in Gazzetta that USF1 has applied to the FIA for a derogation to miss the early fly away races and start at the Spanish Grand Prix in April. This contradicts USF1 sporting director Peter Windsor’s assertion last week that the team will definitely be in Bahrain
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
It wouldn't surprise me.phil1993 wrote:James Allen wrote:In a separate story, there is a suggestion in Gazzetta that USF1 has applied to the FIA for a derogation to miss the early fly away races and start at the Spanish Grand Prix in April. This contradicts USF1 sporting director Peter Windsor’s assertion last week that the team will definitely be in Bahrain
USF1 look insecure at the moment, unfortunately.
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
Will we see 2 Japanese Drivers in 2010 ?Speculation about who will be the second Renault driver last several months. The new president of the French team Eric Boullier revealed recently that the five candidates to partner Robert Kubica for next season. French journalists say that Renault remained on the list only two names. The final choice is to fall between Nick Heidfeld and Takuma Sato.
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
Jonathan Noble said on twitter that story about USF1 is nonsense, and that they're on course to be in Bahrain. Campos are trying to sell the team, they're far more insecure.
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
John Anderson joins US F1 team
source: http://www.autosport.comThe US F1 team has announced that John Anderson has joined the American squad as its new team manager.
Anderson has spent the last 30 years working in several motorsports categories in the US, including jobs with Gerry Forsythe, Barry Green, Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt Jr.
Most recently, Anderson was the team manager for Gil de Ferran's ALMS squad.
"I've known John and been close with him for nearly 20 years - to be able to hire someone as experienced, as organized and as successful as he is will only enhance our team as we move forward," said team principal Ken Anderson.
"He is simply the best at what he does and knows what it takes to be successful in motorsports."
John Anderson added: "I came to the U.S. for what I thought was a few years and I've never left, and I've had some good runs. Now to be able to have the opportunity to work with America's Formula 1 team, especially with my long-time friend Ken Anderson, is an unbelievable opportunity.
"Ken's mindset of US F1 - to have an open mind, be flexible and explore best practices, is why I'm here and I want to be a part of this."
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
Lotus: Two cars planned for Barcelona test
source: http://f1.gpupdate.netHaving told GPUpdate.net that its 2010 Formula 1 car will make an on-track debut at the Jerez test in the middle of February, the Lotus team has now revealed that two cars shall be ready to run by the time Barcelona is visited for the final four days of pre-season testing.This year will see all pre-season running take place in February and in Spain, with Lotus F1 Technical Director Mike Gascoyne confident of the progress so far from the 1Malaysia-run outfit.
"We had been looking at firing up our engine for the first time on 12 February but, with the efforts everyone's been putting in, we have now been able to bring that forward to 5th February," the Englishman explained. "This is obviously a great boost for everyone involved in the team and shows how much hard work has already gone in since we had our entry confirmed on September 12.
"With the engine fire-up date now in the diary, we are also in a position to confirm that we will be on-track for the first time at the third official test at Jerez from 17 February and then at Barcelona from 25 February. We are also aiming to run chassis two for the last two days of that Barcelona test."
Furthermore, Gascoyne has revealed that a major in-season overhaul for the car will arrive in the form of a large aerodynamics update for the Spanish Grand Prix in May, Round 5 of the 19-race World Championship. "We have said we are aiming to be ahead of the new teams when we all reach Bahrain (Round 1) but we would also like to be pretty close to the midfield teams after the first few races of the season," he continued.
"The update we have planned for Spain will see a boost in performance when we reach Barcelona, which will give us the chance to start fighting with the slowest of the established teams which, given progress so far, has to be the next goal for us."
Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
Successful nose crash test for US F1
source: http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc0wFyCI ... r_embeddedThe latest compulsory FIA crash test has run according to plan for the US F1 team, which saw its nose cone completely destroyed in order to ensure it meets the required standards to go racing.With all Formula 1 car components rigorously put through their paces before getting anywhere near a race track, US F1 travelled to Cranfield in Bedfordshire where its car's nose broke up as it should to confirm another successful test for the Charlotte-based team.
The outfit founded by Ken Anderson and Peter Windsor remains the only team yet to sign at least one driver ahead of the upcoming season.
source: http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/
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Good news. Means we won't see her face every 5 minutes anymore ...
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Yeah..phil1993 wrote:Lewis and Nicole split http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/80797
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McLaren reshuffles engineering crew
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I liked hearing Phil Prew on Lewis' radio. He has a soothing voice
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Remember Yellow G8, I repeat: Yellow Golf 8phil1993 wrote:I liked hearing Phil Prew on Lewis' radio. He has a soothing voice
Correct Phil
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Re: 2010 Season Discussions: Driver Line-ups, News and Misc
why are you sad? she's older than him and a b***JoostLamers wrote:Yeah..phil1993 wrote:Lewis and Nicole split http://www.autosport.com/news/grapevine.php/id/80797