2010 Formula 1 Season - Official Discussion Thread

[JoostLamers]

Lotus set for Feb 17 debut; hope to beat Force India, STR, Sauber by the end of the year; Upgrades coming in Spain

Everyone brings upgrades in Spain

[Tom Vandenhove]

GPUpdate reports that renault is losing interest in Grosjean. Good news for Schumacher, Fisichella, ... ?

[phil1993]

Go back a page

[Tom Vandenhove]

Go back a page

A damn, missed that. Sorry Phil.

Anyway, as I said it's good news for guys like R. Schumacher (if he wants to come back) or Fisichella ... But renault will probably pick Ho-Ping Pong ...

[phil1993]

Mercedes will be called Mercedes-Petronas and their first car will be the RB1 named after Ross Brawn. Slightly confusing as Red Bull's cars are abbreviated to RB_

McLaren: MP4/25
Mercedes: RB1
Red Bull: RB6
Ferrari: TBA (F2010 probable)
Williams: FW32
Renault: R30
Force India: VJM03
Toro Rosso: STR5
Lotus: TBA (TF1 possible)
Campos: TBA (AC1 possible)
USF1: TBA
Virgin: VR-01
BMW Sauber: C29

[sdutt]

Mercedes will be called Mercedes-Petronas and their first car will be the RB1 named after Ross Brawn. Slightly confusing as Red Bull's cars are abbreviated to RB_

McLaren: MP4/25
Mercedes: RB1
Red Bull: RB6
Ferrari: TBA (F2010 probable)
Williams: FW32
Renault: R30
Force India: VJM03
Toro Rosso: STR5
Lotus: TBA (TF1 possible)
Campos: TBA (AC1 possible)
USF1: TBA
Virgin: VR-01
BMW Sauber: C29

corrected

[iceman1]

I’ve contacted the team and the answer is that Schumacher will work with Andrew Shovlin, who engineered Jenson Button to the world championship last season. I’m sure they will get on well, Shovlin is experienced, calm and very intelligent. He’s a real family man and a very nice person, as well as a fiercely competitive individual. He’s 36, hails from Liverpool and was Button’s engineer for six seasons.

Nico Rosberg engineer will be Jock Clear (he dislikes schumacher)

[swca92]

Or Schumacher dislikes Jock Clear...he was Villeneuve's engineer in 1997, and there's that footage of him going bonkers when Schumi was out of the race at Jerez.

[phil1993]

Credit to Leo-The-Red from another forum but this would look cool:

[blizzard]

Indeed phil. Green and yellow would be a cool combination for Lotus. As it matches the company logo.

What I don´t like too much is the trend, that all teams now are officially named after their main sponsor like Vodafone McLaren, Mercedes-Petronas, Virgin Manor and so on.

Mercedes-Petronas sounds very strange, the last thing I would think of when hearing the brand name Mercedes would be a malaysian oil giant
Well at least until now

[phil1993]

The only one that sounds okay is Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. But I find it annoyingly corporate and fake when the drivers say it! Virgin Manor just sounds like a dodgy playboy mansion.

[harrisv48]

Credit to Leo-The-Red from another forum but this would look cool:

It is beauty

[iceman1]

First Pics of Kobayashi at Sauber (HQ Images)

http://media_en.bmw-sauber-f1-team.ch/

[JoostLamers]

But I find it annoyingly corporate and fake when the drivers say it!

It does sound annoyingly fake! Just say McLaren!

[JoostLamers]

OMG!