2012 Formula One Discussion

[donald29]

Looks like we could have Kovalainen and Ricciardo at Caterham, Buemi and Verge at STR and Alguesuari at HRT.

Very harsh on Alguesuari, but Marko likes Buemi and HRT want to be the Spanish national team. Can't see them attracting many Spanish fans with Alonso around.

[phil1993]

Timo can take banter

Timo Glock
That's funny now have 30 min delay guess why?

F1Zone > realTimoGlock Did the wheel fall off?

Timo Glock > f1zone you neatly right

Timo Glock: They just found out that the tire has no rubber left!they have to change it!Need to talk to the captain to have a look if it is proper fixed

F1Zone > TimoGlock
I was just joking... At least you don't get a 5000 euro fine this time

Timo Glock > f1zone
but maybe the airline

[phil1993]

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[Adam]

Looks like we could have Kovalainen and Ricciardo at Caterham, Buemi and Verge at STR and Alguesuari at HRT.

Very harsh on Alguesuari, but Marko likes Buemi and HRT want to be the Spanish national team. Can't see them attracting many Spanish fans with Alonso around.

I think Toro Rosso should keep both Buemi and Alguersuari. Should one of them have to be replaced, I'd replace Buemi as Jaime performed better also in most of those races where Buemi didn't have problems with the car. Unfortunately I also think Marko likes Buemi more so it is likely Jaime will be kicked out (hope I'm really wrong). HRT have Pedro already and they'll probably go for someone who brings cash, so no place for Jaime anywhere in F1 I think...

But as I said, I think Toro Rosso should keep both Alguersuari and Buemi... Both have experience and are VERY young (I think Kaime is 21!). If they wanna improve and do serious stuff in F1 and not just be RBR's drivers experiments, they should stick with the current drivers. Just my opinion.

[F1Fan88]

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How come Michael gets no 7 again, he was beaten by Nico?

[KevC]

He likes odd numbered cars. He was due to be 8 (I think) last year but Nico let him swap.

[F1Fan88]

He likes odd numbered cars. He was due to be 8 (I think) last year but Nico let him swap.

Dunno why Schumacher has a phobia of even numbers, given that this year was bad he should maybe look at having a phobia at odds

[Mitsuro Sano]

Something funny is that Schumacher's helmet and gloves are red and the T-Cam on a number 1 car is Red. Rosberg's helmet and gloves are yellow and the T-Cam on a number 2 car is yellow. And, if I remember well, Mercedes's Sports cars ( CLR, CLK LM and GTR ) also uses differents colors on their mirrors to differenciate cars ( those colors being Blue, Yellow and Red ). I think that it's a Mercedes touch to have those colors in. ^^

[KevC]

He likes odd numbered cars. He was due to be 8 (I think) last year but Nico let him swap.

Dunno why Schumacher has a phobia of even numbers, given that this year was bad he should maybe look at having a phobia at odds

I think he had an odd numbered car each time he won the title.
Obviously the successive titles would have been 1 but the years before the first and third he was in cars 5 and 3.

[donald29]

Only time he raced an even numbered car was his race for Jordan.

[Eric_Cartman]

Red Bull and Ferrari resigned from FOTA

[NewF1Boy]

No surprises, Red Bull team haven't been sticking to the RRA so why would the other teams stick to that?

[phil1993]

Christ thats massive news. Potentially buggers up unity in the teams

[François]

Well, that will inevitably alter the balance of power between Bernie, the teams and the FIA. Not to the teams' advantage.

Also, that might not turn out to RBR's advantage. It is conceivable that the remaining teams in the FOTA could foment a collective boycott in the not so unlikely event of an innovative and possibly borderline design giving their 2012 car a massive advantage. That would only leave 3 teams racing, in other words: a farce. Of course, if the RRA can't be salvaged then it is also to be expected that some smaller teams will feel they cannot compete on level terms and drop out. This could be very bad for the next few years of F1.

We hadn't quite had a massive row about F1 politics in 2011. Never too late I guess.

[frubbs]

Hamilton and the pussycat are back together...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sh ... ether.html

get ready for Lewis in "crazy version" next year...