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On the one hand I would say another team is always great, but then again we could have HRT, Manor, Caterham again.
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On the one hand I would say another team is always great, but then again we could have HRT, Manor, Caterham again.
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We always will - someone has to come last.
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The more the merrier. If the new management really are going to introduce a more level playing field then the bigger the grid the better. Of course, we've been hoping for those changes for a good number of years...
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Please, let there somewhere deep inside these rumors be a connection to Volvo (Geely). It doesn't have to be anything significant, just something to refuel my dreams for a while.
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Of course, sorry. I should've phrased it differently, let's try again. Please, let there somewhere deep inside all of this be a connection to Volvo (Geely). It doesn't have to be anything significant, just something to refuel my dreams for a while.
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No, there is a difference in being a team like HRT that was never going to make its way up the grid and those of Williams or Force India. Teams who at some point were at the tail end didn't seem to have a vision of climbing up the ladder. Yet when you look at a team like FI currently it is no mistake why they're at where they are.
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http://www.planetf1.com/news/sauber-closing-in-on-major-update/
Supposedly Silverstone or Red Bull Ring.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns36699.html
We had VW take part in the other one this year, now Porsche...okay
Supposedly Silverstone or Red Bull Ring.
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns36699.html
We had VW take part in the other one this year, now Porsche...okay
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Makes a change from the annual Audi rumours anyway....
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Why not? The world's "premier" motorsport series should be inviting as many motorsport-orientated manufacturers to forward planning meetings as possible. Turning up to have two penn'orth isn't the same as committing to supply/sponsor/race. These meetings are part of the semi-formal process of keeping manufacturers up to date with a sport's future thinking, maybe even moulding a sport's direction around the things that non-participants say could make the sport more attractive to them.
Besides, everybody knows for a fact* that Alfa Romeo are next in
*Fake noos, terrible noos
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Why not? The world's "premier" motorsport series should be inviting as many motorsport-orientated manufacturers to forward planning meetings as possible. Turning up to have two penn'orth isn't the same as committing to supply/sponsor/race. These meetings are part of the semi-formal process of keeping manufacturers up to date with a sport's future thinking, maybe even moulding a sport's direction around the things that non-participants say could make the sport more attractive to them.
Besides, everybody knows for a fact* that Alfa Romeo are next in
*Fake noos, terrible noos
What are you talking about? "Why not?" No where does my post actually say this is good or bad just informing. The "...okay" was showing a surprised interest. Considering that Porsche is probably the only part of VAG that gets to act as if it isn't apart of it at times, so their input along with the earlier interest of VW is as I said interesting, not for better, not for worse.
Only reason I didn't post up the Alfa Romeo news is because labeling a current Ferrari engine something that it isn't, is probably as you put it "fake noos"
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to say that your post was in the negative somehow... I just meant the more the merrier. Why not have the world and his dog there if there's a chance that one day they'll be into top-tier motorsport development?
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I know the VAG rumours come up so often you can practically set your watch by them, but it makes sense. Who else could conceivably be interested? Ford go out of their way to spend as little as possible on motorsport. Italian manufacturers won't want to compete with Ferrari, and French manufacturers won't want to compete with Renault. Most British manufacturers are too small for a Formula 1 engine programme to be viable. Honda is making life easy for the Japanese manufacturers who are better by default by not taking part. So the only two manufacturers I can really think of are VAG and Hyundai. Otherwise, it would be someone from India or China like Mahindra or QOROS.
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So no ones betting on Bernie to buy the Sauber F1 Team to get back into F1?
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I actually have to wonder if this is connected to the rumoured Chinese team.
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Red Bull has made a breakthrough with the aerodynamic development of its 2017 car, according to team boss Christian Horner.
The team opted for a more simplistic, low-drag design for the RB13, but suffered a significant performance deficit to F1 rivals Mercedes and Ferrari early on.
A significant upgrade ahead of round five in Spain enabled Red Bull to qualify within six tenths of pole for the first time this year, and it reduced that to just over three tenths in Monaco.
Canada, as expected, was tough given the nature of the track but the team still secured a third straight podium with Daniel Ricciardo while Max Verstappen ran second before retiring with a suspected battery failure on his Renault engine.
"We've understood some of the correlation issues," said Horner. "We've learned which tools to trust and in which area.
"That's given a clear direction and in the last races in particular, every race, we've made progress. We've definitely closed the gap. In Canada, we were racing a Mercedes with Max.
"It was interesting Ferrari's race pace didn't look anything particularly special."
When asked if designer Adrian Newey had ramped up his involvement during the time in which Red Bull made progress with understanding its car, Horner replied: "Adrian is heavily involved in the direction and development but he wasn't not involved over the winter.
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The team opted for a more simplistic, low-drag design for the RB13, but suffered a significant performance deficit to F1 rivals Mercedes and Ferrari early on.
A significant upgrade ahead of round five in Spain enabled Red Bull to qualify within six tenths of pole for the first time this year, and it reduced that to just over three tenths in Monaco.
Canada, as expected, was tough given the nature of the track but the team still secured a third straight podium with Daniel Ricciardo while Max Verstappen ran second before retiring with a suspected battery failure on his Renault engine.
"We've understood some of the correlation issues," said Horner. "We've learned which tools to trust and in which area.
"That's given a clear direction and in the last races in particular, every race, we've made progress. We've definitely closed the gap. In Canada, we were racing a Mercedes with Max.
"It was interesting Ferrari's race pace didn't look anything particularly special."
When asked if designer Adrian Newey had ramped up his involvement during the time in which Red Bull made progress with understanding its car, Horner replied: "Adrian is heavily involved in the direction and development but he wasn't not involved over the winter.
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That was another rumor too actually on one of the more lesser F1 sites.
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It's not hard to make the connection. The Honda one seems more credible since the team signed up as a Honda customer and a new buyer might not want to be burdened with a pre-existing deal. Especially the Honda - you'd have to be a borderline masochist to sign up without some additional benefit.
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Frederic Vasseur to be new Sauber Team Boss according to motorsport-total.com. He's already been to Hinwil
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Someone well known that has been in the sport for a while.
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Sky are reporting that Kaltenborn's departure was down to a dispute over driver management. Apparently Kaltenborn thought that the drivers weren't being treated equally.
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Which resulted in a very harsh "that's not the case" by Ericsson and a "no comment" from Wehrlein. Make what you want out of that.
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Ted Kravitz is talking up the idea of McLaren using Ferrari engines rebadged as Alfa Romeo in 2018 ...
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We'll just have to see. It's a credible rumour (which I always point out as the best sort) but Kravitz-kred doesn't help it. God that man's a tit.
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Ferrari needs a feeder team and I'm unsure Haas is willing to do that for very long.. Both LeClerc and Giovinazzi deserve to be in F1 right now and I hate to think they might end up like previous Ferrari junior drivers - stuck without a ride or in a backmarker team...
