The F1 2014 season

:-(

Bit gutted about the lotus situation. This year looks like it could be their last. And looks like last year will be their best finish. Will struggle to watch if this pans out like most think.

Dunno how many years BBC have left before it goes all sky? But maybe it's a good thing for my finances as it stops me even considering getting sky.

The cost cutting won't come soon enough and I don't knowif iI can take them being the next Williams
 
Lotus or more accurately their management must be the most hated team in F1.

Some €200m in debt. Kimi offered to settle for just a quarter of the €20m+ they owe him, but they couldn't even afford that.
 
englishpremier said:
Lotus or more accurately their management must be the most hated team in F1.

Some €200m in debt. Kimi offered to settle for just a quarter of the €20m+ they owe him, but they couldn't even afford that.
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Kimi should pay that debt off himself, rename the team "Team Kimi", and be done with it. (oh and he stays at Team Kimi, not prance off with the stallions :D )

Edit: turns out Kimi is worth about 100m euro. 51% share for him then :p
 
Flibster said:
Wouldn't surprise me if Kimi applies for a winding up order later in the year. That'll wake the team up to paying him.
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Not until Grosjean is ahead of him in the Championship. :D

What's the FIA's stance on teams that go into administration? The FA deduct points from football clubs, but in F1 that would just make it worse for the team as they loose prize money.
 
MissChief said:
Ok, heard back earlier today.

There are currently NO plans for live coverage on the F1 channel. Current plans are as follows:

Daily Live updates on Sky Sports News.
Ted will do a notebook every evening on First and Third test on the F1 Channel and no doubt this will be available online too.
It's expected there will be a daily 15 minute wrap every test on the F1 Channel but this is TBC
Live trackside commentary on Sky.com or skysports.com website plus picture galleries.

I'm a little sad about the lack of live coverage but I suspect Jerez is going to be cold and possibly even wet so they won't get much useful running done at all. The second and third tests will be where the meat of the testing is done as it'll be warmer and drier.
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They didn't even discuss live coverage of the final day's testing until well into the test last year so I wouldn't be too downbeat.
 
Fresh from Autosport:

Formula 1 drivers will need to learn a whole new way of racing this year because of the fresh demands on fuel economy, reckons Ferrari.

With drivers limited to just 100kg of fuel for a race, teams are in no doubt that managing fuel usage will be key to success in 2014.

But while fuel economy has always been a challenge, Ferrari technical director James Allison says early simulator feedback suggests that the situation will be so extreme this year that drivers are going to have to practice how best to do it.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112074

Brilliant stuff, will be fascinating to see which drivers this affects for better or worse.
 
Only problem is it could mean drivers being told (again) to slow down or that they will have to back off the power in order to finish the race. Could either mean processions of cars getting slower and slower or the odd midfield runner who has gotten great fuel mileage being able to turn it up towards the end of the race and making up seconds a lap.
 
MissChief said:
Only problem is it could mean drivers being told (again) to slow down or that they will have to back off the power in order to finish the race. Could either mean processions of cars getting slower and slower or the odd midfield runner who has gotten great fuel mileage being able to turn it up towards the end of the race and making up seconds a lap.
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I just can't (hope I'm right) see processions featuring much this season, with all the massive changes, not in the beginning anyway, maybe in the last part of the second half of the season.
 
Its Ferrari take it with a pinch of salt, they want to use more fuel and no doubt will do what ever they can to resist further change in the future.

They will run as little fuel as possible, as it saves far more time than someone pushing hard.
What we need is a set quantity of fuel not a maximum.
 
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.. inferences anyone?
 
Sky posted a list the other day

Driver number choices:

Red Bull
Sebastian Vettel: Yet to be announced.
Daniel Ricciardo: 3.

Ferrari
Fernando Alonso: 14.
Kimi Raikkonen: 7.

Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton: Yet to be announced. (believed to be 44)
Nico Rosberg: 6, 5 or 9.

Lotus
Romain Grosjean: 8, 29 or 11.
Pastor Maldonado: Yet to be announced.

McLaren
Jenson Button: 22.
Kevin Magnussen: 20.

Force India
Sergio Perez: 11.
Nico Hulkenberg: Yet to be announced.

Sauber
Adrian Sutil: Yet to be announced.
Esteban Gutierrez: Yet to be announced.

Toro Rosso
Jean-Eric Vergne: 25, 21 or 27.
Daniil Kvyat: Yet to be announced.

Williams
Felipe Massa: 19.
Valtteri Bottas: 77, 17 or 11.

Marussia
Jules Bianchi: 7, 27 or 77.
Driver still to be confirmed.

Caterham
Driver still to be confirmed.
Driver still to be confirmed.
 
MissChief said:
Only problem is it could mean drivers being told (again) to slow down or that they will have to back off the power in order to finish the race. Could either mean processions of cars getting slower and slower or the odd midfield runner who has gotten great fuel mileage being able to turn it up towards the end of the race and making up seconds a lap.
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And this is a problem, compared to the current scenario of "Vettel blisters off for the first four laps, followed by 90 minutes of boredom and a waggled finger"?
 
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