F1 2009 Season discussion/development thread

Malt_Vinegar said:
So, the question is, do you think the Honda car will be running in any form at all in 2009?

I really hope so, I really want to believe that someone will take the opportunity to get into F1 in a debt free team. (Honda has taken on all the debts, has it not?)
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there shouldnt be any debts, its a Honda owned and run team
there just don't want to run the team or supply engines anymore
so there selling it lock stock, minus engines

i still think if the 2009 car was going to be any good the wouldnt be selling
so i say the car wont be any better than 07/08
 
The government has held talks with Jaguar Land Rover over the possibility of state aid for the carmaker, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has confirmed.
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Jaguar Land Rover was bought by India's Tata in June for £1.7bn ($2.6bn). Since then output has been trimmed at its three main UK manufacturing sites.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7789055.stm
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Tata, the Indian company which produces the world's cheapest car, will sponsor Ferrari from next season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7788830.stm
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So the British taxpayer will be helping to sponsor Ferrari - GREAT! :rolleyes:
 
stockhausen said:
So the British taxpayer will be helping to sponsor Ferrari - GREAT! :rolleyes:
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Um, no.....the British taxpayer (if JLR actually get any cash) would be helping to secure jobs and prop up the tattered remains of our car production industry. Fiat are probably just doing this sponsorship deal with Tata as part of the joint-venture agreement that they have. I very much doubt that millions of dollars are being sent from Tata to Scuderia Ferrari with this deal....
 
Mikey said:
Well looks like another major player in the ALMS, Le Mans is pulling out of GT1, it's not confirmed, but I can't see them racing whilst asking for money

I'll miss the sound of the corvette at Le Sarthe if it's true

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72530
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Doug Fehan has confirmed that article is a load of rubbish and that Corvette Racing's plans will go ahead as planned for 2009.

And those plans are to run the GT1 Corvette for Sebring, Long Beach and Le Mans then run the GT2 Corvette for the rest of the season.
 
Someone on YouTube decided to make a fake intro for the BBC F1 coverage:-

They did a pretty good job..


Updated version (less Lewis Hamilton in this one):
 
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frakker said:
Heads-up: ITV's F1 season review is on this Sunday (21/12) at 10.45 - 11.45. They've even entitled it 'Lewis Hamilton - World Champion' just in case you didn't already know that.
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Oh joy. Think I'll give that a miss. Thanks for the warning
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rypt said:
Still too much Hamilton for my liking, I hope BBC intro does not show Hamilton at all.
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At all? Would be a bit hard, given that he did win the championship this year ;)

I'm far from his biggest fan (though I do respect his driving ability when he isn't driving into the back of stationary cars in the pitlane with the red light on and the team yelling at him over the radio to hit the sodding brakes), but even I wouldn't go as far as saying that he shouldn't be in the GP intro!
 
I don't mind him as a driver, what I dislike is the same kind of media effect we used to get with Henman and now get with Murray and Hamilton, where they can talk about nothing but him.
The weekly interviews ITV did with him really annoyed me.

In a sport where it is not national teams involved I want unbias commentry and coverage, as I happen to not support McLaren.

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This is the sort of stuff I mean.
http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/lewis-hamilton-2008-12-18

Hamilton on postage stamps ... WHY?!?
 
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rypt said:
I don't mind him as a driver, what I dislike is the same kind of media effect we used to get with Henman and now get with Murray and Hamilton, where they can talk about nothing but him.
The weekly interviews ITV did with him really annoyed me.

In a sport where it is not national teams involved I want unbias commentry and coverage, as I happen to not support McLaren.

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This is the sort of stuff I mean.
http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/lewis-hamilton-2008-12-18

Hamilton on postage stamps ... WHY?!?
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If you think that's bad you should watch the Alonso love in that is spanish coverage!
 
rypt said:
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Indeed.

I can handle bias. Murray Walker was always unashamedly rooting for the British drivers (Mansell, for one), but he had the class and the intelligence to recognise that there were other drivers out there doing a damned good job. Take Damon Hill - he obviously loved it when Hill did well ("and I've got to stop.....because I've got a lump in my throat!"), but he didn't allow it to completely over-rule the rest of the commentary.

ITV, for most of the past two years, have gone the other way - the "Lewisteria" (™ of F1 Rejects, all rights reserved) has ranged from slightly irritating through really rather annoying to being so bad that the coverage has been unwatchable.

philjohn said:
If you think that's bad you should watch the Alonso love in that is spanish coverage!
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Heh. The Spanish coverage is truly something else. But.....I dunno, something about the way they do it means that it just doesn't grate quite so much as ITV's Messiah-centric™ coverage.

Maybe if ITV had gone even further, and made it into an almost-parody like the Spanish coverage can be at times. Maybe then it wouldn't have been so ******* awful to watch and listen to.
 
So, as well as no on site parking at Donnington, they want to stop planes from East Midlands Airport overflying the circuit at the race weekend?

They also want to charter a lot of planes to bring people to the circuit. So now they don't even want to do park and ride, it's drive to the airport, park, get in a plane, fly to East Midlands, get on a bus and go to the circuit... with your camping gear....

Ummmm. Ok...
 
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