F1 2009 Season discussion/development thread

I've got faith in Brawn having put together a good car. He's no fool and if the car was a dog - anything like as bad as last year, would Brawn really want to slap his name and money down on it like this?

My mostly faith based prediction is that Brawn GP will place 6th or 7th in the constructors championship, ahead of Toro Rosso, Williams, Force India and maybe even Toyota.
 
Great to see them out for the first time and I am very excited about what they might be able to achieve when compared against other teams.

Go the underdogs!
 
Those side pods are tiny!

Sig finally updated after all this waiting around :p
 
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clv101 said:
I've got faith in Brawn having put together a good car.

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My mostly faith based prediction is that Brawn GP will place 6th or 7th in the constructors championship, ...
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Remember, when he was at Bennetton, he was working with Rory Byrne. He also had the most complete driver F1 has ever produced, in Michael Schumacher, as the pilot. Notice that when other drivers drove that Bennetton, they were quite ordinary. The moment MS drove it, its almost as if the car came alive.

The same happened at Ferrari, where he had (at the time), the biggest budget in F1. He also had MS and Byrne with him. Ferrari's brief was to make Ferrari the best team (something which was very very ambitious at the time, especially when you consider they hadnt won a title for 16 years, where several teams were producing cars faster than theirs).

At Honda, morale must've taken a battering and it doesnt help when you dont have the best driver in F1, piloting your car.

Personally, based purely on the fact that they have completed the most testing laps, I would say BMW (Kubica) and Ferrari (Massa/Kimi) are the teams/drivers who are looking the most comfortable at this point in time.
 
All I ask from this season is a bit of variety, and possibly a new world champion (though I would be very happy for Hamilton to retain the title, but it's not going to ruin my year if he doesn't). Beyond that, I have no preferences for the season.

The underdogs doing well would be sweet, and of course being a McLaren fan I would love Hamilton and Kovalainen to be up there, but so long as it's not the same cars winning every weekend, I look forward to a very interesting year. Roll on the 27th!
 
If they continue the flowing black and yellow/green theme through the car, keeping it clean and simple, it will look very nice I think.
 
Search on the RadioTimes website up to Friday 20th suggests not. Might be on the weekend of the 21st if they are doing something.
 
Well im up seeing the folks this weekend and it didnt take long to see that they have changed the sign outside the factory. Apparently the old man said it was done overnight on Thursday (makes sense with the timing of the anouncement), but next to it they still have the failed attempt at the hotel they were building. Mind you though, that has been there for the past 2 years. Failblog!?

Oh, the next news to come out will be the culling of around 200~250 members of staff that work there. The 700~800 number is far to big for them now that honda isnt ploughing money in there.
 
Does anyone else miss the old days of F1?
Heck I'm 17 and have seen such a change in the 7-10 yrs I've been watching and going to them.
I think i liked the days with Michael S, Hakinen, Coulthar and Hill where racing was racing.

I'm a huge Ferrari fan but the only really good thing with the change i think is the infusion of new blood - as much as i didn't like (hmm maybe that's not the words but ... don't support Hamilton) i think he is what British supports needed.

But in today's economical condition it's affecting everything and F1 soon will be more about money than the racing and talent :(
 
soon be more about the money? its been that way for a while hasn't it, especially from the people at the top!
 
Morba said:
soon be more about the money? its been that way for a while hasn't it, especially from the people at the top!
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true and i probably phrased that wrong

but maybe more money focused i should have said - oh where can we save a few pounds rather than were can we save a few second - that's not racing
 
frakker said:
So with the teams reaching a unanimous agreement to cut running-costs to around £50-£80m per annum, you think they will one day return to the era of throwing money back into the bottomless pit of F1 again?
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don't get me wrong here but cost needed to be cut (like everything else does now a days) and things like F1 and Football where huge amounts are involved things needed changing and yes that cost cutting is a great idea by the FiA

but frankly yes - and i only say that for the entertainment side of it. it was "fun" so to speak to see wheel by wheel on the edge of your seating racing which personally i think the influence of money gave the sport that along with some damm good racing driver :D
 
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