F1 2011 season news / pre-season updates

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As Ferrari came 3rd, the number '5' will be on a red car next year anyway...

So... Paul Di Resta has just won the DTM title. Surely thats enough to get him a Force India seat at least?
 
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MarcLister said:
Was our Nige the driver rep on any of the steward panels this year? Just wondering if any GP where our Nige was driver rep also happened to be a GP where Vettel got some kind of punishment. Hungary perhaps? :p
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Close! Derek Warwick was driver steward for Hungary. 'Il Leone' Mansell was the steward for Silverstone, where Alonso got a penalty :D
 
The best update that I've seen is that legard might be on the way out

The BBC Formula One commentary partnership of Jonathan Legard (right) and Martin Brundle hasn't gelled over two years, to the extent that doubts are being expressed by the Corporation's top brass as to whether Legard's contract will be renewed next season.

Brundle is the most influential member of the F1 set-up and is known to favour working with another commentator.

Aussie Charlie Cox, who does MotoGP for the Beeb, is being mooted as a possible replacement for the popular Legard, who retains the support of other members of the BBC Grand Prix team.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...FA-revolt-cards-limos-kids.html#ixzz16mQXZxjb
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/ar...cliffe-confident-hes-BBCs-Panorama-right.html


Not particularly keen on Cox, but the only person that I can see doing a worse job than Legard is Jar Jar Binks.
 
Official 2011 F1 Entry List is out! :D

Red Bull Racing Renault
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Mark Webber

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
3. Jenson Button
4. Lewis Hamilton

Scuderia Ferrari Marboloro
5. Fernando Alonso
6. Felipe Massa

Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team
7. Michael Schumacher
8. Nico Rosberg

Renault F1 Team
9. Robert Kubica
10. TBA

AT&T Williams Cosworth
11. Rubens Barrichello
12. TBA

Force India F1 Team Mercedes
14. TBA
15. TBA

Sauber F1 Team Ferrari
16. Kamui Kobayashi
17. Sergio Perez

Scuderia Toro Rosso Ferrari
18. TBA
19. TBA

Team Lotus Renault
20. Jarno Trulli
21. Heikki Kovalainen

HRT F1 Team Cosworth
22. TBA
23. TBA

Marussia Virgin Racing Cosworth
24. TBA
25. TBA

However - Buemi and Alguersuari do have valid contracts for 2011 with Toro Rosso.
How do Ferrari get away with it for another year - no tobacco advertising allowed and somehow their team name is Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro???

Best news - Team Lotus :D - and apparently people at the team have confirmed the name is correct! *does the happy dance*
 
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I still don't understand this love affair that people have with the Lotus name.

If memory serves me correct, the last time they raced (in the 90s), they were abysmal. And I mean, totally abysmal. The fact that they left F1 back then seemed the only fair thing to do and give another team/outfit a chance. Lotus were going nowhere...fast.

The days when you saw Colin Chapman, coming out with radical new innovations to gain an advantage over bigger teams, are long gone.

So come on people...explain to me this love affair people have with the Lotus name...
 
sunama said:
I still don't understand this love affair that people have with the Lotus name.

If memory serves me correct, the last time they raced (in the 90s), they were abysmal. And I mean, totally abysmal. The fact that they left F1 back then seemed the only fair thing to do and give another team/outfit a chance. Lotus were going nowhere...fast.

The days when you saw Colin Chapman, coming out with radical new innovations to gain an advantage over bigger teams, are long gone.

So come on people...explain to me this love affair people have with the Lotus name...
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I can sum it up for me in three words.

I'm from Norfolk. ;)

Although in other terms. 79 race wins and 13 world championships - not a bad record.

Also, the last time the Team Lotus name races was in 1995 as Pacific Team Lotus, but the last year as Team Lotus they were ok, starting to get everything back together. The 107 was a good car especially once the Mugen-Honda engine was in it. The following 109 was even better - sadly, money ran out, development stopped and the team went under. The team was purchased at the tail end of 1994 and was run by Hunt for the final 2 grand prix, but the promised sponsorship vanished and he was forced to close up.

As for being abysmal - Ferrari spend 20ish years running around the mid and arse end of the grid, people still adored them - why not Lotus?

Without Lotus F1 would be a completely different animal. Look at what the Lotus guys brought to F1. Monocoques, carbon composite monocoques, engines as stressed members, Ford DFV, team sponsors, ground effect, wings, dual chassis, active suspension - amongst other things
 
Flibster said:
As for being abysmal - Ferrari spend 20ish years running around the mid and arse end of the grid, people still adored them - why not Lotus?
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Ferrari were not as bad as Lotus. Lotus were consistently one of the slowest teams on the grid in the 90s. Ferrari were nowhere near as bad. Ferrari, would generally win 1 race a year, during their lean years. Lotus were so far off winning a single race, they would've needed a miracle.

Flibster said:
Without Lotus F1 would be a completely different animal. Look at what the Lotus guys brought to F1. Monocoques, carbon composite monocoques, engines as stressed members, Ford DFV, team sponsors, ground effect, wings, dual chassis, active suspension - amongst other things
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The Lotus team/personnel who were innovative are all gone. "That" Lotus team was done and dusted many decades ago. The new Lotus team (at least for the next few years), will be merely making up the numbers.
 
Spawn said:
LOL nothing like a bit of arrogance eh Nuts??:p....hopefully and i really hope that RB are nowhere close to the top next season....i mean that in the nicest way possible too:).
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Yeah, I also hope that RB are nowhere close to the top next season. And I don't mean that in the nicest way possible :p

I'd like to see Hamilton and Alonso do battle for the title next year. Unfortunately, when a car is so far ahead of the competition (as was the case this year), it spoils the title race, for everybody except for the those who support the drivers in the fastest car.

I loved 1992, when Mansell slaughtered the opposition. But for a non-Mansell fan, that season would've been boring as hell.

Hamilton has stated that he believes that the KERS on his 2011 McLaren will give him an advantage. We just have to wait and see.
 
Flibster said:
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes
3. Jenson Button
4. Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team
7. Michael Schumacher
8. Nico Rosberg
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Why do Jenson and Michael have 3 and 7 when Lewis and Nico were the highest points scorers for their teams in 2010?

(This may be the case with some others but those were the ones that stood out to me)
 
Kenai said:
Why do Jenson and Michael have 3 and 7 when Lewis and Nico were the highest points scorers for their teams in 2010?

(This may be the case with some others but those were the ones that stood out to me)
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I think the team can pick which driver gets which number between them.
 
Duke said:
I think the team can pick which driver gets which number between them.
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Apart from the drivers' world champion who has to have the number 1 on his car of course. :p

Wouldn't surprise me if McLaren have put Button 3 and Hamilton 4 either because of alphabetical-ness or because Jenson was the last one of the two to be world champion? :p

Its world champion has 1 on his car, his team mate has 2, then all the other numbers are assigned not to drivers championship standings from previous year but constructors standings from previous year. Since Red Bull will be constructors champions AND have the reigning driver world champion they get 1 and 2 but McLaren get 3 and 4 for being runner up in constructors. If Ferrari had won constructors championship and McLaren were 2nd but Red Bull were 3rd and Vettel still world champion it'd be Vettel 1, Webber 2, Alonso 3, Massa 4, then McLaren drivers?
 
utajoker said:
your number should be were you finish in the drivers tbh.
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Why? If you did that, then you're going to get the problem at some point of having one guy with '1' on the car and his team-mate having '18', which is just silly. That, and you'd have to have '13' on the grid....or would we just number that car '12A'? :)

I do kind of miss the older system where only the 1-2 numbers moved around and everyone else ran with numbers that they'd had in the past. So Ferrari always had 27-28, Williams ran 5-6 for a long time, Tyrrell ran as 3-4, Team Lotus had 11-12....But in all honesty, it's probably a bit less confusing for fans who didn't watch the sport much (or at all) back then having it in constructor order.
 
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