Indian Grand Prix 2013, New Delhi - Race 16/19

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:15

Will speak to Marketing

Rybo89 · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:23

Sparky , you eyeing up a new car with this years bonus?

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:28

Rybo89 said:
Sparky , you eyeing up a new car with this years bonus?

No mate not yet. Only had the 335 a year.

Rybo89 · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:44

Nice! Thought you still had the ST.

Congrats with securing another well deserved title or titles should I say.

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:49

Rybo89 said:
Nice! Thought you still had the ST.

Congrats with securing another well deserved title or titles should I say.

Cheers mate , makes the long hours and hard work worthwhile. Cant wait until next season though, be nice [ for me] to see it a lot closer and unpredictable.

dannyjo22 · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:52

Sparky-F1 said:
Will speak to Marketing

One year run as Red bull Red edition the next Silver edition

http://energydrink.redbull.com/red-bull-editions

In all seriousness I have always been dissapointed that BARs request to run two cars in completely different liveries was booted out. It would be great for sponsors.Teams like red bull could run cars in those edition colours etc.

I think it would be so much better than just different coloured helmets.

Oh and I should have said congratulations on your yearly bonus

Your setting yourself up for trouble, women get used to the money every year

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 21:59

dannyjo22 said:
One year run as Red bull Red edition the next Silver edition

http://energydrink.redbull.com/red-bull-editions

In all seriousness I have always been dissapointed that BARs request to run two cars in completely different liveries was booted out. It would be great for sponsors.Teams like red bull could run cars in those edition colours etc.

I think it would be so much better than just different coloured helmets.

Oh and I should have said congratulations on your yearly bonus Your setting yourself up for trouble, women get used to the money every year

Personally I like the idea, our marketing peeps are rather anal though.

Cheers buddy, been a lot of work but worth it. May seem that it easy to fans on the outside but speak to Skeeter and Duke [ gave them a tour on Saturday ] They have a pretty good understanding of how we work I think.

As for the Mrs, she popped to Tesco today for a magazine and comes back with 2 bottles of Moet, yup they are a bigger drain than even our supposed " unlimited budget " allows!

El_Watcher · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:03

Sparky-F1 said:
Cheers mate , makes the long hours and hard work worthwhile.

Surely not everyone at the factory deserves a bonus with the number of car failures Mark has had?

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:09

El_Watcher said:
Surely not everyone at the factory deserves a bonus with the number of car failures Mark has had?

They have the same bits at every race, really wonder how many times I need to explain this to people.

Mark put's the car under a lot more stress through his throttle input he drives in a different manner to Seb , its just how he drives.

A few people text me today saying we made his car fail, why would we? Seb is in front, we have the WCC to go for [ it's the one we care about more] I sometimes step back and ask myself if the world is going loco!

this_is_gav · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:12

deuse said:
Go and watch Senna at donington 5th to 1st in one lap vimto has done just one good overtake in 2 seasons.

Whilst I admire Senna immensely, Donington as much about his rivals failures as his own abilities.

That start was against 2 rookies and a guy who was scared of the rain, and Schumacher.

Arguably the driver of that race was Barrichello (who retired just before the finish), but he barely gets a mention for his astonishing drive.

Twirlywoos · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:54

I'm not a fan of vettel but hats of to red bull and newey for another dominant year. For me it's not worth watching the remaining races now. I hope next year red bulls driver number 2 has an equal car to vettel.

Mad_Jay · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:55

Can feel the love there

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:56

majnu said:
I'm not a fan of vettel but hats of to red bull and newey for another dominant year. For me it's not worth watching the remaining races now. I hope next year red bulls driver number 2 has an equal car to vettel.

The "number 2" already does.

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 22:58

Mad_Jay said:
Can feel the love there

That is brilliant.

CaptainRAVE · 27 Oct 2013 at 23:30

Milkybk said:
You are utterly wrong. Vettel is a better driver than Webber, he doesn't need Mark's car sabotaging to beat him.

Yet it is anyway. Even if not actively sabotaged, at the very least it is not given the same upgrades. Webber sucks, but not by that much.

Sparky · 27 Oct 2013 at 23:34

CaptainRAVE said:
Yet it is anyway. Even if not actively sabotaged, at the very least it is not given the same upgrades. Webber sucks, but not by that much.

Laughable.

Why do you think teams start to struggle when they start developing next years car?

Do you think we can do that throughout a season and give Mark inferior parts? Sheesh, take the fanboy out and use common sense!!!

sunama · 27 Oct 2013 at 23:39

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24691202

It tries to answer the question: "how good is Vettel".