Italian Grand Prix 2014, Monza - Race 13/19

They'll nominate two cars for the constructors, as has happened before, I assume.

Great race. Hamilton bringing it back after a terrible start with electronic gremlins, Rosberg failing under pressure. The battles between Perez, Button, Bottas and Magnuson. Ricciardo once again crushing Vettel. Brilliant.
 
OldCoals said:
How can a team have three cars and another team have two, that would ruin the Constructors Championship.
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2 cars that score points and one nominated non-scoring car?

But then it's a lot of money to run a car that gives you no points, even if it does give a new driver experience.

8x3 car teams provides some stability, but.... Hmmm.... Single manufacturer podiums
 
2015 Provisional Calendar

Australia - March 15
Malaysia - March 29
Bahrain - April 5
China - April 19
Spain - May 10
Monaco - May 24
Canada - June 7
Austria - June 21
Britain - July 5
Germany - July 19
Hungary - July 26
Belgium - August 23
Italy - September 6
Singapore - September 20
Japan - October 4
Russia - October 11
Mexico - October 25
USA - November 1
Brasil - November 15
Abu Dhabi - November 29
 
OldCoals said:
How can a team have three cars and another team have two, that would ruin the Constructors Championship.
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Off the top of my head I can think of many idea's but none sound instantly brilliant or easy to sort out.


HMm, maybe rookie third drivers and a split grid, a single quali session for rookies, 5 mins, one lap if there are 5 rookies then they have the back 5 slots and then you have potentially promising rookies in fast cars coming from the back, exciting maybe can score driving points but not constructor points, or only the two top drivers from a team can and if a rookie makes it up front they get points over the other driver. Meh.

some teams having an extra car just seems really weird, running a second teams as a mostly separate entity is odd but makes more sense.

ULtimately it's hard to see where if there are three Merc's this year they wouldn't end up with a lot of 1-2-3's ending the constructors even earlier because even if only 2 were getting constructor points you're still dropping lets say Massa from 3rd with 15 points to 4th with 12 points.
 
I believe the plan is for third cars not to count towards the full WC, drivers or constructors and only be available to either rookie drivers or someone who hasn't raced in F1 for two years.
 
MissChief said:
I believe the plan is for third cars not to count towards the full WC, drivers or constructors and only be available to either rookie drivers or someone who hasn't raced in F1 for two years.
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And what if yo get a rookie at Mercedes and he out performs Rosberg or Hamilton?
 
Flibster said:
2 cars that score points and one nominated non-scoring car?

But then it's a lot of money to run a car that gives you no points, even if it does give a new driver experience.

8x3 car teams provides some stability, but.... Hmmm.... Single manufacturer podiums
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Makes sense to have a 2 scoring cars and one non-scoring car. The top teams could run their third drivers, or rotate it between a small group of young drivers, to audition them for the top 2 cars in the future.

It would cost money but if teams had a third car, that's another car they could be getting data from. They could also try out weird strategies knowing they won't lose points/races but can see how it worked against the two lead drivers' strategies.
 
OldCoals said:
Having a third car with a rookie trying out strategies sounds like a accident waiting to happen.
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It certainly does.
Also if the 3rd car doesn't score points how are you going to stop it being used to block and interfere with the other teams. Obviously I'm not suggesting that the third car would be used in such a cynical way.....
 
I think Perez vs Button is my second favourite fight of the Season, it made the race today which I think would've been slightly boring without it, with Lewis vs Nico at Bahrain being my favourite battle so far. Loving the racing this season, it's been unpredictable and there seems to have been far more wheel to wheel combat than last season already.
 
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