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http://sportscar365.com/gt/dmsb-bans-gt3-cars-from-nurburgring-nordschleife/
Sounds ominous. Basically the Nurburgring 24 hours will be missing a large chunk of its grid this year...
Sounds ominous. Basically the Nurburgring 24 hours will be missing a large chunk of its grid this year...
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That car taking off is pretty scary!
Nasty crash that 
Interesting article about the F1 power units - http://somersf1.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/tokens-comparing-powerunits-and.html
Interesting article about the F1 power units - http://somersf1.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/tokens-comparing-powerunits-and.html
I've read its 'only' 20.9 million basic which could extend to over 27 million if he wins the championship. I was more shocked to learn that Vettel is on 33.7 million for his first year at Ferrari!!!
(Dropping in subsequent seasons) Alonso is also on 27 million too..I've read its 'only' 20.9 million basic which could extend to over 27 million if he wins the championship. I was more shocked to learn that Vettel is on 33.7 million for his first year at Ferrari!!!
33.7millllllion
I'd say that's the going rate for a 4 time world champion. Schumacher will have been on something similar around that point of his career too, granted he didn't get that coming off a terrible previous season. Didn't Schumacher end up on around $1m a week at one point?
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If you include sponsorship and performance bonuses, then yeah I think it was something around there.
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[old man] I just find it amusing that some individual driver's salaries are approaching the entire £40m annual budget cap incentive for 2010. [/old man]
I should quantify this by saying that with football I'm less fussy, as individual brilliance is what we pay to see, and while footballer's salaries are absurd, they will continue to rise until we stop paying them through the ludicrous TV deals we are funding.
F1 is more of a team sport, where brilliance is less often displayed, and less obviously to the casual fan. If you take the driver out of the "team" aspect, when was the last time the best team or equal best team didn't win the title? When the driver went out and won it against the odds? Alonso has been closest of late at Ferrari, but other than that, 2007 maybe, though the Ferrari wasn't exactly weak? Before that I'm struggling. 1995 probably - Schumacher won that as much as Hill in the stronger Williams threw it away.
I should quantify this by saying that with football I'm less fussy, as individual brilliance is what we pay to see, and while footballer's salaries are absurd, they will continue to rise until we stop paying them through the ludicrous TV deals we are funding.
F1 is more of a team sport, where brilliance is less often displayed, and less obviously to the casual fan. If you take the driver out of the "team" aspect, when was the last time the best team or equal best team didn't win the title? When the driver went out and won it against the odds? Alonso has been closest of late at Ferrari, but other than that, 2007 maybe, though the Ferrari wasn't exactly weak? Before that I'm struggling. 1995 probably - Schumacher won that as much as Hill in the stronger Williams threw it away.
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Oh isn't British design and British engineering excellent... Good old Silverstone too...
The new 'Wing' has flown... off...
http://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/ne...wing-roof-flies-off-in-strong-winds-1-6664440
*sigh* Many millions were spent on that garbage. Can't say I'm surprised though. As for the wind, it's a bloody airfield! It's always windier than normal there.
The new 'Wing' has flown... off...
http://www.buckinghamtoday.co.uk/ne...wing-roof-flies-off-in-strong-winds-1-6664440
*sigh* Many millions were spent on that garbage. Can't say I'm surprised though. As for the wind, it's a bloody airfield! It's always windier than normal there.
The budget cap excluded driver salaries for this reason.
I wonder how it would have worked the other way? Maldonado brought £29m into Williams. You could have seen teams being funded entirely by one pay drivers spot
.27 million pounds spaffed on that pile of crap, and no-one thought to ask 'hey, what's gonna happen if a good breeze catches hold of this?'....