Motorsport Off Topic Thread

Skeeter said:
I'd be surprised (and worried) if anyone managed to spend just as much money on tweaking turbos and adjusting ERS solutions as they did developing the entire engine from scratch.

I think Mercedes are the only ones to be open about how much they spent, and it was about $500m over a couple of years to create the base V6 that will be here until 2020 at least.
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Horner iirc is the one who said Merc spent 500mil and Merc said that was utterly mental and nothing like what they spent. Of course, 2 years later and spending more money every year maybe they could have spent that by now. However that was a "this is why we suck, blame Renault" excuse by Horner, not Merc being honest nor is it likely at all accurate.
 
smr said:
He was at least being chased by Alonso and didn't make any mistakes those last few laps tbf to him, he drove well that race... shame he couldn't drive like that more often.
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His GP2 career says a lot. He qualified well and often won the feature race from pole, but then in the reverse grid sprint race he would barely make any progress at all. He's quick when on his own, but lacks the ability to actually race.
 
it was all a bit weird tho that weekend, its almost like that fire in the williams garage symbolised it being a "flash" in the pan.... and ultimately that's what it was lol.
 
timmeh said:
How so? He put it on pole in normal conditions then kept the car in the lead with Alonso all over the back of him. The tyres available to him were the same as everyone else. Or am I remembering it incorrectly?
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2012 was the 7 different winners in 7 races year, where the Pirelli performance was very edgy and it saw wild swings in teams performances from one race to the next. Nobody knew where they would be until they rocked up and saw whether their car in the specific weather on the specific surface and at the specific temperature would put them in the operating window, or leave them "driving on raw eggs" as Schumacher put it.
 
smr said:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122654


Kevin Magnussen completes deal to replace Pastor Maldonado
By Ian Parkes Monday, February 1st 2016, 12:22 GMT

Kevin Magnussen

Kevin Magnussen will officially be unveiled as a Renault driver on Wednesday ahead of the new Formula 1 season, replacing Pastor Maldonado, Autosport can confirm.

Woohoo!
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That is good news. Lets hope for your sake K Magg doesn't drift past McLaren :)
 
Skeeter said:
Uh, he won that race completely on random tyres. No merit at all.
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Come on, he qualified up at the front too. He was on it that weekend. Hamilton would have likely won had he not been excluded from qualifying, but it was still an excellent performance.

He showed throughout GP2 he was either epic or chaos (obviously usually the latter), but when he was good he was awesome. We've not seen so much of that in F1, presumably because the competition is better, but in 2012 he had several excellent performances such as in Abu Dhabi and Valencia (until he took Hamilton out).

I'm certainly not sad to see him go, but his reputation for crashing does mask what could have been a decent driver. I can certainly see why Williams hired him in the first place.
 
Proving Glaucus wrong aside, losing 40%+ of ownership plus what must be some sizeable sponsorship funding is bad news for a team thats hardly swimming in cash... :(
 
Unless that comes with an accompanying clause that says they must sell only current year engines to customer teams, and offer them the upgrades too, this is bad news.

Mercedes have been given the ability to buy themselves the next 5 championships.
 
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