***Official 2010 F1 thread***

[sunama]

My opinion of Massa is he's unable to make things happen, starts on pole fine he's all well and good and can drive off into the sunset.

Ask him to make progress through the field and be a racer and too often he goes totally awol.

Hang on...I think you just described Vettel

 

[Duke]

Hang on...I think you just described Vettel

Yup pretty much. Very quick but only from the front.

 

[hiroofheroes]

Maybe the money?
Or maybe do what Button did and go head to head with a top-line driver to see if he can upset the apple-cart?

Renault reportedly pay him more than McLaren pay Button, and surely his best chance at a WDC would be as a number one in a good team rather than joint number one/number two in a team where your team mate is constantly taking points off you.

 

[Maniacfest]

McLaren just posted this on facebook, nice screensaver countdown to the next race in many different units.

 

[ins0mn1ac]

McLaren just posted this on facebook, nice screensaver countdown to the next race in many different units.

heh thats awesome!

 

[Sumanji]

Nice - it's not gonna do much screen saving though is it

 

[Flibster]

If anyone can be bothered - TF110 unveiled in the new issue of Racecar Engineering...
Looks like they get under the skin of it, which is pretty cool. Apparently has an extreme diffuser and ride height adjustment. Shame that no one picked it up for this year. HRT kicking themselves?

Now...I really should subscribe as it avoids my hunt for the thing.

 

[Duke]

It looks great and had a few tricks up its sleeve too. Shame Stefan didn't get to use it

 

[JRS]

Shame Stefan didn't get to use it

Indeed. Who would we have rather had, Stefan GP coming in with cars designed on a vast Toyota budget and with trick design pieces all over....or Virgin, who couldn't even get the fuel tank size right?

 

[Duke]

Indeed. Who would we have rather had, Stefan GP coming in with cars designed on a vast Toyota budget and with trick design pieces all over....or Virgin, who couldn't even get the fuel tank size right?

Or HRT with their GP2 car

 

[sunama]

Indeed. Who would we have rather had, Stefan GP coming in with cars designed on a vast Toyota budget and with trick design pieces all over....or Virgin, who couldn't even get the fuel tank size right?

Those cars may sound like they would be competitive, but my guess is that had Stefan GP used them, they would be lapping with similar times, to those of the other new teams.

It's all academic now, anyway.

 

[Sumanji]

Toyota should donate the TF110 to HRT tbh... seems a damn shame to let a beast like that go to waste

Su

 

[utajoker]

that screen saver is cool, 0-211mph in 10 seconds in insane.

 

[hiroofheroes]

that screen saver is cool, 0-211mph in 10 seconds in insane.

It's the blinking stat that I'm finding hard to believe.

 

[qwerty]

If anyone can be bothered - TF110 unveiled in the new issue of Racecar Engineering...

Anywhere you can get the pictures or anything for free?

 

[Alibaba99]

There is a thread on f1technical.net which goes into more detail and has some pictures etc.

 

[deko]

Anywhere you can get the pictures or anything for free?

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2010/05/...h-extreme-diffuser-driven-by-kazuki-nakajima/

 

[sunama]

I don't understand the facination with this car. In all likelihood it would've been sat in the midfield, just as all Toyota's cars had sat previously.

Its a shame that one of the new teams couldn't have used it for themselves, but thats about it.

Now if somebody offered me a RedBull (the car, not the nasty drink)...that would be a completely different story.

 

[Setroc]

From 2012 there's going to be a new USA race in Austin, Texas! They're building a new track for it.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/83873

 

[Duke]

Good news that.